Thanks Moggy,

It suddenly came to me whilst writing the post that anyone (including me) can play pilots at pretty much anytime these days thanks to the plethora of PC-based games/simulations.

Back in my youth the three or four days I had to wait until I could next get behind the controls of that Link seemed to drag on for ever 🙁 , and the ten or fifteen minutes in it were pure magic when they did arrive 🙂 . I could never understand why many of the other air cadets weren’t interested in flying it – though I never complained as it meant more “stick time” for those of us that were 😎 .

Now if I could only combine the touchy-feely nature of that Link with the graphics and processing power of a decent PC game and I’m onto a winner….what do you mean Redifusion/Marconi/Thales et al all got there first…😡 .

Paul F