Ronaldsway IOM, is a huge airfield – and I mean HUGE.
One summer morning – 06.00 – we were prepping our 355 in the far corner of this vast airfield, parked on a large expanse of grass between two taxiways. Nothing was moving except us.
Then we see a vehicle approaching. It stops on the taxiway about 40 yards away, out steps a policeman, all flat cap and hi-vis jacket.
“Morning lads, got any hi-vis with you?”
“Well, yes – somewhere….. we’re just leaving.”
“Put ‘em on next time, eh?”
“Certainly officer.”
His car was the ONLY thing moving on that airfield that could have hit us – and he saw us (without hi-vis gear) from the tower HALF A MILE AWAY!!