Originally Posted by
newt
PN
All I can say is you must have a better memory than me! I cannot even remember sea state being mentioned when briefing for yet another sortie of PIs over the North Sea! Sometimes we did four on the same night too!
BEags probably has the right of it, I was talking about the long range interceptors to your south that could actually get to 54 deg North
Seriously, we never had a sea state/low level wind consideration in the early 80s in the Shack. I seem to think it was one of those creeping rules that was sensibly introduced on one sqn or wg then crept to another before being adopted by first one group, then another, until 1, 11 and 18 all played the same game. For Nimrods I don't think ditching weather was ever a consideration, certainly in the 70s.