The guy gets up my nose a bit as well , but to answer a queery about his aviation background , (which was the subject of another thread a year or so ago) , he has been flying for 20-odd years , and is reckoned by those who know him(I don't) as a fairly good operator. I may have seen him many years ago in the bar of the old Skean D'hu(spelling?) in ABZ. There was a character there who used to fly Bandits and always wore flying gloves when he came into the bar. It might have been HE(HA!)