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Old 16th Jun 2011, 06:58
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Musical AOCs

ISTR an AOCs formal inspection day at Lossie in the early eighties. At that time there were Units within 4 different groups represented at the Stn (please don't ask me to remember the actual groups, but they were there for the Buccaneer, the Shackleton, the SAR helicopter flight and the Jaguar OCU). To save time and effort, all AOCs would visit on the same day - it was planned that they all should arrive within a few minutes of each other by air and be taxied to the appropriate dispearsal for their charges.

As you have probably guessed, someone in ATC got the wrong callsign to the wrong dispearsal leading to an embarrassing arrival at the wrong parade and HS 125s taxying all over the airfield to get to the right spot. I imagine that it was a fun debrief....
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