Fair enough, thank you all for clarifying.
Got my medical next week, hopefully should run smoothly. Out of curiosity could anyone who is already on the course (G-F0RC3 etc) tell me when BA are likely to process our five year background references/background checking? Is it usually before we start our course or could it also be during training? I haven't actually provided a complete set of references yet (the BA Careers page shows the list of references which I supplied last year, which doesn't reflect what I have done in the past 12-14 months) and when I asked the BA recruitment centre about this they told me that we would be asked to provide them at a later date than we did last year (was asked to submit them before I attended the final interview that time).
P.S. Loving the idea of the Concorde tour JDA2012, do let us know how that goes