HotDog
Re your post (#40)
anotherthing, what a pathetic reply, I have flown with Ian Wilkinson for many years. A better and safer operator would be hard to find these days. There was nothing unsafe or unusual about this manouver. I find your comments difficult to believe for an F111 test pilot, as you claim to be.
Best get your eyes or your typing skills tested... Since when have I ever claimed to be a pilot, let alone an F111 pilot, let alone a test pilot?
If you are going to try to rebutt a comment, at least get your facts correct.
The fact you have 'flown with Ian Wilkinson and that he is a great pilot' means little if, as seems here his ability to make decisions IAW SOPs is suspect.
What was pathetic about my post? The fact that I thought it remiss for someone to do what the wish without the proper permission/authorisation of the owner of said piece of multi million dollar hardware?
Or the fact that I thought that the aforementioned owners had a right to admonish someone who did the above?
Help me here please, I am struggling to understand.