Originally Posted by
cyflyer
EFTS would take approximately 6 weeks, and then they would be awarded their wings, true ? Is it possible that pilots would be retained to carry on teaching at the EFTS ? I thought they went through SFTS before being re-directed to instructing duties.
Through reading many autobiographies it seemed to usually take somewhere between 6 to 12 months from 'Ab Initio' to being awarded 'wings',but there were always anomalies - there were a few military pilots who never actually did a flying training course but were awarded their wings on the basis of previous experience (early in both WW1 and WW2).
Glad you found out about the Court Martial - I suspected it was a Low Flying CM - anything more serious would probably have precluded eventual commissioning,the reason I suspected a CM was the amount of time he spent as an AC2 after demotion from Sgt.I also originally thought the same as Chugs that it might be related to the mushroom incident ?
edit - looking again at your posts - he was awarded a severe rep from the Jan 1942 CM - was he perhaps Court Martialled again for another flying misdemeanor ?