Heads up: BBC2 22:00 11/3/15

[wub]

Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience: The comedian trains to be an RAF fighter pilot

[Herod]

Surely they could make a better programme about a fighter pilot training to be a comedian.

[VinRouge]

Did they make him sing Men of Harlech with the FJ trainee lyrics with his strong welsh accent?

[RUCAWO]

Flight filmed the same day as one of our cadets on camp had a T.2 flight, the cadet had a lot more fun

[Old-Duffer]

I'm waiting for somebody to post that the programme should have been made two years ago but there was a backlog in the training system.

Old Duffer

PS If the guy had been taught to fly a wokka wokka it would have been well worth watching.

[ExAscoteer]

Am I the only one who is ABSOLUTELY ******* DISGUSTED that he was allowed to wear 'Wings'?

[Arfur Dent]

Yes - you're the only one!

[ExAscoteer]

Ah, you don't think that QR(RAF)J727 applies then?

I on
the other hand do.

I worked ******* hard to get my 'Wings' and I am damned if some comedian is allowed to wear them just for some poor piece of TV.

You on the other hand may feel different.

[ACW418]

ExAscoteer,

No you are not the only one.

ACW

[Tankertrashnav]

Felt sorry for the guys at Valley having to work with such a dick! Thought they were very patient with his totally inane chat.

[Mogwi]

I agree that he should never have been allowed to wear wings. I worked effin hard for both my sets, as have many thousands of fine chasps in the past. What was Valley thinking of?

[Tashengurt]

Felt sorry for the guys at Valley having to work with such a dick! Thought they were very patient with his totally inane chat.

You have to remember that we were seeing him in his 'comedy character' which is that of a permanently bemused fish out of water individual.
I've never met him but I'd hazard a guess that between takes he isn't such a buffoon.

[thunderbird7]

Lighten up chaps! I thought he did a good job of showing how difficult the job is and the blokes looking after him were a credit to the RAF. Great program without any heads up pompous arses for a change!

[Martin the Martian]

On the other hand, it was a good piece of PR for the RAF in general and fast jet flying in particular. His concluding piece about the difference between himself and the people he was flying with was very good, and the programme itself showed that it's not a job that just anyone can do.

[ahwalk01]

A great program, one of my favourites, shows you what it's like to fly fast jets.

Whatever badges he was wearing is less important, he got to do it for a day.

[P6 Driver]

We've had comments about wearing a set of wings. We've had the "one-upmanship" comment about qualifying for two sets of wings. Anyone with three sets or more?

[Martin the Martian]

The Red Baron?

[rarelyathome]

Originally Posted by Martin the Martian

The Red Baron?

^^^^^^

[KiloB]

The Red Baron

Surely he had four?!?!
KB

[HugoFirst]

Presumably someone within the RAF hierarchy sanctioned this? I can't imagine for a moment that Gilbert turned up with his own set of wings and demanded to wear them...