Well history and reunions in the making. CM and Python 21 you are both right (call it an age problem) There was a student rate of flying pay not much IIRC around the £1 mark. So I remained on student rates until I appeared at Bunde as a trained Scout pilot.
BTW Python we were on the same course of the two of us that wore tarton on 210 I was the young handsome one
LB