Vallee et al. (1992) remark on the sensitivity of airborne ratio measuring VLF instruments to platform attitude stability. The authors also remind the users of VLF total field amplitude data, as produced by instruments such as the Herz TOTEM, of two problems associated with this type of data: spatial and temporal fluctuations of the VLF primary field. They recommend the use of a dense network of VLF monitoring stations and numerical modeling of field propagation to cope with these problems. These two recommendations are briefly discussed here and one alternative recommendation is made.
