WaterXing
From the headland (roughly midway between Carnlough and Cushendall) where they left the shore after passing over Carnlough to the Mull is 15.6 Nmiles;
from the point the 028 track (H-B) leaves Rathlin Island to Islay is 16.5 NMiles.
Bertie Thruster, is this “quite a big difference”?
BOAC, you wrote <<The Antrims would not, I think, be a significant problem and the option to route around is there if they are.>>; as they went through the middle of such ground, routing around would not have been a minor diversion – in fact, to avoid them and the populated areas, route H-B is obvious – as was planned for – no high ground or WX probs on that route.
Did anyone prepared to post on this thread actually see the photocopy of the flight plan they are supposed to have left?