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Old 2nd Apr 2015, 14:52
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brakedwell
 
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I completed the two week IRE/TRE course at Stansted in May 1975. Two students on the course were paired up and we flew the CAA Doves in the mornings and covered the ground syllabus in the afternoons. My first flight was an instrument rating, carried out by our CAA Instructor. From then on the Instructor acted as the candidate while I we we were the examiners. In the beginning he made obvious errors and it was easy to see he was not up to standard, but gradually he improved until the pass/fail decision was on a knife edge. Get it wrong once too often and it was curtains! My instructor, Capt Brian Morgan, was an extremely good pilot who knew all the tricks when it came to fooling his students! The two Doves in use were G-ANUT and G-ANUU.
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