Airclues?

[MightyGem]

What's happened to it? Haven't seen a link for ages.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

The RAF has been Clueless for a while?

This is news?

[CoffmanStarter]

Last thing I saw was a note on the last PDF version ... "sorry for the delay in publishing this edition but manning levels have impacted editorial content and production" ... so I'm guessing the last bloke running the shop turned out the lights when he got his brown envelope :sad:

[Sevarg]

McGwire retired!!

[30mRad]

Latest version on tinterweb is Summer 2012, so would expect an autumn one fairly soon. My understanding is that it was value added and would continue, unless someone in the FS world knows different?

[whowhenwhy]

I think that the team are suffering from the same problem that we all are. We've reduced down to a single point of failure in every AoR and, seemingly, tripled the tasking required of them. All at the same time as being asked to staff the latest ill thought out idea thrust at them. Deconfliction Service anyone? ;)

[1.3VStall]

IIRC, in the RAF I joined (now disappeared forever), Air Clues was published monthly and was eagerly read in crew rooms.

Has the interest in Flight Safety now declined to the point where the RAF's FS magazine is only sporadically published?

How sad!

[BEagle]

IIRC, in the RAF I joined (now disappeared forever), Air Clues was published monthly and was eagerly read in crew rooms.

Indeed. In particular, the 'I Learned About Flying From That' articles. But then it was ruined with all that 'Air Power' cr@p and such utterly dire bolleaux as 'Tales from the Front'...:yuk:

And as for the truly awful 'Aircrew Annual' - had that been printed on absorbent paper, it would at least have had one worthwhile use....:sad:

I wrote a couple of articles for Air Clues and received a small beer token or two as a result. But I had another article binned as it went against the Party Line....:= So that was that and I didn't bother to write any more......

[Wensleydale]

But I had another article binned as it went against the Party Line


Was it "I learned about overstretch from that"?

[Tankertrashnav]

How many members of this forum are aware of the connection between its title and the hapless Pilot Officer Percy Prune (who originated in Tee Emm" I believe)? Has he survived, along with his nemesis Wing Commander Spry?

[CoffmanStarter]

Wing Commander Spry still exists ... after his Corporate Makeover to this ...

http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/af162/CoffmanStarter/ScreenShot2011-12-18at110900.png

From how I remember him in the 70's ...

http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/af162/CoffmanStarter/Spry3JPEG.jpg

I made contact with the man (Rufus H) behind the goodly Wing Commander ...

Wing Commander Spry (http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/477768-wing-commander-sprys-biography.html)

Best regards ...

Coff.

[Aerials]

30mRad, have you a link for your latest? My latest is Issue 6 Jan 12 here: RAF - Air CluesAir Clues (http://www.raf.mod.uk/downloads/airclues.cfm)

[betty swallox]

1.3VStall
I think your comment is, frankly, unwarranted and unfair. Air clues is still a regular feature. I'm afraid I don't have a link.
To suggest " interest" in Flight/Air Safety has declined is naive and harmful.

[HAS59]

It didn't take long to find...

RAF - Air CluesAir Clues (http://www.raf.mod.uk/downloads/airclues.cfm)

(Thought: am I allowed to post links like this?)

I think as 1.3VStall is (like me) of an age when we remember things from a different era, perhaps he like me remembers crewroom discussion over Airclues etc as a valuable learning process. Does that still happen as 'chat' when everyone has their nose in a screen?

[30mRad]

There is Issue 8 Summer 12 on the internal system. The links posted here are external and do not appear to have the latest issue available.

[VinRouge]

Ever heard of Ipad?

I quite like the monthly mag from this site, has lots of read across to military ops:

AeroSafety World Magazine | Flight Safety Foundation (http://flightsafety.org/aerosafety-world-magazine)

[1.3VStall]

BS,

I'm sure that interest in FS in crewrooms is still as sharp as ever.

However, if the, previously, monthly Air Clues is now published much less frequently - and after a gap in production - I merely suggest that, at a corporate level, there may be less focus on FS than in the days when I frequented crewrooms.

[Ali Barber]

As a long retired Spry, in the old style Air Clues, IFS (as was) was only responsible for the FS section in the middle (about 12 pages I think, but stand to be corrected). The rest of the magazine, including the sleep inducing Air Power articles etc, came from a very different part of MOD. All we were told in IFS was how many pages we had got and when the deadline was to have the copy ready to go to print.