PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - empty back seat?
View Single Post
Old 21st Feb 2005, 16:40
  #2 (permalink)  
FJJP
 
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: UK
Posts: 1,777
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
If you're anywhere near Leeming, I would write to OC Ops Wing [ring the station get his name - the personal touch] and ask to set up a liaison between one of the Sqns and your unit. Since you generally fly LL you are an uncontrolled hazard to fast jet aviation [and I mean that in the nicest possible way! Flt safety-wise].

You can then visit them and give presentations on your job, the problems you face, etc, etc. They will give you chapter and verse from their point of view. Then after a few happy hours, possible flying in to give them a look at your machine, you invite them to your base, tea, coffee, beer, BBQ, etc and a flight or 2.

Then [hopefully, if they are bona mates] they will reciprocate and give you a back seat ride.

Liaison, beer and flying all round...

I did that for my local Fed helio, supplied them with LL maps, kept the Harrier, Jag and Tonka mates informed and got a ride in the helio. Good fun... [unfortunately, being on a ground tour, I couldn't offer a Harrier ride].
FJJP is offline