Post by chevvron on Aug 17, 2016 20:13:18 GMT
The photo of the PP on the present (17 Aug) bannershot is quite poignant for me, it being almost exactly 54 years since I flew in one!
Just short of my 14th birthday, my first ever flight was in an Argosy from Benson, and about a month later my ATC Squadron went to annual camp at Little Rissington. There were a couple of Chipmunks allocated for our use there, but some of the station pilots who were not attached to CFS volunteered to fly cadets in the Provosts as part of their own continuation training (CT). I was allocated a flight in a Provost with the station Senior Medical Officer and he taught me how to handle the controls and actually fly the aircraft myself! It rather spoiled me for later Chipmunk flights as I found it easier to pick things up by being able to watch how he handled the controls.
Just short of my 14th birthday, my first ever flight was in an Argosy from Benson, and about a month later my ATC Squadron went to annual camp at Little Rissington. There were a couple of Chipmunks allocated for our use there, but some of the station pilots who were not attached to CFS volunteered to fly cadets in the Provosts as part of their own continuation training (CT). I was allocated a flight in a Provost with the station Senior Medical Officer and he taught me how to handle the controls and actually fly the aircraft myself! It rather spoiled me for later Chipmunk flights as I found it easier to pick things up by being able to watch how he handled the controls.
