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Old 1st Jun 2005, 18:29
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In 'the good old days' one could add 'Embellish' on the remarks section of a UK flt plan and the AD dept would then be free to carry out a practice intercept.

This eventually was stopped rather severely after (at least) a couple of whoopsies, one involving a Viscount and one where a RAF Phantom shot down a RAF Jaguar, causing much beer to be bought by the Phantom squadron.
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