The Late Met Man
The Fear of Flying thread is humbling. Hats off to the contributors.
The Met Man's fear was not being wrong, but late. Late for mass briefing, for handover, or in house crew brief.
I am 20 years retired and the nightmare is at least weekly.
Was I Ever Late? Never for mass brief, never with docs, a few times for handover. I am far from the only retiree affected.
There must have been a pervasive ethos ...... Very few colleagues had otherwise.
The cynic might have preferred an accurate forecast slightly late of course.
Re flying and heights, as for flying SLF it is claustrophobia, with heights, I am fine with masts, ladders etc, but not nature.