Damn, all this time I thought yardstick was the poor man's MIDS...
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Do Hornets provide azimuth information when in Yardstick? I've never understood why we can't get that in the -60, especially for the ASW platforms, which already have a VHF/DF mode for buoys AND DF capability for UHF/VHF.
Would also like to know for the skid side of the house. Does it have to do with the fact that the "station" is moving and spinning and can't be baselined to magnetic north (kind of like the spinning tacan for the boat)?
But I can DF another aircraft? Sure, it's not as stable as a TACAN needle, but close enough for SA. That's why it's just seemed odd to me.
Nope. If that's an option, I haven't yet seen an aircraft that can do it. Without MIDS, we use flow headings, closure rate, and altitude deconfliction to manage flights when visual mutual support breaks down.
Wearing Speedy Gonzales Moonwatches for Christmas Eve festivities...mad dog and @ChuckMK23 dig their Moonwatches...good times! 
Got mine at the NAS Pax Museum gift shop. In all honesty I don’t think they’re much different in size from the mess dress mini wings.
When I got winged, my parents gave me a matching set of gold wings and a gold tie pin set of wings. The tie pin was definitely smaller than a set of mess dress wings, but not by much. They bought the set at the museum at NPA, but I'm sure you can buy them individually.
Great option - thanks !
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That's what I was talking about when I mentioned ADF. If you have good yardstick, you say something useless requiring a response from your wingman on aux, then flip the switch, and you get an azimuth swing of the ADF circle/spermy on the HSI/SA page compass rose outer ring, and then reference the range from yardstick. Used it all the time in the RAG (no MIDS) and even a while after I was the FNG, before I could reliably get into MIDS
edit: new Charlie cones out there, don't do this if deconfliction is in question.....crushing your aux freq with static when you should be talking about altitudes and talking eyes back on is really bad.....im just talking about when you are like 5 miles apart and diverging, trying to get the band back together. I don't want to see my username in an SIR k?
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