Attention Military Helo Jockeys!

[FlyGooseFly!]

Now though I would give generously of my body parts to be with you and your machines - some of you are playing wargames over farmland near Waddesdon and THIS WILL NOT DO!

Please keep higher alt., and lower pwr setting, especially if you can see animals - I might be under one of them. Either that or I'm investing in a cow turd launcher.

[movadinkampa747]

What on earth would you be doing under a cow? You do realise that it is ileagal

[ProfessionalStudent]

Here we go again... Shades of poor old Mig15 and his nervous missus here.

Now Off and take your whinges somewhere else. Or we'll report you to the the RSPCA.

[diginagain]

Could we have a more accurate location, please? Just so it can be avoided, you understand.

[Roadster280]

Originally Posted by ratty1

You want to throw cow **** at military helicopters? Very patriotic.

The **** would hit the fan! Mind you, A Wokka has a fairly impressive couple of fans to blow it back with.

[London Mil]

Originally Posted by ratty1

You want to throw cow **** at military helicopters? Very patriotic.

It might be an improvement on the smell coming from the inside?

[Talking Radalt]

Originally Posted by FlyGooseFly!

some of you are playing wargames over farmland near Waddesdon and THIS WILL NOT DO!

From our perspective, you're playing farmgames under our air space. And that won't do either.
Have you ever flown in to Sangin by the way?

[airborne_artist]

especially if you can see animals - I might be under one of them

Only three possibilities:

1. You are Daisy the Cow and Billy the Bull is on top giving you one. Congratulations - a cow that can type

2. You are Farmer Giles and you are underneath Daisy getting your pinta draught

3. You are a sick person and you are underneath Billy the Bull giving him a b*** j**.

[Radar Muppet]

God, the replies above p1ss me off. Although this guy could have put his complaint over in a nicer manner, the replies are typical of the 'We know best and what we do is more imortant than what you do' attitude that has pervaded PPRuNe for a while now. If one is tending a large and potentially dangerous farm animal, the last thing that is helpful is to have a rotary mate nearby. It doesn't mean that it is wrong for the helo to be there but nor is it wrong for a farmer to be looking after his stock. Instead of lambasting a fellow citizen who is also trying to earn his bread, why not sympathise and offer some help?

FlyGooseFly, if you have vulnerable breeding stock or a particular time of year when you would be grateful for fewer overflights, then call a RAF station and ask for the Corporate Communications Officer. Explain the problem and suggest a solution. Be polite and emphasise how much you support the flying but that sometimes it is a real hazard to you and ask them to write to you with their answer. Follow up up the call with a letter to the Station Commander which summarises the problem and the phone call and asking for his assistance.

Fellow PPRuNers. Take a deep breath and get over yourselves for heaven's sake. There is a world out there where people do entirely different jobs to you and we need to be able to operate in tandem to them not in opposition.

[eagle 86]

RM,
Whilst I support your sentiment, I think that it is you who needs to back off and cool down. Prune sites across the board have a reasonable chance of not being known as serious mediums for rational thinking or comment.
Methinks that this is a windup - I don't know any farmer who would go to this sort of forum and expect results.
GAGS
E86

[rmac]

I don't think its a wind up, flying farmers are one of the largest groups in UK GA, as they have plenty of space to put in a strip of their own.

I also don't think that his request was too harsh, it actually has an element of thin humour shared by the infantry (Farmer with a shovel is not much different to an infanteer without the shooting )

14 years since I became a civvy, and I didn't know that we were producing such a snesitive group of souls in these days..

[Razor61]

Avoid the farm and come to Mid Devon 'lower' instead. I promise i won't moan.

[fone_effect]

Radar
You are going to have a heart attack if you are not careful mate

[OpsMunkie]

Originally Posted by Radar Muppet

Fellow PPRuNers. Take a deep breath and get over yourselves for heaven's sake. There is a world out there where people do entirely different jobs to you and we need to be able to operate in tandem to them not in opposition.

Come off it. If someone has a genuine complaint about flying, the way to go about it is to make a flying complaint to the MoD. Not stick a winge on PPprune. Thats just asking for banter surely.

[London Mil]

I wonder if FGF has bought his 'turd chucker' yet?

[TurbineTooHot]

Maybe we can take a couple of mess cannons down and see if one of them works as a pat-slinger.......

Wait, this gives me and idea

[Talking Radalt]

Originally Posted by Radar Muppet

Although this guy could have put his complaint over in a nicer manner, the replies are typical of the 'We know best and what we do is more imortant than what you do' attitude that has pervaded PPRuNe for a while now.

I'll remember that next time I'm on my way home from work, stuck behind a 4mph combine harvester for miles on end or a muck spreader, gaily flinging sh!t from it's tyres over passing motorists whilst the Fast Show's "Ted" blatantly ignores the rest of the world from the sanctuary of the cab of his Massey Ferguson.

[engineer(retard)]

Could be worse, instead of flygoosefly, he could have signed in as squealpiggysqueal. You don't want to go down in his field

[Radar Muppet]

TR

Do that but bear in mind that, despite our protestations of working long hours, most farmers work significantly longer for 365/365 and few earn anywhere near as much as you. Also remember please that farmers/landowners consent is critical to our training requirements. We p1ss them off and our training areas/DZs/HLSs etc could suddenly become less available.

[PTT]

Originally Posted by Radar Muppet

...despite our protestations of working long hours, most farmers work significantly longer for 365/365 and few earn anywhere near as much as you...

They should have worked harder at school then!