Originally Posted by
campbeex
I'd have thought "some sort of course" to operate one of the potentially most dangerous items of machinery on the airfield would be no bad thing.
Back in 79 I watched a C Cat as he launched two gliders with the two cables on the Bedford winch, he then talked me through the next pair, after that I was on my own. I don't think 'my course' lasted much longer than half an hour. These days it will be a week at Syerston.