Unfortunatley it does make sense Dis. the standard dropping by a year.
And don't worry about being a prat been there done it myself many a time.
PPrune is a funny old beast. There was a young lad came on once and asked a question on vortex shedding on supersonic deltas for an aged 14 school project. Within 2 pages we had John Farley (test pilot for harrier), the test pilot for the CAA and the fleet Captain of concorde discussing aerodynamics of it all. Bit over my head (and i would hope the 14 year old as well but you never know) but bloody interesting. On the rotary side of things Nick Lappos test pilot used to again spend his time educating the masses.
You have access here to people/knowledge you wouldn't even dream of normally getting access to.