Keith Williams and BOAC both deserve a pat on the back for answering the question.
Agreed.
the guy had a serious question
I had reason to doubt that, so I asked.
Sometimes 'serious questions' are not what they pretend to be.
In october 2008 the guy was located in Sweden and posted that he was going to start pilot training at a school in Norway in january. If that was 'serious', why did he delete those posts?