Baldeep: Your "creamies do not exist in the rotary world." Please add "now." They certainly did in 1963; my first 7 lessons were with a young Flt.Lt until the mature Flg.Off who had been planned returned from leave. I next encountered the young man when both of us were out on horse-back: He then admitted that he was terrified
to find himself teaching someone as old as me. He had just finished the course; I was 29 years old !! So I told him that I never noticed his age,that he was appointed to teach me and that I knew NOTHING about helicopters so he must have got it right.