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Tim, you're not wrong on most of what you say. As an ex-rozzer, who used to investigate crimes, that included sexual assaults, what I would say is that it takes a certain amount of courage for victims to come forward and report their allegations, especially when the perception may be that no one will believe them. Now, no one is saying Wallace was committing sexual assaults, because that would be a different story altogether. What he's allegedly guilty of is smutty innuendo - "men behaving badly" stuff.... which was a popular TV show back when Wallace was on Masterchef. People now are viewing past behaviour through today's social lenses, which I feel is not right. That being said though, what I find diabolical with all this, is that there have been documented complaints about his "behaviour" going back many, many years...... and the BBC have simply buried them. The did the same thing with Saville, and all the other people they were hiding..... that's the deplorable issue for me. When is it going to be time to completely cancel the BBC and move on....? It appears that they're happy to cancel people now at a moments notice, yet they continue to be a biased, leftist propaganda machine that the taxpayer funds.....
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I'm of a military family. The majority of my extended family have served in the armed forces. My Dad was in the RAF for over 10 years, so it was in my blood growing up. Following a year as an apprentice fitter with the NCB, I joined in 1970, just turned 17 and signing on for 9 years. I'll always be grateful for the training, both technical and attitude, which set me up for life. However, that wonderful feeling of pride and belonging gradually changed to one of being wholly and completely owned and trapped. Seeing old school friends in civi-street, with freedom and much higher salaries, I was fortunate when a regulation came in which allowed anyone joining under the age of 17 to commute their service to 3 years, from the age of 18. So after 4 years regular service and 3 years in the reserves, I was gone. On leaving I quadrupled my salary as a fitter with British Steel and, with further education, having gained my private pilot's license, and working my way up through the civi ranks over the years, I retired as CEO of my own company. The RAF formed me and changed me, but it also taught me to see the world in a different way. Above all the RAF taught me critical thinking and how not to be afraid of swimming against the flow. Not good for the RAF, but very good for me and mine. I'm 71 now, but I'm still in touch with ex-RAF mates, and we look back on our time in the service with fondness - and abject dismay at what it has become. Your video is 100% on point and reflective of a far wider developing dystopian scenario than just the RAF. Thank you.
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My recent woke RAF nightmare:
I come from a long line of RAF and (formerly Royal) Indian Air Force pilots, officers and NCOs, including an air gunner in WW2 and a Chief of the Air Staff.
My ancestor Lt Shrikrishna Welinkar was a WW1 fighter pilot with No.23 squadron who was shot over the Somme in the summer of 1918 in a Sopwith Dolphin, and since then, each generation has served in some capacity. My grandfather had been with Bomber Command on Canberras, then Beverleys and Hercules in Cyprus and the Far East before flying as a QFI. You could say it was in our blood. I had certainly always wanted to be a military fighter pilot since I was a young boy. As a Royal Naval cadet, I had flown high-G manoeuvres in the Grob over Yeovilton aged 17, on a course among 9 other lucky cadets from across the UK.
I was recently rejected by the RAF as a pilot just 2 weeks before the very last interview at OASC (after waiting for 28 months), allegedly because I had suddenly become "too old". They changed the age cutoff from 25 to 23 a few weeks after I turned 24 and didn't think to tell me. Having been 21 when I first applied pre-covid, and despite having passed every academic/aptitude/fitness/medical selection stage (not easy, but I managed to pass CBAT with a very high score), it was a real scandal. They would not accept any appeal. The long process was blamed on the pandemic. It is actually more due to disorganisation.
Despite this, instead of "dropping out" of the process, I went to the final interview with the prospective of being a Weapon Systems Officer ("wizzo").
This was the path I was on, and I was determined to serve. Not for a fun career and early retirement, as is often the case, but for the defense of our civilization and succeeding in a job that suited me, which is what you want in any member of our armed forces.
During the 12-minute barrage of questions, I was shot down when answering candidly about my inspiration to join (family history and desire to serve with like-minded, patriotic individuals, challenge, passion for flying...). The young lady officer did not like my answers and cut me off. "No, why do YOU want to serve?" As if the family connection is not a valid reason. Then the "why is diversity and inclusion important?" question came, and, being "anti-woke" myself, I answered very carefully and honestly: that these are important in as much as they can unify a group of varying individuals around a common mission, whether the "diversity" is about immutable characteristics or not. The interviewer did not seem happy. The rest of the interview was cold, and two days later my rejection letter was dismissive, claiming that despite my aptitude scores being "quite good" (they were excellent, but anyway...), I didn't possess the knowledge needed nor was I "officer potential", with a limited academic record (I had been reading aerospace engineering at uni but didn't finish). This despite having a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of the RAF, its operations, history etc. which was not asked about in the interview. And I don't mean to sound arrogant, but I certainly had officer potential. Numerous senior officers over the years encouraged me to apply to the forces, mostly army and navy, I had been a cadet, led large groups abroad and on exercise, DofE etc. You name it.
Not a single apology has been given for how it was handled in the end. Not impressed. I have lost much respect and affection for the Royal Air Force as an institution, as have my friends and family. I hope they get their act together. The pilot training pipeline is clogged because our government is committed to training pilots from other countries as well as using poorly-equipped third-party contractors under the new "MFTS" training system.
Anyway, perhaps the RAF was hoping that as a "brown person" (I look Arab. Half English, half Indian) I'd leap for joy and soliloquize on the virtues of D.I.E. My interviewer was a blonde lady, very white skinned, like my mum. I don't think much of someone based on their skin colour. What matters is their cultural background and attitude. But what was gutting was knowing from the get-go that there was clearly a deep adherence to a woke agenda, rather than pure competence and passion. I am not perfect and perhaps just not what the RAF was looking for, but the tone and nature of the rejection suggests there were other factors.
I despair for any young patriot, no matter their skin colour, who wishes to try and serve given these unnecessary obstacles.
Onward and upward! I was advised not to apply to the RN while waiting on the RAF. Of course I lodged my application in with them soon after failing OASC at Cranwell, but two weeks ago the RN decided they are no longer hiring new pilots. Trying for Observer... Wish I had applied to the RN as a pilot initially! It's a horrible feeling after a lifetime of preparation to likely never train as a military pilot when, on merit, I could have. 🙏🏼
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Tim, you are spot on.
I am 63, got my own house, no mortgage, married , one son of 30 at home, too expensive for him to buy here in bucks, rents also stupid money.
At the moment i feel helpless, i cant see a way to get out of this depression i feel, Labour are making things worse, they dont talk about immigration, legal and illegal, the people that voted for Labour are seriously brainwashed, you talk about concerns over immigration and you are branded racist, its hard to focys on anything but i will follow your advice and keep working out, i wish i was back in the lste 70's early 80's, carefree and nost prople were happy, now everyone looks sad as what the gutyre holds under this tyrant of a PM.
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It's an amazing point re instructors. In WWII probably the most fatal mistake on the western front made by the Luftwaffe, was failing to rotate out experienced pilots to the rear to instruct the new pilots, not in flying, but in COMBAT (this wasn't just policy, but more about personal ego and machismo of the German aces, who saw it as a personal failure to be removed from the front line). The RAF and the USAAF did this rotation with all experienced pilots with kills, so our young pilots were taking to air, with the basics of BFM in combat. The young German pilots could certainly fly the plane, as they had been taught to fly the plane, but had zero BFM combat knowledge, because the instructors had no real knowledge of this, so couldn't teach them. As the experienced Luftwaffe pilots on the front line were gradually lost through attrition, by 43 to 44 it became a turkey shoot, as the young Germans simply had no idea. I remember a quote from a mustang pilot, saying that it became almost embarrassing and he felt sorry for them. They were just basically massacred, until there was pretty much no German planes whatsoever in the skys when D-Day happened. That's how bad it can get when you ignore having experienced combat veterans teaching, relying on just decent pilots, who can't do the combat stuff. You can lose a war over it.
