As someone whose career has been shaped to a large degree by the RAF I like to keep current with what goes on. . .My father and uncle were both WW2 pilots, and the stories they told fired my imagination and by age 5 I was irrevocably destined to be a pilot.. .( My uncle was Coastal command on Beaufighters, shot down over North Sea in winter, picked up by U-Boat, transferred to POW camp in Germany. My father was an instructor at Cranwell, and then on Mosquito night intruders). .Naturally my father taught me to fly.. .So 50 or more years later, I am a grizzled veteran of 18,000 hours civilian flying who still yearns for the excitement of military flying, even if by proxy.. .Keep the forum open!