Originally Posted by gzornenplatz
The dangerous period was when the Hawk was training pilots for the older jets. It just did not have the same swept-wing characteristics and meant that the OCU instructors had to spend more time teaching them on the operational aircraft.
That was an urban myth. I remember being told that my colleagues and I would struggle to fly the F4 after the Hawk. Our OCU results were no different to the historical norm and there was no convex extension. It came from people that THOUGHT the Hawk was too easy and their jets could only be flown by others like them. Later, as an instructor at Chivenor, I was still sending guys from Hawk to Lightning, F4, Harrier et al with very good results.