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Yank here and I feel ya. I am much older as I was a jet engine mechanic 74-77. Nam was just over and they didn't want us anymore, so they added a new rank or hoop to jump through, and started introducing women in a field they weren't suited for. I imagine this was the beginning of DEI. I did get orders to Lakenheath, but got busted with a female in the barracks, art. 15, fine, and they redlined my orders. They then offered me an early out, honorable discharge. I took it. I said that to say this, I loved my job in the USAF. I can tell you loved your job in the RAF and I believe you are struggling with the honor that goes with being a part of it. I get it. I am glad I did my bit, and you should be too. I can see you are struggling with the transformation as many do. You want to see your service be the best it can be and with the nutty rules, we are not getting our best. Without the experienced who have been there, done that, and hold a high level standard, what will become of the fresh crews? They will not be the best, and will not have a high level of training and it will show. We have the same issue in the states. Most here take their expensive training and leave to fly commercial. Hard to see what was a highly competitive outfit turn to shit. It's like watching a bad accident. Stay true brother. Love your country and take pride in what you have done. We still have our honor.
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Yes, 2 guns on the GR1. 1500L underwing tanks, front moving map was the "RPMD", rear moving map was the "CRPMD" - the rear combined GM radar with moving map. Can't wait to see this jet come to life in your DCS!!! Wings were 25, 43 and 67° (and as you say 63° with 2250L tanks). Outboard pylons were BOZ Chaff/Flare and Skyshadow ECM pods. Control surfaces were rear "Tailerons" and rudder; wings had spoilers (lift dump AND roll augmentation), full-span leading edge slats, full-span flaps, and leading edge "Krüger Flaps" at the wing root. Love the mention of the droopy U/C doors! Thrust reverse obtained by rocking the throttles outboard.
Please Please PLEASE fly this A LOT in your videos. I want to see GMR, WSO operations, TFR in operation, all sorts of ground attack manouevres!!
(Former XIV Sqn engineer at Brüggen).
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32 year career in aviation here. Retired 8 years ago. It was all I ever wanted to do, and for the first third of it I really thought I'd 'made it'.....but I then realised that, in terms of my life in general, aviation took much more than it gave. It tends to attract a certain personality type; the slightly obsessive achiever, perfectionist, uber competitive, 'cant switch off' kind of person, and that isn't healthy mentally or physically, so it took it's toll on me for sure. In the end I suffered burnout which caused a huge crash in confidence in my flying ability that was hard to hide and took 18 months to get over properly. Would I do it again? Yes if I went back 40 odd years, but if I knew then what I know now, probably not.
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Hey Tim, with setting 10 degrees nozzle angle, it's not the tail plane you're worried about, it's the flaps, if you've got flap 25 selected and your nozzles are at zero you're going to get some nice melty holes in the flap where the exhaust passed through, so long as you're at less than flap 25 though you're fine to take zero nozzle angle, but common practice is 10 degrees on the ground.
In terms of engine limits and the diamond that appears in the HUD for JPT and RPM, well it's acceptable to be within that diamond for short periods while hovering and doing V/STOL ops, but you need to be aware that the onboard systems are keeping track of cumulative engine stress over the flight, and they can limit your thrust output if they decide the cumulative stress has become too high, so if you push the engines hard early in the flight you could come in for a vertical landing, only to find that you're limited to 80% normal maximum (i.e. 80% of what you get before the diamond appears) power (I think it's 80%, if memory serves) which wont be enough to bring you into the hover. There is a page somewhere in the MFDs that lets you see all the data about the tracked engine stress, so you can ensure it's going to give you full power before you attempt to hover..... if you can ever find the page, but for the life of me I can't remember how you get at it.
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I'm ex-Army, whatever happened to the speech my phase 1 platoon sergeant gave us: 'I don't care what colour your skin is, we all wear the same green and we all bleed the same red, and many of you will bleed. Once you bleed or the man next to you is bleeding, you won't care about skin other than stopping it leak'. He used stronger language than that, but YouTube would hide the comment if I included it.
Two days before my passing out of phase 2 I was called into the N.C.Os office, I was told by the Plt Sgt, 4 Corporals and 1 Lance Jack that they wanted to give me the best recruit award. They were overruled by the C.O. (who hadn't spent a single day with my platoon during training) who wanted a minority recruit to get the award 'to encourage inclusion'. So the platoon staff had a few beers with me (they took me to a club called Tall Trees near I.T.C. Catterick) because they said I was robbed. The weird thing is that had they not told me, I would never have known. This was mid (maybe June?) 2000 so this has been going on a long time. It's simply more visible now. That means they're getting more comfortable with this agenda but I don't think they're finished yet. If war starts with China or Russia I won't fight for this country, I won't fight against it because I love my country, the land and its native people, but I won't fight for the new additions and I certainly won't fight for a system that appears to hate me. It's ironic that the military talk about service men moving towards the far right, it seems to me like they are being pushed, vigorously.
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Completely agree with the sentiment of this video and a lot of your points.
As someone who is an ‘ethnic minority’ I despise the term ‘ethnic minority’, ‘BAME’ etc. I actually find it quite uncomfortable and on the verge of offensive if someone refers to me in that way.
I also despise ‘positive discrimination’. Best person for the job should succeed in whatever field.
However, I do also feel that it is a positive thing to encourage more, let’s just say, diverse people to apply (APPLY is the key word, once applied it should then be down to ability).
There’s clearly a reason why there is less diversity in the RAF than the other services. And this will filter down to number of applications, and, let’s just take young black men as an example, will feel (and I’m generalising here) ‘the RAF isn’t for me, I won’t fit in there’ but ‘the army might be, I can see myself there’.
I’m talking in complete generalisations there and this won’t be the case with everyone (personally I’ve never felt like that about anything and have never seen race as a barrier), but then again I grew up in a middle class predominantly white suburb, not inner city London. However, in all areas of life, you will naturally feel more comfortable if you see other ‘people like you’. Like you could mean anything from social class to political views, not just race btw.
I’ve gone off on a huge rant without much structure here!!
The point I’m trying to make is I can understand where the RAF and Sarah are coming from. They’re thinking, we have less diversity, we want to increase diversity in applications, let’s go on a diversity push by sending a black dude to the top gun premier vs the standard white male to hopefully make the service seem more accessible.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that in itself, the problem is with the cote reason they think a lack of diversity is a problem. They just want to meet quotas which is BS.
My view would be, yes let’s try and encourage a wider range of applications because 95% of people who apply to join are white males, and we could be missing out on some amazing talent. And if doing things like sending a black male WITH a white male to a top gun premier is helpful, great let’s do that.
But we should not be applying ‘positive discrimination’ when it comes to anything.
Widen the pool of talent we are picking from, including more diversity when it comes to race, sex etc, and make these people feel that the RAF is an option for them - absolutely, has to be applauded. But then, pick the best people by ability.
Think you make a strong argument Tim but are missing a few points about the reason the ‘pool’ of talent is lacking diversity, to the extent that they’ve now got to the point of ‘diversity quotas’ which are the wrong solution, but at least they go some was to acknowledging a problem.
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I live near Rochdale and work in Oldham. I can give an honest view of what that is like, Counterfeit goods, Stolen high power cars being driven at speed around kids, Vapes with Spice in, Child exploitation Gangs - Not the ones that got locked up, they are still fond of underage white girls - Mess, rubbish, hostility to White folk, the police, ambulance and firemen. Luckily I dont live there, I live semi rural so no takeaways etc. My point is, its too late. Until we all stand up and start supporting aggressive policing, stop search and anything else that keeps me and mine safe, we are on the back foot, Mi ex reserve forces and yeah, I am fat now and not a greased gazelle like I was - But you really wouldn't want me at the airport - I would totally be assisting, You wouldn't want me sat on you! This is the problem with everyone being a reporter, context is missed, its easy to one side things. Something stuck with me from the early 90s - I had an argument with my mum, next door was a traffic cop - About 10 minutes later, a police van turned up and next door came and fetched me, bundled my in between 3 massive coppers, and proceeded to tell me, as my mum was single, I was the man of the house and I really shouldn't be shouting and being a dick, they drove me 2 miles outside the village I lived in and dropped me off and told ne to think about what I had done, and that I better apologise when I got home. (I Bought this cop a pint a few years later and thanked him for his advice) Nowadays, the only cops I see are traffic cops on the motorway. Sorry for the rant - TLDR - Get behind cop[s and what they do, start sticking up for whats right and dont accept anything else
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I served during the 70s and 80s, we were part of NATO, my missus is from the Baltic region, she was born, grew up and lived in the old Soviet Union. She and several of her friends, yes certain eastern Europeans living in the UK have a support network and community advice telling each other where the jobs are, who's a poor payer or good employer. They are saying that in certain aspects the old Soviet Union was better, yes food was scarce, food queues were a ball ache, but they recognise the propaganda, media control, the corruption, stifling opposing opinions, locking up dissenters and those guilty of 'thought crimes'. Who'd have thought?
