....Except the the RAF IREs who liked to prove they were better than everyone else liked to insist on fix joins from any angle.
Well,
I never insisted on you doing that on the '10, Dan! A certain D**k E***s tried to insist on such bolleaux when I was doing my retread course after UAS days. He then went to the galley to make some tea and was suprised to note that I was positioning to join along the defining radial (this was pre-FMS days), rather than aiming at f*** all with f*** all! Of course it helped having been the squadron IRE on a previous tour, so after a 'discussion' he accepted my view.
Mind you, the CAA were even kinder. My 'observed' IR on the '10 included a radar vectored ILS at Lyneham on RW25, then an NDB join, hold and asymmetric NDB on RW26 at Brize. But instead of insisting on a direct transit, followed by an appropriate sector entry and join, the IRE was perfectly happy to allow me to poke off north, then turn to join on the precise sector 3 holding course...
Nice chap!! A shame that such things are no longer possible though...
