Sqn Ldr Burke says something interesting
It's nice when someone says something that clears up a lot of speculation.
Remember the discussions about why they all were put in one helicopter and whether this was a local detachment decision?
And the derision of the idea that such VIPs could be on a flight that had a training element?
Well in that recent BBC interview, Sqn Ldr Burke described it as a "Showcase Flight", intended to demonstrate to the army that it was fit for operational service, and implied that the decision to put all the top security VIPs on it was made at a level much higher than the detachment.
So it wasn't really about saving the use of one in theatre helicopter, was it?
And it wouldn't have been much of a demo doing the easy ferry run Curran to Corran, would it? Why wouldn't they demonstrate the new kit for fast insertion/extraction, etc in bad conditions by setting something up using a CPLS in that useful area of fixed/localised predictable weather on the Mull?