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107it. However, he must have thought that I had a firm bid at the %u00a310,000 mark. The next morning our solicitor phoned and told me he had bid %u00a310,300. Later, when all was signed, sealed, and delivered, he found from the deeds that we had made quite a theoretical profit on the deal. Our solicitor told us that he had asked for some money back. The solicitor told him where to go. A couple of things happened on my last month on 206 Sqn. We regularly had to do simulator sorties where we were tested on all sorts of emergencies and aircraft handling. The sortie might be briefed as a flight to say Lyneham for an instrument approach and then return to St Mawgan. All sorts of things could go wrong and so you had not only handle that but also decided whether to divert somewhere else and so forth. On one of our last simulator sorties Bill was flying. The weather was often set as to be a bit marginal and breaking out of cloud looked quite realistic. Anyway, Bill had an engine failure and told me to shut it down. Then another engine caught fire or something and whilst I was dealing with that Bill flew the approach back to St Mawgan. All this time later, I cannot remember what happened, but he lost control and we crashed. Anyway, the next day we were tasked with something, and it was Bill%u2019s turn to do the take-off for real. It was a very rainy night. The take-off was normal but then our iffy siggie came on the intercom and said that he had seen sparks coming from number 1 engine. The engineer said all his indications suggested there was nothing wrong, but Bill told me to shut it down which I did. As I finished shutting it down and putting out a PAN call to ATC our Eng leader came on the intercom. He was a great chap with years of experience and was just along for the ride, perhaps to have a look at our Flight Engineer at some point. Anyway, he had been sitting in the galley for take-off but whilst he could listen to the intercom from there he could not talk. He now managed to plug in from somewhere else and reported that the sparks had come from not number 1 but rather from number 2 engine. Bill imme-