'Silent' holiday jet sparks alert
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'Silent' holiday jet sparks alert
From the BBC news website.
With the cost of a typhoon flying hour being close to a squillion pounds, I wonder if it is time we started charging airlines for a Q launch when their pilots miss their radio check-in? That should cut down on the false alarms a bit.
With the cost of a typhoon flying hour being close to a squillion pounds, I wonder if it is time we started charging airlines for a Q launch when their pilots miss their radio check-in? That should cut down on the false alarms a bit.
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In these times of financial hardship, Gashman, I think it's only good and proper to recoup ones losses due to private company failure.
Buggers would think twice about filing a claim against the MOD.
Buggers would think twice about filing a claim against the MOD.
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tartare, expect to get four or five wildly different figures, depending on what is included (extremes: Just the cost of flying another hour, or the number of hours flown so far, divided by the total program cost including development and weapons). It's been discussed ad nauseam and mostly without a clue on the key publishing forum. 
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With the cost of a typhoon flying hour being close to a squillion pounds...
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A little naive aren't you? If the airliner intercepted is not found to be operating normally and hijacked by terrorists then guess what's coming next!
The UK government will authorise the aircraft to be shot down and regrettably that order will be carried out.
No waving is going to happen..
What would have they done when they got there, waved at them??
It's taken a day to publish the story... cant be that important!
It's taken a day to publish the story... cant be that important!
The UK government will authorise the aircraft to be shot down and regrettably that order will be carried out.
No waving is going to happen..
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A little naive aren't you? If the airliner intercepted is not found to be operating normally and hijacked by terrorists then guess what's coming next!
The UK government will authorise the aircraft to be shot down and regrettably that order will be carried out.
No waving is going to happen..
Naive? How different from 'normal' does a Heathrow bound ac have to fly, it's not easy in a very short time frame to determine 'terrorists' have taken over a suspicious ac..................... and as for getting that decision to shoot down a civilian airliner from a high ranking goverment minister. I wonder............
A little naive aren't you? If the airliner intercepted is not found to be operating normally and hijacked by terrorists then guess what's coming next!
The UK government will authorise the aircraft to be shot down and regrettably that order will be carried out.
No waving is going to happen..
Naive? How different from 'normal' does a Heathrow bound ac have to fly, it's not easy in a very short time frame to determine 'terrorists' have taken over a suspicious ac..................... and as for getting that decision to shoot down a civilian airliner from a high ranking goverment minister. I wonder............
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Did the BMI pilots just not bother to check in? Somehow I doubt that very much.
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The price per hour for an airborne Typhoon has just been estimated at approx £70,000 / Hr. Tornado / £35,000 Hr and the Harrier slightly above that. The reason cited as to why the Typhoon is so costly is because there are so few of them at the moment. As more builds arrive at their units, the price will obviously fall, by how much I have no idea.
70K-----Ouch!
70K-----Ouch!
Only the stupid aloof would even think of charging for what is actually a national security DUTY ordered by the Pres-er... Prime Minister.
This 'dreary' task is an undeniable part of the whole afgan war thing and at least one half of what sitting-on-5 mins-readiness jobs are to do.
How about the SAR boys charging for having to pick up FJ drivers who're blamed for getting themselves into their predicament?
This 'dreary' task is an undeniable part of the whole afgan war thing and at least one half of what sitting-on-5 mins-readiness jobs are to do.
How about the SAR boys charging for having to pick up FJ drivers who're blamed for getting themselves into their predicament?
