A Hastings yarn:
Brakedwell mentioned PS in a previous post as one of the funniest men he had ever flown with. I totally agree. Here is a story that PS once told me. He had already done a few thousand hours of navigating on the Hastings when he got posted to 48 Sqn in Changi.
"I were crewed up with this youth".
First trip with said youth and they are northbound to HK in the middle of the night somewhere abeam Saigon.
"I were sat there with me feet up on't ADFs when youth comes up".
"Where's your log and chart, said he?"
"They're on't table in front of me. Why?"
"It's ma coostom every hour on't hour to check and sign navigator's log".
"Fook off, you're not old enough to have coostoms" said PS, but he were right serious.
Not another word was said and PS left it until the end of their 2-year tour and they were being dined-out.
Pete got to his feet and asked the PMC if he could ask the youth why it was that he had checked and signed his log 1,659 times every hour, on the hour, underneath the Gee-fix for Dishforth regardless of where they were on the planet!