Originally Posted by
clicker
During the week there was a series of astro fix flights and they allowed us to go along. I ended up on XS729 (G) and recall at the end we did a practice emergency descent back into Finningley. Great way to end a three hour flight. Was that normal for that flight or was I lucky to get that?
If it was a Nav Training sortie each exercise sortie would have a number of different evolutions to both introduce a particular technique or to create pressure on the stude.
I am not sure, but if you hade been on an astro flight that suggests an ANTS sortie rather than BNTS if that was the division in 1976. Certainly by 1987 BNTS did not do astro.
So to answer your question, a practice emergency descent would have been normal for that sortie profile and not all sorties.