Linton No 8 IBFTS July 1976
End of JP5a phase, and off to pastures new. The Interim Basic Flying Training Course was a notional 100 hrs JP3a, Wings awarded with big Parade and Ball. Our Ball really was a big do in April 1976 as it coincided with a reunion bash of a RCAF wartime Stirling Sqn that had been based at LOO. I think that was when the CFI's mini ended up somehow by the ornamental ponds behind the Mess Dining Room! Then it was on to a notional 60 hrs in the JP5a. 'Notional' because the courses were designed to have Sim time, but the Sims did not exist until we were just leaving. So extra real hours! There are a couple of stragglers in this photo from 7 Course.
L-R: Connolly, Cocks (7) Butler, Hirst, Reviewing Officer(?), Al-Said (7), Barrett, Barter, Spencer (7).
If anybody knows whereabouts of any of these desperados, please PM me!