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Make a stand, go to London tomorrow Saturday 27th, bands, choirs, speakers, lone piper, film screens, if you’re a patriot and want to stand up for Britain come along, all ages, families or alone, disabilities, veterans, black, white, brown and all nationalities. It’s going to be a big peaceful march to show we are pulling together to keep our traditions, culture, history and most of all for the future for our innocent children. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧✊🏻🙏🏻
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Couple of things.
I always warn my male First Officers, “watch out for your wives when they are approaching 40.”
70-80 percent of divorces are now being initiated by women. I am not blaming feminism, but women are pre menopausal at this stage in their life and are going through hormonal changes. There is nothing that you can do if they have made up their mind to leave. Pilots being pilots cannot stand failure and in this situation failure of a relationship is the breaking point. Especially if you grew up with that person and feel responsible to them and their family for that matter. Pilots will even stay in a bad relationship to not admit failure.
Second, I have read that people who are more sensitive ,turn to alcohol, because they are a caring person and it really bothers them. Just remember that.
It will take a couple of years to get better. I found a new wife , who is way better looking and a great woman. I am so much more happy.😂
Tim, if this is your legacy to help people, not just being a good pilot, this is very commendable .
I follow Better Bachelor on youtube, this gentleman has some great views on life as well. Form your own opinion as well.
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Tim, I admire your bravery speaking out about this. Particularly as the son of a middle eastern man (whose previously moderate and Western-friendly country was destroyed by radical Islamism in the 70s - no prizes for guessing which one) and an English mother. I've nothing against freedom of religion, but everything against radical Islamism; it's not benign, it's an intolerant and existential threat, and I'm tired of hearing that it's not from worthy "progressive" types whose families have never been touched by the evil aspects of it. I'm not religious myself, I'm a cultural Christian per-se, born and raised in England, but in my opinion it cannot be denied that the dominant religion of a nation sets the standard of behaviour - I'd far rather that be a religion led be a tolerant, peaceful idealised man who died to expunge the sins of others, than a violent warlord; the boss sets the tone after all.
This is sadly not just a problem in Britain, as I moved to Canada some years back and have seen the country change in a decade, in a similar direction to back home. It's hard to be believe that is happened so quickly by accident, rather Bezhmemov's warning about subversion, and rumours of China's unrestricted warfare campaign, is becoming harder to deny.
The best and only way to fight back is to use what's remaining of our free speech while we have it, as I do frequently, and I'm proud to see an accomplished serviceman such as yourself has the balls to as well. Really great stuff, thank you.
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Hi Tim, only watched a small number of your YouTube videos, but felt compelled to comment on this one.
As a pilot, I understand how hard it is to talk about mental health, to admit there is an issue, is to invite censure, so kudos to you for admitting that we are human, and that we have bad days and sometimes it's not OK in our lives.
Secondly, what is going on in Ukraine?
Simply put;
Operational Research.
We are testing our kit in an operational environment against a likely near peer enemy, with no risk to NATO.
How could you get anything better than that?
It's about the military/industrial complex making more money and the boys at the top getting new shiny toys, and building links for cushy, high paying, advisor positions when they leave the services.
Or am I being cynical?
Keep up the good work.
Keep talking about mental health. It's where the Government has broken the Covenant.
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First of all Phil, you’re amazing and I can’t think of a more important role that you could be doing right now than helping to repair our men. Your work is so important and I fear without it the male rate of suicide would be even more immense.
My background is in mentoring in PRU establishments where the overwhelming numbers are young men and the issues surrounding mental health are huge. I was tutoring a lad ( covering Art and English) who was taking his GCSES at the time, absolutely lovely kid, we had to work offsite as he’d thrown a chair at a female staff member who was suing and for legal reasons couldn’t be on site. I found every session I did with him I was having to unpick domestic issues with his foster carers before I could even get to subject based teaching. In the end I put in a complaint against his ‘carers’ and that didn’t go down well for me. I ended up being disliked by staff who hated this kid for some reason and the headteacher. In fact the lad ended up doing so well with his coursework that one of the teachers on site put in a complaint that his standard of work was ‘ too advanced ‘ for his level of learning. I was fueming. I literally caught fire when I was talking to the headteacher and I said outright it’s like no one wants this kid to win!!!
I left the school shortly after, the environment was toxic as hell. The kids were not a priority they were just problems. Apologies , tend to go off on massive long rants at times.
As for men in education, I love the idea. I remember when my youngest Theo was in nursery and they had a masters student in twice a week , he was called Frank ( he was a Middle aged bloke) he was doing a study into early years and when I went to collect Theo all the kids were sat around him, climbing all over him 😂😂😂 and one of nursery nurses said for some reason all the kids have just gravitated towards him. It was so cute. I think men in education is brilliant and where it’s more vital is in secondary because young men begin that arduous journey encompassing hormones etc and I think they need men as role models there a bit more but yeah I’m all for it. The problem with the education sector though is the pay is so low and most men prefer a competitive system for advancement, and teaching , it just doesn’t equate to the level of responsibility unfortunately but god knows why when it’s one of the most integral roles we have in our society.
As for toxic masculinity I this it’s a reprehensible concept that’s used to devalue men. Im no feminist , I would say I’m an alpha female ( more headstrong and tell it how it is ) but the truth is at home it’s a role I’ve had to step into with raising my sons. I’d really rather not but my ex husband has literally walked away so I have to fill that role knowing full well that I can’t to the fullest degree because I’m not a man. Luckily my boys are proper boys and are mad about cars and aeroplanes and formula one so associations like the air cadets and sea cadets is an amazing addition to their routines and they are surrounded by strong alpha males some are ex servicemen themselves so that’s been a relief and a support for me and them.
I’m 💯 a traditionalist and believe we should have clear distinct roles. Look I can’t even start our petrol lawnmower I have to get my eldest to do it, I’m rubbish. 😂
All the feminists will come at me now but I couldn’t care less I think it’s bullshit. It’s also very damaging for our young men’s health.
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Hi Tim,
Just want to say I'm sick and tired of all the hate going round and using the pride flag to promote LGBTQ community, I can honestly say this hand on heart as I am part of the community. BUT I keep my private life to myself I can not stand this society that has to bang on about ut all the time, yes there will be many youngsters that will make mistakes and think oh better grow up now, but its all getting out of hand, I work in the aviation industry and at the same airport as Ayla Holdom, yes she is a good friend, and I see her as female nothing else, my work colleagues accept me for who I am not because I'm different because I do my job to the highest degree, and as for the RAF taking out the Hurc I'm really pissed, why??? Reliable to its core and always will be.
Keep the witch hunters away from the door and keep the videos coming. X
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Disappointed to hear you both gloss over the Typhoon's exceptional performance below 10,000', and instead continue to peddle the notion that it wasn't a good fighter.
True, it was not successful in the high-altitude interceptor role for which it was designed. But down low, it was indomitable in the later years of the war. If you read the books and writings of Tiffy drivers from the time, you'll know that the aircraft could out-dive and out-turn the FW190, and could trounce the Bf109. It was so dominant in this arena that the Luftwaffe would avoid engagements with it (by way of example, in one engagement, a single Typhoon engaged 12 Bf109s and shot down four).
The Typhoon squadrons operating over northern France were pretty much left unmolested by the Luftwaffe (packs of German fighters would loiter above and attempt to pick off singletons, but they rarely entered the merge and tried to dogfight). And the Typhoon crews of the day were ignominious about having the fighter role taken away from them and given to Spitfire squadrons. I can't recall the specifics, but I seem to recall that one Typhoon Wing in particular had scored many more kills in the months leading up to D Day than most other Spit or Hurricane Wings.
