SCOPS failure on the no.2 engine had us spending a pleasant weekend at CFB Lahr instead of RAF Gatow, but that was the only high point of the MER course.... A new switch was sent out to us, fitted on Monday morning by the crew chief and back we went to RAF Finningley.
ETPS actually assessed the C-130 as being "An excellent lead-in trainer for the Jetstream", I once heard!