SET 18
Not one to usually bite but you caught me at a weak moment...
"Surely the J model's "Tac Demo" will consist of turning up at an airfield and then sitting on the pan all weekend.
That's about all the "Tac" work it does at Lyneham.....
You know lads that it is back to route Sqn life soon."
What planet have you been on recently?
Lets think... NVG low level, thats pretty "tac" wouldn't you say?
NVG low level in Iraq during the war, thats got to be "tac", no? 12 missions into Iraq on NVGs in virtually zero ambient, getting shot at by the bad guys and still making the TOT, and not needing an F-18 escort to get out again afterwards, thats got to be a little bit "tac"? Surely?
Or maybe SKE 3-ship in the South West on the same route thats been flown a thousand times over for years and years is the true definition of "tac"?
Wait, what about Para Wedge? Is that classed as "tac", or dropping harness packs at Keevil (all within 30 yds of the RAM), that must be "tac"? No?
Hang on I've got it... have to do a "Tac" Demo to be "Tac". Any other "Tac" Demos this year? Not sure let me check...
As for turning up at an airfield and sitting on the ground all weekend, thats what K's do in Southern Africa, and J's dig them out of the dwang and drop the troops (a lot more accurately). Hang on thats "Tac" too isn't it....?
Hang on I've got it for sure this time, there has to be 5 people on the crew for it to be truly "tac", I should have known. 2 pilots and an ALM can never be "Tac", of course.....
I'll get my coat. I'll never be "Tac", hurrumph...