"I trained as a jet pilot at RAF Valley and I was married here in 1991 in the local church at Llanmihangel. We lived in Rhosneigr for two years, so for us it's nice to be back, though a little strange as last time we were here, we were newly married. Now we've been married ten years and we have two children.

It's a fantastic area for the family. We're two minutes away from the beach, and we have the whole of Snowdonia on our doorstep. The children love their school at Caergeiliog and my wife works in Bangor, so we're settled and we intend to stay here.

I''m now an instructor here at RAF Valley. I spent ten years doing air defence on the Tornado F3 aircraft, and I've been out to the Gulf, Bosnia and various other conflicts.

All fast jet pilots have to come to RAF Valley to be trained before they go on to the front line aircraft and specialise as a ground attack pilot.

The variety of scenery in North West Wales is fantastic. For us, the training is good because there's the mountainous areas, and also the coastal areas and some flatter, lowland terrain, especially when you get to mid Wales.

The training we do, certainly over the mountains, is as realistic as we can make it. We practise air defence and fly the aircraft with simulated missiles and we do some live bombing down at Pembrey. The aircraft we train on is smaller than most frontline aircraft, but it will carry all the same practice weapons as the combat aircraft. More...