Dog, Morecambe Bay is hardly the "wilds of the N Atlantic", and the glide ratio of his machine is relevant, well, precisely how?
Seems to me that even gash civvies manage just fine landing on those scary dangerous platforms in "moderately gusty" conditions hundreds of times a day, seven days a week.
How the daily hate manages to create "news" where none exists!
Having said that, BZ to both the princes on achieving their current positions. Shame neither joined the Navy though.