On reflection, I think it’s only fair to add that I will be flying the Tucano again.
First, I’ll want to recreate the occasion when I was overtaken on the M6 (a motorway in England) by a couple of RAF Shorts Tucanos, but from the Tucano’s point of view.
Also, one of my frequent flyer aircraft is the Pilatus PC-21. It’s a great plane, much faster and better equipped than the Tucano, but what it isn’t is a STOL aircraft, which makes it a tight squeeze on some of the runways I routinely land on in Scotland. I’ll be interested to try the Tucano on the same runways and see if it does any better.
On another note: you know all those YouTube videos where serious pilots check the controls and brakes before they take off, and you watch and think “Ah, it’s a sim, what can go wrong? Why bother?”
Well, I’ve been checking the controls and brakes a bit more religiously since my experience with the Tucano.