Brave of you to write it down Tom! Experience is a powerful thing & thank God for your patients, you've got it. It makes me take a deep breath in when I think about the potential plop you may have been in if you allowed him his original decision of staying at home (despite him signing forms). Dunno about your management but ours (believed soon to be yours) would take great delight in pointing the finger at crews and turning their backs after watching you squirm. Can I ask Tom, are you not a Para because you're on a roster, which you'd lose if you did the course?