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| Grob Tutor 2000 display
Grob Tutor G-BYUC, CFS, Waddington 2000. Copyright Gary Parsons, f4 Aviation 2000 The display pilot, Flight Lieutenant Mark Williams, 40, has been an instructor on Elementary Flying Training Standards Squadron at Royal Air Force College Cranwell since August 1998. Born in Gravesend, Kent, Mark joined the RAF straight from school in October 1978 and was awarded his Wings at RAF Valley in October 1980. His first operational tour of duty was with 16 Squadron, flying Buccaneers at Laarbruch in Northern Germany from October 1981, and following conversion to the Tornado GR1 in 1984 he returned to Laarbruch with 20 Squadron until 1986. Following a further two years flying the Tornado GR1 at Marham with 617 Squadron, he was posted to Central Flying School where he chose to instruct on the Bulldog and was allocated as a Qualified Flying Instructor to East Midlands Universities Air Squadron at Newton where he served for four years, the last two as the Chief Flying Instructor. In June 1992 Mark was posted to the Tornado Tri-National Training Establishment at Cottesmore as a Flying Instructor where he taught Italian, German and RAF crews to fly the Tornado. From July 1994 he worked in Saudi Arabia on secondment to British Aerospace where he spent over three years teaching crews of the Royal Saudi Air Force to fly the Tornado. He retired from the regular RAF in December 1997 and took up his current appointment as a full-time light aircraft flying instructor working as a Civil Service Aviation Officer, but retaining a RAF Reserve Forces Commission as a Flight Lieutenant.
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