Originally Posted by
sycamore
Shy, Dick is front left; he ,and others on board were `offering advice` on the way to the F/L in colouful language...a very fine guy...
Yes, I understand that many didn't get on well with him but he was very encouraging to me on my first tour; he did my first night check on 230 when he was Puma Standards. He made me land in a field without any lights other than the position lights of an aircraft already in there, in very hazy conditions (that crew had just mistakenly collected up the NATO T; we were supposed to be doing that after we'd done with it - send three and fourpence etc).