I can vouch for the fact that Art was a good instructor as well as a great pilot, he taught me how to fly the Mighty Hunter. At the time we were all taught how the flt deck crew were unlikely to survive a ditching - something to do with the vertical deceleration crushing spines if memory serves correct. Must have been one h*ll of a decision to ditch that close to Lossie. The weather was indeed fantastic on the day and Lossie was well within sight.