Thanks for the messages.
I have since been into the careers office, and was quite suprised to hear that pilot recruitment was meant to begin on 1st April (I did question the April Fools!) but has been delayed and they think it could be any day now.
I then signed up for the Info Line as suggested by CheapAsChips. However, when I spoke to the call centre chap they said pilot recruitment wont be until 2015... a conflict of knowledge there somewhere.
Either way, I can but hope. And in the mean time, the running shoes are getting a good workout.