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Old 15th Aug 2015, 14:03
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Easy Street
 
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ShotOne,

You come across as very defensive and I don't think there's any need. If threads here rarely question the training and experience of military pilots, I suspect it's because most posters have a pretty good idea of the training and experience of a military pilot. Conversely most of us have no idea of how you take a PPL-holding civilian and train him/her to fly a fast jet. For instance, would there have been access to a simulator of any description for emergency training? How many hours per annum would have been flown? Is selection for a pilot's seat competitive against a number of other candidates, and if so who does the judging? In most cases we know the answers to questions like those in respect of military flying without needing to ask them. An exception I can think of was the Glen Kinglas F3 accident, where there was quite a discussion over the (junior) pilot's experience of low flying.
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