A gent indeed, always a pleasure to do business with. Sim trips aside, I flew with him on a Hawk air test in 1979, almost 21 years to do the day since he flew with my father in a Vampire. Dad was a QFI at Valley late 50s and I think Dougie was too! I still have a picture of the 3 of us next to the Vampire T11 that used to adorn the gate at Valley, all in uniform and me wearing wings that were only about 3 hours old and still on the velcro. Whenever I saw Dougie he never failed to ask after Dad - I like to think they are now in the same crewroom again.