had allsorts - instructed many americans from mildenhall and lakenheath. One guy came in for a lesson, just pitched up with his girlfriend we went out and he was unbelievably good, i only twigged when he used the radio and addressed as speedbird xxx
Flew with a real old boy to france he must be at least 75 ish + everything was fine he was peering out the window on the way to le touquet and then he said to me
"its been a long time since i have been to france"
me "oh really"
"yes it was a long long time ago, you know i have never been to france in the daytime..."
i thought this was odd and he left it at that
turns out he was a navigator on lancasters and the last time he was in france was when he dropped a load of bombs - he flew 30 odd missions without a scratch! lovely guy, bit mad though!!!!
The only other one was on my FIC and my instructor was and ex ETP and even the C/O - it was quite difficult to teach even in the false training evironment.
and lastly a guy turned up who used to be an instructor where i worked who had his licensed revoked on medical grounds and now has a NPPL he was a an ex military guy etc etc you dont half feel daft flying with theses blokes - turns out he taught me instead which was brilliant
still enuf of me, anymore?