I was planning on writing to the RAF two years ago actually but I thought that that would not matter since they'd just direct me to the application zone. But since there is no application zone at the moment I thought the next best thing would just be to show face and hope for the best. Now that you mention it, I think that writing to them would be the best move. I'll send some questions off at the end of this week once I've finished my first term of uni.