Originally Posted by
RetiredBA/BY
.and Beagle never saw turnbacks in the JP, at Cranwell because we had stopped them long before 1974, the risk outweighed the potential benefits, too dangerous..
Just to be clear I assume you mean stopped doing them with students on board? As I recall it we were still teaching turnbacks to student QFIs at CFS on the MK 3 and MK 5 JP as late as ‘89, but as I recall it they were never to practised by QFIs at the BFTSs with a “real” student onboard.
This JP trivia has I am sure little if anything to do with the main thrust of the thread other than perhaps highlighting that there has always been some debate about the risk vs. benefits of practising some manoeuvres.