Doing some gunship continuation training in the Bushrangers at Evans Head. We had finished the last of the flights, and were ready to head back to base.
The crewman suggested a flypast for the RSO, with a browneye as a bonus. The crewie was wearing a 2-piece nomex, so with the monkey belt around his waist, he was able to strip naked in the 2 minutes it took us to set up for the flyby.
He was out on the skids in the breeze, the cheeks of his @rse fluttering in the airflow, and the RSO was mightily impressed.
The crewie got back into his seat, and then we heard him say "Oh, KCUF!!"
I looked back, and he was sitting there, ashen-faced, with the tether end of the monkey belt loose in his hand - he hadn't been attached.
A vision of the newspaper headline flashed through my mind - "Naked crewman falls from helicopter!"
Would have gone over well at the court martial.