Originally Posted by
BDGERJMN
This is precisely why we in the Navy send our students to the tanker (day/night) and to the ship (day/night) for their first time solo...
We had guest tanker help one time for day and night plugs. Went down to one aircraft, so I hot seated 4 students one after another through the day plugs.
I demo'ed one plug (amazing what a great sight picture it is sitting so far back) and then all four guys did outstanding with very few aborts or misses. Monkey see - monkey do was certainly a player that night.
I was wiped out after those 4 flights though and we canceled the night tanking since I was still the only IP around.