AAITC Finningley
Davejb & CG I reckon I did my stint @ FY around the time you were there I was on the early 80's course. I agree Mick Evans was a top bloke and FS John Hoath was certainly playing the role of DI, a couple of guys on my course saw a real human side to him when things went wrong at home. Sadly there were also a vast minority of sad gits one flt eng arch** being one who despised all aeops and didn@t miss an opportunity to state it.
Memories of Otterburn and Hag Dike have faded but were important in the building the characters of the guys who finally graduated. Memories of the social life around FY (remember the Buzzard and Bastar*) will stay with me so will some of the friends I met there.
For what it's worth our course motto (penned by a loadie) was "Cheat If Need Be", sometimes we got away with it.