209:, Victoria, was supplanted in 1940â41 by twelve elementary flying training schools (EFTS) and eight service flying training schools (SFTS). The EFTS provided a twelve-week introductory flying course to personnel who had graduated from one of the RAAF's initial training schools. Flying training was undertaken in two stages: the first involved four weeks of instruction (including ten hours of flying) to determine trainees' suitability to become pilots. Those that passed this grading process then received a further eight weeks of training (including sixty-five hours of flying) at the EFTS. Pilots who successfully completed this course were posted to an SFTS in either Australia or Canada for the next stage of their instruction as military aviators.
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of a telephone system, kitchen facilities, beds, desks, hot water, blackboards, typewriters, flags, maps, charts, and "clothing other than stockings". A second civilian instructor, from the
Queensland Aero Club, joined the school on 12 February 1940. Later that month, No. 2 EFTS was assigned to the control of the proposed
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pressed into military service. The first training course, lasting eight weeks, began on 10 January; twenty-one students graduated. By the end of the month, the school's strength included 105 officers and men, one civilian instructor, and twenty-six students. The unit log book reported the lack
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in World War I, assumed command of No. 2 EFTS on 20 October 1940. Phillipps died on 21 May 1941, when a private plane in which he was a passenger crashed after taking off from
Archerfield. Operations at No. 2 EFTS were increased twofold in August 1941; by 30 September
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The school's inaugural EATS course consisted of thirty-one students, who arrived at
Archerfield on 29 April 1940; twenty-four of the students graduated. The second EATS course commenced on 27 June; eighteen of the twenty-four students graduated. As of 15 July, responsibility for all
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T.C. Curnow. Archerfield was home to private aviation clubs and schools including the
Queensland Aero Club and Airwork Ltd, and it was the airfield's position as the hub of civilian flight instruction in the state that led to it becoming the base for the second flying school the RAAF raised during
157:(RAAF) pilot training unit that operated during World War II. It was one of twelve elementary flying training schools employed by the RAAF to provide introductory flight instruction to new pilots as part of Australia's contribution to the
169:, Queensland, and partially utilised aircraft and facilities of the civilian air training organisations based there. The school was renamed No. 2 EFTS in January 1940. It was disbanded in March 1942, and its operations transferred to
197:(RAAF) underwent major changes following the outbreak of World War II, in response to a vast increase in the number of aircrew volunteers and the commencement of Australia's participation in the
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