RAAF "Real Top Guns"

[baffler15]

So what did all the pruners out there think of the SBS series that had its first episode screening at 8pm on Wednesday night? Good to see that some Oz military stuff is getting out there.....

Good to have some sort of idea of what goes on behind all the glamour frontage of a pretty cool job!

On a different note - the wife of one of the hornet drivers saying how her husband spends 3 months of the year away from home..........could have been a whole lot worse - at least she didn't marry an Army pilot!

The Baffler

[Keg]

Also on sale from ABC Shops.

[Mere Mortal]

Congrats to Beau Picher

I'm glad to see Beau Picher made to fast jets. I remember when he was 16 at BMSA's Flightcamp flying a C150. I bet Tealady is proud.
Also, congrats to Rory Houston, he was sitting next to "Tik" at the briefing. I hope this show is a success like the Submariners.
Cheers Mere Mortal

[komac2]

Also on sale from

and here- cheaper and available now(in stock) says 4 episodes but has all 6 plus 20 mins extra not shown on TV in AUS

http://www.madman.com.au/actions/cat...releaseId=8672

[illusion]

What a change for the better in the ADF in the past 20 years. A Fiji indian hindu immigrant who has come to Australia at the age of 3 and achieved what he has as an F-18 pilot.

A wonderful example of true integration and multi-culturalism at its best. I only wish that more had the same attitudes.

I wish him well in his personal and professional life.

[CASR139]

I thought that was Rory - well done mate. Good to see the quiet acheivers make it to the pointy end.

[Arm out the window]

Dunno about a radical change in inclusiveness in the last 20 yrs - Renga V. was blasting around in Mirages before that, for example, - don't recall much racial discrimination in the RAAF, just whether you could do the job or not, as it should be.

[pilotdude09]

Defintley a good show and an interesting insight to another side of aviation that we dont hear alot about or even know about.

Must say it would be a good job its just the training etc you have to go through that puts me off!

Submariners is a great show, saw it a few years back 04? and is back on Nat Geo at the moment as well.

[Gnadenburg]

Yes. What ever happend to Renga ?

Did he ever get let back into Singapore?

[yerex]

Suggest you Guys go to another Forum or stage or set!

[Gnadenburg]

Why dopey? Simple question.

And there seems to be some interest.

[Arm out the window]

Sounds like a bit of s**t-stirring from yerex, post no. 7 and telling people to go somewhere else.
As the old saying goes, "Get some time up!"

[Mick.B]

Why go elsewhere, its a good thread.

[mustafagander]

Illusion, it's not new. I used to fly (in Charlie Q) with a Sri Lankan guy of German descent who was a F18 driver in a former life. He's now a check and trainer with said airline and, if I may say, a damn fine aviator who taught me heaps.

Thanks, Fred!!

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

No doubt they are top sticks and good blokes - but it is kinda hard to not come across as a bit of a w*nker when the highlight of your life is flying CAP over the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne!

Dr

[peuce]

DR,
Just as 747 Captains are paid the big bucks for (and live for) fighting an ILS to minimas during a typhoon in Singapore ...not for sitting back for 14 dozzy hours across the Pacific .... so do Defence pilots get paid for(and live for) the occassions when they put their arses on the line dodging shoulder launched rockets in the sand pit.... not swanning around Melbourne intercepting errant C172s.

But they can't be doing the adrenalin stuff all the time.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

Peuce, apart from a deployment at the beginning of the current conflict in Iraq, I don't recall our pointy end poking anything much in the last 30 years!

Once you got over the thrill of blasting around in a Hornet or a Pig, all that "pretend" would have to wear thin.

"What did you do at work today Mommy/Daddy?"

"Ahhh, well, ahhh, I deterred a Cessna 172 from interfering with the opening ceremony at the Commonwealth Games"!

Dr

[Cap'n Arrr]

There was that C337 that penetrated the APEC zone, that got escorted to (i think) YSBK (which I'm pretty sure was it's destination anyway)

They're all good jobs in different ways, but at least a 747 has a flushing toilet, in a hornet they just get a plastic bag

And Doc, how about Red Flag over in the states every few years? Fairly certain our F111s gave the yanks a bit of shock over there a few years ago

[bdcer]

CASR139 & Mere Mortal,
I had the pleasure of instructing Rory at one of the early stages of mil flt trg. He was a great guy & very talented (unlike me!!)
I'll have to try to get a copy of the show

[señor_jones]

FTDK

Once you got over the thrill of blasting around in a Hornet or a Pig, all that "pretend" would have to wear thin.

You'll never know how wrong you are.

PAF

Fighter guy away for 3 months a year??? She must be including the 8 hours a work day her husband is at the local base as "away from home"

8 hours a work day - yeah, right.