William to transfer to RAF
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I'm certainly no monarchist but yeah, these princes seem to want to have a go and lead, as far as is possible, productive service careers. Good luck to them for that.
Given how Williams life especially is likely to pan out I certainly don't begrudge him having a bash at a real job first and Harry seems to have got his boots properly dirty.
I can understand a few caveats attached to their deployments and oddities in their postings given their circs.
Given how Williams life especially is likely to pan out I certainly don't begrudge him having a bash at a real job first and Harry seems to have got his boots properly dirty.
I can understand a few caveats attached to their deployments and oddities in their postings given their circs.
More bang for your buck
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I love the bit at the end:
"But the RAF has also warned that any time-wasters making bogus calls in the hope of catching a glimpse of the pilot prince could find themselves landed with a hefty bill to cover the enormous cost of every single search and rescue operation."
"But the RAF has also warned that any time-wasters making bogus calls in the hope of catching a glimpse of the pilot prince could find themselves landed with a hefty bill to cover the enormous cost of every single search and rescue operation."
Terrific. Congratulations to Flt Lt Wales and all the others on his course. Anyone who thinks that he has done anything less than 100% to earn his qualification is just desperate to knock him for who he is by accident of birth. Just as bad as saying a black guy must have had a helping hand to qualify, IMOH
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18 months training for SAR + his other 4 months basic training with the RAF and his military training (covering the 6 months IOT) makes HRH's training fairly similar to everbody else.. Who got past basic flying and wasn't good enough for advancement to FJs..
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A Graduate Entry stude at Linton in the 70's volunteered for rotary, purely on the grounds that he would be scoring 1369s two reporting sessions before his mates who went to fast jets. He had the promotion game sussed.
A Graduate Entry stude at Linton in the 70's volunteered for rotary, purely on the grounds that he would be scoring 1369s two reporting sessions before his mates who went to fast jets. He had the promotion game sussed
Sounds like the bloke was a genius.
Who got past basic flying and wasn't good enough for advancement to FJs..
There was never any prospect of King(Des) being allowed to fly FJ. Since the end of WW2, the overwhelming majority of our casualties have arisen in the FJ fleets and that simple fact drives the assessment of risk to an individual whose birth placed him on a different path from the rest of us. His father was in the same position - whatever you think of his later aviation exploits, the people involved in his initial training may choose to tell you that PoW had an excellent set of hands. It is not many of us who could climb into an ac after a year off and fly an IRT profile to Green standards - he did.
The man passed the SK OCU on his own merits as an aviator. He should be applauded for it, along with the rest of his course mates.
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Very well done Flt Lt Wales....
Hearty congratulations on passing a very demanding set of courses and becoming the very first Royal 'yellow hatter'!! We're proud of you. If anyone on here thinks it's easy they're either being conveniently naive - or just bloody ignorant. Probably the latter 