At any rate, giving the 666 their due sounds like a very worthy cause. I will certainly make a donation.
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Tim, you are the product of a socially mobile police force that no longer exists.
I joined the police because I applied to the Navy to become a helicopter pilot with my nine, not very impressive, 'O' Levels and one 'H' Grade (Scottish equivalent of 'A' Levels) as I figured entry would be easier than for the RAF. I was sent to Biggin Hill where I passed selection and was sent onto Portsmouth where I flunked selection. I asked why I passed RAF selection and not Navy selection and was told "The ladies in the RAF have a nice stable runway to land on, we only have a tiny moving deck in the middle of the ocean to land on." I was offered a place to train as a navigator and like an idiot I turned it down because I was an idiot and. Nor did I even think of reapplying to the RAF. What a clown.
I was overqualified for the police so, naturally, they snapped me up however, most of the guys I joined with had fewer, if any, qualifications than me and most of them turned out to be great cops.
I'm sure I have mentioned this to you before but, we were rapidly superseded by university graduate cops who were suffering from the 1970's/80's unemployment situation in the country. They were bloody awful. These same people are running our dire police forces and, I suspect, our military right now which is why they are in the dire condition they are.
The fact is most of us who joined the police/nursing or the armed forces were so dumb we had to ask questions and thereby gained an intimate understanding of our employment environment. University types enter the workplace with all the answers, which are invariably wrong, because they skipped the important part of understanding their working environment.
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Hi Tim. I'm an ex South African Air Force Rotary Wing AME and FE. Ive been out of the military a long time now, got out just in time.
If its an example, far advanced, that you need, just look at the SAAF.
DEI and affirmative action have TOTALLY destroyed one of the world's BEST militaries. I can count our serviceable aircraft on one hand.
More specifically, what happens when these pilots and engineers, who got their seats of the back of affirmative action, become the instructors? MY biggest question: is it fair to expect me to crew with one of "those" pilots?
I have been working in the Film Industry for 30 years now, and the same has happened there. The excellent reputation our film crews HAD, was largely off the back of conscription, which produced disciplined young men with SPINES! Try telling a Production Assistant to do his job and help carry heavy stuff....
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Tim, I have to point out the total lunacy and hypocrisy on show here, one a child by that age knows the difference between OF & OFF, two, the mother is as uneducated as the child, because the sign they think is a swastika, isn't a swastika, it's the reverse of a swastika which is actually a peace sign from a religion I can't remember the name of, three, if any of my five children had stood there swearing like a drunken sailor, they would've been chastised for it, not allowed to carry on, children need discipline and boundaries, they also need to be taught how to think, not what to think, what we have here is a failure to parent properly by someone who is uneducated, I know I shouldn't have to point this out, but I will, the total hypocrisy is that the word NAZI is an acronym of the German for NAtional Socialist Party, the NAZI's were predominantly Socialists, Leftists, as were the Fascists, so this woman has more in common with the NAZI Party than anyone on the right of politics, it was the NAZI's and the Fascists who burned books, so they could teach their version of history, much like what the left is doing to our History right now, look how the leftist BBC is trying to teach our children that Britain was built by Immigrants, when we know that until the end of the second world war we were 99.99999% homogeneously a white country, so how could they have built Britain. I'm so sick of the left trying to change our history, our language, Our Story. Surely I can't be the only one.
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Ex Army Padre, happy to speak out about all of this Tim, indeed called this story out as racist on facebook last week with a little post of my own. The issue is much more insidious than this story allows though. I retired in 2020 (joined 1999) and the effect of identity politics on service life is profound. You are no longer an RAF pilot, or a Royal Engineer, or a Royal Navy Rating.....you are a FEMALE RAF Pilot, or a GAY Royal Engineer, or a BAME RN rating, and this identification can been seen manifested in the obvious social segregation in messes and at social events, the females, the LGBT group, the BAME crowd all gather together, there is no integration, only division. I'm not suggesting that there is animosity between groups (sometimes there is) but the underlying message we have adopted promotes division, suspicion, and an atmosphere of fear, of not wanting to 'inappropriately' cross a divide and be accused of disrespect. What gets me is that the very values they say they strive for, diversity, inclusion, respect are the opposite of what is achieved, and they can't see it or admit it! Its total and utter irrational nonsense and its evil. lets call it out when we see it. Racists.....
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Is this just the thin end of the wedge? Bear with me...
Ageing aircraft, woke culture, (how many non-white men have flown in the red arrows?) toxic masculinity (how many women pilots?) and environmental issues, running costs, defence cuts, new ships to pay for, weapons to give to Ukraine, etc., etc..
So, kick up a stink, reduce the team to seven, cancel a few airshows during 'investigations', assign people to other duties, ultimately disband the Red Arrows.
So much easier than just cutting the red arrows and the backlash that would cause. This way, the blame for the disbandment lies with the team themselves, the bean-counters win and the RAF look like they've "dealt with" something rather than just given them the chop.
Far-fetched? Maybe but I'm increasingly cynical after the last few years in particular.
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Like many on here, my dream was to fly but a history of childhood asthma and migraines meant I was unfit for military aviation. However my desire to serve and lead was greater than my desire to fly and so I became an Army Officer. If I could go back I wouldn't change a thing. Sandhurst was incredible and I have served alongside some truly inspirational people - several that sadly died in service. I have led soldiers across the world and I have commanded on operations in Afghanistan and the Middle East. More recently, I found myself at the middle of the UK's Covid 19 response where my skills as a specialist proved valuable. I cannot think of a more rewarding career and believe that I would not have gained the same sense of satisfaction as an RAF pilot.
Working for the RAF in a recent posting, I was shocked to see how the pilots are treated and how poorly managed their careers are - is the juice worth the squeeze? Sat in the mess with holding pilots staring down the barrel of a 5 year training pipeline with multiple holds, I could not help but identify the stark differences to my training expereince where within 18 months of commissioning, the vast majoriry of my platoon at RMAS had deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan doing the job they dreamed of, leading troops.
My military career has been so varied I feel I have already achieved the goals I set out when I embarked on this path. I feel I have served my purpose and can now once again follow a passion. I have been flying vintage aircraft for about 10 years and owned a couple. In my mid 30s I am about half way through my ATPL training and will hopefully be in a position to embark on a second career flying for the airlines, emergency services, GA or as a flying instructor within the next 18 months. If the RAF offered me a place as a direct ME pilot following my training, I don't think I would take it - what a difference 20 years of perspective and experience makes. Dreams change and evolve.
Long story but hopefully showing that not becoming a pilot is not the end of something but rather the start. People should ask themselves why they want to be an RAF pilot is it to fly fast aircraft? There are ways of flying fast aircraft in civvy street. Is it to serve your country? Then go and serve! I don't want to undermine the amazing job pilots do but if I became an RAF pilot now, when I am in my 80's and reflecting on my life, I think I would feel a greater sense of pride having commanded service personnel and the trust they placed in me over having flown a military aircraft. Happy flying everyone!
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I would like to share with you my application from 2020-2021. Similarly to what you said at the beginning, I passed all the prerequisite steps, interview, aptitude test etc. when it came to the medical test however things started to get very strange. I was initially failed because I sleep walked between the ages of 6-7. I appealed and was told I could apply again after 6 months with a letter from my GP. I thought this a bit odd, but as I was determined to fulfil a boyhood dream from the age of two. Second time round, again I passed all the prerequisite steps. When it came to the medical test again (which was just a telephone call with a third party GO), again I was failed. This time, it was for the fact that I had been hospitalised two years previously with food poisoning. By this point I was utterly disappointed and delusional with the RAF. My application process had lasted nearly two years, in which time I had applied as a Weapons Systems Officer, had that door closed to me, applied for a number of different roles, until I finally ended up applying for Intelligence Analysis. I appreciate that when I was applying we were in the middle of the pandemic, however I am sure going by my experience, that there are some discriminatory factors (whether racial, medical etc) involved. This experience made me give up my ambition from the age of two, and left me utterly utterly disappointed. I am now a building surveyor and am very happy in my new role in life.
