Crab@SAAvn, how you doing? How are you enjoying the Sea King? I bet you'd enjoy being inverted in a Mk7 a great deal more than being in the hover over the 'oggin, with some bloke on a rope!
Once a Lynx pilot, always a Lynx pilot!
As for the chip, thats not like you. A bee in yer bonnet maybe, but never a chip on yer shoulder.
Keep up the good work.

Why not pop over to 'Picture of a chopper' and look at a loverly rendering of a sea king in its natural environment!

So glad that everyone got out intact and the A/C did minimal damage. Reminds me of the one that went down at Squires Gate around 96/97. 'Landed' on the beach. had it gone awry it might have hit the Pleasure Beach, on a bank holiday weekend.

I'm sure it wasn't just luck that it didn't. Although self preservation plays a big part in these things, I'm sure any aircrew would try their utmost to move their tonnage into a safe attitude before bidding it farewell.

owe ver chute - give us a clue, you must have been with me at MW but that only narrows it down to a few hundred people! You are right, the Sea King does not handle like a Lynx- people start screaming if you exceed 30 deg AoB!!
I was referring to the Griffins at Akrotiri thread and others where questions have been asked about the 'gold plated' RAF approach to SAR and whether or not the job could be done by others for less dosh. The answer is yes, you can do SAR cheaper (don't train) but can you do it as well? This definitely comes under the bee in the bonnet category rather than the chip on shoulder.
PS don't use the e-mail on my profile, it expired months ago.

Stand to & Crab@ etc , now you've had your trip down memory lane, how about back to the subject and have we any names of the GR4 crew yet. Over.:confused:




Treat your kite like your woman.......

Come on guys, lets get real here. The names are in circulation but I and, if they have any sense most others, are not going to drop themselves in the guano by posting them here.

They will not be released to the media, suggest if you haven't got a mate to ask or you can't call the sqn, you don't really need to know.

Crab@SAAvn, I was with you at Longtown when the number 2 engine would not start! Enough of a clue?
You ain't seen me. Right!

Agreed, Chris.

I don't know em, and don't need to know, and if you don't know em, all that matters is that they are OK

Standto

Agreed, I have no desire to know who they are, merely that they are safe with their loved ones and that their Aircraft was covered by adequate fully comprehensive insurance ;)

Martin Baker still give ties to successful ejectees and if anyone would like to send me one for my collection..............

As has already been stated, well done to the aircrew for steering a/c away from bods on the ground before ejecting; sparked a thought though - what happens as fly by wire a/c become more commonplace (assuming EF actually can fly!) and the option to stay with the aircraft following damage in no longer there? Am I right in thinking F22 has an auto-eject function, because the piolt cannot react quickly enough to a catastrophic incident? A bit off topic I know but just a thought.....

No auto eject in f22 to best of my knowledge!!

This, is of course the ideal 'in' to the role of pilot, for those spotty youths who are top dog at video games, as you don't actually have to 'fly' a Typhoon

................or so Jeremy Clarkson says