As much to do with the people as the aeroplane but I loved every second of BFJT at Linton flying the Tucano.
I may be alone in thinking this but I thought the ‘jump’ to Hawk - 240 to 420 - was largely over blown as the cadence of events was very similar, you just went further. Also those lovely people in ATC took you more seriously and other pragmatic reductions such as trimmers no longer insisting on full PATHASATNIE practice pan calls actually made your life easier!
Occasionally ‘stuff’ would filter back from Valley to Linton such as ‘must tighten up circuits’ and other CFS type guff that probably mattered but resulted only in a week long fad for doing your circuits first ‘when you were sharpest’.
I never understood the switch on Tucano that went from ground idle to ‘flight mode’ or similar, but was overridden by throttle being advanced anyway...why was that required? Anyone recall?