It's amazing, the effects on your body, when you don't eat for seven days and its freezing cold. It was all quite surreal. All of this was a prelude to the business of flying. At the wings course at Ohakea, training began in earnest. Half the day was spent in the classroom learning theory, the other half in CT-4E Airtrainers flying circuits.
People can fail at anytime.
We had earlier lost two on the officers' course at Woodbourne, then another three on the wings course at Ohakea, from an intake of 11. It was hard, seeing people you had become close to getting chopped. After the Airtrainer came four months in a Macchi MB339CB jet. I really enjoyed flying jets. Flying a Macchi at 250 feet and 300 knots is a great way to clear the mind.