My Oops ..guilty of misreading.

This is probably not the thread to put it in, but it is Google Earth…

Leuchars, Lossiemouth and Kinloss have all been added very recently in high resolution to Google Earth/Gmaps.

As has the area around Tain, and the RM Condor and airfield at Montrose. I think Campbeltown (Machrihanish) has also had it’s resolution improved.

A Cheap recruitment tactic… young kids seeing soliders in fancy Uniforms as you can be sure the Government doesn’t mean DPMs, “oh look I want to be like that”.

Add to that the suggestion of more “Home coming” Parades and Open days and it really reeks of recruitment on the cheap.

I should stress that I do support our armed forces and feel that they are seriously hard done by, primarily by the Government and secondly by some people who can’t differentiate between “doing their Job”, and the government making them go to places many of the public in general would rather they didn’t.

So to answer the question, I don’t have a problem with seeing more of our Forces in Uniform, but it has to be under the right circumstances and situations, and not as a PR/recruitment strategy by a hard pressed Government who have over commited the Armed Forces and are faced with falling numbers.

Getting away from the he says/what does he know discussion for a moment…

In 2005, what was the radar/software capability of the Typhoon?
What weapons clearences did it have that would allow it (simulated) lock-on/kill of an F22?

Good to See Rolls Royce issuing a statement correcting reporting of an engine failure…the AAIB report was that the engines failed to respond.

The female presenter covering the 5-6pm slot on BBC N24, when reading out the RR statement actually accepted that she herself was one of those that had inferred Engine failure.

With my electronics but not aero-engineering background, the AAIB’s comments sounds me as though, there was either a failure in one of the boxes of avionics between the auto throttle/throttle levers and the engines
Or a physical break (cause unknown) in the actual wiring between the cockpit and the engines…I don’t know the wiring diagrams but presumably this would have had to be near the cockpit given that the engines are well seperated

Both of these instances would give the impression of a failure to respond, by the engines simply not receiving the control inputs from the cockpit.
The question I would ask and perhaps someone here with some knowledge in this area could answer, is an aircrafts engines under positive control from the cockpit at all times, and if that control is lost what happens? Does an engine failsafe to tickover?

For me the most unlikely happening would be both engines having control failures at the same instant resulting in the failure to respond.

Why should that make any difference? If the RCAHMS has the best facilities available to house such a collection then why move it to somewhere that doesn’t?

4000km is on internal fuel. Howether i saw 4500km figure also.

I wonder what is F-111 range on internal fuel? Americans usually give ferry range with ext. tanks and russians without.

RAAF website quotes a Ferry range of over 5500Km for it’s F111s

What the Squadron Leader says is correct…. The work of No 1 Elementary Flying School is

The EFT course, which includes just over 60 hours of instruction and takes about 4 months to complete, prepares student pilots for the next phase of training on fast jet, rotary or multi-engine aircraft.

Source: http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafcranwell/aboutus/efts.cfm

That sounds like competancy to me and certainly not operational capability.

Plus we hear in the media that “Flying Officer Wales” will be at some point flying not just the EFS Grob 115 but also the Tucano as well, and of course not forgetting learning to fly a helicopter ALL in a 4 month detachment 😮