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Forum: Military Aviation
19th Dec 2012, 08:04
Replies: 127
Views: 24,796
Posted By GIATT

I've been delivering networked computer systems...

I've been delivering networked computer systems for a very long time, and it would seem you are at danger of falling for the simple == cheap argument that defence suppliers use.

If one looks out...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Jan 2012, 08:23
Replies: 40
Views: 9,896
Posted By GIATT

Big place, lots of arenas, many many barriers to...

Big place, lots of arenas, many many barriers to manage...



I know. Why yes that is my coat.
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Sep 2011, 10:29
Replies: 83
Views: 14,612
Posted By GIATT

At theend of the day the MOD will be double losers

I would imagine that the MoD will sensibly elect to leave/scrap the kit as they can't afford the UOR costs from their budget.

The Treasury will then notice that they have an entry on the balance...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Sep 2011, 13:17
Replies: 57
Views: 14,517
Posted By GIATT

I realise there is a difference between Actual,...

I realise there is a difference between Actual, Grid, and Magnetic but I'm pretty certain if you flew as far as you could and then turned you'd be heading anywhere but south.

Of course if you flew...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Jul 2011, 09:09
Replies: 49
Views: 9,636
Posted By GIATT

Twas always so.

I seem to remember that after the fire at Hullavington a call went out asking PJIs to look in their lockers and they recovered enough parachutes to allow a Coy sized jump to proceed. (That's a...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th May 2011, 08:24
Replies: 23
Views: 13,173
Posted By GIATT

How long did it take

Slightly off topic, but looking at any map of the UK it seems that one is never very far from a WWII airfield. They seem to have been stamped onto the landscape with a giant rubber stamp almost willy...
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Apr 2011, 08:24
Replies: 80
Views: 20,927
Posted By GIATT

I won't take the thread off on a tangent, but the...

I won't take the thread off on a tangent, but the various replies have done much to enlighten me, particularly Two_Squirrels. Many large industrial plants are hideously complicated, incorporate many...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Apr 2011, 15:13
Replies: 80
Views: 20,927
Posted By GIATT

Whatever happened to concurrent activity?

Why was that not being done at the same time the plane was being built? I've worked on commissioning large industrial plant and we had to have the SOPs, operations manuals, and all the staff trained...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Apr 2011, 14:50
Replies: 80
Views: 20,927
Posted By GIATT

Can I ask why it was not delivered to Brize...

Can I ask why it was not delivered to Brize Norton and put straight into service?

It would appear that all the pre-delivery testing will now start and the actual delivery date is some considerable...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Mar 2011, 10:04
Replies: 2,041
Views: 560,131
Posted By GIATT

Obvious question from an outsider

I note from the comments on some of the pictures that PA1 has been flying for six years. I'm a Control Engineer by trade but these days just a taxpayer so my question is fairly simple:

How can an...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Feb 2011, 08:36
Replies: 61
Views: 14,400
Posted By GIATT

So many opinions, so little knowledge: You...

So many opinions, so little knowledge:

You may make razor blades from aluminium alloys, but you are not going to sell many and you're repeat business forecasts will eventually be revealed for the...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Jan 2011, 08:44
Replies: 202
Views: 49,798
Posted By GIATT

Especially as they would have been in charge when...

Especially as they would have been in charge when the various decisions to delay/extend/modify the program which led to the current situation were made. Perhaps the next CDS when asked to make some...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Jan 2011, 13:42
Replies: 397
Views: 73,576
Posted By GIATT

Think more along the lines of a rating hanging...

Think more along the lines of a rating hanging over the side with a glass bottomed bucket and a set of Dolphin Ears (http://www.dolphinear.com/).
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Jan 2011, 13:42
Replies: 397
Views: 73,576
Posted By GIATT

I would imagine that a considerable part of the...

I would imagine that a considerable part of the costs so far have fallen under the development column.

Who retains the IP rights to these developments? I assume it's not the MOD.
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Aug 2010, 11:05
Replies: 94
Views: 20,198
Posted By GIATT

Sometimes the civvy way seems to be better.

I checked in 5 pax with bags in MIA 2 hours before take off. At ATL there were just 40 minutes between aircraft stopping and the next one backing off and the two aircraft were at opposite ends of the...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Jul 2010, 14:12
Replies: 55
Views: 22,577
Posted By GIATT

I came across this passage and thought of this...

