Go Luke!
Its been sunny recently and I'm still on a high from this new job so being sanguine has not been too hard for me
Seriously - have you condidered trying the Air Training Corps Vulunteer Gliding Squadrons? I think it might be exactly what you want on a volunteer basis.
They have motorgliders with a fair bit of poke, excellent squadron comaraderie, professional atmosphere, operate out of some historic old airfields, get to send 16 year old Bloggs first solo every couple of weeks, summer camps for a week away somewhere on detachment, charging around in HM's finest yellow landrovers, long summer afternoons, game of football on the grass, jumpers for goalposts, baked beans on toast, white cliffs of Dover, the shipping forecast...
Sorry. Carried away there.
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