"Needles on the dials" - like that doing "formation" with Mike Smith as a stude at Valley - he had been on 92 in Hunters and then one of the Lightning formation teams - he would demo an exercise, and I would try an replicate it. Then - "I have control" and re-demo - he was always precisely in position and flew the Fun Jet with absolute precision. I got, it, well, most of it, in the end

Looking at my log book I seem to have moved round several QFIs early in my BFTS Course. However, after 80 hrs I moved to a creamie. This was not good as I then struggled to meet his requirements. Most frustrating was that I could fly as well as he could, but still got criticism of my flying. This continued, but at times I was handed back to a more experienced instructor. Thus I got through night flying, IRT and FHT. As I ended up on Lightnings all was not lost!!