Family? You must be joking. I couldn't manage it in 8 years on tombs, which is more understandable, but even on Hawks I've so far had no luck. The flying programme just doesn't leave much room for it, and when there is the room, some local non-celebrity rugby player or page 3 muppetess manages to snaffle it in the name of either;
1) "Publicitee" for the station / RAF as a whole, or:
2) "Chariddee".
The latter I can uderstand. But the former?
Does anybody know someone who joined the Air Force because they saw Will Carling having a ride in an F4 once? The prosecution rests.
As an aside, a very nice Police chap on here (a flying observer) has been politely pestering me for ages now for a ride, and to be honest I can see the point from a deconfliction point of view. Their aircraft sometimes operates in the same valleys as mine. I do my best, but I just can't see it in the very near future because obviously the Mayor of Angelsey or Lorraine Kelly are far more deserving of the slot.
Blood boiling stuff.