A rant about the Scots by and English person cannot be classed racist as we are the same race.

This thread reads very strangely when one poster is on your ignore list! :}

piesupper

I agree with the point on racist language and said as much in previous posts.

As far as the low flying issue is concerned, these areas have been in use for so long, do they not pre-date the arrival of many of the people you now believe to be angered by it?

Draken55 - I can trace my ancestry on my mothers side with very good confidence to around 1780. DNA studies of archaeological digs in Strathnaver suggest my forebears have been there or thereabouts for 5000 years. Doubtless with a bit of Norse cross-breeding, I'll give you that but I think we were all there prior to thon New Zealander chappie, Santos-Dumont and the Johnny-come-lately Wright bros. Its not all white settlers in Sutherland, though sometimes it seems like it. And yes, I appreciate the point you make about folk who move into the vicinity of an airport and immediately start moaning about the noise.
Just because the area has been abused for a long time does not make it any better. Strange logic, there.

Green Granite, we are NOT the same race, what a cowardhly cop-out.

Wrathmonk, had you bothered to look at the links pertaining to the flight-sim I do some development for you would see that it is ENTIRELY voluntary, ENTIRELY free of charge to ANYONE who wants to download it and neither I nor anyone in the project will have ANY financial benefit from it. Your cheap little jibe about funding my PPL on the back of information given freely by members in Aviation History and Nostalgia (thank you again folks) is totally unfounded and frankly you owe me an apology. It is also quite ridiculous to think that any potential profit from a flight-sim add-on would look at paying for a PPL. It wouldn't even pay for the petrol down to Elvington to look over the Victor in question. Idiot. Nice to know I annoyed you enough that you need to go trawling through my posting history though :-) Win.

FlightGear Flight Simulator <-- Check it out

With respect to the variable quality posts in here please may I ask a pertinent question?

Thankyou.

My question is .....

.... how are the boys doing? (the usual personal info caveats apply, natch)

Please. Stop. Feeding. It.












Please?

A better link about the aims and ethos of FlightGear
 

Pie supper

Thanks and duly noted. Half of my family came off the potato boat and I guess that's why I don't have any "master race" chip on my shoulder be that Scot or English:ooh:

Agreed.

from a Scot in Scotland. :*

You'll be telling me William Wallace was a freedom fighter next....

No, the freedom fighter was the Northprop F5 :=

Please stop everyone, can't you see that Piesupper is a victim......

Piesupper

As you accused my post (#61) of ignorance, I feel that I should be permitted an opportunity to respond.

My post had nothing to do with a service provided for the public out of taxation.

All of the instances mentioned involved personnel and assets that are placed in the northern part of Britain because it is used for military flying. Take the military flying away and those supporting personnel and assets that provide (in your words) 'co-incidental' benefit to the wider population go with it. (Hence the reason why there isn't a great deal of military SAR cover (rotary or land-based) in the south-east of England).

Well, at least he is a balanced person, a chip on each shoulder.

Gents,

90% of this thread is embarrassing. Give yourselves a slap and get on with life.

All Scots (like wot I am) are not like piesupper
I am sure all the English lads are not like Peter R-B

Low flying, or otherwise, is not the title of this thread.

Now behave, you are embarrassing your respective nations :=

Agreed red.zebra from a fellow Scot. The crew would never have crashed their aircraft if they had known that this thread would be the result!

So, Piesupper, you're Military Aircrew are you? Or maybe a backroom boy or girl, of commissioned rank or otherwise? No, thought not. Has it occurred to you that quite a lot of the posters on here are also nothing to do with the military, let alone the dreaded 'officer class'?

Damn, hungry troll 1, TOTD 0...

I am finding this to be a disturbing thread.

When I first saw the title my initial thoughts were about the crew, and I hoped that the lack of a positive title (as in crew OK) was just playing safe!

What in God's name is so wrong with some folks minds or lives that they embark on a 'bitching contest' on what may of happened and how 'we' (whoever 'we' are!) do or don't like this and that.

The aircraft is lost...Oh well, never mind.

The pink fleshy occupants are on the mend...Very important and good news.

The aircraft didn't land on any schools, fishermen convents etc, and that's it, end of story.

I'm sure that during its flight it COULD have crashed on any number of people....But do we have to name them all one by one?