On reading these criticisms of alleged delay and disorganisation in the flying training system I'm intrigued as to what it's being compared to. Before starting BFTS in the eighties it was three months before I even had a course date -which was a further four months away. It then came forward by five weeks. In both cases without a word of explanation, not that I that I'd have asked for one, happily holding on full pay! I don't recall anyone asking us about our morale either.
What HAS changed is that if anyone were to have indulged in public criticism of the system back then, their career would have ground to a halt at that instant!