When I worked at Filton I was learning to fly at Dunkeswell as it was close to home. Its not easy learning to fly anyway, being a long journey away makes it even harder.
I made much more progress when I transfered to working for Westlands on the Isle of Wight and Sandown was only 30mins away.
Good luck with the engineering I did it for about 30 years and still get a bit of a childish thrill seeing bits I designed go past at high speed.
