Louise, I knew your dear grandfather (Uncle Dennis to us in QHIs crewroom 705 NAS Gazelles at RNAS Culdrose in the mid 80s).
Interestingly I found this thread searching for an RAF instructor namely Colin Woods I once flew with at RAFC Cranwell where I was a student on 14GE with the likes of BEagle. I recalled Colin was a Poachers pilot, and yes I was that young student with Colin on the infamous stuck ppt tape, the entire content of which was too blue to recall any of it here except that it was my pre FHT sortie! and on the FHT debrief the next day the CFI among other points advised that on my loops I should “pull to the light buffet, just like you weren’t doing on your practice sortie yesterday”.
Having read this whole thread, was was sorry to hear about Colin, though very pleased to see Uncle Dennis’s name, I hope he is still well.
PS. I passed the FHT, went on (with BEagle, and one other) to sharpen up at Linton on a FJLI Cse before getting chopped on Gnats at Valley