Originally Posted by
Avtur
When its your train set you can play with it anytime you like. Although I still believe that Senior desk-bound Officer + aircraft = potential disaster.
Doesn't even have to be 'your trainset'.....
I seem to recall a certain, then senior rank, blagging a last solo in one of the BAe Warton F.6's a few weeks before they stopped flying them......must have been years since his last Lightning flight
.......and thus becoming the last serving RAF pilot to fly a UK military Lightning.