Originally Posted by
Ron Cake
On another current thread (58 Nav course), ICM posted that the Nav course 'was all done inside 12 months'. He gave as an example No 72 course at Hullavington which ran from Jan to Dec 1965.
I have just called a nav chum from those days who dug out his records. They showed that his nav course ran from 1 Sep 59 to 30 Aug 60. I make that 12 months. So if these two navs are right, the nav course was one month shorter than the AEO course. I'm checking the pilots course duration in the early 60's.
Concur. I was on 42 Course. 8 months at 2ANS and 4 at 1ANS. Talk of then doing OCU etc is a red herring as everyone did that. As a Nav Rad I also did the 'short' 4 month NBS Course. The previous NBS course had been 12 months and much of our syllabus had not been trimmed.