Its just all sad sad sad. I was lucky to make the most of the Air Training Corps, then the Volunteer Gliding Schools then the University Air Squadrons. I also benefitted from a Flying and RAF scholarship and thus had 200hrs of flying time in RAF aircraft by age of 21 and had flown in several types of Rotary, Fast Jet and Transport aircraft.
What a rich, exciting, moulding, fun, informative and superb way of inducting Officers of some calibre (even if my own was .22 when .303 was required).
I've nothing more to say than I lament how this has all been brought so low in just 15 years.
Sad,
WWW