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Forum: Military Aviation
20th May 2021, 16:29
Replies: 44
Views: 10,578
Posted By SwitchMonkey

https://history.nasa.gov/spacepen.html better?

https://history.nasa.gov/spacepen.html better?
Forum: Military Aviation
19th May 2021, 20:27
Replies: 44
Views: 10,578
Posted By SwitchMonkey

It’s always fun to demonstrate your superior...

It’s always fun to demonstrate your superior appreciation of a situation and use a pithy statement to really drive the point home. It’s more credible if the pithy statement is factually correct.
...
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Mar 2021, 12:07
Replies: 41
Views: 16,722
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Cultural appropriation?

A badge that very much looks like an aircrew badge but isn’t.

A move to rebrand Airmen as Aviators.

From the BBC - “Cultural appropriation is when a tradition, such as clothing or a hairstyle,...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Jul 2020, 17:47
Replies: 220
Views: 53,399
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Look at all the healthy discussion this has...

Look at all the healthy discussion this has generated! Considering whether the “17 year old LAC” would, or should, be offended by the original gravestone is to my mind what BLM is asking us to do and...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Apr 2020, 23:22
Replies: 187
Views: 77,315
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Bite away old boy, I’ve just gone back through...

Bite away old boy, I’ve just gone back through the whole thread and there are no photos of Cabin Crew here. Unless you are suggesting that “New Readers” need to read the entire bulletin board before...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Apr 2020, 22:28
Replies: 187
Views: 77,315
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Badges, which is coincidentally the subject of...

Badges, which is coincidentally the subject of the thread.

I wondered why you cared about which badges people wore so much. You said you didn’t and you cared about air safety. Which we all do.
...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Apr 2020, 22:07
Replies: 187
Views: 77,315
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Chugalug, apologies if I have bitten off an...

Chugalug, apologies if I have bitten off an insignificant element of your argument.

The thread title is about badges and your comment “Rather than question the effectiveness or otherwise of the...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Apr 2020, 21:23
Replies: 187
Views: 77,315
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Chugalug, I’m intrigued why you feel the...

Chugalug,

I’m intrigued why you feel the need to tilt at this particular windmill? If I am to believe your profile you left the RAF in 1973 - why is the dress standard or status of currently...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Mar 2020, 22:35
Replies: 35
Views: 10,775
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Given the other names that’s probably the better...

Given the other names that’s probably the better option! ;)
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Dec 2019, 19:22
Replies: 302
Views: 128,080
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Absolute shocker if true. How would the...

Absolute shocker if true.

How would the system go about compensating people who made life decisions based on an offer that subsequently gets withdrawn?

Certainly can’t get a re-run of the past...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Oct 2019, 20:59
Replies: 36
Views: 10,631
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Pay rise(s) vs cost of living 2010-2018

Level 35 PAS in 2010 = £77,625. (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/228601/7799.pdf)
Level 35 PAS in 2018 = £83,582...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Jul 2019, 22:02
Replies: 49
Views: 30,206
Posted By SwitchMonkey

I think I get the point being made above. ...

I think I get the point being made above.

i). In an ideal world where the previous year's 0.9% was part of core pay rise our 2019 pay would be: 100x1.029x1.029=105.8841 (tel:105.8841)
ii). Since...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Jul 2019, 00:02
Replies: 58
Views: 15,554
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Consider the long game when it comes to...

Consider the long game when it comes to financial (and other) planning. Short term wins often have a long term cost.

Works for “investing” in people too, and I don’t mean the defunct IIP scheme!
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Jul 2019, 08:41
Replies: 49
Views: 30,206
Posted By SwitchMonkey

From the Times article...

and



If this is to be trusted then the 2.9% headline figure won’t be for everyone.
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Sep 2018, 19:22
Replies: 13
Views: 2,868
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Give your friendly Manning deskie a call, if...

Give your friendly Manning deskie a call, if there’s a niche that needs filling there may be a way of making it work.
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Jul 2017, 18:45
Replies: 384
Views: 229,241
Posted By SwitchMonkey

I was told* that the King Airs were painted that...

I was told* that the King Airs were painted that scheme because the OC45(R) of the day liked the look. Little or no consideration given to the conspicuity study which saw Tucano, Hawk, Dominie &...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Apr 2017, 14:28
Replies: 42
Views: 12,851
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Apologies for slight Rivet Joint thread hijack on...

Apologies for slight Rivet Joint thread hijack on a Sentry (or should that be AWACS) thread.



The project is Airseeker (much like the ASTOR project which brought us the Sentinel R1).

