How is Wills showing off his Grannie's Chinook to his girlfriend in the field behind his prospective in-laws' house remotely like a flypast of the flagship as she returns from deployment (albeit not an operational deployment)?
OK so it's 150 miles from Cottesmore, but I find it hard to imagine that they could not produce a plan that showed how all/most phases of the trip were productive in a training/skills sense.
I doubt it was the Dep Harrier Force Commander's idea to nix the trip. AO is a bon oeuf.