OMEGAV6 is correct ref the small parking area at Belize in the early days. Before the Herc came into service we used to go there in the Hastings. After offloading pax/frt we then taxied to an area of the airport we christened the scrapyard because that is what it looked like. Full of bits of dead a/c etc. Naturally the Hastings looked right at home there.
This was done to leave room on the very small parking area for the civilian a/c to park, no VC10 then.
Whether you liked it or not GASOS ruled our lives and you disobeyed them at your peril. Unless of course you got an exemption in writing from HQ or were the AOC ! (see my earlier Belize tale)
As the comms back to HQ improved so did micromanagement. IMHO this was to the detriment of getting the job done on many an occasion.