Safetypee,
That get-around clearly worked in its time however - and to use your example - in the age of BVR and HOBS missile profiles it would be a brave and stupid pilot to do such a thing on a training sortie nowadays. Indeed, I'd rip them a new one in the debrief. As I intimated earlier, the context of the mission and its imperative drives the risk you need to take but one must always ask whether it is within one's gift to take it or elevate it in the first place.
That said, thanks for sharing your WIWOL experience!