I few years back, when I was hunting around for a flying school to do my PPL, I came across Pawl at the Fly! exhibition at Earls Court manning the BCT stand. I vividly remember him telling me about how he'd hired an aircraft in the US and flown himself across the Grand Canyon.
Subsequently, when I started training with BCT, I saw Pawl dressed in an 'aircrew' style white shirt, complete with epaulettes and gold braid.
'Is he an instructor then?' I asked my own instructor. 'No - he's only just got his PPL' came the reply. Hmmm - made the story about the Grand Canyon seem a bit suspect...