Originally Posted by
brakedwell
Exiting days chevvron. I was stationed at Bovingdon before your gliders appeared and I never got near Fighter Coms Devon when I was on Coastal Com, but I did eventually fly one of the CAA's Doves, G-ANUT when I did the Instrument CAA Examiners Course at Stansted in 1975.
During my ATCO training at Bournemouth in 1974, a CAA Dove would fly down from Stansted on a monday and return on a friday to do 'live' traffic training where we were split into groups of 3, one flew with the Dove pilot and the other two occupied a 'spare' console in Bournemoth Approach doing vectoring and SRAs. I flew in the right hand seat of GANUT during two of these trips, plus two in its companion GANUW.