I wonder what extra training they need to be able to do this ?. Above and beyond landing on any other non-paved surface ?

I suppose it’s a day out at the seaside ? 🙂

When I was at Lyneham in the 70’s once a year was the beach landing, the training was not just for the pilots (they are fully trained at Lyneham / Brize on various landing scenarios) it was primarily to teach the pongo’s on how to set up, control and protect a landing ground and from our point of view (RAF Maintenance) we had to also to protect the U/C and lower fuse from damage.

I know these days they get plenty of ‘Desert Landings’ in Afghanistan etc But during the Cold War we had zero desert strip landing experience so Dorset Beach was ideal training ground

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