Breakfast Patrols
Does anybody remember Breakfast Patrols? Have they been banned or perhaps frowned upon?
I used to really enjoy them.
In case you are wondering...
The 'Target' airfield puts up a patrol of home based aviatiors (preferrably with excellent vision) who await the arrival of an undetermined number of visiting aircraft. Their arrival is usually constrained to an allocated time period. The 'intruders' must try to reach the vicinity of the airfield (confirmed by radioing in their callsign) without their registration being read by the patrol (and thusly announced on frequency).
Any successful 'Bandits' are rewarded with a free fry up.
I am guessing that you can already see why some BPs were fun and others were downright scary - there were those who confused reading reg letters with dogfighting etc.
One thing is for certain, you wouldn't find a bunch of aircraft with better lookouts than those engaged in BP-ing activities.