Originally Posted by
Jayand
Brats? by which you mean APPO'S or apprenctices were not the exclusive users of these.
The airframes at Halton and now Cosford were/are used by aircraft mechs on their basic courses and of course the techs on their fitters courses.
They also had some taxiable JPs on the airfield which were used for traiinng Flight Line Mechanics, plus a couple of taxiable Gnats used to train engine fitters to carry out ground runs.
They needed pilots or qualified/authorised groundcrew to taxy these types of course. One day there were a couple of Gnats at the ERB which needed to go back to the hangar and rather than get a someone down from the main camp, the SNCO i/c asked us microlight pilots to taxy them!