actually, i am a QFI on said tutor..... but close Gaydarr!!

(but still a truckie at heart!)

Ok, guys, if you were in my position, knowing what you know about the RAF, would you join up?
N.B that it probably won't affect my choice of career.

Truckie, just learning my flight referance cards!! Tutor is a nice little aircraft, but then i've only flown that and a Tomahawk!

Ghostie,
Join up old son, and ignore these cynical old farts. You can always PVR later and join Virgin as a First Officer. The Hosties are better looking as well.


Gaydarr??? Pistols at dawn truciebloke. My seconds will be in touch!!!

Your "seconds" may be in touch with each other????? :} := :E

Ah, the pleasures of inter-service banter. Another reason to join, if you ask me. Even those of about to leave the light blue would recommend the forces (of any brand) to someone. All of RayDarr's points are worth noting, positive and negative. But if you don't try when you could have, then you'll spend the rest of your life wondering 'what if....'

Re-engage banter mode

And as for the our bluer and browner brethren, you can always join them if you get chopped. Just make sure that you tell everyone who'll listen that you always wanted to be in the Navy actually...

No of course it isn't that bad Ghostie. But (other than in response to posts like yours!), no-one's going to come on to this forum to say how good it is.

I can only talk for the RAF, but much of what has been said here is true: - to complete what someone posted - you'll never be rich but you'll never be poor!

Military flying is like nothing else.

Cameraderie (sp?) is like nothing else. I still meet regularly with four other guys I was on my first squadron with over 30 years ago ... and we take along our wives, who are all the first/only ... and this year the five couples total (I think) 169 years of married life!! Which I think is better than average for five random couples ...

As Dr Johnson nearly said ... "Every man thinks less of himself for not having been a military pilot!"

Go for it if you can - you'll regret it if you don't.

Mind you, I don't see the Virgin pilots hanging around the departure lounge when they're not flying.