I came across this passage and thought of this thread, I guess he is talking about 60-80 hours per month per pilot assuming that there are 12-15 pilots per squadron?
Forum: Military Aviation
14th May 2010, 08:27
Replies: 88
Views: 23,655
Posted By GIATT

Some pictures from the Chinese navy

To give you an idea of the scale of the problem and the utter contempt the pirates have you might like to have a look at these pictures (http://english.sina.com/china/p/2010/0227/306019.html) from...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Apr 2010, 15:44
Replies: 16
Views: 3,327
Posted By GIATT

used to work in the UK too

From 2000-2005 I used to travel by commercial air around the UK on duty and usually travelled in uniform. BA were pretty good about pointing me at the business lounge even when on a cheapo ticket....
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Sep 2009, 15:39
Replies: 7
Views: 1,388
Posted By GIATT

They can't want what they don't know about.

If we want them to behave more like "us" then they are going to have to find out what that means. Instead (or as well) as handing out wind up radios we need to hand out free satellite systems so that...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Jun 2009, 12:26
Replies: 13
Views: 10,357
Posted By GIATT

Not an accountant, but

IIRC Full cost is the annual cost of everything to do with that airframe including all the support staff, buidlings, etc divided by the total number of hours flown in a year. i.e. all direct and...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Jun 2009, 11:05
Replies: 73
Views: 15,742
Posted By GIATT

Thought it was de riguer?

Many moons ago (2004?) I watched 2 PARA doing a live firing attach up an Otterburn re-entrant supported by a pair of Harriers dropping some form of practice bombs.

The boss of 16Bde was obviously...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Apr 2009, 08:43
Replies: 28
Views: 10,760
Posted By GIATT

Modelling for big boys

How about Huangyangtan 38 16 00.84N 105 57 00.11E?

Apparently it is a 900Mx700M scale representation of an area on the Chinese border with India. Lots of weird theories out there as to why they've...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Mar 2009, 11:54
Replies: 38
Views: 14,877
Posted By GIATT

It's in a pretty spot too.

You'll have to superimpose the rear view of your favourite airframe, but I've spent the last 40 years watching all sorts of things high tailing it in the direction of the top left of the picture. The...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Jul 2008, 15:29
Replies: 7
Views: 1,554
Posted By GIATT

Only going to re-enact the nice bits?

On a visit to Singapore the museum was running a WWII exhibition. The full size Zero mockup that was embedded in the front of the building complete with kamikazi pilot hanging out of the cockpit was...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Jun 2008, 07:16
Replies: 96
Views: 12,357
Posted By GIATT

Those of us in and around the Fleet estuary...

Those of us in and around the Fleet estuary actually appreciate the visitors to the Freugh, it's always nice when a jet makes an obvious detour to overfly your boat.

Impresses the heck out of the...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Jun 2008, 08:35
Replies: 64
Views: 7,181
Posted By GIATT

sounds like a white settler

It seems a really really odd place to have a stables breeding pure Arabs.

It's not in a horsey area and although there are race courses at Ayr and Hamilton the route to market is long and very...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Mar 2008, 13:19
Replies: 88
Views: 14,876
Posted By GIATT

An integral part of the scenery

I am off down to the Fleet Estuary for the weekend and I have to say that low flying aircraft are very much part of the attraction. Don't expect much running into the Freugh Range over a bank holiday...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Mar 2008, 16:40
Replies: 27
Views: 4,317
Posted By GIATT

I love an optimist

Didn't think there were that many spare soldiers
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Feb 2008, 08:02
Replies: 65
Views: 10,044
Posted By GIATT

Tinfoil hats at the ready.

You are surely not suggesting that Gordon wishes to flood the streets with uniforms in order to create a perception that there are simply oodles and oodles of service personnel?

Surely the public...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Jan 2008, 14:34
Replies: 20
Views: 5,112
Posted By GIATT

Not a rib

Looks like fun, but as one that spends a fair amount of time afloat that is not a RIB, just an inflatable. That said the helmsman did well to counter the effects of the downdraught and thread the...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Jan 2008, 09:16
Replies: 144
Views: 25,885
Posted By GIATT

Old news that won't go away

I have a letter on file from the MOD stating that George Robertson had issued instructions that military personnel could travel in uniform. One of the first things he did when made Sec of Def and a...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Dec 2007, 09:41
Replies: 25
Views: 4,534
Posted By GIATT

Non-combatant, aye right! Anybody flying an...

Non-combatant, aye right! Anybody flying an airframe somewhere unpleasant and then dropping a bunch of paras on the locals is taking more than a little bit of a risk as I'm certain the locals would...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2007, 16:43
Replies: 127
Views: 40,150
Posted By GIATT

X-Raying guns

Going through Teeside about a year ago to board a C130 and go parachuting 50 of us rolled up in two buses at the checkpoint. Everyone off, smocks through the X-Ray machine, and everyone through the...
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