Bootneck - maybe that's why we all have full procedural IR s in SAR then and why I get to be the Command IRE to examine and award IRs and IRE's.
Maybe such knowledge wasn't required when you were in but now the lads and lasses do a procedural course at DHFS as part of their Shawbury course.
Nice try at being supercilious but you just about managed petty
The irrelevant ****e was some of the trans-atlantic planning I have seen people swot up on - things may have changed in the exams now, the CAA may have made them more relevant to helicopters but I doubt it.
Bertie - exactly the same reason I got mine in the first place - just in case.