The reason I wrote that he was a great chap who went on to better things on the Jaguar, was so that ex-Jag Mates would k
NOw to whom I was referring.
We were at UAS, RAFC and 4FTS together - those who know him, know his fine sense of humour.
His "I completely blacked out" comment had the crewroom in stitches, including him. "Yeah, since birth, mate", was one reply.
When there are 6 of you still surviving the TWU course and you're all mates, banter flows pretty freely. I hope that's still the case in the anodyne PC world of today....
Anyway, back to the thread - the anti-G system in the Gnat was very reliable and I don't recall anyone having had a failure or an inadvertent turning-trousers disconnect. But if you're braced ready for the system to kick in and for some reason it doesn't, you will be highly likely to black out - but that's not the same as G-loc.