Originally Posted by
Il Duce
Beady Eye, yes good point about D and D blowing their own trumpet. What I was trying to highlight was that the article in Pulse was written as if no one else but V watch of NATS was involved from an ATC perspective. I'm sure the boys and girls in D and D would echo that "it's all part of the job", but it wouldn't have done them, or the editors of Pulse, any harm if they got a mention outside of any RAF publications.
Quite right too - they don't have to go OTT, just give a mention of others who were involved. q.v. It would have been of interest to mention that on its first visit to the UK, the A380 made several low approaches at Hawarden and Bristol Filton
before going on to land at Heathrow.