As has been expressed here loads of time the AAC Rear crewmen (hope the title is correct) are a top breed. One Door Gunner on NI ops saved my butt. I had just picked up an infantry patrol who had been in the sticks for a week and the commander asked me to throw the lynx around to cheer up his guys. Of course thinking on the prospect of a Board of inquiry following a crash, I told him it was illegal. His head dissapeared from between the two fronts seat and I decided that what I could do legally, was to do a very tight decsending turn to look at that that 'suspected' illegal VCP on the road beneath us. Well basically, at 500ft the patrol commander fell out the open door. Moose, bless you mate, grabbed him on the way past!
Yep, I was a prat!