Originally Posted by
airsound
my professional knowledge of Andy Hill was as a very competent display Pilot
airsound
Really?? And how would a journalist know how competently he conducted pre-flight planning? How would you know how competently he considered the particular idiosyncrasies of a display venue? How would you know how thoroughly he considered the effect that OAT, wind and pressure altitude would have on his display profile? Or how competently he reacquainted himself with the controls, switches and Instruments of the Hunter cockpit before he displayed a type he had a slack handful of hours on in the last six months?
This military FJ pilot, with my professional knowledge, has a different opinion of AH’s competence and preparedness, which is rather more akin to Timelord’s and Bob Viking’s.....