This 'being cool under pressure' seems to be endemic for 613 Staff cadets. I was a P2 flying air experience in VX275 one evening off what is now runway 02 (compass base to Aston Clinton corner), the OIC line (now a BGA national coach) told me 'if you overshoot the launch point you can drag it back by yourself'. I arrived on base leg with a little too much height even with judicious use of spoilers, so a did a 'beat' only to find the northerly component in the wind took me too far to get back over the hangar next to the old 613 hut, so I decided to go for the field to the south of the airfield (on the right as you approach from the main camp) planning my approach to do a steep turn to miss a tree and some grazing cows and running this all over coolly in my mind whilst adjusting speed and spoilers and briefing my passenger.
Unfortunately a large tree stump got in the way and in trying to miss it I ground looped and tore the skid off.