~S~ Blade and welcome to our Forum.
I personally don't have an issue with you flying in our SEOW as a guest and appreciate you being up front with us. However, it would be up to the SEOW commander to decide if and where you could fly and I think any Danger Dogz would hold a seating preference over you. Hopefully you will decide to join the group when you get to know how we fly and how we interact with each other. By the same token, while we are on probation so to speak, you will be too.
You are correct in your assessment of the La5FN performance and I think that is all that should be said right now.
I encourage any of the other Dogz to chime in and have their say.