Here's my two cents worth future "Cadets"
If you think living like a chicken couped up with your family in a small box is bad, wait till your training starts.
I have a sinister dislike towards anyone not from a military background and I make that point known very early in the peace. Unless you are a psychic mind reading pilot, I will end up berating you for the entire flight. Nit picking you to death for the shear pleasure and my own ego gratification.
You will need to predict the future - then read my mind and then from the mind reading ... perform a task or give me an answer that is inline with MY WAY OF THINKING.
I have this delusion that this is (my airline) .... all other training, procedures and information is inferior to what I have to offer. I'm happy make that known on the flight deck as well.
You'd rather be in a Austrian dungeon with Fritzel, than on a training flight with me.
Join the Air Cadets and practice your salute that's the best preparation you could make before coming to the far east.
Must dash I have a photo shoot of (me) in my old military regalia ... kind of a then & now expose so to speak ... toodaloo chaps
