Originally Posted by
danieloakworth
Speaking as a retired Nav, I rarely took the opportunity to pole the jet, it wasn't what I was being paid to be good at so it bored me.
You remind me of a conversation at Finningley some 20 years ago between two hair old navs (I was one but not as hairy now) and an equally hairy pilot. He was surprised when we said that we were not really interested in simply flying. He was surprised as any time airborne, even if flying triangles or pounding the circuit was sheer bliss. We OTOH said we much prefered to take-off from A and land at B ideally for a few days R&R!