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I was off to the Sim for my six monthly check ride on the other other side of the world, while in the front galley talking to the crew, the captain appeared from the cockpit from the BA 320 for a "comfort break", the crew pointed to me and said "he's also crew but flys helicopters". The captain said hello and we had a little chat. I said, "where did you learn to fly, OAT at Oxford ?" No no he protested, "I'm ex RAF" while looking down his nose at me. I pressed further and asked what he flew in the RAF, fighter, transport ? None of these, University Air Squadron !!!!!!! God give me strength
I'm x UAS and don't see a problem with that really. Don't know how old the chap was.
As my old CFI said, 'When we were teaching you, you were being taught to RAF training standards'.
Some of my chums had over 250 hours. One getting 400 hours, of top quality free tution.
At a reunion over a decade ago, I spoke to a current UAS member who had 30 minutes in two years on the squadron. How times have changed.