Originally Posted by
megan
A bit adrift, story abounds of a engineer standing on the fixed floats of a running 205 tinkering with something/leak check when pilot decided to do a circuit. Shades of the WAAF doing a circuit sitting on the tail of a Spitfire. Perhaps it's better if the engineers do the ground runs.
Perhaps a retelling of the legendary story from 9 Squadron RAAF:
After maintenance test flight terminated near the hangar, during two minute run down period the mechanic gets out, opens LH engine cowl and having a bit of a stickey at the bits and pieces.
Whilst he is having a look, ground ops radios the pilot to relocate the Iroquois onto the pad.
Not knowing that the mechanic is standing on the skid the pilot spools up and pulls collective.
In a low hover taxi the mechanic starts belting the side of the helicopter with his tools, pilot thinks he has a massive compressor stall dumps the club and rolls his mate across the tarmac.