Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
Pilots who qualified to "Wings" standard after 1977 (might have been 1978) had to wait until after graduating from an advanced flying training school (AFTS)
I graduated at Valley in August 1978 and we received our wings then. I remember that it was only a couple of courses before ours who last received their wings at Cranwell in 1977. I am not sure precisely when the change came. The biggest issue that we cared about was that until you received your wings you did not get full flying pay, just 'flying instructional pay'!