Tims Times

The sea pilot arrived by helicopter yesterday, nothing too strange there. When he arrived on the bridge he wanted to smoke directly which is not allowed so he was in a bit of a humour. When we were going into the locks at Dunkerque he was behind me as I was at the controls, he didn’t say anything except made a sort of a noise like tut tutting when he felt we were wandering off track, then he didn’t have to say anything because I knew something was wrong and fixed it by applying more helm or thrust. Once in the locks and secure he dashed down to the smoke room for a couple of Gitanes, when he came back the humour was better…..I suggested a nicotene patch for the long pilotages where smoking is not allowed……he produced a box of pills from his pocket and said “I ‘ave been chewing thees nicotine sweets all evening!¨

The demon nicotine!

Any aircraft experts out there (Devin) know what kind of helicopter it is?