finestkind wrote:
Why did we join. Well, you get some very first-class training, fly some nice pieces of kit, are with likeminded people (with some questions with some fellow winged wonders being perhaps the selection system had some hiccups, yes, I was likely one of them) and get paid to do it. So, the question is why did you leave? and there is a number of reasons.
I've just been watching the old
Look At Life film
'School for Skymen', made not long after I'd won an RAF Scholarship. Some quotes:
"...Cranwell's 70-odd Jet Provosts"
"Pilot cadets will get 170 hours of training..."
"The old propeller powered aircraft beloved of past generations have no place here!"
How lucky we were back then. Perhaps there are lessons to be learned from that era?