First graduates on new Fast Jet course
 

The first four pilots to graduate on the new fast jet course at Valley have graduated.
Fast Jet Success
mmitch.

Personal congrats to Ste - if you're reading, mate, it's Recce - got there in the end!
Well done to the others, too.

Well done Tom, looks like all the chippy flying paid off ;) Well done to the others too :ok:

Very many congratulations on graduating ... :D:D:D:D

Just loved the MOD picture caption here included in their Press Release (yes I know it's a library picture) ... so you have to be an AVM to demonstrate the Hawk Sim :ok:

MOD Press Release New FJ Graduation

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Coffman

They have a different caption for that photo in the OP's link
with the AVM name ?

Well done them, and the greatest respect to Dr Egging.

I remember my graduation from 22 Gnat Course at 4 FTS in June 1966 - told at breakfast to look at the programme as I am leaving on posting to OCU that night, but first dual, solo, sim and FHT sorties. Completed that lot and Bob Turner tells me to complete my log book, get it signed and pack - train leaves at about 1830, "Oh, and you are posted to Canberra Strike OCU at Bassingbourn". No ceremony whatever - but then I did not win any of the prizes either. Seems a long, long time ago.

First graduates on new Fast Jet course
 

Congratulations to all the graduates. From someone who was intimately involved with the programme I can assure you all that the new course is a very challenging and relevant one. These guys have done well to complete it despite all the 'turbulence' they may have experienced. The frontline OCUs should now see a noticeable difference to their input standard.
BV

They will have worked harder and know more than I did for sure. Per Ardua.

Well done the "fab four" - I'm sure you have a great life in front of you. As just an ex Groundcrew bloke, why does an AVM need a flying suit. Could it be the "high" office he holds or has his normal driver been sacked ? :mad:

Smudge

Does no one else see something a bit sad in the fact the tinware on offer actually exceeds the amount of bods actually qualifying these days....

Congratulations to one and all, but if the classes get any smaller it will look more like a looting than an award ceremony.




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Good Luck young men :D

wah shield - and lady -

Question for those who may know.

Would Air Vice Marshal Mike Lloyd, the pilot they say
is in the Hawk trainer be one of the last Falklands veterans
serving in the RAF ?

And maybe the highest ranking Falklands veterans ?

Gosh, I feel old; but to be fair he really has done all right for a new boy...

Sim practice, eh? Probably learning how to do a wingover properly. :E

The RAF is now so small that you hail the graduation of four fast jet pilots!!

I am lost for words:ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh:

Not so much the fact there's 4 on this course, rather the fact that they're the first to graduate from the AFJT course on the Hawk T2, newt.

Probably. :)

No. ;)

I suspect that the gal did as well.

First graduates on new Fast Jet course
 

GBZ.
Since I know all of them personally and have flown with most of them I am well aware of their gender persuasions. Knowing the lady in question I feel sure she will not mind being called one of the guys.
BV

Well done to them all (this is their day and rightly so, but not forgetting the instructors and others who got them there); the latest stage in a long journey.