Ah, him. Met him when I held at the Dom squadron briefly after escaping from the Wetdream as their boss was to be on the next VC10 course with me.
Barking mad. But there were some really amusing characters on that outfit as well, of course.
On one trip we did, the captain suddenly realised he'd forgotten something, then fished out a piece of paper and announced "Ah, Signaller from Captain. Position blah, we've just seen (long list of Sovietski shipskis) MLA 120degM, speed 15 knots. Which means that in about 10 minutes time they'll bump into Flamborough Head! Send your message to Starfleet or whoever".
"Captain from Signaller, Wilco!"
There followed a few seconds of demented pecking on the morse key, followed by "Captain from signaller, the HF's U/S!".
"Roger, back to sleep then, siggy!"
I always wondered what the boat people at the other end of the CW message made of the bit they'd actually received...
No such fun these days, regrettably.