Changes to pure flying syllabus at valley?
Bigpants.
Of course you realise that in 1985 there were retired pilots saying:
"I feel so sorry for the guys nowadays. When I joined we used to get 600 hours a year in our Meteors and if we crashed a few no-one got overly upset".
Before that it was "When I were a lad we used to get 20 hours on Tiger Moths and a few trips in the Spitfire before it was chocks away and give old Fritz the heave ho over the channel".
I'm sure you see what I'm getting at. Times have changed but guys are still enjoying what they do. Its not the RAF you joined in the 1980s but its not too bad. The Hawk T2 as a trainer followed by a Typhoon career is hardly the end of the world.
As an aside I think we are all guilty of rose tinted specs syndrome. Already I look back and think "when I was on the frontline we used to fly every day and never had to do paperwork". My logbook tells a different story.
BV
Last edited by Bob Viking; 29th Dec 2012 at 16:17.