A Cranwell Education
The1 is right. The course was indeed 3 years long. It contailed many utterly redundant academic items, such as, just for example, a very detailed treatment of thermodynamics. But the man weakness was that there was not enough flying taining; I seem to recall that it amounted to about 300 hours, but spread over the last two and a half years of the course. This may help explain why the accident rate among ex-cadets was so high.i