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Old 5th Sep 2015, 17:01
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Tinribs
 
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Multi types

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has opinions about the RAF's attitude to multi types, not so
We were encouraged to fly the chipmunk from squadrons for the ATC and at RAE Bedford we could easily fly several types in one day. I understand that as the Buc had no two seaters for squadrons the hunter was usually used for check flights
I found in practice there was no problem if the types were very dissimilar but if you flew two that had similar configurations, say the Varsity or Devon and the Dack, it was easy to get the speed limits mixed up so special care was needed but with that extra care, and a supervisors warning there was no problem
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