Fair point, Chug, but cuefaye makes a good point also!
Why would you?
The Buccaneer was very much a crew aircraft and, to make it work, there was a great deal of trust placed both front to back and back to front. There had to be; without that trust the Buccaneer Force would never have been as effective as it was and the role was very, very demanding - particularly, as the Hockham Admiral says, in the maritime role. Backseaters were as much responsible for the safety of the aircraft as the frontseaters and it was never more so than when doing Divisional Dive Bombing or firing a simulated pod full of rockets against a manoeuvring FPB in the dark under you own LEPUS Flare recently delivered in a toss manoeuvre before converting from the recovery into a ten degree dive! Trust in each other in the cockpit and between crews in other proximate aircraft made the Bucc tactics work!
Gone off piste, I know and sorry, but if you didn't show that trust in the cockpit or on the OCU course (either before, during or after a sortie) then you would not have been deemed suitable to pass the course.
'Nuff said!
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