Not exactly national headline news but good on the engineers for acting above and beyond etc.
Reminds me of a time, as an Air Cadet of about 16, that I spent a day gliding with an RAF Volunteer Gliding Squadron. It was my turn to hold the wingtip of a glider for a winch launch. The cable was connected, the adult staff pilot indicated that his checks were complete and I noticed that his pitot cover was still on. I gestured to him and eventually had to go to the cockpit to tell him what the problem was.
After the flight he took me aside and gave me a full on boll0cking for apparently not following procedures and humiliating him in front of other staff and cadets! With the benefit of a few more years I would have told him he was a tw@t and either punched the w----r or taken the matter to his CO. I always wondered how well that d1ckhead would have flown a winch launch and approach without an ASI. If he'd just said thanks I wouldn't be dripping about it on an internet forum like a sad geek decades later.
