BEagle wrote:
Why on earth would you ever need to do that? Distracting your student during close formation and taking your own hand away from the controls seems bŁoody stupid to me.
Agreed. I once had a creamie instructor hold an aircrew knife to my throat whilst in close formation on the JP. He thought it was hilarious, I thought he was a tw@t. Not that the knife posed any threat of actually cutting me of course!