Originally Posted by
Geoffersincornwall
Yes I was there then. Seem to remember the ex-Army chap who flew the new Barratt's Agusta 109 didn't realise that his military 'Master Green' counted for nought and had to do a check-ride with the man from CAAFU. The candidate turned up at Fairoaks wih his shiny new toy only to be confronted by a puzzled examiner who said, "where are the screens". "What screens?" came the reply.
Never in the field of human endeavour has any pilot been so unprepared for what followed. The kind examiner did not give up but came into our office and borrowed a copy of yesterday's Daily Telegraph and some masking tape and duffed-up some screens out of the newspaper.
I am not sure at what stage the examiner realised that Johnny Pilot couldn't tell a hold from an iLS but let's just say that he, Johnny, expected a military style test and - FAILED.
Per Ardua etc
G.
Well forgive me for saying, you got this tale wrong. Gossip is like that and often repeated by the foolish. I never held a master green. Nor did I sit an exam at Fairoaks.. I did however set up a training flight with an examiner. There were no screens as you mentioned... in existence anywhere in the world! The QHI said he could fix that. I found that training valuable. I did not fly an ILS or a hold, these did not exist at Fairoaks then and still do not to this day. . What you published is utter nonsense so typical of engineers crew room gossip, not even half the tale is factual. In fact PPRune is like that, damaging silly gossip - factually inaccurate being the norm.