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Another excellent and entertaining video.
1) You won the maneuver fight (got at least snapshots) but were unable to land the shots. Having the gunsight compute the lead for you would have ended the fights way sooner in your favour. I don't fly the F-5 and other commenters have said there are gunsight modes that help out. In the F-16C and F/A-18C the gunsights are so excellent that even for a snapshot if the dot of death is over the target and you have ammo then you can immediately plan what chaser will follow your cold pint on RTB. Gunnery makes the difference in these ACM fights, first shot and first hit makes the difference (in DCS at least).
2) old missiles suck. If you are in parameters then the AI will pop flares. I wait a few seconds after the flares and then take the shot. Forces him defensive briefly for a better Fox 2 or tracking guns. And I treat even all-aspect older missiles as if they were rear-aspect only. Even AI struggles beating a heater in the jaxx. Anything other than a low aspect shot and the old heaters struggle. Even AIM-9X has low Pk for crossing shots in DCS.
3) a lot of reversals. against a human in DCS in your deep 6 you just decreased the lead he needed to pull. A good human will see you reverse and take a snapshot as you cross. I used to reverse a lot to unload and try and gain energy, doesn't work very well in DCS - although you're the fighter pilot so I'm just mentioning an artifact of this sim.
4) I loved the visuals of the first match which had really high production value. How can we not love your jet plummeting to Sedan Crater over Plutonium Valley (may favourite part of that map) ? it gives great visuals and great Situational Awareness and would benefit those new to DCS a great deal. But I'm sure it took ages to do. For the more seasoned DCS folks here the second match is a more direct representation of what we're used to and like others I found that easier to pick up what would be seen and the decision making from it. Hopefully it is less effort to produce as well I did like seeing the ACMI in a simultaneous subwindow though.
5) Debrief is the most important part of the mission, yeah? Even a minute or two of observations and lessons learned would be fantastic, IMHO, since you have these skills which we DCS players need to get better at.
6) The HP Reverb G2 headset has very much better clarity and is available for pre-order now (I've preordered). I have excellent eyesight (for now) and I'm sure you do too. I find VR generally sux for looking at small air targets and I'm hoping the G2 will make a big difference. If HP are smart they'll furnish you withl one for review if you ask them. If they don't get you one then email me (I'm a contributor to FJP on Patreon) and I can contribute more. Gotta have the right kit.
7) To me fighting in the F-5 is harder than in the F-16 or F/A-18. Not only because of performance but because of the electronics (or lack thereof). I'd get the sight pictures right in the F-16 and then transition to the F-5 which is more work to fight in, IMHO (although things happen more slowly in the F-5, so better for training nuggets).
8) The keyboard F5 key will show a view from you to the target. Can be hit multiple times to toggle between targets WVR. It's a cheat and bad habit to use in combat, but can be useful in your own personal training sessions as you get used to the quirks of DCS.
9) as always, please never, ever stop the stream-of-consciousness commentary coming. Sets you apart and is both very informative and entertaining.
Thanks again Tim for this and the huge effort you are putting in to producing these. I hope your missus and the pheasant forgive you for the time spent away from them :)
ps. This was so good I'm now going to watch it again on big screen 4k TV where it'll look even more amazing than the 4k monitor. Your content has replay value.
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Honestly, well, it’s a struggle to be honest anymore. I admire your attitude towards this topic. As a 17 year old, I keep a lot to myself - no internet comments (your videos are the rare exception!), no arguments with people in real life - even though I have a lot to say about many issues. It’s not about offending or triggering people because I work off facts - facts are how people change my mind and facts are sometimes what people are afraid to hear. But with the cancel culture of today it is hard to have your opinion if it conflicts with the ‘mob mentality’ that you may be arguing against. Though the the main reason I keep to myself is to preserve my career, this may just be me being paranoid but everything you say on the internet can be checked and held against you, especially by organisations like the MoD and future employers.
About this specific issue I don’t think that anyone in the service should be undervalued, especially when young people like me are aspiring to be officers, I realise that the people who may be ‘under you’ (no disrespect, just in relation to the command structure) will have much, much more experience and expertise than you.
My question to you is just how much should us young people voice our opinions, especially if it is online and in relation to controversial topics? I’d much rather keep my opinion to myself, or at the most have a rational discussion in real life using some FCS’s and truth bombs!
Oh, and has that pheasant finished weapons training yet? 😂
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Thank you Tim for such a wonderful take on my story. Your way of talking about these ownership issues (see what I did there, never thought of it in that way, but makes a whole lot more sense now) is just fantastic.
I have had my downs and also had my ups. I am feeling a lot better in a lot of ways, thank you to everyone who has asked. I am also feeling still down about others, but in time, I will turn those feelings into ups again.
I have a great job, studying software development, spending time with my daughter (week on, week off custody), and I have a lot to look forward to. Playing football, exercising really helps a lot.
As Tim has mentioned, I have said that I would like to help anyone, I am here to chat, I am here to reach out and just be there for anyone who needs it. Feel free to reach out if you would like to.
Thank you for the kind comments you have posted everyone, I have loved to see the funny ones as well on here. Riccardo, mine was a spiking incident, however because of the seizure, they wouldn't take the chance of it happening at 420 kts at low level, which is fair enough. I can't complain about it at all. It is a public safety risk, and not something that, in a different scenario, that I would let go through as well.
I am looking forward to flying on Shadowlands. I am on Discord, and the guys there are so great, so welcoming, so insane! Anyone who has an inkling of interest in military aviation, come and get taught by Tim in the ways of flying fast jets. I have no doubt you won't regret it.
Thanks all.
Rob
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Check out The Fearless Organization by Amy Edmondson for a good book on psychological safety.
I had a bit of an epiphany myself the other day. When someone got my amygdala fired up with their words or actions, my old habit was to give them a full broadside. I struggled with this because the punishment didn't fit the crime, and I didn't want to bottle up my emotions and thoughts. I realized I was making their slight into a huge thing, and making my own feelings worthless. If they said something bullying toward me, I wanted to spew my feelings out like throwing spare change on the ground. I realized, that I had to see my own feelings as valuable, and not to be thrown around like trash. I wanted to be able to turn bullies into butterflies, and that mental flip did the trick for me. Now my mantra is, my feelings are valuable, and I'm not going to throw them away on fools. I'm not bottling my feelings, I'm looking after them like the precious things that they are. I share this in the hope it helps someone like me.
Thanks for another thoughtful piece! Thanks for helping out!
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ill share a funny fact for tim.. i know a dude that got shot 4 or so times in the back, reason behind it (no pun intended) someone in his "gang" stolen thousands of pounds worth of a "thing" from another "gang" A lead to B, reason he lived, he was getting shot through a vehicle with a small pistol caliber, so his rib cage meat caught the rounds, one day i was sat at table with him in a public place, slightly older guy i've not known, come over talking to me and this dude like a best friend of his for a good 20min or so, when he got up said goodbyes shook hands and had left, my friend turned to me and said (smiling cheerful in a really good mood) thats the guy that shot me.. drawing a comparison with that, every woman i have ever known outside off my family has had completely nonsensical beef they absolutely will not drop even after over a decade with other woman, over as little as a funny look or they said something they didnt like, said completely innocently with zero intention of causeing offence, even the sweetest girl i've ever known done the same, one even had a pretty serious fight over the nonsensical beef, now i know most dudes will think LOL woman fighting what harm will that do... wait till you see them bite it will change your mind... was a very awkward trip to the hospital felt like everyone was looking at me like "did you do that to her"
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One of the problems of Positive Action is something that very few in high places, or the media, wish to address. Many British subjects of EM backgrounds feel very, very little affinity to Britain, the British or the British culturally. They primarily identify with their own ethnicity, culture or religion, be that Pakistani, Indian, Caribbean or African etc. whilst they live in Britain and enjoy the benefits of life in Britain, they do not actually feel British or in many cases do they wish to, this is the legacy of Multicultural Britain. As a result, very, very few people from ethnic minorities would ever consider joining the armed forces and serving their adopted country. This is not a failure of the armed forces, more a political failure to ensure that those immigrating to Britain are mentally prepared to, and strongly encouraged to adopt the culture of their host country. Trying to pretend this problem does not exist, and more over, inferring that the problem lies with the institutions of the host country will solve absolutely nothing.
