QCVSIA - Flt Cdr told me as "By the way" after thought.
A bit like hearing about my MiD at the end of a bollocking!
Hat on no coffee in Wg Cdrs's office - I'd been LHS (non-handling, non-captain, non-interested) on a night underslung load trip with a new-ish pilot.
He'd not made the hook safe after takeoff, and managed to transmit his downwind call on the release button - so no-one heard the epic R/T call: "C/s downwind ..... oh sh!t....." (well he was Irish.....)
Wg Cdr goes on and on:
"OK Teeters, I know you weren't captain or an instructor on this trip, but you are a more experienced pilot, training captain etc etc etc and you should have been monitoring his checks etc etc etc.........
....... and another thing: you've been Mentioned in Despatches!"
