Crew Formation
It's a bit off-thread but can anyone say how long the OCU 'beauty contest' continued to be the way crews were formed? Having managed to avoid the V-Force, two courses through Bassingbourn were my only experience of it, and both were a long time ago. First time, we did the course as a two-man crew and on the squadron were just given a second navigator who had been left 'spare' by postings out. I don't recall any of us new boys having trouble with this, and I can't remember now how the two navs decided who should be plotter and who observer. I think usually the second nav just wanted to keep doing what he'd done before. Second time it was just a two-man crew anyway.