I’ve got one I heard in the bar a few years back. Back in the early 80’s a young lad had been chopped at the end of his JP course at Linton. Much against his better judgement he opted for ATC and ended up at Shawbury doing the ‘flying prevention branch’ course. At the time Marshall’s still operated a number of JP’s around the skies of Shropshire for ‘live’ controller training flown by ex-servicemen of considerable vintage. One afternoon, during a lull in the early part of his course, the young ‘chopped’ mate is sent across to fly in the right hand seat of a Marshall’s JP. He pitches up, in his ‘old’ flying suit and after a fairly cursory brief they walk out to the jet, strap in and get airborne. Old Marshall’s pilot isn’t known for his wit and repartee, so not much conversation takes place as the JP cruises gently around Shropshire with the old fella’ virtually doing it in his sleep – as usual. Eventually, he asks the young lad if he fancies a go, completely unaware of his flying background - sure says the young lad and grabs the pole. Anyway, the old fella then sits back and lets the youngster fly gently around the sky, remarking briefly that he’s got quite a bit of natural ability – young lad still says nothing about his background. Eventually, the sortie is coming to a close and the old pilot asks the young lad to point the jet back at Shawbury, which he again does successfully. As they cross the threshold the old pilot, now clearly very impressed with this ‘ab-inito’s’ flying ability, tells the young lad he can turn downwind as well. Young lad reverts to training - whaps the JP into a 3G turn downwind – blacks out the old pilot – does the checks, calls finals and greases the JP onto the runway. Old pilot comes to as they taxi down the runway!!