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Old 23rd Apr 2009, 19:15
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There was a certain instructor on the Bucc OCU at Honington (1971) who introduced all new navs to the loop in a Buccaneer on their FAM 1 sortie - so he must have done it more than once and survived!

It went like this:

Pilot: Right Foldie, I'm now going to show you a loop in a Buccaneer!

Baby Nav (thinking catch question this): A loop is not cleared in the Release to Service! (thinking gotcha - ya can't catch me).

Pilot: Shut up, hold on, give me the heights and speeds on the way up AND on the way down!

I recall we entered at 5000ft and bottomed about 2000ft - the rest was a complete blur but I passed the sortie and subsequently, the course!

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