Chris Groves – Don’t know until Teacher’s handshake if you’ve passed Perisher

You have to assure Teacher that you deserve it, you deserve Command and that you’re worthy of it.

I think when you go onto that Course, I think you have to be absolutely certain in your mind that you’re going to pass the Course and you’re going to do everything you can to pass that Course.

There’s always a slight doubt in your mind until Teacher comes to you at the end of the Course and says, “You’ve passed it”, shakes you by the hand and says, “Congratulations Captain” and gives you a glass of champagne.

Right up until that moment, even the most confident of us, certainly myself anyway, there’s always, always  just that little bit of doubt in your mind that ‘will I get through the Course?’  even if you think you’re doing well.

Will I get through the Course? And it’s not until he shakes your hand you absolutely know, so the pressure’s on right the way through to the end of the Course, and so the first pace at which you can faulter really is at the end of that ‘Driving Test’ piece.