Australia fights drug addiction with plane flying lessons - BBC News
Flying lessons for drug addicts? The world's gone mad, I thought, until I watched the video. And then I remembered my first instructor A C H ('Tubby') Dash, AFC, who clocked thousands of instructor hours in WW2.
He was a man of very few words, but one day I asked him what had given him the greatest pleasure or satisfaction in his long career. He puffed on his ancient pipe and thought for at least 30 seconds before replying: "It was seeing young men grow up".
Now a seemingly scatty experiment makes sense. Good luck to the Aussies and to the addicts they are trying to help.