Everyone in Britain knows where they were during February’s Storm Eunice – because they were all probably watching the same thing: a live YouTube feed of a man standing in a horse paddock in Hillingdon, west London, filming passenger jets getting violently flung around by the high winds and providing real-time commentary, as he became more famous than he ever dared dream.
Little by little, word began to spread online about Jerry Dyer, his Big Jet TV channel and its procession of stomach-lurching near misses, as plane after plane rocked and tilted down towards the Heathrow runway. Viewing figures surged and comments poured in faster than they could be read, as Dyer fielded call after call from excited media organisations live on air.
