They have my respect completley great bunch of guys the ones I know. I was speaking to a tornado pilot after he'd landed at Newcastle with engine trouble and we got into what I wanted to do, I said I wanted to join the airlines and he was very quick to reply with "you wana be a bus driver then?" lol I've always enjoyed the banter between different types of pilots am I the only one ? theres always been that friendly rivalry and I love it, helicopter pilots - fixed wing , frieght dogs - airline pilots, civilian and military pilots and so on its brilliant.