Denflnt wrote:
To ask you to ID yourself while being escorted by fighter aircraft in an area that, evidently, required you to have a fighter escort must have been a real boredom breaker for you. To their defense perhaps they may have either seen three aircraft on their radar or picked up transmissions from the fighters that alerted them to a potential threat.
Being escorted by fighter aircraft? Hardly - it was a routine AAR trail from Saudi Arabia to Cyprus which was flight planned and being flown in Saudi controlled airspace...
A polite request for identification would have been a different matter - it was the brusque "Identify yourself" and "Clear to proceed" which I found unreasonably arrogant.