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Old 17th Feb 2012, 14:30
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Training in England in 1941 the EFTs course was nominally 50 hours over six weeks, and the SFTS course 80 hours over ten weeks. I think the SFTS had been upgraded from 65 hours, and I did meet pilots who had started operations on Welingtons and Whitleys with a total of 110 hours in their log books. Winter courses sometimes took longer because of very bad weather.

TEE EMM. I have the bound set of TEE EMM in two boxes. I think they were published after the war and my set came from a friend in Australia.

Our Tiger Moths at Fairoaks had ASIs but many also carried a spring indictor on the port wing brace, - fairly accurate, and some aircraft had a length of strong tape as a wind gauge.
My training "log" start at about page 75 and It seems to be the only one about training in the UK. We have had nothing about training in South Africa. I seem to remember a pilot telling me of their airfield in Rhodesia and the problems of "taking -off" at 5,000 feet.
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