Early 1980's MSV Tharos - bolted alongside the original Piper Alpha.
SP-IFR with SFENA Ministab and Dixie Newton as Engineer. Graeme Moir took the picture - both of them excellent engineers.
Pilots - Graham Morley (AKA Banana Boots), Mike Trotter and Upland Goose
"Desert Fox" was a sound machine.
After a casevac one night, I was returning to Tharos on my own and was told by Scottish Info. that, for brief period, I was the only aircraft movement in UK airspace.
For once, with my family tucked up in bed in Aboyne, I thought "what the hell am I doing here". SP-IFR flying can be lonely at 3am. A few years later the skies would be swarming with postal flights in the middle of the night.UG
