The pilots the entire time they were getting yelled at:

Did they at least get to... finnish?

The cadets from the middle picture should be given promotions. That's some slick flying right there.

I've drawn these with ships numerous times. It was my usual test-pattern when calibrating magnetic compasses and testing the autopilot.

And it's not entirely without logic either; The calibration and testing usually goes like this:

• A few circles to calibrate the compas, teaching it how the full 360 azimuth looks from a magnetic perspective, taking its own magnetic environment into account.
• Straight line, checking that the heading matches the course
• Turn 180 degrees and repeat to verify that it also holds true in the opposite direction
• At this point, you might as well draw the other testicle too

Reprimanded by people stifling giggles

That looks like a long, hard, throbbing, standard holding pattern

🫡

The horror.

What else would pilots of the world happiest country do?

Sticking to a flight plan like that means you are successfully trained in that airframe, I see this as a positive check flight

They should have learned from the last time this happened, and the firm response by their CO, CDR Brenden "Tess" Stickles

Can't help but think of the enivromental devastation of all these "training exercises".

I guess that's what happens when you have conscription and no war

Dem boys are gunna be alright.

Elon Musk's penis...