Was this the same captain who would sit with the passengers after loading, with a civvie overcoat on. He would start muttering about "yet another delay" and that, if they didn't get going soon, he would fly it himself. He said that he used to fly fighters in the war and was sure that he could handle a simple Viscount. "That's it," he said, " I,ve had enough I'm going to have a go." Thereupon, he gets up, marches into the cockpit, the engines started and it took off with the passengers wondering if their end had come.
I was told that this kind of thing was not unusual in the Highlands because the older wartime flightcrews up there knew that they were unlikely to be trained in jets and had nothing to lose.