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<blockquote data-quote="straitman" data-source="post: 2150040" data-attributes="member: 3635"><p>During 1979 I had a Navy student at 1FTS who had previously been a Patrol Boat Commander.</p><p>After his course he was posted to Helicopter Conversion course at 5 Sqn. At the time I had moved from being a 1FTS QFI to 5 Sqn where I was Deputy Flight Commander and Chief Ground Instructor of the Helicopter School. During a progress test he managed to get the aircraft skidding on its nose at one point with the main rotor just inches off the ground. When I barely passed him on the test he complained to the Flight Commander. Justice was served when he suddenly became my student. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤩" title="Star-struck :star_struck:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f929.png" data-shortname=":star_struck:" /></p><p></p><p> That almost happened to me. I was told I rated higher as a Navigator than as a Pilot. I still got Pilots' Course however as they were churning people through for Vietnam. As it turned out I was on the first Helicopter course where no-one went to Vietnam. (Thank goodness)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="straitman, post: 2150040, member: 3635"] During 1979 I had a Navy student at 1FTS who had previously been a Patrol Boat Commander. After his course he was posted to Helicopter Conversion course at 5 Sqn. At the time I had moved from being a 1FTS QFI to 5 Sqn where I was Deputy Flight Commander and Chief Ground Instructor of the Helicopter School. During a progress test he managed to get the aircraft skidding on its nose at one point with the main rotor just inches off the ground. When I barely passed him on the test he complained to the Flight Commander. Justice was served when he suddenly became my student. 🤩 That almost happened to me. I was told I rated higher as a Navigator than as a Pilot. I still got Pilots' Course however as they were churning people through for Vietnam. As it turned out I was on the first Helicopter course where no-one went to Vietnam. (Thank goodness) [/QUOTE]
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