Small cog
Long time ago but you are right..I was on afternoon standby whilst my mate..p2 in Papa India was on the early one. My wife was nursing at Wexham park when they were put on alert for multiple casualties and she phoned me incase I had gone in early, which I often did as I was enthralled at finally being a pirate. The day before I had witnessed Key having a massive argument in thr crew room which frightened me. Thought this bloke is a nutter and god help me if I have to fly with him. There were a few and there are many stories about that "Atlantic barons". We had a little jock who was a sergeant pilot, he had been posted to heathrow as most of the Glasgow copilots had refused to fly with him. After staines he bullied me so I asked rosters to take me off the next days flying as it was dangerous. Result was a massive humiliating rollocking in the crew room from the duty manager.
thankfully times have changed.