Originally Posted by
Thud_and_Blunder
There's a commissioned Loady who went one better - on a STANEVAL trip, he briefed the sortie, was put in the RHS from where he flew/operated the entire task and handled simulated a/c emergencies. He was awarded a D Cat - as a pilot; RAF was then obliged to give him the full formal wings course.
If that is true, and I doubt whether it is, the there was something seriously wrong and dangerous with that fleet.
An ALM given pilot wings on the basis of one sortie...? I smell utter bulls**t