Agreed that the Vamp's airbrakes weren't all that world-shattering, which the Meteor's certainly were before the Phantom Diver struck and their travel was limited, after which they were just "slowing down thingies", I think ...
But you are so right about "stick forward into the G4" - needed the seat high and a spot of peering about with head on one side, IIRC ... Didn't stop us from getting safely down in some claggy North German weather though ...
On reflection, I think our Vamps had the "spade grip" stick and DGs for heading, while the Venom had the stick grip and a G4B. But in both cases I don't remember problems seeing one's heading was doing on GCA finals with full flap, perhaps because our GCA controllers had such a reassuring patter ...