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A fascinating, interesting but ultimately deeply worrying subject.
We are being slowly subsumed from within by those who have no care for history, culture or individual views and opinions. And we seem to be just letting it happen.
Like you, I can only hope the pendulum swings back and that the whole “woke” perspective just start to listen to themselves. I am all for “freedom of speech” but that means that differences of opinion have to be understood and respected, not blanked or ignored.
As for diversity and quotas, that was beginning to appear in the rail industry, where I spent just over 41 years in a very masculine environment. To my mind, companies should never just fill posts with types of individuals in order to tick a box on a corporate checklist. Best person for the job always worked in my day, male or female.
Its a sad world we are living in these days.
I think I am the first to view and comment, which is something new for me, it must be said!
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@FastJetPerformance Tim, I've been saying, almost preaching so, much to family, friends and colleagues that it is crucial that do all we can to stop any more of our beautiful British pubs from closing. Once they are closed, they are gone forever, erasing yet more of our identity, community and traditional culture. Keep up the amazing work Tim, brave talk, important, and funny with it!! Many thanks! 👍
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Thanks for your replies. To my mind, whats left of it!, I think the service has lost its core values. Broad statement maybe but, when I joined the RAF had around 90,000 of all trades linked to one thing, projection of air power. Sounds grand eh! But, from the AOC down that was the ethos. Cook, SWO's dog, Vbomber crew all unified by that. The comradeship that engendered was unique. On flying squadrons we called the officers Boss and they called us by our first names. At one time I had an AOC who had one eye, one arm and had been a Lanc Pilot. He was an insomniac and on nights at the then HQ 1 Group (I was an LAC) he came into my section and sat with me for an hour in his carpet slippers, drank tea and just nattered.
In Oman my WO had flown the last spit in Hong Kong. Lovely guy (Kiwi) with a wicked sense of humour. We had self discipline back then, didnt overstep the mark and so a verbal rocket was very unusual. I look of "mild disapproval" usually sufficed.
Point is, we were all in it together and that made it a unique career.
I saw that begin to die dramatically when the cold war ended. For reasons I cannot fully explain, the characters began to leave, career minded politicians began to take over. The fun died along with it.
Last thought, I had an old Chiefy friend who died recently. He and I would laugh like drains at stories of old. A couple of young linies were sitting with us one day and both said, sadly, "Its nothing like that now".
I can believe that sadly!
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This is the first time i have come across Tim's site, I know very little about Cognitive impairment but watching this Video led me to think about the term, cognitive performance!
Tim's thought process appears to be as fast as the fast jets he used to fly and that,tot me (my opinion only) is surely an inherit trait of a RAF fast jet pilot! And that's why the selection process needed to assess the suitability of the candidates to be fortunate to land (pardon the pun) what I think is the most exciting job, profession, career in the world. Flying fast jets for the RAF is such a tough one!
I take pains to point out that is only my view. I worked in the NHS as a Paramedic, and Paramedic instructor, a job i loved but everytime I looked skywards and saw a RAF fast jet flying low level and fast (I live in Wales...we do tend to see our fair share of fast low level RAF (and other) Jets!) A tinge of envy would always creep in!
Hypoxia (low level O2 in arterial blood ivariably always affects cognitive ability and even physiologicaly impairs the body's various 'systems' be they the neurological 'system' to the cardiovascular one! Hypoxia is not a normal state for the Human body to exist in, Transient episodes can be tolerated but it does not take much for the fine line between 'normal' and impaired cognitive performance and impairment to take place, however I digress. Back to Earth.
I am now a new Subscriber and really look forward to catching up with Tims 'Back Catalogue'
NB just a point, or two, of interest. A friend of mine did a Course in Dive saturation medicine as he wanted a job as a medic in the Oil rig industry...that really went deep into Hypoxia, anoxia, Hyercapnea, and every 'law' of Gases you could think of!
Yes I appreciate how dfferent the physiological effects of fast jet flyingare to saturation diving but their is some common ground, however tenuous a link it can be, as both can deal with neurological impairment as a result of factors associated with each profession Divers can succumb to Nitrogen narcosis (raptures of the deep) and fast jet pilots can fall to the perils 'black out and or Grey out' I am certainly not an expert on either but i believe both can be a pre terminal event!
Facinating stuff.
(please excuse spelling dyslexia is a battle I constantly fight!) Point of interest I was part of a paramedic crew on a job where a Sea harrier crashed here in wales. (we were first on scene. Nothing left much of the wreckage but thank god the pilot had ejected, ... Lesson..Never, NEVER cut the G suit trousers of Your patient (Pilot) with your clinical shears...Forget all your traing about expose and examine, even if your patieent does have a compound Fracture of Femur...The Milliatary retrieval team helicoptered in, that went to the A and E unit we had taken our patent to, They, this Team were not happy with the A and E unit and the pre hospital Paramedic team ( us!) for cutting this specialised and I dare say very expensive bit of kit, But here's another way of viewing it; You can lose 20% blood volume from a open AND even a 'closed' fractured femur (you can literally bleed into the muscle/tissue of the leg, this blood, although technically still in the body is not now in the large vessels, it has now left the vascular system... So now we can have a situation where a patient may have both Femurs fractured, open or closed. This 'hypothetical scenario where our patient has.Bilateral Fractures can result in a total 40% blood loss! FYI, 30% loss results in a situation where the patient is now decompensating. From a heamodynamic stand point this can be fatal I am not sure how much these G suits cost but I suspect the cost of training this pilot exceeds it. Several times over! Not to mention the pure ethics of it. Preservation of life is always paramount!
Admitedly. conversely sometimes it does indeed occur whereby cutting these G suits can make the patients condition worse! Here is a rather crude analogy of a similar story involving a motorcyclists tight fitting leather Jeans acting like MAST trousers in the scenario of Trauma! Cut them away quickly before making a 'proper, comprehensive' survey and watch that patient go unconscious in front of you as his BP plummets!, but our sea harrier pilot had a query compound (open) fracture!
But, that, as they say, is another story for another day.
I apologise for going off track, Maybe I should do a similar channel to Tim's but on the far less glamerous job of a Paramedic. Apologies Tim from your latest Subscriber!
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Tim, conceptually, I think you are right, however, we are living in strange times right now, where honesty, decency and integrity, are no longer held to be pre-requisites for those wishing to engage in public life.
Leading on from this, we must accept, that people in high office - and prospective candidates for such - will lie. Further, we must remember that many lawyers become politicians because , at their heart, both professions are adversarial, and, as in a court of law, very little is 'off the table' when attempting to gain an advantage .... particularly leading up to an election, and an individual's Service Record is a legitimate target where foul play is concerned, Ref today's indictment of Fire Chief Nick Adderley?
I make no comment regarding the spat between these two individuals, other than this, Mercer is no newbie, and must be fairly certain re the veracity of his allegations, if that isn't the case...... he's a damn fool.
Glad I'm not the only one ............. chucking a vote at Mr Farage .....
Keep up the good work Tim, All the Best. G
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Ethos.
You missed one, not only that, but probably the one that most pertains to the services.
It could be said, possibly, that while we ‘might’ share values, as Britons, and this is what we bring, and is considered, when we join. The services, each in their own inimitable style, with their own history and lore, then pass on ‘their’ ethos, that will set us apart, from lesser mortals, for the rest of our days. Certainly ‘ethos’ is a fragile beast, easily snuffed out in the jaws of bitter, humiliating, defeat, but, it seems, not content to wait, ritual Hara-Kiri must be performed to slay this ‘white’ dragon so that a NEW ethos can be created, because of this, ALL things that pertain to the past, the previous ethos must be squashed, stamped on and hidden from view, or, in this case, ‘white’ men.
