Helmet fire:
Thankyou for the info - I hadn't realised it happened while I was still in Oman. I do remember the 214ST coming out on its original sales-team visit, when we were all given a cabbie in-between rehearsals for one of the National Day flypasts. Have a snapshot somewhere at home of me at the controls, with the cleanest-looking pair of (new) flying gloves I was ever issued. It was the first new aircraft I'd ever sat in - pleasant change from the usual ageing cockpit to which I'd been used.
The ROPAW fellas were a good bunch, always happy to share their fuddle at the desert-patrol camps we'd jointly operate from time to time.