Surely the whole point of reconnoitring routes in peacetime is to help keep alive the people who will be needed to fly in combat? There's no point wiping out your people in training - same as the debate in the Airworthiness thread.
St Mawgan ATC told me to "Stby" on receipt of my PAN
No surprise there - why do you think they were posted to St Mawgan with its resident fleet of 3 helicopters?