| One thing that happens to pilots when they do their first solo, is after they come down from their flight, all of the other pilots, students and instructors, get buckets of water and just dunk the person.
It happened to me twice. Once on Glider Training. After I did my solo, they took me to a nearby river and threw me (as well as other pilots that soloed that day) in it. The other was on Power Training. When I came down from my solo circuit, they guys had 4 buckets and 2 rubber boots filled with water, and the hose. Needless to say, my flight suit stunk for the rest of the day.
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'Truth. Duty. Valour.
Blow out you bugles over the rich dead
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old
But dying has made us rarer gifts than gold'
Inscription on the top of the Memorial Arch at RMC Kingston
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