As a nav holding awaiting the NBS course I was lucky enough to get a four week low level nav course at Linton. My first trip was in JP T5 XW300, which was almost brand new with only "delivery mileage" in the book. Great fun, my pilot Al Colesky thought I ought to learn to fly, and his version of ab initio training went - lesson one - the loop (no boring straight and level or gentle turns). With the JP5's ample power even I found I could do a pretty respectable loop with only a little nudging from Al
The aircraft didnt last long as it was written off in a fatal mid-air collision with a Sea Prince less than a year later.