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Old 10th Feb 2014, 16:57
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Returning the original subject:

Gordon Smith was a flying doc in CFS Standards at Little Rissington in the early 1970s who did rehab flying with aircrew.

Most were aircrew who suffered from airsickness and were being put through a desensitisation syllabus, but I remember one Lightning pilot who'd found LL over the sea at night less than comfortable and who they tried to coax back into confidence. Can't remember if he succeeded.

Perhaps the most memorable was an Iranian pilot who'd broken his back in a T33 crash and taught himself the Bader walk. He was being assessed to see if he could still fly OK despite the lower limb issue. As far as I recall he was passed OK in a JP.

Doc Smith sadly died in a Meteor accident at Farnborough a few years later.

When I was at CFS again 10 years later, this rehab flying had been moved to IAM at Farnborough.
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