Yet another non-story that is hyped up by retarded journalists!
A student helicopter pilot needs to practice approaches and landings in a field. Using his intelligence he decides to select a field only 16 miles from base that he can easily get permission to use whilst 'showing off' at the same time - nothing wrong with that. How many other student pilots have selected their training routes to fly over their own, their girlfriends or their parents houses to 'show off'? It was a part of his training, not a special flight put on purely for that purpose!
Aviation analyst and RAF-trained pilot Jon Lake slammed the flight as "ridiculous and inappropriate."
He said: "This is an absolute waste of training hours on the Chinook helicopter that the military are hard-pressed to afford. No other pilot at Prince William's stage of training would be allowed anywhere near the left-hand seat of a Chinook.
"It's like a learner driver being given the keys to a Formula One car just because his father owns the racing team."
Some expert opinion there then
I would have thought that this flight would be like any other student pilot training sortie with the stude in one seat and the instructor in the other
Nothing like a learner driver in a single seat F1 car you knob!
MadMark!!!
