I can beat both Herod and wander....
.....waiting for the bus to South Cerney at Cirencester station in the rain. Bus arrives, Ned Sparkes bellows "Get a bloody move on gentlemen I'm getting wet". Chap beside me makes a sort of whimpering noise and goes off and gets back on the train!
What did he say when he went home....????
We started with 70 and for years I thought that 40 had graduated but at a 50th anniversary this year I found it was 28!! OOer missus!
To pick up on a point that someone made further up about whether a wash out from FJ training was regarded as a failure? Having served on a ME OCU for quite a while (as a non-pilot) it was noticeable that THEY regarded themselves as failures, not all, but a high percentage. Often the first job of the QFI was rebuilding that confidence. They often went on to be excellent pilots of a big aircraft and often to be good captains which is a different skill. Some didn't.
The Ancient Mariner