InTgreen
your remark about SCT surprises me. There was never that much SCT to be had in Gazelle days, and we kept current on all exercises - indeed, if you include Gp3 Ph3 that's more than Squirrels do. A quick (if unscientific) check of old logbook suggests a max of about 1.30 per month (not including IFE), often much less, with some more saved to allow 5-6 hrs every 6 months with Standards.
Something I'd forgotten, but logbook revealed, was the amount of SCT that was flown mutual - effectively doubling the hours. Is that done now? If not, why not?
And of course, supervisory checks (Boss Checks or Standards)
always included an unbriefed exercise from anywhere in the syllabus. So having been thinking CAs or low flying or whatever, you could find yerself doing S&L 1 off the cuff. For the avoidance of doubt, this was when I was a B1 (so it
was a long time ago
)