Originally Posted by
chevvron
The first helicopter I got my hands on at Farnborough and handled the controls was a Napier Gazelle engined Wessex Mk1 which was even bigger!
Yes, at the time I went through training the RAF also used twin Gnome engined Wessex 5s as the advanced trainer. A flying emergencies trainer; the emergencies checklist was the thickest of any aircraft I flew. To get through them all on the course it seemed that you needed to practice a couple on every sortie!