RAF Handling Squadron
Can anyone tell me if RAF Handling Squadron still exists.
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Originally Posted by Bro
(Post 11087155)
Can anyone tell me if RAF Handling Squadron still exists.
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Ah, DAPS. So they’re the outfit responsible for ridiculous formatting and wording of recent RAF aircraft FRCs?! 😡
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Originally Posted by H Peacock
(Post 11087212)
Ah, DAPS. So they’re the outfit responsible for ridiculous formatting and wording of recent RAF aircraft FRCs?! 😡
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Industry may well write them now but the content has to be approved by the customer so any “ridiculous formatting and wording” is entirely the customer’s doing and responsibility.
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Originally Posted by ptr914
(Post 11087423)
Industry may well write them now but the content has to be approved by the customer so any “ridiculous formatting and wording” is entirely the customer’s doing and responsibility.
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Originally Posted by ptr914
(Post 11087423)
Industry may well write them now but the content has to be approved by the customer so any “ridiculous formatting and wording” is entirely the customer’s doing and responsibility.
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Ah, Handling Squadron and the immortal a l 11 (?) for the Whirlwind 10 ...
"In all instances, for hicopleter read helicopter" ... those were the days ! |
Originally Posted by Cornish Jack
(Post 11087564)
Ah, Handling Squadron and the immortal a l 11 (?) for the Whirlwind 10 ...
"In all instances, for hicopleter read helicopter" ... those were the days ! Jack |
UJ - nothing apocryphal about the Whirly amendment - I held 10 copies and had to do the updates !! :{
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Originally Posted by Cornish Jack
(Post 11087585)
UJ - nothing apocryphal about the Whirly amendment - I held 10 copies and had to do the updates !! :{
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I remember the Handling Squadron from my youthful days when I lived at Tidworth in the early fifties. I was in the the CCF and we had a Sqn Ldr from the Handling Squadron living next door, who used to take me to Boscombe Down during my school holidays. i was very lucky to fly in the latest V Bombers, Canberras, Javelins and several older Jets. A couple of years later I joined the RAF and five years later joined a Squadron in Aden commanded by the same Sqn Ldr.
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There used to be a story that an unfortunate jag pilot on experiencing an engine rundown while aviating followed his FRC to open the crossfeed cock. Shortly afterwards the second engine failed reducing his options to zero. Faced by a VSO some time later demanding why he done such a thing he requested the VSO to explain via the FRC, what he had done wrong. Some minutes later the VSo pointed to an appropriate paragraph at which point our boy displays his aircrew ever right stopwatch and says "I ran out of fuel six minutes ago SIR
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Ah, go to the Base library and sign out the publication complete with a large pile of amendments which mean't doing many mostly turfing out the previous amendments..
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Now amending APs long ago was relatively straightforward. Each pice of paper (ie double sided) had one AL state. Then, it changed to each side having its own amendment state, so page 9 (front) could be at AL4, but the back side could change to AL5! Such a ridiculous system that made the physical replacement of pages during the amending process far more onerous!
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Officer and gentleman
Many year ago the RAF was administered by means of an AIR FORCE ACT debated and passed in parliament at intervals. The user document was called MAFL manual of air force law which denoted the many offences available for the unwary; one such was behaviour not appropriate for an officer and gentleman. I cannot remember what the punishment was. As the previous note manuals were changed by means of replacing a page or if really small in manuscript.. Some time in the 70s an amendment read "delete gentleman" that was a relief to many of us |
I remember an AP amendment where the replacement page was marked "This page intentionally blank - please remove and destroy".
On both sides. (Makes sense, really, though - removing and destroying only one side might have been an initiative test. Can't help thinking there must have been an easier way of dealing with the situation, if only anybody could have thought of what that might be...) |
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