Nice one, RAFAT!
 

Congratulations on such a good flypast over the Palace in such appalling weather!

Very well done!

Add me to that!

Concur completely. Not the ideal conditions for that exercise.

And congratulations to all the Troops taking part on the ground. An excellent parade in all respects.

God Save King Charles.

Brilliant effort by the Helicopter crews of all 3 services who did an excellent job in challenging conditions.

Spectacular military participation- what a surprise lol. Pleasure to watch.

Question: Why was the Royal salute on the grass made without weapons? Meaning, what's the tradition there?

CG

You would need three hands to remove headdress and keep hold of your weapon?

Ding! Light on above head.:ok:

CG

At the risk of striking a contrary note, the helicopters were all over the place, and what happened to our all weather fighters?
if RAFAT can fly as closely as they did ( for which well done) could we not have managed to put some more over the crowds?

Could someone please enlighten me as to the protocol for drawing swords when on parade for a Royal Salute?

:cool::cool:

Youve heard of MVFR right

Saw the helicopters east and west bound in S Oxon - it was extremely marginal - in fact outbound it looked extremely dangerous.

There used to be a drill movement where you dropped on one knee and placed weapon on the ground to be able to do things like removing headdress for three cheers etc.

As they did today...

CG

I believe there’s a difference between penetrating bad weather in order to prosecute the enemy and required limits for a fly past over a major populated city.

I was looking closely at the weather as 1430 approached and saw most of the ac holding over the North Sea RTB so I was frankly a bit surprised to see anything fly over Buck House. Those that did did very well.

Kirsty Young called them the RAF ‘Acrobatic’ Team - I’d like to see that…

Well done to the Reds. Lovely flypast in horrible weather.

I thought disciplinary action had been taken to end such (alleged) manoeuvres?

Excellent flypast despite poor vis and low ceilings, congratulations to all concerned.

Multi-element flypasts have the successive formations stacked up and down by a couple of hundred feet to minimise wake turbulence issues and to provide a margin of safety in case of timing errors or loss of visual contact. When the cloud is as low as it was today, the number of available flypast levels between the minimum safe (dictated by the City skyscrapers, which are close to the flypast line) and the maximum legal (dictated by whatever margin from the cloudbase has been agreed between the various authorities) is reduced to the extent that aircraft have to be removed from the flypast in order to avoid stretching it out into an over-long snoozefest with IFR separation between elements sharing a single level. It's nothing to do with the all-weather capability of the individual aircraft involved; any of them could have flown through at the level used by RAFAT.

Not watched it, but was impressed with the transport for the trainees that were there for the parade etc, looks like they were put in first class and I heartily approve of that.



Not impressed with the hat on the spokesman for the training command even a few comments about it on the web, he looked ermmmm….