Given the subject area and the 'audience', the length of the thread (and the 'quality' of the discussion) is unsurprising. It seems, therefore, unfortunate that the most sensible reponse was one of, if not
the, shortest. I refer to #77.
To join the over-verbose, however, a story ...
Fellow Squadron member Aden in the '50s - Navigator who had failed pilot selection at Hornchurch and accepted Nav as option. Continued to try for 'cross-over' training and refused several times. Some 10 years later, I arrived at Tern Hill to start S&R training and noted that the QHI 'Boss' was my ex-Nav , now resplendent in dark blue as a Lt Cdr ! Not sure if any of the 'sound and fury' above is from the 'oggin workers', but perhaps they have a different approach ?