My recollection is that the internal toys gave me time to look out because I wasn't constantly staring at a map and the ground in front of the intake desperately trying to convince the nose-gunner that I knew where we were.
As to the Jag/GR1 off Cromer, the pilots were old colleagues. The Jag pilot was winched first; the GR1 pilot, upon arriving aboard, was surprised to see him and asked how long he had been on Sea Kings. 'About 5 minutes' was the reply.
Don't blame me if that is fiction, I got it from the GR1 pilot.