P.S Task & Purpose had a good video on recruitment woes in Western democracies. Nobody, it seems, wants to defend ‘our’ values, because nobody has any idea what OUR values are anymore………except possibly denigrating ourselves and our history, and who would want to risk their lives defending that ?
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I'm so upset about this, I can't put it into words. I'm sure you don't have a racist bone in your body. I served in the army in the 70's and 80's, I didn't care what colour the man stood beside me was, I only cared about his character, I wanted them to be the same as me, and creed, colour or name, made no difference, as far as I was ever aware, I put their lives, above everything else, and relied on them doing the same, understanding that they knew that I had their back, and the notion would be reciprocated. The forces are a team, we all have to know that we look out for each other, otherwise the whole system collapses. I was always happy to serve alongside anyone, no matter their race, skin colour, or gender, but I would expect them to also be qualified, and willing to make the same sacrifices for me, as I would, for them. I'm thankful that I am long retired from the forces today, because I don't think that those who are recruiting, have anyone's best interests at heart, they are just playing a game of numbers to satisfy people who will never understand the commitments of going to war
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Tim, it's funny to me, I've never served and never been through a filter interview for the forces. But I have been on both sides of the interview table, and knowing how much the candidate side sucked, I set about making that better from the employer side. I fell somewhere on what it seems the Air Force do for filter interviews. I've hired people for Software Developer positions (at all levels), my junior intake interviews went as follows:
- Can you hold a conversation? Even though HR freaked out about it, I had one guy talking about Thatcher era politics - I didn't care what his opinion was, I just wanted him to have one and be able to express it, and be receptive to a different point of view.
- Do you know the basic language that we write software in? This test was as simple as being able to write your own name in English. I wasn't expecting anyone to be Van Gogh, but if you can paint by numbers and stay within the lines, you get the next test...
- How quickly do you admit you don't know something? This one was a 1 line bug in some software I'd written specifically for the test, but the problem was described in language that would require a PhD to understand. If you understood the problem and fixed the bug, you fail, because you have a PhD and you're applying for a junior seat.
- If all of that is done within 1hour and conversation is still flowing - does my best guy like you as a person?
And then at the end of the hour, if I'm not shouting YES enthusiastically, it's a no. But for showing up & putting the effort in, I always doubled the time allocation to write feedback. Spend an hour talking to me, I'll spend 2 writing up my opinions to help you in the next interview.
The best person I've ever interviewed ticked all those boxes within their first 15mins, so I stopped the interview there and then with a "give me a number, no BS, how much to make you say yes to come work with us? If I have it in the budget, you get the number you say."
More senior level positions, I think I put one person through 9 rounds of interviews, but we paid them an hourly rate equivalent for the role, their flights, accommodation, food & drink, before any decision was made. Since they had to relocate, we were also paying 6 months rent in with the contract... so I wanted to be DAMN sure.
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Tim, your spot on 100%, you lead people without fear or favour.
I actually done the same thing at my morning muster this morning and my words were, your a professional, if you keep the professional hat on you won’t go wrong.
Tim, some people can not make that distinction, I’m an ex RAF officer and in my last few years as a staff officer in the reserves I ran pre OASC courses embedded in our ethos of our training was integrity, professionalism and Standards regardless of our demographics, I served for over 25 years non commissioned and commissioned and left in 2019 through choice as I seen the woke writing on the wall.
In parallel to my reserve service I was in a blue light service and still am, to this day I Instil in my shift the same integrity, professionalism and standards to this day.
I’m glad that we are starting to rid ourselves of chains and restraints our governments in Westminster and holy rood have inflicted on us and people like TR are the ones lighting that beacon. But remember we still wear that hat. Good common sense and logic though Tim, have a great day.
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I get your point! However, not far from me, British pilots trained at Falcon Field in Mesa, Arizona. WE also have a graveyard where your brave pilots trained and some had accidents. Yes, you should have your own instructors and facilities. But, short of that, we love you guys. Not just me, ask any American. I get it, crosswinds., so work on your government the best you can. Hell, I live in a small mining town east of Mesa, Arizona and I would house a British pilot free of charge if you need to come here in an even bigger way. I have no idea what the answer is, but I am sure you do. Keep up the good work. You really should not worry about American support for UK. I know nobody who doesn't feel the same. For whatever it is worth, best of luck to all of you.
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Hi Tim, did message you on Instagram last week but this video really helped to put into words what I went through all those years ago. As a kid, always dreamed about being a fighter pilot in the RAF, at 7 years old I would read the stories of GR1 Tornado and Jaguar pilots flying in Desert Shield and Storm and it became a dream of mine, that’s what I wanted to do, by the age of 10, I pretty much had an encyclopaedic knowledge of aircraft across the world, where everything was based and I thought based on passion alone, I was guaranteed a slot in the RAF.
I was lucky enough, as I’m a local boy to Cranwell, to spend a week doing work experience for school at RAF Cranwell when I was 15, whilst everyone else had boring office jobs, I was on the back of a GR3 Jaguar tearing panels off and living the dream, this is what I wanted to do. Got to sit in an old Hunter and Jetstream, trying to cram myself in and make myself as comfortable as possible all the while lecturing guys on the different modes of the ALARM, the RAFs anti-radiation missile. On the second to last day, I was with a group of ladies and mentioned how cramped the cockpits were, to then being told I might be too tall to be a pilot. They got out the chart of max measurements to be a pilot in the RAF, sat me down and started measuring my bum to my knee, top of the knee to the floor, bum to the top of my head, the works, and I was over on every measurement...I put a brave face on it but as a 37 year old guy, I can say that is one of the worst days of my life and a day I still think about.
At the moment, I’m an IT engineer for an agriculture company, looking at paying £5k for flying lessons next year to get my license and at least for fill part of my dream to be a pilot, life has a way of getting in the way of dreams by throwing expensive wrenches at you but I’m determined to be able to fly by the time I’m 39. Thank you for the videos Tim and sharing your life, it’s a fantastic learning experience that I can use in my normal life.
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I have resigned as a Royal Air Force Cadet Civilian Instructor. I brought my knowledge as an Aircraft Designer, Hawk at Hawker Siddeley, and Concorde BAC. I flew gliders and as a boy was a cadet, and have been a flight simmer for twenty years. I was driven out by un-ending Woke Courses, the ATCs psychotic fear of progressive parents with solicitors on speed dial, which sucked the life and joy out of any activity that might pose the slightest risk. Remember the ATC Motto “Venture Adventure”? And I have experienced a complete lack of interest in Aviation subjects. The priority was always outward bound courses, first aid, leadership, sport, anything but aviation. There was some aviation training but always the last priority. The cadets hardly ever fly, shoot or do the things I did as a cadet. Courses about Diversity, White privilege and all the rest were just around the corner. So I had to leave…..ps I think I’ll check out your Training Course as I have DCS.
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I always wanted to be a pilot but let’s just say my last year at school I wagged most f it. I ended up joining the army, joined the Royal Signals. After 2 years I wanted a bit more adventure even though in my days as a radio relay op we were sent out even before the special forces, to go out n get set up on top of a mountain or a gps position when in the gulf war n we actually crossed into Iraqi territory 4 weeks before the war actually started n we were in a 5 man team & I loved it. Anyway I did P Company, passed & was part of 16 air assault brigade. My new job was a JTAC (Joint Terminal Air Controller). I basically went out with the Paras & if we needed support, be it an artillery strike, call in fast air (only wanted British or US platforms) as other nations (French cough, German cough n other’s) were not very good n even to get a show of force out of them u had to beg as we sat on the ground with bullet’s pinging past our ears. So I would talk a pilot onto a target & vaporise the threat. I LOVED IT, I got my aviation fix by talking to pilots, loved watching all the different airframes in action, we even had Tornados a few times. Watching that target knowing a paveway had jus come off the rail of a jet up high n waiting for that 2000lbs shockwave, I did all the wars since 1990-2007. I agree hugely that the military does hardly anything to get u de-militarised. In job interviews I was yes sir, no sir etc. Even when I was working I got annoyed when something wasn’t done n the excuse was always “that’s not part of my job description”. In the army if. Something was needing doing it was just done. I would go nuts n before long I was always infront of HR. It took easily over 2 years to even start to act normal.
