Cool Under Pressure
We were probably trained by the best gliding instructors in the world but were too young and naive to know it. Result was that when things did go pear shaped we were more than able to cope. I did a bit of staffing on 644 and came to appreciate just how brilliant the deliverers of knowledge were. It was almost as if they breathed the essence of flight into their charges by a strange form of gliding osmosis. Taking my cdts for air ex apart I didn't do any serious gliding again until doing a course at Pocklington in the late 1980's. It was almost as if the twenty odd year gap didn't exist. Ducks and water come to mind.