kippermate, how can my information be out of date when I was there last week!? Thats the 10/11th February!! The OASC groups there while I was had exerienced exactly the same thing I had in december.
The multi-stage fitness test is not exclusively an RAF thing, and the suggestion of adding shuttles to each level is just ludicrous. The test starts at 8.5km/h and increases by 0.5km/h every minute, each minute being a level, it is a well established, scientific test with high correlation between achieved level and quantitative VO2max results, I'd find it very hard to believe that they'd fiddle with it at all, let alone in the last 6 days!