Hi Steve76 - there must be so many like you!
You haven't burst any bubbles, I'm just looking for information and giving myself the best start possible.
No battle plan ever survived contact with the enemy, so I'm expecting curve balls etc. However, at the risk of using yet another cliche - if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
I'm familiar with your posts and Berts so there isn't any real need for you to go beating the same drum, again! Having said that I am taking stuff on board and quite fancy a trip to Alaska!
I need to build a "big picture" and your input is just as valuable to me at this stage as the more positive posts looking to give people a steer or any help or opinion they can offer. I will one day, hopefully, be able to give other budding pilots an opportunity/opinion or steer.