Seeing the Green Parrot reminds me of a good fun flight when Bob Warren was flying it out of Lee and I was the SAR pilot in a WX5. There was a splendid chap whose name escapes me who did the radar approaches and it was his last day on the job before retirement. Bob was approaching the Needles from the west and I went round the IOW low level clockwise and met up with him in very tight formation.
Bob did all the radio and we did a radar controlled approach until we were at about 300 feet and Bob broke up and right and I went down and left! When we got to the bar the controller was still shaking from the experience……….he genuinely thought that Bob had had a midair……………….! Happy days.
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