I have to agree with rudekid - what is the necessity of day flying? Why can't most things be done at night - Certainly, I thought that was the AT fleet's intention. Although night flying has some complications - gogs and trg etc, it is, generally, very much safer viz-a-viz SAFIRE - as we learnt last time?
Just this Once - thanks, check your PMs.
I may not have made it totally clear - it is the higher echelons at Gp (and above) who do not listen to the advice from the 'specialists' and who usually find 'reasons' to insist that the Op is 'paramount' and/or that 'there is no money'...budgets-dontcha-know, old boy!
'They' have done this as they sold us down the swanny by telling the politicos that the MOD and Gp are 'content to manage the risk'...... but with our lives and those of our friends and comrades - op necessity, my @rse!
I hope you would agree that this is totally unacceptable, while other countries fully 'support' and fund their ac and crews. I have only total sympathy with those who are trying to organise the latest 'Persian Excursion'!
Last edited by flipster; 17th Mar 2006 at 00:59.