binbrook I am sure you are 100% correct, I only called out the numbers. I recall on an approach against a low watery winter Sun faithfully doing my commentary against back chat of "Can't see a thing" and repeat until at 1 mile, "There's the Royal Oak, ok nav."
I suspect when first introduced Babs was the best thing since sliced bread and Harris' brave boys often had no option but to continue until they saw something. Even well into the fifties GCA was a luxury not available to every station.
p.s. "Can't see a thing" was truthfully the sanitised version. Obviously visual from the pub to home.
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