Originally Posted by
Agaricus bisporus
As they were for the FAA in 1982 when I joined (just five of them too). Allegedly the chop rate went through the roof when the Crabs went to graduates only, but I don't suppose that is easily proven.
The RAF
never went to 'gaduates only' for its aircrew. Furthermore the chop rate amongst graduates (or at least those who had been through the UAS system) was way
lower than it was for DEs.
Indeed there were 11 of us on my BFTS cse, all of us UAS graduates. All of us passed the cse which was not only the short JP cse, but an experimentally shortened short JP cse. Of the 11, one withdraw from training at AFTS (and went on to become something in the City), the other 10 of us all received our wings.