JP landing instruction
Avoid imitations
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took me from happily above the curve down to barley coherent.
Happy memories as a B2 QFI (well, memories anyway) of a JP3 stude doing a reasonable job in a fairly strong crosswind. I let him persist (mistake) despite his having drifted onto the downwind side of the runway. Imagine my surprise, and his, when he decided to kick of the drift with a good boot of the wrong rudder. With me now flying (ish...) as we left the runway sideways at 0ft 6", I can still remember wondering which would come first, the stall or what passed for power, and why the runway lights were now 3 ft high!
I learned from that experience and so was ready to seize control in good time from one of his course-mates, a gentleman of Middle Eastern origin, who (unusually) followed some of my my instructions to the letter. With a gentle 5 kts down the strip, he produced an immaculate 3 degree approach at Dishcloth that would have resulted in a touchdown just past the numbers had I left him to it. Sadly, I must have omitted to mention earlier that it was traditional to point the ac somewhere down the runway when landing. He was not pleased when I suggested that 30 degrees off runway heading was perhaps a bit much on this occasion...
I learned from that experience and so was ready to seize control in good time from one of his course-mates, a gentleman of Middle Eastern origin, who (unusually) followed some of my my instructions to the letter. With a gentle 5 kts down the strip, he produced an immaculate 3 degree approach at Dishcloth that would have resulted in a touchdown just past the numbers had I left him to it. Sadly, I must have omitted to mention earlier that it was traditional to point the ac somewhere down the runway when landing. He was not pleased when I suggested that 30 degrees off runway heading was perhaps a bit much on this occasion...
I had the temerity to ask my IRE if he'd burnt his breakfast toast midway through a PAR at Odiham, as the close confines of our Gaz had become rather fetid. The debrief was short, and was followed by an interview with OC ARW, who apprised me of the fact that, the previous afternoon my companion had torched the AAC balloon.
Our paths would cross several years later when he was BALO at 3 Bde, and would have to ask me (nicely) to release aircraft held by JATOC.
Our paths would cross several years later when he was BALO at 3 Bde, and would have to ask me (nicely) to release aircraft held by JATOC.
