collie77,
I'm glad you feel likewise, and hope that you obtain from your flying that which you seek.
flower,
Many thanks for your kind words. Having watched countless aircraft departing Cardiff and St. Athan for so many years and wondering if it was ever going to really happen for me, it was fantastic to find myself accelerating along the runway and lifting off. Not quite Tornado acceleration - in fact, nothing like Tornado acceleration - but I still got a buzz from it.
I hope you and the Cardiff Posse are all doing well. I will still be out here on our birthday so have a great one when June 17th comes.
VC10 Rib22
p.s. The temperature on the ramp is +36*Celsius and rising. I don't know what it is in the cockpit - suffice to say considerably hotter - but if it keeps increasing as it is, this Scot may not make it back to the U.K.
