Bad news for Harry..
 

Prince Harry Fails his first Flying Exam at RAF | Prince Harry Unofficial Fan Site

Not seen it on any of the other rags yet.. not sure if it's genuine. Poor chap.

It was all over the rags at the weekend (more of a headline than the 3 R Sigs lads killed in an RTC and more important than another KIA in Afghanistan).

Non story and it aint exactly 'news'. Big deal, he bombed a groundschool paper? If anything, it demonstrates he's not being given a free ride through the course.

Clever, very clever... I like the thinking behind that.

Whoaa, I wasn't suggesting he 'failed' on purpose to make him look like a normal person! He failed the paper because;

1. He's human
2. He wasn't sharp enough to get the paper from the previous course. ;)

Excellent news for Harry, I would suggest. Failing Crit Point 1 isn't the end of the world by any means, and he can now prove that he is actually being assessed rather than mollycoddled through the cse.

Having encountered his older brother several times through flying training I can vouch for the fact that Wills was properly assessed for all his trips, and ran every risk of failing them. He was treated pretty much the same as any of the other students. I was there for his first solo drinks and saw him do his mucky pint as the rest of his course serenaded him with "Why was he born so beautiful?" :E I also saw him making brew for his instructors more than once! I wish him the best of luck on the SAR force.

Blunty

3. He was in the bar until closing.

That was the usual reason for my failed exams!

4. He wasn't in the bar until closing.

That was the usual reason for MY failed exams :)

5. The expected Art question didn't come up this year, so his phone a friend teacher was no use.

...... it's a joke:ok:

6. He's actually quite thick...

Good on him though and good luck to him, at least he's giving it a go

7. He hasnt been introduced to the subtle art of cheating ;)

OH MY GOD a pilot training student failed his first checkride! This is NEWS!!

FIDO.

or maybe he was revising for his remedial EO training !!

I agree with wg13_dummy; this is not headline news. When will our media put things into context:ugh:

Poor bugger can't win
 

Come on he has 5 minutes in the air and the press are already saying he is a waste of space.

I think Dad had many hours under his seat but was still capable of parking the odd BAe 146 sideways in the grass !!

Frontyways, not sideyways.

'Twas a steep&cheerful downwind approach at unsensibly brisk speed to a shortish and notably wet runway.

The spot in the putty just off the downwind end of that runway where he buried mum's jet up to its oxters is still known locally as Holding Point Charlie.

Don't blame the genes, even if they are wingnut's and not Hewitt's.

The press article reports that HRH failed
Does that really mean he failed one of those very elementary 'Janet and John Learn to Fly' groundschool exams?

Remind me again, just what are his educational qualifications?

Minimal - and supposedly subject to debate...

BBC NEWS | Education | Prince Harry's A-level results


Teacher says Prince Harry's A-level art 'not own work' - Education News, Education - The Independent

"Education could go hang as long as a boy could hit a six, sing the school song very loud, and take a hot crumpet from behind without blubbing."

Lt George, Blackadder Goes Forth

Sticking the answers to the ceiling works well... unless of course they fall off half way through the exam...

Ha ha! Happy memories (for most in the room) - seem to remember the met man didn't forecast that falling from the ceiling!

I still deny everything...

Still ended up doing the course again though...