Mike was a student when I was on the F3 OCU staff; he was an excellent pilot and great fun to be around. Utterly irrepressible, I sat opposite him at a squadron dining in night and he swiftly proceeded to light the blue touch paper of both himself and those around him. That I remember the evening and his part in it so clearly 25 years later says a lot about his tremendous character and sense of fun. A tragic loss, my thoughts are with his family.