sharpend wrote:
Interesting! When I went through Valley (on the Gnat) I was rubbish and it was considered that I would never be good enough to instruct. In those days, one was good enough to be a creamy or good enough to one day be a QFI or never good enough
. Many years later, as an A cat QFI in Standards at an FTS I met the instructor who said I would never be good enough to be an instructor. I reminded him of that as I did his refresher course. The moral of all that is 'Never say never'.
Well, bluntie old chum, that's why you were such a good TWU instructor at Heaven-in-Devon! You knew how people could struggle at FJ training and would do what you could to help.
36 years ago, my fondest memory of flying at Chiv (apart from bombing and strafing) was that LL tactical formation with you wazzing about over West Devon...
When's the book coming out...??
I was once told that one couldn't oneself to be a 'real' QFI unless you were A2/MG/IRE. How many of those are still around these days...
