Tony Angel RIP
I was saddened to read that Tony Angel, ex BOAC and Simulated Flight Training (SFT), has died. Very many pilots and flight engineers will have benefited from his experience and humour. I first met him when he was operating at White Waltham with a Link Trainer; I did my R/T exam with him which involved the set-piece scenario of flying a Minair Dove on a route something like Exeter to Cardiff with a Mayday over Bristol. The exercise was supposed to be largely theoretical, but not with Tony, who made you fly the route in the Link, complete with a wide range of R/T calls from 'other' aircraft, all done by Tony in a variety of convincing accents.