Vince first of all I presume dealing with the authorities was quite low stress compared to dealing with your daughter.
The pilot that heard your transit is definately a pilot (a short stocky one) in fact he used to be my company type rating examiner. He is not a big plane only person and in fact a CRE on SEP's. In fact his own aircraft from what I can see of it, the main gear has alot of rubber bands keeping it together.
And for the other's after doing a ferry the day after the comments about crap RT could be leveled at 80% of the traffic speaking to scottish info. So much so my gash RT was getting used as an example of how to do it by an instructor at tayside.
Anyway Vince if you want to get back into the saddle, pm me. I might have to ferry a C172 down to Dundee and back from INV on Tuesday or Wednesday or if you just want a fun hour of dual to get your confidence back I can arrange that as well (I don't think I will be able to last a hour without taking the piss though
) we can leave any instructor debriefs until you get back home.
And don't try and answer and justify yourself to everyone. Its done now and you just need to move forward learn from the experence. Most high houred pilots have done daft things, the only difference between you and us is that we managed to get away with a sweaty arse and a few more grey hairs instead of stuck up a tree.
MJ