test pilot episode 5

BBC series 1986 about The Empire Test Pilots School. Written and Produced by Brian Johnson. A series of six half hour episodes following course number 44.

[@raymondyee2008]

Still remember seeing this on VHS tape.

[@paulmurphy42]

In episode 5, Flt Lt Dave Southwood says of the F18 Hornet, at 15:23, "the amount of information we had on the aeroplane before we left the UK was fairly limited so we really got a lot of the information from the manuals when we arrived here on the Monday to then start flying on the Wednesday so we had to do a lot of work when we first arrived just to get familiar with the basic systems so we could fly the aeroplane. We had to take an exam on the basic systems of the aeroplane so that we could fly it from the front seat". He makes it sound like they didn't do any written exams on the types of planes that they flew at ETPS in the UK. Did they?

[@paulmurphy42]

restart @ 23:20