I had forgotten all about Sincs!! He was one of my instructors at 1 FTS at Linton in 1984 during my self-aborted attempt at joining the ranks of the ‘Two-Winged Master Race’! Apart from my ‘agricultural flying’ I had great difficulty in parking the mighty JP3 with its nose wheel aligned in a ‘fore and aft’ direction…hence Sincs nicknamed me ‘Bendy’ - no micro-aggressions in those days!! 🤔😉
I had almost erased the trauma of pilot training from my memory when I pitched up at Finningley…so imagine my shuddering embarrassment when my Course arrived at LLADTS for ‘Basic JPs’ and I was greeted with a loudly bellowed ‘BENDY’ from the aforementioned Sincs! 🤭 Trust me, this took one hell of a lot of explaining to the other guys on the course! 😬🤭
But to be honest he was a totally different creature as a Nav instructor than he was as a QFI!!! A pleasure to fly with…although as an ex-Jag mate I think he was always bemused as to the true value of a Nav!!!