For what's worth, it had it's little "quirks" on the ground as well. Having done the X servicing course at Memmigen I was introduced to the "7 finger check" as I recall--could have been 5 though, can't remember now----anyway, one of these I DO recall, the one where you had to
slowly move the A.o.A vein throughout the range of travel---said vein is, of course heated and the driver is
supposed to pull the CB and then reset afterwards. The vein itself was located on the right hand side and a bit
too close to the intake as I recall. Obviously, on the course all was fine. Then came the day one lobbed into sunny Bruggen for a "day or two" and I was tasked with handling it along with a couple of others. Come the first start up--go to the vein and "ooops" from inside the cockpit as he er, "read my lips". CB hastily pulled and back to the checks.
I declined to sue the West German Gov't as I was bought off by several bottles of alcohol that evening from said driver
