Back when we were still allowed to decide our own sortie profiles on the VC10K OCU course, we used to run a nice little 'day trip to Germany' - co-pilot's IRT on the way out, captain's IRT on the way home. Take-off at 10:00, 12:00-14:00 on the ground at a clutch station, depart at 14:00 and land at around 16:00. We used to offer 10 seats to stn pax - the criteria being that they wouldn't normally have an opportunity to fly and that their section must have done something useful for 241 OCU or the squadron - all legal and above board. Thus we often took 2 from 5 different sections - Ops, Admin, Squippers, ATC, MT, Regt or whoever; so we were quite popular around the station.
Then some Wg Cdr out to make a name for himself decided that only HE would approve the passengers - we didn't have any say in the matter...
So one day some pongo Woopert turned up, announcing that he was on our flight. Pompous sod that he was, he expected to be treated like royalty even though he was a mere captain.
The first thing which got his attention was the simulated engine failure at V
1 (allowed in those days), followed by a 3-eng hold, ILS and go-around, into airways and a couple of approaches in Germany. We didn't carry ALMs on the VC10K, but someone came along as cabin supervisor (CS aka 'trolley-tart'). "Eh seh", piped up the pongo after the first approach at Wildenrath, "Whey aren't we landin'?". So the CS told him that there was probably a technical issue and we might have to fly straight back to Brize. Woopert went into low earth orbit for a while...until we landed and handed him over to the movers, the CS having told them that he was their only customer as everyone else was going back to Brize - but that he'd been an utter PITA! "Leave him to us, mate", said the MovOff with a wink....
Sadly the 'double IRT and NAAFI run' trips stopped as the RAFG clutch wound down and we were told that henceforth we could only use UK military aerodromes for the OCU IRTs...
Before customs rules were relaxed, truckies had a very restricted duty free allowance. When coming back from ACMI at Deci once, we were offloaded at Gutersloh whilst some stretcher bound chap was loaded on board - complete with a medical team. As I we were let back onto the aircraft, I was somewhat appalled to hear the VC10 nav asking the poor sod on the stretcher, who was hooked up to a drip, "Are you taking back a bottle and 200?"...
