Some of these comments remind me of my Chipmunk instructor saying;
"I could teach a monkey to land this thing in a 3 point attitude succesfully given the time, but you've only got 5 hours or your gone - now buck up!".
My point being that learning to fly is a great achievement, but don't get so full of yourself that you forget the main constraint the military applied to you learning that skill was time and money. Good luck to all of these individuals with this new branch, until I read this thread I had no idea quite so many RAF pilots lived near Tolpuddle.