I may be alone in thinking this but I thought the ‘jump’ to Hawk - 240 to 420 - was largely over blown as the cadence of events was very similar, you just went further. Also those lovely people in ATC took you more seriously and other pragmatic reductions
Agree 100%. In hindsight, Linton is where I learned to be a professional pilot and AFT was effectively a type conversion in preparation for TWU. Maybe it didn’t feel like that at the time, but it shows what a good job 1FTS did. And I agree with others that Linton was an absolute blast: like living in university halls with daily flying and more disposable salary than I have now, especially as flying pay used to kick in 2/3 of the way through. It’s up there as a strong contender for my favourite year of service
and sad to see it going
