but can you really land a VC10 at Cosford?
A British Airways crew managed it quite easily when they took one of their VC10s there. That airframe was scrapped because it was taking up space and it was a civvy jet and there was no problem because Cosford would be getting one of the RAF ones once they became time-expired.
I guess that Wessex and Chinook pilots are excused élan, flair and a sense of adventure during training and any residual amounts are screened out once you are selected for higher things.