aa - I would have thought that the continuing desire to get young men/women into a cockpit combined with record numbers of university applications would have put a greater financial pressure on the bursary, not the scholarship. my point still stands, unless you are at oasc in which case i will politely apologise and yield to the figures that i'm fairly certain you wouldn't be allowed to publish anyway.
pn - grow up. and I was brought up in yorkshire. never been on either unit you mention (unfortunately). oh and I'm not 22, thought it unwise to put my proper age on an anonymous forum. I also don't need a navigator to tell me what to do - and neither does anyone else at my station.