While I was at Leming when it was still a flying training school, the RAF and Navy Pilots seemed to fly every day despite our English weather, though Dishforth and Topcliffe suffered more from the Vale of York fog. What is wrong with us flying two three or four flights a day and getting stuck into a thorough flying training programme. Surely it makes more sense to get the hours in while you can rather than flying once in a blue moon?
Ok there was one Trainee from Uganda who should never have been let out on his own with anything more technical than a balsa wood glider to throw into the sky but most of them seemed to thrive on it. (Does any one else remember the Bulldog taking off from the taxiway at Dishforth after a woman in high heels decided to wander accross the airfield pushing a pram?) Think that was the first short field take off I ever saw.