Re Scamps post #773 and the departure of GS/ handover to BS, that would partly explain BS' insistence on going back to his RN exchange-tour days and trying to put on a "balbo" around the Province. The weather did its usual trick and we ended up being the Chinook at the back of a mass hover-taxi around Lough Neagh; biggest waste of AVTUR I ever had the misfortune to witness/participate.