Aerospace battle what?
 

I've just read in the Torygraph under graduations from Sleaford Tech that two have graduated as "Aerospace Battle Managers".
Would someone be so kind as to explain to an old fart WTF is an Aerospace Whatsit?

Used to be Fighter Control branch

Fighter controller!

Dunno, AKA Fighter Controllers perhaps?
It's the sort of title they would use in the world of wanquespeak.

Isn't this a flow on from the other US term, "Battlespace" ?

Ah... thanks - glad I'm long gone!
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It's much more descriptive of the roles that they now do. The old term was very limited and only a few in that branch actually controlled fighters, even when we had some.

Change isn't always bad, unless you read Pprune, it would seem.

...but still reading the graduations; you miss it really:ok:

They still keep the FC brevet though (even if it does sound like an Italian football team).

Posh words for desk jockeys

Can't have been reading them that closely, been titled as such for at least 5 years.

The third man in the cockpit, or is it the second? :rolleyes:

I believe that the old Fighter Control advert read "Squat beneath the Rest"?

old news - got to have a new title so they can keep the monopoly over 'space towers' at Fylingdales. Plus keeps all the brevet sellers in a job selling the old ones to the 'I graudated before ABM' brigade. Embrace change, you'll be asking why the Observers are wearing WSO brevets next...:)

Sigh. It all began when dustmen started being titled "refuse disposal officers"......

I wonder when they will make ATC "Aerospace Peace Managers"? :cool:

Aerospace Deconfliction Managers surely?

There was a day when I was vectoring a pair of Wattisham 'Nings onto their tanker on Towline 6. Victor was turning at the Southern end of the racetrack, and as he rolled out onto North so did my 'Nings ... A couple of hundred yards behind and 1,000 below. The nicest thing a fighter pilot ever said to me was ... "Contact, Eastern ... You're in the wrong job."
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Not enough fighters to go around so had to come up with a new name :)

in other words it wasn't like that when I was a lad. For gawd's sake, things change, let them get on with it. I'm sure that members of the RE Kite Squadron were equally concened about "pilots." Why not rant at the Daily Mail or do something equally constructive.