jayteeto
Everybody is aware that you didn't all go to Station Briefing Room, whether you were flying or not, as if it was an FTS.
I flew multi engined passenger carrying aircraft for some 19 years of my Service and all Flight Deck Crew (except Air Engineers and Signallers if carried) went to the Met Office for a face to face briefing with the Met Man prior to the Task. If necessary, when operating from some of the smaller or less 'Advanced' Countries, one would arrange for the requisite Meteorological Forecasts and winds to be faxed to the Handling Agent or even signalled to the Air Attache. As a last resort we used the HF via Upavon.
Now, when Flt Lt Tapper went to Met by himself in the morning of the 2nd June 1994 did he also satisfy himself, as the Detatchment Commander who had allocated the least experienced Pilot on the detatchment to the evenings VIP Task, in respect of the weather in the vicinity of the Mull and the Great Glen en route to Inverness? After all, it would have been his duty, as the Detatchment Commander, to ensure the the Crews allotted to tasks had the requisite qualifications to perform those tasks.