you were obviously based at Kinloss! I never had problems like that in all my happy & serviceable years on 42 (TB) Sqn!!
Easy tiger. I know you're a fan of the good ol days...a lot of us are, but some of the kit was awesome and worked well and some of it was ...not so much.
And that was in the 80's. If you'd flown the old beast in the late nineties,early noughties, you'd routinely have been getting airborne with a bits and bobs limmed all over the shop.
Lets not get too rose tinted over the old girl...she was mighty fine kite, but what really made her tick was the bods who flew her and fixed her.