Better yet, speak to someone directly, there are a lot of sour people that hang around PPRuNe and the feeling at the academy is on the whole a much more uplifting, and exciting place to be than the feeling you get from many of the unhelpful comments here
That is all well and good if you want to think it is 'hug club'. Discount some of the opinions if you wish but don't say you have not been warned.
