Pontius
You are right
A very senior officer turned up one day, and we (XX course at Linton) sat him down in the crewroom with coffee in a chipped mug and told him what we thought (Basically it's marvellous but we are all a bit on edge because job security is a bit thin and dependent on passing the next check).
He went back to MoD and told his boss that we were all dead positive and we were being filmed. Boss duly arranged to turn up for a visit. During visit someone asked on camera "why haven't we had any leave?" (the TV victims had been rushed through leaving one unit Friday starting the next unit Monday with no breaks between courses and hadn't had any time off in a year and were all knackered). There was a major row involving a VERY senior officer, the CFI, and the SMO. Funny old thing, next week we were all ORDERED on leave for a week.
Sven