Thanks for the vote of confidence in my analytical skills
LateArmLive
Now that 2 people have confirmed that I have fallen and can't reach my beer it must therefore be true.
Just for the record, what I attended was not a "sales pitch", but it was a well presented analysis of the pros and cons, facts and fiction of the situation regarding the need to find a sensible replacement for the Hawk T2 for the UK (and other training platforms for other nations globally).
Though I am getting on a bit and rapidly approaching the KOS demographic, I'd like to think that my analytical skills (in which the UK taxpayer has significantly invested in) are up for the task. 47 years in aviation, with TI, IRE, QWI, QFI, (USAF) IP, TP, Member RAeS and Fellow of SETP (Society of Experiment Test Pilots) to my credit. True to add that having 2 more take-offs than landings I cannot therefore be classed as a good pilot!
Tarnished