Flight Engineer 80th Anniversary
Avoid imitations
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I’ve been flying single crew for more than twenty years and am quite happy to operate like that, but the most enjoyable flying I’ve done was with helicopter loadies/crewmen on board.
CG, LSH, never say I don’t do compliments...
The difficulty might be leaving the ego behind.....
I’ve been flying single crew for more than twenty years and am quite happy to operate like that, but the most enjoyable flying I’ve done was with helicopter loadies/crewmen on board.
CG, LSH, never say I don’t do compliments...
I’ve been flying single crew for more than twenty years and am quite happy to operate like that, but the most enjoyable flying I’ve done was with helicopter loadies/crewmen on board.
CG, LSH, never say I don’t do compliments...
CG
Well said Shy. When I left the rotary world for the first time in the 80's, on day one of the flying phase of the Herc OCU, I was in the crewroom with the other Loadie, like myself ex rotary, when the Chief Eng instructor came in with all the new baby Eng studes. He took one look at us and said to them: ''See the two loadies over there, they have brevets already, which means they are probably ex rotary and think they are engineers. Well we are going to show them the're not''. Later during the flying phase on start up, I had the last laugh when the GTC wouldn't start and he once again had a dig by saying: ''If the Loadie knew anything about it he would tell you what's wrong''. At which point I diagnosed the fault correctly and what to do about it followed by what would I know as I am only good for making the coffee!!! Its no wonder after 18 months I requested, a got a posting back to rotary and the QCHI post on 72. Mind you I won't blame all of the C130 world as attitudes had changed by the time I arrived back at Lyneham in 97.
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Hugh I could believe that, I knew BJ of Falklands fame and our careers kept meeting up.
He was on the Puma OCU at the time I worked there and being both northerners we got on well, I next saw him on Chinooks during his OCU course and also in RAFG when he participated on an exercise at Wegberg and we got a chance to catch up.
The next time I saw him was at Brize on the Tens when I entered a darkened VC10 on the front, he was patiently awaiting someone to arrive as a Loadmaster wasn’t even allowed to put power on! Which was a heck of a let down from what he had done in his past.
He was on the Puma OCU at the time I worked there and being both northerners we got on well, I next saw him on Chinooks during his OCU course and also in RAFG when he participated on an exercise at Wegberg and we got a chance to catch up.
The next time I saw him was at Brize on the Tens when I entered a darkened VC10 on the front, he was patiently awaiting someone to arrive as a Loadmaster wasn’t even allowed to put power on! Which was a heck of a let down from what he had done in his past.
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[QUOTE=Krystal n chips;11013167]Here you go.....only ever met three who were anything but what you would expect an F/E to be..../QUOTE]
Who were the other two lol
(ex Nimrod & Tristar Air Engineer)
Who were the other two lol
(ex Nimrod & Tristar Air Engineer)
