I remember it as a very stressful time in which we all lived with the thought that our dream could be taken away from us within 48 hours if we failed to perform (fail a flight that morning, re fly it and fail in the afternoon, chop ride next day).
Hasn't changed mate! A good friend of mine was 1 flight away from being a front line Junglie pilot (after 3 years training and a shed load of money spent on his training by the tax payer) and within 2 days was chopped, no rethread nothing. He hadn't even picked up an Air Warning previously. People may bang on about drawing the line somewhere etc etc but sometimes I think the system is just bloody silly and lets everyone down.
