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Heads Up! Fighter Pilot: The Real Top Gun

Old 20th Aug 2019, 11:21
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Heads Up! Fighter Pilot: The Real Top Gun

Fighter Pilot: The Real Top Gun - 9pm, ITV 20th August

In the first of an exciting three-part documentary, clever camerawork and commentary relayed from in-helmet microphones combine to capture the thrills and drills of the cockpit. Three trainees at Britain’s elite fighter pilot school (including the establishment’s only female student) graduate from propeller planes to learning how to fly the F35 Lightning II, the RAF’s most advanced jet fighter, in a tough competition that involves dizzying rolls, whiplash 4G turns and hair-raising “treecutters”. And, yes, they really do quote Top Gun to each other
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Sounds like all the limbs on the family tree are right up there at the tip top of the stalk.

I would have thought there might be some sort of Joint Training with other F-35 users with far more experience in the aircraft.
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Angel Popcorn Time on ITV - 20/8/19

New: Fighter Pilot: The Real Top Gun

ITV (Channel 3 if you prefer), 2100-2200

This three-part documentary series spends a year inside Britain's elite Fighter Pilot School, following three recruits as they compete to become the best of the best. Ep1
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What's a tree cutter? In this context?

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Only 4G?

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My popcorn is loaded, and we will both be glued to the small screen. Sick-bags also available if needed.
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Ten minutes in and I’m finding it quite painful. Plenty of whooping and hollering.
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And calling instructors "mate" - when did that happen? Don't answer that, I'm old, I'm very old, I can tell that by how young they look. I don't even recognise the flying suits any more.
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Is it the same production team as the easyjet series? I felt embarrassed watching the latter and this one seems to have shared a few of its let's try and be cool cutaways.
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4G? Four ******* G? Christ on a bike, JP5A was 5.5G without a bloody G Suit!
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Nope, given up after 30 minutes.

I realise that I’m not the target audience, but it seemed disjointed and far, far too much faux jeopardy. And when did formation turn calls go all Red Arrowey? Horrible.

Time for my Horlicks and bed!
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You missed the line "strong winds could blow him off". I might be old but that doesn't mean I've grown up.
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If I’d have known that it was full of smutty innuendo, I’d have stuck with it! Sadly, I suspect that it was said with an entirely straight face.

.....and lots of annoying music.
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If I’d have known that it was full of smutty innuendo, I’d have stuck with it! Sadly, I suspect that it was said with an entirely straight face.

.....and lots of annoying music.
Well, it was Miss Moneypenny so it probably was innuendo!
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I quite enjoyed it actually - well done to Puppy and Butch and their respective teams.

The narrator was also Moneypenny, if I’m not mistaken? Which links in nicely to the name of the new Bond film - No Time To Die... sounds like my RAF career so far!
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Just watched it. As an ex TWU instructor (1980 - 83) I was amazed how much has changed. Not for the better. For a student to state 'I have a problem with authority' to calling the instructor 'mate'. My mind boggles. I suppose it is all part of the nice 'touchy feely' modern armed forces. And don't they carry maps anymore?
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Hmmm

Sedge - get a bloody haircut!

Doesn't the Hawk T2 look just stoopid taxing with its canopy open!
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Well, an Instructor saying ‘sweet’ was different. However, in his defence if when I went through Brawdy in the mid ‘80’s an Instructor had said ‘jolly good show bloggs’ I might have thought ‘that’s different’! Times change!
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Enjoyed it oneself. One thing stuck out. They played hovering like at never been done before and no mention of the "H" word.
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Mmmmmmm? Don’t post too much, normally wait for Beagle to tell me what I think.

Having been a stude, instructor and standards Flt Cdr at Valley, as well as spending my RAF life shifting soil I think I have some problems with what I have just watched.

I did a lot the flying for the first series back in the 80s and saw first hand how, if the story wasn’t going the way the director wanted it to go then problems ensued. Generally the RAF won the argument and “ W....k..s did not fly on your wings.” (Well done Dan)

Now, is this “Mate, touchy-feely, everybody’s name ends in “ers” bollocks for real?

This lot worried me, maybe because I’m old, but being in the front seat, now only seat, of a fast-jet hasn’t changed, less knobs and tits but with computers that talk back. However, personally, an airliner on the RT never added any stress to an IP to Tgt run. The only saving grace was when the F35 said NO and the fix was the same one I used this IPAD, switch it off, kick the s...t out of it and turn it back on.

Something has changed and IMHO not for the better.

Hope I’m wrong


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