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Old 19th May 2019, 18:17
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BEagle
 
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Team concept in the Buccaneer - crew cooperation at its best!
Indeed - taught to us from Day One of the OCU.

After shut down, it was always SOP to check the multitudinous number of seat and canopy pins before leaving the aircraft. One day as I was doing so, my staff navigator just climbed out and walked off. Had he checked his pins? I wasn't certain, so I did so. Sure enough, he'd put a couple of pins in the wrong holes, meaning that the seat wasn't entirely safe. So I swapped them over, then went to catch up with him....
"Where the ***k have you been?"
"Checking your pins - you'd hadn't put them in the right holes"
"B*ll*cks - I know what I'm doing, you're only a student"

Crew cooperation wasn't universal, sadly - do as I say, not as I do!
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