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Forum: Military Aviation

25th Oct 2016, 13:11

Replies: 91

RAF Pilot Retention

Views: 39,331

Posted By Tom Bell-Weed

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. ...

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Before leaving around 13 years ago, my Master's thesis was on RAF FJ pilot retention. After a fair bit of research, a pattern emerged that most pilots...

Forum: Military Aviation

17th Jul 2013, 11:30

Replies: 343

RAF VC10 - Great Memories

Views: 112,325

Posted By Tom Bell-Weed

I had many happy days deploying, or being...

I had many happy days deploying, or being trailed, to 4 continents in or behind these characterful and graceful aircraft. My abiding memory, though, is the perseverance of their crews, especially in...

Forum: Military Aviation

22nd Aug 2012, 15:30

Replies: 191

OCU and Flying Training

Views: 37,319

Posted By Tom Bell-Weed

Here's a couple of quotes that have stayed with...

Here's a couple of quotes that have stayed with me, one from the F3 OCU, one from (someone else's) CR work-up:

Instructor to student (after a trip that even your own mother would struggle to...

Forum: Military Aviation

19th Feb 2003, 20:52

Replies: 47

F3 Navs as E-3 Fighter Controllers?

Views: 4,733

Posted By Tom Bell-Weed

ANAPROP To return to the original suggestion...

ANAPROP

To return to the original suggestion of the thread, I don't think it's really a player. This isn't simply because FJ navs would turn their noses up at a change in role; this has already...

Forum: Military Aviation

15th Oct 2002, 14:12

Replies: 21

Navigators

Views: 3,306

Posted By Tom Bell-Weed

Shopfloor, Life isn't fair; get used to it. ...

Shopfloor,

Life isn't fair; get used to it. If you don't like the employment prospects as a crewman then ranting at the system is unlikely to achieve much apart from making you (more) bitter. ...

Forum: Military Aviation

3rd Sep 2001, 22:49

Replies: 8

Free-Standing AVCs

Views: 884

Posted By Tom Bell-Weed

D-IFF I'm in a similar boat regarding FSAVCs. ...

D-IFF
I'm in a similar boat regarding FSAVCs. I too was talked into this a number of years ago, not NBing at the time (and certainly not told by my IFA) that if I retired at 38 as was always the...

Forum: Questions

15th Jul 2001, 15:53

Replies: 0

How many pilots???????????

Views: 481

Posted By Tom Bell-Weed

How many pilots???????????

I'm new to the civil side of PPRuNe being a military type, but hope someone on this side can give me a pointer to some information I'm looking for. I'm doing a paper on why and when pilots leave the...

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