The...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Mar 2017, 19:55
Replies: 39
Views: 29,747
Posted By SwitchMonkey

USAF pilot retention

I can't vouch for the rest of the remuneration package, but there is an article here about the USAF retention bonus - and how it isn't as effective as they would like it to be.
...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th May 2016, 18:00
Replies: 13
Views: 5,252
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Union Flag

It isn't "in distress", see page 7 of the document below...

https://www.flaginstitute.org/pdfs/Flying_Flags_in_the_United_Kingdom.pdf
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Sep 2015, 18:51
Replies: 367
Views: 106,263
Posted By SwitchMonkey

UK only capability (RJ, Poseidon)

Jackonicko commented:



There's one other thing to consider, relevant to UK RJ and any Poseidon buy, and that is the reliance on Boom tankers - which we don't have - for AAR.
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Mar 2014, 17:09
Replies: 272
Views: 48,790
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Seedcorn

An answer can be found here:

House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 24 Nov 2011 (pt 0003) (http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm111124/text/111124w0003.htm)

The...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Jan 2014, 08:27
Replies: 142
Views: 70,337
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Essential skills for FJ SME from the advert...

Essential skills for FJ SME from the advert (http://www.ascentflighttraining.net/index.php/careers/vacancy/subject_matter_expert_sme_ukmfts_fast_jet_flying_training)



Guess that's me out then,...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Sep 2013, 09:02
Replies: 82
Views: 38,906
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Genuine question, I have no experience of the...

Genuine question, I have no experience of the Phenom, why would LL be more "interesting" than in a King Air.
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Aug 2013, 01:10
Replies: 8
Views: 3,410
Posted By SwitchMonkey

For EASA check this link ...

For EASA check this link

http://www.easa.europa.eu/agency-measures/docs/agency-decisions/2013/2013-010-R/Annex%20to%20ED%20Decision%202013-010-R.pdf

Search for rudder force and you will find...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Jul 2013, 00:10
Replies: 17
Views: 3,175
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Ah, you see that was me making assumptions again....

Ah, you see that was me making assumptions again. I assumed the thread originator was British and I assumed that the comment "Now there's an idea" meant that we, the British, should follow the...
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Jul 2013, 15:57
Replies: 17
Views: 3,175
Posted By SwitchMonkey

I thought we had already chopped a large...

I thought we had already chopped a large (relatively) number of SOs in the redundancy tranches?

Ministry of Defence cull sees RAF lose third of officers - Telegraph...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th May 2013, 12:27
Replies: 51
Views: 9,993
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Insulting 8 pence an hour pay rise

How does that compare to the glorious pay rises that the rank and file have received recently?
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Jan 2013, 09:57
Replies: 134
Views: 48,054
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Plenty of airspace in Lincolnshire, perhaps. ...

Plenty of airspace in Lincolnshire, perhaps.

Plenty of capacity in the Cranwell circuit? Don't think so.

Lots of (all in the future?) EFT at Cranwell - lots of slow circuits.
ME trg at...
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Dec 2012, 21:11
Replies: 127
Views: 24,897
Posted By SwitchMonkey

It might be a slight challenge operating them in...

It might be a slight challenge operating them in all weathers over the North Atlantic though, or is there a plan to give Reaper some effective ice protection?
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Aug 2012, 07:10
Replies: 19
Views: 6,073
Posted By SwitchMonkey

To be completely fair to Manning, they have no...

To be completely fair to Manning, they have no control over the pension scheme and the treasury was never, in the current climate, going to approve an FRI right now for a problem that is a few years...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Apr 2012, 15:43
Replies: 67
Views: 32,972
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Even our watches are wanting to leave early now?

Even our watches are wanting to leave early now?
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Dec 2011, 11:34
Replies: 39
Views: 9,302
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Cost, plain and simple cost.

Cost, plain and simple cost.
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Dec 2011, 15:57
Replies: 5
Views: 2,321
Posted By SwitchMonkey

Story from Aug 2009. Has it taken that long to...

Story from Aug 2009. Has it taken that long to decide not to investigate?
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Jul 2006, 21:18
Replies: 138
Views: 22,572
Posted By SwitchMonkey

5 in hospital after "drunken hi-jinks"! ...

5 in hospital after "drunken hi-jinks"!

Don't tell me the mess has finally got some spirit back into it? Wonders will never cease.
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Jun 2006, 21:13
Replies: 7
Views: 2,251
Posted By SwitchMonkey

A plastic Norman, whatever next? I seem to...

A plastic Norman, whatever next? I seem to remeber there were a couple of others painted up too (Guernsey's Girl II and "Weakest Link"). Will these be included in the decal sheet?
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