Yep it is only in the last 4 years or so, that I have met and become friends with other aviators that share the PASSION that I have always had. Easy to get to know the older guys who have done it all their lives and great to meet them and hear all their stories, but it is sometimes even more fun to get to know others your age.
There is a loose networked group of us in this region (ranging from 21-28yrs) all with experience on Tigers/Nanchangs/Yak 52/Pitts etc etc, all with clear goals, and ambitions to become display pilots at one stage down the track or another. It's differcult, possibly highly unlikely, but hugely great fun and exactly what I dreamt of being involved with when I was 10.
I have always tried to encourage younger people coming through to TAKE THEIR TIME but no one listens to that, as others have said, its a pure obsession to have the RHS in an airliner. Things have changed so much....
Feel sorry for them.....