R-Day!!!
 

Well, it has finally arrived (for 2 of the 3 Services at least), today is R-Day!!!

Good luck to all those in the bracket - I hope that you get the outcome that you you were hoping for.

Congratulations to those that got what they wanted http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...ies/thumbs.gif

Commiserations to those that didn't :{

BBC reporting 440 voluntary redundancies out of 620 applications versus 490 compulsory.

Congratulations to the volunteers, best of luck to the pressed men, and bad luck to the 180 rejected volunteers!

I suppose this will be like A-level results day...in reverse!

Imagine the scene at sixth-form common rooms (crew rooms) around the country as scores of emotional schoolgirls alternately laugh and cry in little huddles...flapping their little slips of paper. :E

Well I'm one of the pressed men, but well happy!;)

Safe.

....let's just take a moment to think about this...:\

I have my letter and relieved to be going. Jubilation mixed with quiet reflection. Good luck to those who remain, roll on 29 Feb.

Gutted
 

Long time lurker and rejected applicant:mad:.

Absolutely gutted...weighing up my options but given the amount of recent job hunting I've done I'm not too far from a responsive PVR.

Similarly gutted for all those receiving mandatory marching orders.

What's really annoying is somewhere someone who didn't want to go has got my slot...so 2 for the price of 1...GENIUS

How many at Kinloss would be quite interesting...

How many, what trades?
 

Hi

do we know how many in what trades?

Been out 4 years but interested to see what happened to which trades!

ISK Feedback
 

Having just received my yellow letter, there seemed to be an awful lot of people with similar coloured and sized envelopes. There are several who are being given marching orders and a couple who, despite applying, were unsuccessful. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason - no changes there then.

Happy for those who got the news that they were after. Feel for those who didn't.

Final quote from someone at ISK today which to me, summed it all up:

"I'm still in the RAF. Looked around the coffee bar this morning and saw many, many wonderful guys I've flown with. Pleased for those who got what they want, saddened for those who had hoped for a different result. Gutted that so many will disappear from my world. Best wishes to you all."

OL8

So, what's the best way to spend/invest £100,000+

You could pay for my ATPL?

Feel free to pay my mortgage for the next 20 years.

Adopt my three daughters (18, 20 and 23) just in time to pay for their weddings? :E

How big is your house?

4-bed.

I suppose I could let out the garden to gypsies and put a family of illegal immigrants in the smallest (7' x 9') bedroom.

Come now... A bit of hot bedding and you could get six families in there...:}

AA

Is that you advertising your daughters on here?! ;)

Airborne Artist,

You have my sympathy. I have 3 elder sisters, all of whom got married in the space of 10 months, shockloading my poor fathers wallet. He did seriously consider forking out for 6 first class rail fares to Gretna Green and telling them to get on with it, before relented in the end, and parting with the equivalent of a small nations GDP.

MGD

Harrumph or Hurrah!
 

Wee little yellow envelope in hand, fortunate that I got what I wanted.
To be honest, what a fantastic twenty five years but when it's time to go it's time to go.
The camerarderie and flying will be sorely missed and my vocabulary doesn't quite stretch to define my thoughts on the situation as a whole.
Enough to say that I am proud to have done my bit, will miss the flying tremendously, will doff a cap to those that have gone before and shake the hands and offer advice to those pushing on.
Per Ardua Ad Astra my friends . . . . .