Get Over Jaguar !

[Duncan D'Sorderlee]

Tartan,

Is a map in an F3 potential FOD?

Duncs

[Jaguar Pilot]

Finger Poking,

You have gone silent and deep - I wonder why.
Please stay that way .

Duncan D'Sorderlee,

No, but anyone in the back seat is.....

JP (hunlightjag)

[advocatusDIABOLI]

Yes it's a 'Map'. I suspect it is either a hasty 'Sun Shade' or contains Cod n Chips.

Advo

[Jaguar Pilot]

"or contains Cod n Chips"

.....bratwurtz or canelloni more likely!

[Fox2long]

Nah it's a butty box!

[Fox2long]

Also seems there are a lot of Jag pilots reading/posting here. Maybe they've got nothing better to do. After all the typhoon OCU ain't that big!!!!!

[flipflopman RB199]

Fox2long,

Switch on Old Chap,

Lets hope the average age of the Sqn Typhoon pilot isn't 61


Flipflopman

[Finger Poking]

Not Hidden.... or even bothered about what some over inflated Ego's think.

I stated Facts.

Flying JAGUAR is a waste of the TAX PAYERS money as it has no Operational Role. How many times do they need to say Goodbye to a piece of metal?

Probably as many as the amount of 'Farewell' Bash's they are having.

Pointless & pathetic. Get your posting, get a grip and move on !!

[ZH875]

Originally Posted by Finger Poking

Flying JAGUAR is a waste of the TAX PAYERS money as it has no Operational Role.

Spitfire
Lancaster
Hurricane
Dakota
Chipmumk
Swordfish
Sea Fury
Sea Hawk
Red Arrows


Not exactly operational either. So when would you like these got rid of.

Personaly, I think Illegal immigrants are a bigger waste of tax payers money.

So please FP, remove your head from your backside, and get a life.

[Jackonicko]

Why are YOU shouting in BIZARRE places, you POINTLESS little ****?

[Joker1]

'as many as the amount of 'Farewell' Bash's they are having'

Er...one Disbandment Parade (to lay-up the Sqn Standard for the very first time - not unreasonable) and one weekend of events at the end of June, to include a Happy Hour, a Families Day and a Ball. And just 2 months from flash to bang. Which bit of this is excessive?

It's all funded privately so I don't understand where the waste of money accusation comes from. The jets have been delivered to Cosford as quickly as it has been safe to do so. The pilots need to be current to land safely on a runway that is only about a third of the length of the NATO standard.

FP - if you have never been a part of something that you want to celebrate, then I pity you.

[splitbrain]

Originally Posted by Finger Poking

Not Hidden.... or even bothered about what some over inflated Ego's think.

I stated Facts.

Flying JAGUAR is a waste of the TAX PAYERS money as it has no Operational Role. How many times do they need to say Goodbye to a piece of metal?

Probably as many as the amount of 'Farewell' Bash's they are having.

Pointless & pathetic. Get your posting, get a grip and move on !!

What is your major malfunction chap? The RAF has a long history and tradition of doing things 'the right way' and that includes standing on ceremony where necessary, it goes with the territory. Whilst the modern service has to be cost concious, IMHO we'd all be that little bit worse off if a long serving icon of the RAF that occupies a place in the hearts and minds of a good number of personnel were simply parked up and the keys handed over to the scrappy without some sort of recognition of the event. Did you not feel even a twang of regret when you got rid of your first car?
As for the money being spent, I'm sure you realise that pointing to something you believe to be a waste of money, and offering up how many of something else (you deem worthy) that money could buy is a pointless exercise. Things just don't work like that - otherwise you and I wouldn't be in a job. How many life saving cancer drugs could the MOD's budget buy for example...
I speak not as someone who actually worked on the Jag in service, but as someone who recognises the place such things have in the grand scheme. Maybe you are totally dispassionate towards such things, but fortuntaley others still maintain a some soul.

[Jaguar Pilot]

The average age of Jaguar pilots is not 61 - it's 59. Lightning pilots are even older because we go back all the way to the early 60's.

Now then Finger Poking, one major advantage of advancing years is that it becomes easier to identify individuals who exude the same substances from both ends of their bodies.

JP

[RileyDove]

The RAF has a long tradition of doing pointless things to a very high standard!
The Jaguar's long overdue retirement has to many become of a symbol of the establishment cutting short something they think should go on for ever.
Whilst our NATO partners are busy retiring early F-16's and F-18's we worry about an aircraft that should have been replaced by Typhoon years ago!

[newt]

Hi All

Does anyone know who Finger Poking is? He might like to join us next weekend so that we could all do some "FINGER POKING"

[Jackonicko]

Riley Dove,

That would be all well and good if Typhoon had the capabilities to be able to replace the Jaguar. It will do, one day.

And if we were getting enough of them....

[BEagle]

.....or had enough people.

.....or had enough aerodromes.

[Jaguar Pilot]

Hey Newt,

You don't want Finger Poking at the party - everyone there will be good trustworthy people.

"square peg in a round hole" comes to mind.

JP

[Double Zero]

Jaguar

'Good trustworthy people' - ye gods !

I presume there's a Jaguar 'funny handshake' too ?

Exactly what payload did the Jaguar carry ?

Thought so.

It was a poor man's substitute for TSR2, just as the Harrier was a substitute for P1154; the difference is, the Harrier works.

As for being overworked in 'Stan, there are plenty more, it's down to the deployment types.

The aft fuselage issue was dealt with long ago on the 2+, it's again a matter of money & wrenching it from the hands of clueless B****rds...

[Two's in]

I suspect someone forgot to invite Finger Poking to a Squadron bash, or maybe even put him on duty over the weekend. Both understandable things to do.