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Nige321
5th Oct 2015, 13:17
New BBC Series - Starts Sunday 11th October: Britain's Ultimate Pilots: Inside the RAF (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06jh5hz)
Should be able to get every RAF Pilot into one shot. :sad:
39 Squadron?
After all, it must be a lot harder to fly when you are not actually there!
Rotate too late
5th Oct 2015, 14:06
"Should be able to get every RAF Pilot into one shot"
Question is, which calibre to use....:E
PapaDolmio
5th Oct 2015, 16:17
Could they not have thought of a better title?
It sounds like it should be on one of those ghastly satellite channels or even worse ITV.
Unfortunately this looks as though it is going to be yet another Red Arrows fly on the wall documentary rather than looking at front line aircrew. Pity
ExRAFRadar
5th Oct 2015, 17:07
Is this just another Red's fest vid?
Edit: Ah yes, so it is. How original.
Planet Basher
5th Oct 2015, 17:20
"It's not all about the pilots" has to be up there with "We're all in this together" in the pantheon of media speak.;)
Wokkafans
5th Oct 2015, 17:26
Chinook display team on 25th Oct :ok:
you are right about the Reds; for most of UK it's 2100 bbc 2 Sun 11th
teeteringhead
5th Oct 2015, 18:23
Chinook display team on 25th Oct Deffo :ok: for Chinook, but I hope it's not just the display team - excellent though they are .......
Reds ........ Chinook display ......... "Ultimate Pilots" ....... hmmmmmm - do I detect a common thread here...... :ugh::ugh:
ShyTorque
5th Oct 2015, 18:34
Ultimate pilots?
Since serving our time then leaving, some of us must be Britain's "extra-ultimate" pilots: Outside the RAF.
Wander00
5th Oct 2015, 18:54
The way things are going it will be "Britain's Penultimate Pilots"!
By the sound of the comments, I won't be bothering to watch :uhoh:
BEagle
5th Oct 2015, 21:50
More here: New RAF documentary premieres this Sunday (http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/new-raf-documentary-premieres-this-sunday-05102015)
:hmm:
BBF one might be worth a look. I wonder if this is the new way of engaging Joe Public now that open days are a thing of the past?
lmgaylard
5th Oct 2015, 22:49
Although a nice idea I'm wondering, what about the 'ultimate pilots' of the Fleet Air Arm and Army Air Corps?
Courtney Mil
5th Oct 2015, 23:19
lmgaylard, I can only guess that the clue to the answer to that is in the programme's title.
I don't think it's a contest.
ExRAFRadar
6th Oct 2015, 07:30
Okay I'll take my sarcastic hat off as it looks as though they will cover more than the Reds playing Golf and the inevitable tension as they see if they get Display Authority.
Okay, maybe I just slipped the hat back a bit. :)
But it does read as though they are giving other display types and ground crew a look in as well so I'll be checking it out.
And yes, even if it was just the Red Arrows I would still have watched the bloody thing.
Wensleydale
6th Oct 2015, 08:33
No chance - it clashes with Downton Abbey!
teeteringhead
6th Oct 2015, 09:42
‘Britain’s Ultimate Pilots: Inside the RAF’ [21:00, BBC Two] showcases the work of the Red Arrows, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the Chinook Display Team and the Typhoon Display Team during the 2015 display season.
As I feared .... so Display Flying (and I have done a little of that) is what "Ultimate Pilots" do.....
I don't think so...... not the best curtain raiser to SDSR 15 :ugh:
I'll stick with Deadliest Catch on Discovery. Proper 'Ard Nuts'.
Wander00
6th Oct 2015, 19:07
Watch Downton on ITV +1
DaveUnwin
6th Oct 2015, 19:55
"The way things are going it will be "Britain's Penultimate Pilots"!
As Wilde said to Whistler "I wish I'd said that."
teeteringhead
7th Oct 2015, 08:30
As Wilde said to Whistler "I wish I'd said that." To which Whistler famously replied:
"You will Oscar, you will!" :ok:
Parson
24th May 2016, 10:15
Watched the Chinook episode last night. Noticed that the instruments and glass screens were 'blurred out'.... What's that all about then?
Are the Beeb scared we might find out where Odiham is? Or what speed a Chinook flies at? Don't want to invade the privacy of a Chinook?
Watched the Chinook episode last night. Noticed that the instruments and glass screens were 'blurred out'.... What's that all about then? It's often a lot easier to just pixelate the screens than to carefully review every second of video to make sure something classified/sensitive is not inadvertently broadcast
TEEEJ
25th May 2016, 19:33
Parson,
Discussed at following thread
http://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/569643-bbc-inside-raf-chinook-cockpit-displays-censored.html