JuanaWhirred
Yes, I remember Peter Peckowski at BEAS. He let me take off a Jetranger once, having myself learned on Brantley B2B, Hughes 300C and Augusta G47. My licence expired in 1979...
I have recently had digitised some old Super 8 movies, and there are a couple of shots of him teaching me, and taking up my then partner...
Interestingly, tomorrow, I am off for the week-end to the Helicopter Museum at Weston-Super-Mare where I hope to use one of their simulators, and see whether I still have the handling skills secreted somewhere in my neural membranes, and who knows, maybe a circuit or two with an instructor...
I have no memory of his smoking, but why would I, pretty much all of us did then...
Hope this is of interest to you...
Yours faithfully
Anthony Hudson