Night training with 22Sqn SAR

24/05/2007 by Pudsey.

Had a nice day relaxing around 22Sqn - we had night training lined up today. So we spent the day on call (and thankfully nobody needed our help - but we were ready) and that involved a lot of day-time telly By the evening we had to get ready and have our training brief before checking the SeaKing over. There are 2 SeaKings based at 22Sqn and I’ve flown on both! We left at 22:45 for our 2 and a quarter hour flight… it was great to be flying at dusk, to watch everything change from being in the day to the night. It’s great flying at night coz everything looks so different with all the twinkling lights. Talking of twinkling lights you should see all the controls in the SeaKing… wow! It’s really cool coz it has systems for auto-hover and auto-position hold… very useful when you’re trying to collect a casualty I was itching to have a go but I really don’t think they trusted me with their “Toy”. Well at least the SeaKing is a cool colour - just like me

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