Sorry PN - missed your point. I was purely commenting that I had finished standards yesterday, one of the many I have gone through in my flying career. No matter what - with an open mind there is always something to learn and invariably something has changed (normally within the many JSPs, FOBs/TGOs, AIPs and countless other documents we are supposed to possess encyclopeadic knowledge of).
However, I did have the pleasure (?) of annual visits from 18GSU (and Coastal Command Standards Unit before that). No we didn't have a simulator, so all our flying was real time, but we still had to play the exercises for real, and even caught a Polaris boat that wasn't playing in 'our' war.
Incidentally, I prefer to call them Standards - trappers will always try to live up to their name