BOAC:
that seems VERY limiting! Was the AI not up to the manoeuvre? I always understood the TFR kit in the trembler would allow an IMC return to LL?
According to the accident report the pilot should have knocked it off as soon as he entered cloud. I'm guessing that's because he was on a low level VFR sortie so if he got into cloud at anything less than MSA he was duty-bound to do a weather abort. But surely the Pave Tack wouldn't see anything in cloud in any case, so once he'd gone IMC they couldn't have delivered the weapon in any case? F-111s regularly used the HRA so they presumably did low level toss attacks in there at night and in IMC.
Beagle: presumably that was in a Hunter T.7 and you had an instructor in the RHS? The thought of even your good self thundering along at low level with a blindfold on doesn't inspire confidence.
NS