I wonder whether Peter was the reason I joined the Flypast forum back in the last century, as I found a met man in Newfoundland in my family, and *someone* put me onto a historian who helped me try to track him down (he eventually turned up in Arizona, hard to get further away from Newcoundland!).

Whatever the reason, I’m sorry to hear of his death. Somehow “Blue skies” doesn’t seem a fitting valediction for a met man.