Does anyone else remember the trouble one had starting the T3 boost? I seem to remember having to open the rpm on number 2 at a very carefully judged rate to get the damned thing to light-up. Too fast on the rpm increase and it would stall; too slow and it would overtemp, resulting in flames gushing out of the tail-pipe.
There were Boost-Engine-Gurus, who could always start the blasted thing first time. And when you switched the thing off (at 9,500 feet?), the average disgusting Gripper Mark 3 would start to descend! The T3 was absolutely and indisputably the second-worst aircraft I've flown. The worst was the Piper Tomahawk, but the revolting T3 wasn't far behind.
The T1 was a nice aeroplane; the T2 was a sports version. The Trident 1E was the turbocharged edition.
I'm sorry for the poor souls of my generation who were condemned to a decade flying the Trident 3. They deserve a medal.
AD