Barrows
Often flew with SV on Barrows. I flew Co and concentrated on visual nav and positioning while he concentrated on the handling. A gent to fly with. Buck House flypast, wx dreadful. Singleton snake climbs then to Manston. Wx marginal and he called it off - good call. Wg Cdr PBUH was auth and flew as pax in one of the ac. Back at Lye he commented that he was surprised we hadn't gone for it!!!!!!!!! He couldn't say anything at the time as we were lead and shouldn't have said anything afterwards.
On recovery to Lye Heathrow offered us the chance to fly down runway as 4 ship - PBUH piped up from back that it wasn't briefed and we shouldn't do it - what a chance missed!!!!
For a practice before the event we did a singleton flythrough a week earlier. Wx was just ok so with SV flying I was map reading over London with 50,000 maps. Canary Wharf was on the run and there was a LO there to keep residents informed. London ATC informed a police heli that we were running in as he was in the area and he said he would hold low. After passing his comment to ATC was that if he had known how low we would be we could have done his job for him!!!!