VFE me old mate, fair enough if you feel you want to pass on your experience of Jerez to benifit others, but from my experience I do think yours is biased toward the negative.
True I heard I was tough initially with the introduction of JAR for the earlier courses but what do you expect? I know people of those courses and sure they got on with it a battled through. Thoses days are gone as there's a good knowledge of the JAR exams now. The fact that you passed with BGS, is pointless, I'm sure you had a break and were motivated to get them a second time round.
There are a few RAF guys down in Jerez, if you don't like them too bad, keep you're head down and get on with it. They are good at what they do. And it did not feel like being in an air force, that's garbage.
The guys that did fall by the wayside in Jerez simply lost focus, and fell in love with the fact that they thought they were at holiday camp with a bit of flying thrown in! At the end of the day, you get what you put in. ie f**k all in = f**k all out
Such is life.
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