Tartare
Actually not very difficult to fly - with the nozzles aft it was a big Hawk, in the VSTOL regime handling was slightly more challenging but no black art.
The problem was how close to the edge you were in the VSTOL regime - very black and white between all going fine and nope I've crashed. Mostly down to the balance of fuel water and performance and a few minutes/seconds of criticality to work to - particularly from the deck with few outs. In most other jets there is a bit more grey - if I've screwed it up a bit I'll still get it back under control minus a few heartbeats.
Autobit
Indeed, but then you weren't aggressively low average....😉