A certain Air Officer Commanding visited us at EMUAS one morning. He spoke to our students at some length and his best advice to them was "always take up the chance to fly - in anything you can, whenever you can!".
Forty five minutes later myself and his pilot of the day, an old colleague of mine, received a bollocking as we'd used up most of his going home fuel in the 32 Sqn Gazelle that he had left parked outside on the grass.
Having rotted up the airfield for half an hour, doing quickstops and PFLs etc, we landed, me having refreshed my rotary skills. AOC thought it very funny at first, but only then did they discover we only had AVGAS at Newton!
