Typhoons Intercept Business Jet - Sonic Boom

[Ex-Ascot]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ls-UK.html

How can you lose radio contact over the UK in this day and age?

[Boac]

Incompetence (or equipment failure, of course....)?

It appears to have been German registered, so maybe migrants were flying it..........

[Sisemen]

It's good to see that the boys are allowed to put more coal on when the occasion warrants it.

[Ex-Ascot]

http://news.sky.com/story/1688154/fight ... ays-flight

BA this time. How can it happen? It wasn't comms failure. More like pilot failure. BA should be charged for the flying display.

[500N]

Nice little flight for the QRA pilots.


Have any members on here been a QRA Pilot ?

i know it's random to get called out but is it enough to really add to your flying hours
or is the boredom of sitting around not worth the effort ?

[Alisoncc]

Have any members on here been a QRA Pilot ?

Silly question. We've got lots of them. Flying little whiz bang machines up to big tin triangles.

Flown in a tin triangle self, but not off QRA. Almost did off QRA. In bomb bay adjusting STR18 aerial coupler with rubber hammer - used to stick when cold. Not allowed to go without HF otherwise wouldn't know once airborne whether to continue or return. So gives coupler a tap, AEO must have said now operational, and they release brakes - with me still inside EEEEK.

Alison

[Ex-Ascot]

http://news.sky.com/story/1688948/yorks ... onic-booms

And, another one. AF this time. Personally I would have shot it down on sight. They are claiming comms probs. I would have claimed finger probs.

[500N]

Maybe the more of these "brown trouser" moments might make some of the pilots sit up and take notice.

Or the RAF should make them more of a "brown trouser" moment so they remember !

[chksix]

They should make contact by a head on pass while supersonic forming a Blue Angels box formation around the target jet

[Boac]

Have any members on here been a QRA Pilot

- yes, in the 70's with the Lightning. Very, very few intercepts on Civilian aircraft in those days, though one of my Lightning students did manage to bop the backend of an Aztec after he joined a squadron. Fortunately both landed safely. We were going to paint 'closing speed?' on his room door.

[500N]

Boac

Very good.