There must be some more intelligent way for 'them' to assess your fitness for flying training - back in the 70s we had quite a few rugger-buggers flying on my UAS and they weren't small!! It didn't seem to stop them going on to be RAF pilots though. The current racing-snake mentality seems self-defeating if it prevents an otherwise fit person joining the mob. But don't forget that you won't necessarily get time off to go and grind people's faces in the mud every Wednesday these days - and your instructors will be very peeved if you are off work with sport-induced injuries!!
Perhaps the real problem is just that you come from the land of the language-without-vowels?? Only joking - we have a fairly large Welshman on our squadron!!
[This message has been edited by BEagle (edited 21 June 2000).]