Training

Training

I have got to say they were mostly Nigerian pilots.

Hands up who got lost on their first solo. Many a time we saw the QFI having to chase after you young pilots.

colin

I once heard a story whilst I was in the RAF of a pilot who forgot to fit his seat pins after landing away from base. He leapt from the cockpit catching the seat pan handle with his foot but the seat didn’t fire ! Investigation showed the handle hadn’t been connected and the fitter who had serviced the seat was put on a Tech Charge.

Not guilty Judge! I would not have been stupid enough to do that even though I’m not ultra intelligent.

Hi all

One of the worst experiances when the RAF were training pilots from foreign forces is that they did’nt understand ejection seats. My own experiance was when we used to change the role of a JP from dual to solo so the student could go for his solo flight, after the ejection seat pins were removed and stowed the student allways had a habit of then checking his seat for the correct height. This was done by reaching for the overhead ejection handle and giving it a slight tug. A slap on the bone dome (helmut) while I was jumping of the wing usually stopped him in his tracks, and a bollocking from the QFI when he got back.

thanks

colin

Ouch Colin!! That would have been at least curtains for him given that the JP seat is not a zero-zero!! When I flew in Hunter and JP I was so keen to get the pins back in!!!
One terrible story was the ATC cadets who decided to take ejection seat pins as their souvenirs!!

Could have had interesting results for the student and, most likely, a scorched derierre for you.