In 1977 I was lucky enough to be sent to hold at RAF Leconfield, on the SAR flight who operated Whirlwind 10s. I became their "professional survivor" for a few weeks and spent a lot of days getting very wet. As my reward, one day I was taken flying by the Sqn QHI. About twenty minutes later after "effects of controls" around the town of Beverley he talked me into the hover and somehow I managed to land the machine, after a fashion (although the marshaller gave up in disgust, or possibly because of exhaustion
).
That did it.....
