Training
All fixed-wing training begins with the No.1 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS), which flies the Grob Tutor. Army and Navy pilots start at the Defence Elementary Flying Training School (DEFTS) at RAF Barkston Heath where they fly the Slingsby T-67 Firefly. From Cranwell, training begins on the Tucano at RAF Linton-on-Ouse (1 FTS).
Helicopter pilots progress to RAF Shawbury, home of the Defence Helicopter Flying School.
Flight instructors are awarded the Qualified Flying Instructor qualification.
Read more about this topic: Central Flying School
Famous quotes containing the word training:
“I’m not suggesting that all men are beautiful, vulnerable boys, but we all started out that way. What happened to us? How did we become monsters of feminist nightmares? The answer, of course, is that we underwent a careful and deliberate process of gender training, sometimes brutal, always dehumanizing, cutting away large chunks of ourselves. Little girls went through something similarly crippling. If the gender training was successful, we each ended up being half a person.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.”
—Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)
“An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.”
—Maria Montessori (1870–1952)