Fraudulent Jaguar Pilot?
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Hello Gents,
Found this on another board:
http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthr...189#post929189
If the individual in question was claiming to have been a USAF pilot, I could better provide the gentleman asking with some tools to identify the truth. As somebody who has no experience with the RAF, I thought maybe some members here might provide some suggestions for quickly and easily identifying the bona fides of the pilot claiming to have flown Jaguars.
I'll be happy to post anything provided along with a credit for both the individual and PPRUNE. (Hopefully the moderators on both sides of the house will allow this, I truly detest military posers and would love to help unmask yet another one.)
Found this on another board:
http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthr...189#post929189
If the individual in question was claiming to have been a USAF pilot, I could better provide the gentleman asking with some tools to identify the truth. As somebody who has no experience with the RAF, I thought maybe some members here might provide some suggestions for quickly and easily identifying the bona fides of the pilot claiming to have flown Jaguars.
I'll be happy to post anything provided along with a credit for both the individual and PPRUNE. (Hopefully the moderators on both sides of the house will allow this, I truly detest military posers and would love to help unmask yet another one.)
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I could be wrong, and I am sure I will be told in due course, but when I visited some Jag mates a few years ago at Colt I am sure I met a Yank exchange dude there with them. 
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Ask him to sing the next lines:
Standing on the runway
Throttles open wide
See....
If he tells you to F.O., he was a Jag Pilot.
If he sings, he was a Jag Pilot with a sense of humour.
Or try:
Don't bend down when a Jag Mate's around ...
If he tells you to F.O., he was a Jag Pilot.
Edited to add a response to Fox3Snapshot that yes, there were USAF Exchange pilots at Colt. One of them lived opposite me at the Horsham St Faith's patch ... name escapes, but Mrs hat reminds me that we had a Newcastle/Safari supper and they went and got KFC from Norwich!
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Standing on the runway
Throttles open wide
See....
If he tells you to F.O., he was a Jag Pilot.
If he sings, he was a Jag Pilot with a sense of humour.
Or try:
Don't bend down when a Jag Mate's around ...
If he tells you to F.O., he was a Jag Pilot.
Edited to add a response to Fox3Snapshot that yes, there were USAF Exchange pilots at Colt. One of them lived opposite me at the Horsham St Faith's patch ... name escapes, but Mrs hat reminds me that we had a Newcastle/Safari supper and they went and got KFC from Norwich!
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Originally Posted by threepointonefour
I thought MOCA was something you get at Starbucks ...??
Avoid imitations
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Fraudulent Jaguar Pilot?
What - did he claim he wasn't gay?
What - did he claim he wasn't gay?
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Does it really matter! It seems on the other board they are getting really excited about it... Why?? They do say imitation is the best form of flattery.
A thought just crossed my mind, maybe in the same way that Jowell is taking the heat of Uncle Tone, this thread has been started by the Scottish Officer trying to keep us away from the thread concerning him. Mmmm
A thought just crossed my mind, maybe in the same way that Jowell is taking the heat of Uncle Tone, this thread has been started by the Scottish Officer trying to keep us away from the thread concerning him. Mmmm
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Could always take the Enoch Davies approach (Dylan Thomas's account of a coach trip in the early C20th.)
"I played for Aberavon in 1898," said a stranger [in the pub where the coach party has stopped to drink,] to Enoch Davies.
"Liar," said Enoch Davies.
"I can show you photos," said the stranger.
"Forged," said Enoch Davies.
"And I'll show you my cap at home."
"Stolen."
"I got friends to prove it," said the stranger in a fury.
"Bribed," said Enoch Davies.
adr
"I played for Aberavon in 1898," said a stranger [in the pub where the coach party has stopped to drink,] to Enoch Davies.
"Liar," said Enoch Davies.
"I can show you photos," said the stranger.
"Forged," said Enoch Davies.
"And I'll show you my cap at home."
"Stolen."
"I got friends to prove it," said the stranger in a fury.
"Bribed," said Enoch Davies.
adr
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It's quite simple, if he is a bona fide jet pilot he will have pictures of himself with a jet and he will proudly show you at least one if not four pics of him stood next to, a self portrait from in the cockpit(usually low level), one sat on the wing etc... You could angle it that you can't remember which jag it is that the Brits fly so could he show you??
Faking it is not uncommon, everytime one of our carriers goes into port there are suddenly 1000 Sea Harrier pilots on board!!
Faking it is not uncommon, everytime one of our carriers goes into port there are suddenly 1000 Sea Harrier pilots on board!!
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Went to bbq once where the host claimed to be an Officer in the Paras. It soon became obvious he wasnt simply by the way he spoke (no military jargon)
When pushed he claimed to have joined as a CPL, promoted to CAPT and went through Sandhurst in 1990.
Unluckily for him there were 2 AAC Officers at the same bbq, who were at Sandhurst in 1990.
We were aggressively asked to leave to the noise of his wife asking if he was ever in the Army?
Junglie: thanks for the 2 girls you sent to Hong Kong, you're a scholar and a gent!
When pushed he claimed to have joined as a CPL, promoted to CAPT and went through Sandhurst in 1990.
Unluckily for him there were 2 AAC Officers at the same bbq, who were at Sandhurst in 1990.
We were aggressively asked to leave to the noise of his wife asking if he was ever in the Army?
Junglie: thanks for the 2 girls you sent to Hong Kong, you're a scholar and a gent!
Just a numbered other
The world's full of these dorks
Hell, we've got one in our company who even tries to b.s. that he was flying Sea Harriers when we'd have surely known him.
Sad
Hell, we've got one in our company who even tries to b.s. that he was flying Sea Harriers when we'd have surely known him.
Sad