We used to do a "Silver Wing" service between Manston and Le Touquet, which may have been a little tight for our Hermes, so only Captains could land there. ( There was no technical information, unless it was kept in the London Office.)
The return flight was flown by the F/O, operating as far as it was possible as a One Man Band, plus the essential rearward facing F/E.
Many frequency changes and ATC calls and passenger sight seeing comments, Approach and Landing Checks, ending with a with a Practice Emergency GCA to touch down made a busy fifteen and a half minutes flight time. (All monitored by the Captain, RHS.)
Some years later I had to do much the same thing for real, into a busy Terminal, following a "F/O failure". ( He got better !)
Simulators were not available, then.
(At Manston we could watch the Decca Navigator plot which side of the wide R/W we were on, on the charts, which we inked to gain confidence. Round Basle the pen would tend to wander a bit but stayed inside the Airway.)
LT
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