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192Leeming and as it was now early evening other training stations would be closed. And so we had to drop into Waddington for more fuel and it was fairly late when we got home.Flying now got a bit muddled. I could fly a Bulldog in the morning and then a JP in the afternoon. We were allowed 3 hours SCT on each a month which was great, but it was hard to get in with other things we had to do. I wrote a tech quiz on the JP which covered just about every question we could think of complete with the answers. The idea was that the schools could pull it out on black flag days to keep the students on their toes. The week after my Bulldog A2 I flew my instrument rating and was now a CIRE on the Bulldog as well as the JP. The next week we did a week%u2019s visit to a UAS. Possibly at Cosford. We drove to the UASs and I did not usually record which ones I was testing. Two or three of us would go down and fly with the staff and students as much as we could. I flew with one student and it did not go too well. He begged to fly with me again as he said he could do much better next time. That was not possible of course but I pointed out that we were there to assess the Squadron and not to worry about it. He had just made one bad mistake and would no doubt learn from it. The Chief Flying Instructor (CFI) had been on my CFS course but had never got his A2. He wanted to go Specialist Aircrew but he had been turned down. We suggested that he fly with us. While we could not award him an A2 on the basis of that flight we could say that he was above his average category and he could then come and upgrade properly. He would almost certainly then be accepted as Spec Aircrew. He claimed to have a cold and so could not fly although he clearly did not have one. At Cosford the Control Tower was just a visual room at the top of a tower accessed by a ladder I seem to remember. UASs did not have enough instructors to have a QFI permanently in the tower and so if a student had a problem the duty QFI would have to run over to the tower and climb up before transmitting to the student. Most sorties we flew with students end-