Mike Seward- Nimrod Pilot?

[Doug Neidermeyer]

BBC News - 'Dismay' over 201 Guernsey's Own Squadron defence cuts (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-11582755)

BBC - Flying the Nimrod with Guernsey's Own (http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/guernsey/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8592000/8592916.stm)

Anyone?

[Seldomfitforpurpose]

Anyone what?

[Surplus]

Mike Seward was a dry man, not a pilot.

[Doug Neidermeyer]

Thought that was the case...

[Not Long Here]

Mike Seward was a dry man, not a pilot.

Allegedly :}

[Scuttled]

Sorry, what on earth have you started this thread for?

[Adam Nams]

Mike has flown more than 8000 hours in the Nimrod...

That is a lot of pies. :E

[GalleyTeapot]

Two stories from 2 years ago, why?

[Mad_Mark]

Oh, he's been at it again has he? :=

I remember someone posting here in 2008 about him being a Nimrod pilot Walt, using his past 'experience' to get a pilot job, but someone from the company got suspicious and posted questions on here about his past :ok:

MadMark!!! :mad:

[The Old Fat One]

I know of at least 5 other backenders that have appeared in the news as "pilots"

It's the media....9/10 they get the *****ing aircraft wrong. To the desk jockey typing this sh1te, a man, or woman, who flies is a pilot. Period.

Jackincko...if you're reading, I don't mean you. I'm not talking about aviation specialists.

As for the aforementioned chap...bad form discussing him (again!) this way on Pprune; don't know why it is not moderated out.

And for the record, he is/was both dry man and civvie pilot, as are many others.

[Doug Neidermeyer]

Are you kidding, he is telling everyone he is a nimrod pilot when he never was...

[Unusual Attitude]

He did indeed fly as PIC from Kinloss many times but mostly in Fulmar Gliding clubs chippy tug.....

Fecker gave me a rollocking once for missing a PA28 checkout with him as I was stuck flying space cadets in one of Her Majestys finest plastic motor gliders. Apparantly he never got the 'message' I sent despite it being scrawled in massive writing on the whiteboard right behind where he was standing....:rolleyes:

[Biggus]

I used to tell young ladies I was a dolphin trainer when I never actually was.... ;)




We also once tried to pass off the 5 man crew as a visiting UK polo team, with the GE as team manager! That didn't work on the young ladies in question either..!!

[Wander00]

Many years ago (Easter 1964?) we took some gliders from Cranwell to W-s-M towed by Chipmunks. A more high performance single-seater went in its trailer. The sailplane landed out and even Mike J******n was not prepared to try to aero tow it out of the small field so we set off through the Mendips on a ground retrieve. On the way back we stopped at a rather nice pub and were served by a delightful but not over-bright West Country lass. All of us in old flying suits with a long trailer on the back of, ISTR, a Ford Anglia. By the time we left DC L*****n has almost coninced her were were part of a circus and conveying trained dachsund horses.

[Doctor Cruces]

Joined the Air Force at same time, same Swinditz flight, same AAITC.
Was already a pilot then.