Thank you all for your advice both on the thread and via PM.
Bravo73,
Let us not discount option 'A' because I will sure as hell be trying it, just like every now and then I play the lottery.. Difference is I think Option A has much better odds than winning the lottery?

Not by much though..
I will be doing this to find work within the industry so, I will take every chance, every opportunity and do every dirty job to the best of my ability until I achieve my goal.
This is going to be a challenge but that is not why I am doing it.. I want to fly, pure and simple. I enjoy flying so much that I would like to do it for a living. I only wish I had the common sense to have done it 20 years ago.
Anyway, I have a Physics and Maths book to bury my head in as unfortunately, even with £5m+ budgets, I never needed algebraic equations and have therefore forgotten them...

So Oak technologies and I have a date for the next many many weekends..
SL..