Flying What?
My old mate Bill, who is sadly not with us any more, was an Observer on Maritime Wellingtons, 621 Squadron in and around Aden. He said he was on the last course to qualify as an Observer in August 1943. This was at No 44 Air School (AONS) Advanced Air Observer Navigation School - Grahamstown in South Africa.
We used to rib him a bit when we learned that the O-Brevet was referred to as a 'Flying A***hole'. He used to just smile as he was proud of it. He went on to say that the N brevet stood for Not good enough to be a pilot. Which may even be true in some cases.
The Observers course he did was pretty intense, going by his log book which I have. Flying was on Oxfords and Ansons, navigation & bombing (day and night), photo reconnaissance, air gunnery, fighter evasion, sea patrol, then low level navigation and bombing.
When he qualified he was promoted to sergeant and was on 13 shillings and sixpence a day!