core skills learned from frontline operational flying
yes, cockers p anyone?
in general the RAF boys had only ever known the yellow Wessex or Seaking
in general most of my contempories had flown SH all over the world. True, their airfields, German forests, Salisbury Plain didn't move up and down too much but when I was operating alongside 845 in NI at least the crabs managed to stay (mostly) on the correct side of the border with the Republic!
Sea King 'drivers' (see, I have also learned navy talk) in latter years do fit your description to some extent, deplorable as that is.
