RAF Cranwell documentary 1030 tonight ITV
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RAF Cranwell documentary 1030 tonight ITV
Just spotted in the listings, apologies if somebody's posted elsewhere. On in the Yorkshire area anyway, don't know if it's nationwide.
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i was stationed at cranwell for three and a half years. the best way to see the place is in your rear view mirror! i wonder how many people of non commissioned rank will be shown?
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Made the mistake of staying up to watch it. Extremely poor production and shows the cadets being treated somewhat soft. I my day...
I shall not be watching it again. Yorkshire TV must have hired the bloke who does the wedding vids from Sleaford.
I shall not be watching it again. Yorkshire TV must have hired the bloke who does the wedding vids from Sleaford.
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Caught the programme last night thanks to the cleverness of Sky Digital (which lets you view other ITV regions' programming).
I'm glad that things were more civilised when I was there as a Flt Cdt on 99 Entry and later as a Plt Off on 14 GE! All that running ....and in Clockwork Soldier 95? Dear me, how very lower deck!
I'm glad that things were more civilised when I was there as a Flt Cdt on 99 Entry and later as a Plt Off on 14 GE! All that running ....and in Clockwork Soldier 95? Dear me, how very lower deck!
To view other ITV regions on Sky Digital, you have to add them to your 'other channels' list. Try www.wildsat.com/astra.htm and follow the 'manual tuning' instructions for adding channels as indicated at the bottom of the page.
Basically you enter the transponder frequency and polarity, and the appropriate FEC and symbol rate (all are stated on the link). Then 'search for channels' and tag the ones you want - they will then be added to your 'other channels' option.
Basically you enter the transponder frequency and polarity, and the appropriate FEC and symbol rate (all are stated on the link). Then 'search for channels' and tag the ones you want - they will then be added to your 'other channels' option.
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Sometimes you'll find some surprising stations on other Astra or Eurobird transponders. The prize has to go to the station showing "The Simpsons" - with a Czech soundtrack! But it was in 16:9 though.
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99 Entry, BEagle? You really did have it soft! Yours was the first entry to be offered the university route and we in your Senior Entry, who had waited all those years to do to the new boys what had been done to us, were warned off by the powers-that-be. 'Oooh, you can't go down to the South Brick Lines because they have a very difficult decision to make [whether or not to go to university] and we don't want to upset them.' So if I ever meet you (again?) I shall tip your nicely-made bed up, throw your neatly-folded shirts on the floor and scuff your gleeming toecaps big-time! 
Ah, I feel much better for that!
Ah, I feel much better for that!
Ah - but you bŁoody DID come down to the SBLs to give us a good crowing! Don't pretend you didn't!! Some of my colleagues were off to University like a dose of salts, but most of us did a year as Flt Cdts with all the joys of Messrs Knocker, Ferris and Chimay, WO Garbutt (good bloke really) cleaning the damn hut every day for the first few weeks, then finally into the JMPG blocks for the second 6 months! That was a whole year as Junior Entry, incidentally. 95 were OK, 96 quite reasonable, 97 psychopathic!
Which sqn were you, by the way?
Perhaps I'll visit your hotel and tip my own bed up. After polishing the curtain rails and bumpering the floor, of course.
Which sqn were you, by the way?
Perhaps I'll visit your hotel and tip my own bed up. After polishing the curtain rails and bumpering the floor, of course.
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Perhaps you're not such a bad egg after all since you suffered a decent spell at the old-style Towers. I was C Sqn, by the way.
Visit my hotel anytime and do all of those things you mentioned. But please don't do what a certain Kevin did recently and use the door curtain for loo roll.....twice! I can cope with most things in this business, but just occasionally............
Another thread mentions that you have some F-4 time; I'm intrigued by your interesting mix.
Perhaps you're not such a bad egg after all since you suffered a decent spell at the old-style Towers. I was C Sqn, by the way.
Visit my hotel anytime and do all of those things you mentioned. But please don't do what a certain Kevin did recently and use the door curtain for loo roll.....twice! I can cope with most things in this business, but just occasionally............
Another thread mentions that you have some F-4 time; I'm intrigued by your interesting mix.
C Sqn? Ye Gods......
Nope - I was 99B. Tenderly crowed by the likes of one UO Phil Roser and the like!
What a vile thing for anyone to do in your hotel, Zoom. I hope that you sent the bug.ger the bill for cleaning up after him.
Yes - I did have a brief dalliance with the F4. And the Buccaneer. Afer JP, Gnat, Hunter, was chopped on the Bucc because I couldn't progress at their required rate, despite being top of the bombing ladder! Then went to fly the Vulcan, including representing the UK in the 1979 SAC Bomb/Nav competition. Ego then made me ask for another crack at the FJ world rather than accept the Vulcan captaincy I was offered; got Op on the F4, then after a total of about 500 hours they once again decided that I realy ought to go elsewhere - so managed to get in on the ground floor on the VC10K in 1983. Just as well, because frankly the F4 world I'd been in was not somewhere I'd have liked to have stayed. So I've been there more or less ever since except for a QFI session on ULAS (great times, great people) interrupted by the Gulf War - and a few hundred more hours back as a VC10K captain. Then, after my A2 and a civil FI rating back to the '10, short cut to a QFI job on the beast as an A2. Been there for quite a while now with about 5000 hrs on type, 4000 as captain and 2000 as QFI. Upgraded the civil FI rating to Flight Examiner, picked up my ATPL recently after writing the original RAF/CAA accreditation paper 4 years ago.
Nope - I was 99B. Tenderly crowed by the likes of one UO Phil Roser and the like!
What a vile thing for anyone to do in your hotel, Zoom. I hope that you sent the bug.ger the bill for cleaning up after him.
Yes - I did have a brief dalliance with the F4. And the Buccaneer. Afer JP, Gnat, Hunter, was chopped on the Bucc because I couldn't progress at their required rate, despite being top of the bombing ladder! Then went to fly the Vulcan, including representing the UK in the 1979 SAC Bomb/Nav competition. Ego then made me ask for another crack at the FJ world rather than accept the Vulcan captaincy I was offered; got Op on the F4, then after a total of about 500 hours they once again decided that I realy ought to go elsewhere - so managed to get in on the ground floor on the VC10K in 1983. Just as well, because frankly the F4 world I'd been in was not somewhere I'd have liked to have stayed. So I've been there more or less ever since except for a QFI session on ULAS (great times, great people) interrupted by the Gulf War - and a few hundred more hours back as a VC10K captain. Then, after my A2 and a civil FI rating back to the '10, short cut to a QFI job on the beast as an A2. Been there for quite a while now with about 5000 hrs on type, 4000 as captain and 2000 as QFI. Upgraded the civil FI rating to Flight Examiner, picked up my ATPL recently after writing the original RAF/CAA accreditation paper 4 years ago.
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Respect, brother, that's an even more interesting mix than originally intrigued me! You might consider yourself lucky to have stayed flying after the F-4 though; one pilot in the 70s felt that the F-4 was no longer for him and asked if he could cross-train to a type that he would be more at ease with, as he felt he still had much to offer. They gave him his P45, without even a ground job option. Who said honesty was the best policy?
Respect, brother, that's an even more interesting mix than originally intrigued me! You might consider yourself lucky to have stayed flying after the F-4 though; one pilot in the 70s felt that the F-4 was no longer for him and asked if he could cross-train to a type that he would be more at ease with, as he felt he still had much to offer. They gave him his P45, without even a ground job option. Who said honesty was the best policy?
