“We can always grab a bite to eat then, maybe go for a walk afterward if that doesn’t take up enough time,” Beth suggested. “As for the prelims, I think they should be changed so that returning pilots are kept separate from the new ones—there would still be some gross mismatches, but it would cut down on the problem. But it seems like the MBF has been around so long a lot of people are slaves to tradition for tradition’s sake.”