Average A Training Diary

A young man with no flying experience starts a Royal Air Force pilot course and becomes immersed in a challenging world of hard work and hard play. To qualify he needs to take a series of relentlessly intensive courses. Keeping a diary of his progress, he records the acute pressure of the training programmes and how this is counterbalanced by life with fellow trainee pilots. The training becomes increasingly tense as they take charge of ever more expensive machines handling these incorrectly can lead not only to loss of job but also loss of life. These young trainees are not supermen. They behave in the same way as other people of their age. They have bad days at work as everyone does and at times struggle to achieve the required standards. As the diary progresses the work gets harder and the play matches it in energy and fervour.

This is the three-year journey of an ordinary man being trained to do an extraordinary job.

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