Nimrod Pilot Escapes Ban
 

A Nimrod pilot escaped a longer driving bad to allow him to continue search and rescue duties.

The 47 year old pilot, from Elgin, was caught speeding at 109 mph and was only banned for 1 month instead of 4 months.

He said that he had been unable to focus on the fight against global terrorism due to the stress of the case!

The report is on text, scotland.

Maybe if he cannot concentrate on his driving, he should not be part of the War on terror.

Why was he doing 109? We used to use a little bit of excess on QRA as our par time from 2 hours to airborne was usually less than 60 minutes and I lived quite some distance away.

Personally I'm glad *Someone* has got something out of this "Terror" hysteria...

Hang on, Hang on......


Nimrod and the fight against global terrorism...... Now there is a sentance I never thought I'd see.....


Shame the Magistrates took the bait.....

One stone, two birds:
Send Nimrod driver somewhere hot and sandy.
Pilot continues war on terror (mummy's brave, brave soldier) and at the same time is deprived of even having the opportunity to drive like a tw@t!

He's not the first to try this....another multi mate challenged his ban recently.

Speed well below V1 though - still safe !

And allowed to continue to serve his country, unlike some of you knockers out there ! Get a life!

News report here
'Firstly, I have had regard to the fact that while you were in the Gulf you have been unable to drive operationally and that has had an impact on operations and yourself.'
Eh? :confused:

sweet work :ok:

But if he was used to cruise control, he would have taken his foot off the accelerator, not held it down.

Never mind, some champion riggling.

sw

Fair enough, some top blagging but (when viewed along side the Boscastle Rescue thread), using SAR as mitigation is a bit lame IMHO.

OK, I'll bite...
...and you thought their main role was currently what, exactly?
...as opposed to already spending a large chunk of his year where, exactly?

Nice work:ok:

CWW now now remember the RAF is all about the Lincoln and south forces. You know the ones that work 12:00 Monday to 10:00 Friday no nights, not forgetting they do get to deploy regularly - on exercises. :eek:

Anyone remember the Whingeneer :8 who bought the highly expensive Super-ECM gear from the BX to avoid this only to be caught by Moray's finest with a stop watch and 2 marks on the road. :*
Charlie sends

The punishment for really excessive speeding seems to vary considerably.

A motorcyclist (with pillion) shown on BBC TV last night, was clocked by Police doing 134mph - fined £130 and 6 points, but no ban.

As for the Nimrod pilot's comment about the lack of cruise control - well good luck to him for blagging it, but I'm very surprised that the Sheriff didn't double his sentence for taking the pi$$. :hmm:

So was that Me 109 mph or Bf 109 mph?


oh sorry, wrong forum

Just shows that as far as the press are concerned, if you fly you must be a pilot :rolleyes: Looks like your brevet lost it's other wing Paul ;)

This thread is also prooving that few, even amongst serving members, have a clue about what the Nimrod does and where, but are happy to mouth off about it's uselessness and the lack of a need to replace it, as seen on other threads.

Oh well, shouldn't complain really, 5-6 months deployed every year keeps me away from the wife :ok:

MadMark!!! :mad:

Shame he missed out the bit about rooms being available in the Mess for those on SAR standby!

Yeah I know they already go East, hence the option to send Supersonic Sid there again. :hmm:

More to the point, is 109mph actually dangerous if you have the lightning reactions of a Nimrod driver?