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Old 24th Jan 2012, 18:20
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NorthSouth
 
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Bit late in on this and slightly off topic but I did 23 hours on Chipmunks in a UAS and didn't realise then that it was the best training around, so left after a year. Realisation came when I went to a now long-bust civil school in SE England and found out what standards were like in civvy street - ****e, to quote madjock! Result: I gave up for 20 years.

When I re-started, the first reaction of my instructor when he asked me to do a medium level turn and I immediately craned my neck round every obstruction in the cockpit and looked up down and all around was "oh yes, you learned with the RAF".

Now that I'm a part-time instructor I find most ex-UAS pilots have a much better level of comfort with the aeroplane and situational awareness. But it doesn't exempt you from being a stupid a*se - as I demonstrate to myself on regular occasions.

Best of luck to you - I'm 100% certain that a lot of your UAS training will come back to you.

NS
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