Originally Posted by
Brain Potter
I am fairly sure nobody flew the JP as their very first experience in the period of late-80's through to the end of the JP in 1993.
I did, also a few of my compatriots in the late 80s.
In those days if you had a PPL the first aircraft you flew was the either the JP3 at Linton or the JP5 at Cranwell. If you didn't have a PPL you went to FSS (Flying Selection Squadron(?)) for 15 hours in the Chipmunk before BFTS in the JP.