The view out for the AEO and Nav (post combining Radar and Plotter into 1 job) was strictly limited, being through 1 rather small porthole each. As the disbandment of 55 approached I was on a crew that took one of our last airframes to Manston for the Fire School to play with. Manston approach gave us the "Dover tour" clockwise round the coast from the Thames to the Sussex border. Having viewed the tour through said porthole I heard the AEO complain that all he'd seen was sea
The obliging Approach Controller then gave us the tour backwards to redress the AEO's deprivation!
