Douglas M. Grant joined the RAF in the 1960s at sixteen and was trained as an air radar technician. After serving for ten years, he began working in the avionics field, mainly on helicopters, for a number of companies including Bristow and Okanagan Helicopters. He spent the last sixteen years of his career instructing Avionics at the British Columbia Institute of Technology's airport campus. He retired in 2005 and now lives in West Kelowna, BC.