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Agree. We practised getting out every trip. Likewise moving around with a parachute was nobig deal. The problem was the trainer had no added value for experienced crews. It was static and in still air.
On my second OCU we had Victor plotter and a Shack AEO. On exiting the trainer I had my kit off and wrapped up ready for the next drill before they emerged.
The only useful drill was the ditching, safing the seats, easing a recumbent copilot over the side and then hauling a disabled casualty from pit below.
I started a thread earlier intended to discuss parachute landing practise, well, in Cyprus the Regiment had the real deal. Our flt cdr arranged for us to use it, to a man we declined.
I don't believe FJ crews were that keen to practise rolls and dragson land either.