Nice one, RAFAT!
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Nice one, RAFAT!
Congratulations on such a good flypast over the Palace in such appalling weather!
Very well done!
Very well done!
Last edited by BEagle; 6th May 2023 at 15:22.
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6th May 2023, 17:19
Hang your head in shame. The crews gave their weekend to fight the weather and get through whilst this armchair pilot sits and criticises.
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Concur completely. Not the ideal conditions for that exercise.
And congratulations to all the Troops taking part on the ground. An excellent parade in all respects.
God Save King Charles.
And congratulations to all the Troops taking part on the ground. An excellent parade in all respects.
God Save King Charles.
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Spectacular military participation- what a surprise lol. Pleasure to watch.
Question: Why was the Royal salute on the grass made without weapons? Meaning, what's the tradition there?
CG
Question: Why was the Royal salute on the grass made without weapons? Meaning, what's the tradition there?
CG
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At the risk of striking a contrary note, the helicopters were all over the place, and what happened to our all weather fighters?
if RAFAT can fly as closely as they did ( for which well done) could we not have managed to put some more over the crowds?
if RAFAT can fly as closely as they did ( for which well done) could we not have managed to put some more over the crowds?
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Saw the helicopters east and west bound in S Oxon - it was extremely marginal - in fact outbound it looked extremely dangerous.
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At the risk of striking a contrary note, the helicopters were all over the place, and what happened to our all weather fighters?
if RAFAT can fly as closely as they did ( for which well done) could we not have managed to put some more over the crowds?
if RAFAT can fly as closely as they did ( for which well done) could we not have managed to put some more over the crowds?
I was looking closely at the weather as 1430 approached and saw most of the ac holding over the North Sea RTB so I was frankly a bit surprised to see anything fly over Buck House. Those that did did very well.
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Multi-element flypasts have the successive formations stacked up and down by a couple of hundred feet to minimise wake turbulence issues and to provide a margin of safety in case of timing errors or loss of visual contact. When the cloud is as low as it was today, the number of available flypast levels between the minimum safe (dictated by the City skyscrapers, which are close to the flypast line) and the maximum legal (dictated by whatever margin from the cloudbase has been agreed between the various authorities) is reduced to the extent that aircraft have to be removed from the flypast in order to avoid stretching it out into an over-long snoozefest with IFR separation between elements sharing a single level. It's nothing to do with the all-weather capability of the individual aircraft involved; any of them could have flown through at the level used by RAFAT.
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Not watched it, but was impressed with the transport for the trainees that were there for the parade etc, looks like they were put in first class and I heartily approve of that.
Not impressed with the hat on the spokesman for the training command even a few comments about it on the web, he looked ermmmm….
Not impressed with the hat on the spokesman for the training command even a few comments about it on the web, he looked ermmmm….