Guys,
Thanks so much for all the messages and emails of support, you lot are a great help as well as a great resource. I've had suggestions of alternative careers as well as help and advise on the long shot of treatment.
It's cheered me up a lot, and I'll be contacting some of you soon to follow up. I'm in the lucky position of having a good aero engineering degree and job, and things are not all bad. I've never put all my eggs in the commercial flying basket, thankfully.
I'd re-iterate the point made by my one time colleague earlier, get your Class 1 well before investing your own dosh should you decide to go down that road.
Thanks guys, and keep the suggestions coming!
BAB2B
ps I'd never really give up PPRuNe, it was an idle threat
