Originally Posted by
OwnNav
When I was a sprog pilot flying out of Doncaster in 1981, we could ring Bawtry Met and get a personal route briefing! Happy days.
Fair to say that Thatcherism was driving matters towards charging the customers. Neither I nor my lads and lasses were at all happy. At about the same time Station Commanders were being asked "is your Met. Office really necessary?" Somewhere up in the clouds way above Group Captains and R Met Os there was some hard talking. Fortunately I never had to be aware of budgets.