Well to answer your questions. Yes I am a pilot and I did once work for Gill so I speak from experience. The F100 operation is a joke and has been since day one (or rather day seven when their first one was taken out by a stray GPU which it was'nt insured against) Then there was the time when a few million quid was misappropriated by one or two directors and managers. The staff (some of them anyway)were asked to make up the shortfall by volunteering to reduce their wages by 20 percent. I have to say however that when I worked there things were OK and all of the bad stuff has happened since. Mr Bowden - keep on wannabeeing but raise your sights a little higher. Someone local that I know has just got in with Britannia with a US gained frozen ATPL and very very few hours. The boy done good- has'nt had to pay a crappy little airline a lot of money to give him a job and should immediately start to earn enough to pay for his ATPL costs.