Originally Posted by
megan
Never understood it either John, ex Oz mil but USN trained, chap told me he was on his final handling test at Pearce in a Vampire and was failed for a bounced landing, he may have been understating the bounce, but how in the world do you throw away all that investment for an error made on your very last flight?
In my experience, there is usually far more to the story than such tales would suggest. Who knows, perhaps there were other factors and the bounced landing was merely the straw that broke the camel's back. Besides, the Vampire's training days were over 50 years ago, in a very different era with vastly different attitudes to today.