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Hi Tim,
Living in Australia, evacuated by my parents in 67, via immigration, seeing no future for his 4 boys and daughter. I feel your pain and though I miss everything about UK, still I’m holding off from just a holiday. I can’t see it being fixed Tim, sorry to say, my only hope now is a complete new world under Gods Kingdom goverment, crushing these evil powers as Danial the prophet warned us in Dan 2:44. Sorry mate, it must be terrible for you and my fellow Brits to watch such a civilisation fall. Sincere Condolences,Richard
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Here's hoping it's not just more propaganda demonising men. As they said, there's an element of it in the film, so let's see.
If it's a film encouraging women to get involved and realise their potential, I'm all for that, but if it does it by standing on the heads of men, I'll be disappointed, though not all-together surprised.
"women are as good as men, if not better" (quote from interview), well, OK.
"men are as good as women, if not better". See how that works (or doesn't)...
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Tim
As a FS in charge of a Flt of 30 guys (Regt), I realised that sometimes even the toughest of these guys needed someone away from their mates, who they could discusd a problem with, something they felt that they
could not deal with. These conversations, sometimes with the guy in tears, where strictly between me and him and behind close doors. The saying "a problem shared is a problem halved" rings true, and so as their FS, I was able to deal many of their issues discreetly. I'm no agony aunt but I felt that it was always worth keeping ones ear to the ground and dealing with issues before they got worse and especially before any detachments. Yes to these tough lads I was still a w******r, but I was a FS and that came with the territory however, at least they knew that if they had a problem, I could normally deal with it in the strictest of confidence, or forward them the someone who could, be that the Chief Clerk or the Clap Clinic.
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This all makes perfect sense! When I applied for the Army, I came to the recruiting office armed to the teeth with information and enthusiasm, I spent months doing my research, I spend years reading books and watching movies of historic battles/moments in history. I made sure I knew the current political situation and did my research on units, current deployments and where I could effectively find myself fighting in 12 months time. I did this because I wanted it, I wanted it with all my soul. I was passionate about it. I was a late joiner so I had the benefit of some real life experience before this. The forces need people who WANT to be there, who are passionate about it. They need people who are committed. Especially in job roles where there is significant investment in resources and training.
I feel for this young lady, more so for the father, but the recruiters did right by her, and they did right by the tax payers.
Is this really what she wants? If it is she will rightly go away and do the work over the next year. If not, it was never for her in the first place.
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Hi Tim, just done the maths for the 4 female captains. Suppose each captain was equally likely to apply for the position to head one of the establishments, out of the 250. As you said, we have an 8% proportion of female captains. This tells us that the probability of selecting a female captain out of the 250 for the job is 0.08. We can then use this probability with a binomial distribution to find out the probability of all 4 selecting a woman, if each captain is equally likely. So, putting it into the binomial distribution with a probability of 0.08, number of trials as 4, and our x ordinate as 4, looking at the probability that our selection is greater than or equal to 4, we return 0.00004096 as the probability that all 4 establishments would select a woman from a pool of all 250 captains, if each captain was equally likely to be selected.
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I'm a 20-s year old fresh uni grad. Massively into bikes. My bike instructor was ex ARMY - and promoted the forces in such a rosy tint. Thankfully, i decided to put the idea on the back-burner because all of the shit of pension age rising / payouts decreasing hit the news.
This is a great video. Not only did you show the RAF (and forces) in the cold light of day, but you hit the nail on the head on how MY generation (Z) feels about the UK as a whole. I was surprised, no offence, to hear it from a middle aged white ex-military man who is obviously doing okay for himself.
Upper management / government is absolutely incompetent. Prioritising the wrong projects, people and ideas.
I dont want to be called out for being -phobic anything. I love people, all people. But the current idea isnt working for ANYBODY. We should just UNIVERSALLY accept WITHOUT bias or discrimination. No targets. They end up doing the opposite. Include, value and love everyone. Exclude no-one, unless theyve done something to deserve it.
We need to think about the future, in all aspects. How can we be happier, healthier and better off in 10/20/50 years time? The ENTIRE system needs to change. It's all too short term.
Ahh fuck it, this is just my 2 cents. Great video. Thank you for speaking your mind in such a constructive, open manner. The world needs more open-ness.
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Well, german here, 41years of age.
I was voluntarily contracting 4 years of army service in the german mountain infantry, beginning of 2003.
Short before that, I was part of the biggest anti-war demonstration in Germany in 2003 as I and million others could feel the fraud about WMD, Powell and the whole Iraq War.
Coming from a military family, it was always a kind of duty and calling to me to serve my people.
I was and still am ready to defend my people and maybe even some little bigger cause in Europe, but for me it has to be justified.
Not gonna lie here, the army time was one of my best times in life so far, with a lot of experiences and feelings I'll never want to miss.
Went out, not contracting further, due to privat things and many years I regretted it, because it was my way.
Interesting how I stumbled upon this video and interesting to see the same kind of problems and agendas in your country.
Having old comrades still in the german army - well, what a shit show, destroyed by stupid decisions.
In january 2023 I got a letter from the german army, (I was 40), if I want to go back (had some kind of specialised military educations) for a new formed Tank Brigade (...as former mountain infantry man).
This time it is even more visible, the lies, the fraud (Nord-stream 2 e.g.) and that we in Europe, shall kill our european neighbours in favour of some other power on some far away continent.
But why securing a foreign border with arms, when most european nations are not willing to secure their own borders?
Honestly, we would need more security on home christmas markets and schools than on some foreign border.
Beside, that Russia has a reason to do defend itself, due to our agressive elites and governments, which are shitting on us native people, in order to make money and to fullfil their geostrategic nonsense dreams.
In my opinion - our governments can f themselfes, I am not going as cannon fudder for foreign and anti-native european interests into some other useless war.
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Tim, I was one of two WOs running the BSG (Base Support Group) at RAF Cranwell, that employed ex serving RAF personnel from all trades, on a 90 annual (VERR) contract (including some ex aircrew). The idea was to employ those ex serving and living locally, to cover gaps at bases around Lincolnshire, with project work covering maternity leave, Dets etc. The idea was sound and why not, after all these people maintained a wealth of service and civilian experiences to continue to contribute to the RAF. It was well received by all of the units that used the BSG however, we worked out that of the 90 annual days, a maximum of 3 of those days would be needed outside of their original task, to cover all of the mandatory face-to-face and online DEI training etc that their Regular colleagues did, with the exception of GDT and the RAFFT.
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Forgot your sea jersey? Up Sandquay steps you run - hopefully you're not in Blake Division - that's a LONG way, PLX, ABLE, Commander's Rounds, don't break your ankle on those polished floors, Saturday morning divisions, someone drops their sword on your freshly bulled parade boots, RIVEREX, falling asleep in CJH (get down and give me 50), flashing outside the swimming pool, all your kit folded into squares, one for show, one for go ... good times!
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Just came across your channel. Great listening to someone with common sense, which seems rare these days.
I feel lonely all the time, but I am thankful that some family and friends make sure I am not always alone. I have always been negative about myself and lacked confidence because of this. If it wasnt for the fact I am able to go out with friends every now and then, and I manage to do drone work 7 times a year (thanks to one of my cousins), I would NEVER leave my flat. I think it got worse after the passing of my parents in 2017/2018.
I am single, 50 yr old, and live alone in my flat (single due to negative thoughts leading to confidence issues), and I want to do so many things, but just keep hitting a brick wall. I am grateful for the family and friends that are there when I need them, problem is I hate bothering people with my issues as I know people have issues of their own. I would rather help them than help myself. Lately, my sleeping has been all over the place. Sometimes not wanting to go to sleep, or unable to fall asleep, so awake for 30/40 hrs then falling asleep during the day. Working on it and slightly better now, but the diabetes isn’t helping I don’t think.
Having people around that you can relax with and talk to, is a must, when you feel like this. I just need to find that confidence and motivation to do things, like clean my flat, go out on my own. Listening to you does give me hope I can get through this mindset I have right now. Hearing you mention the weights etc, makes me want to do more exercise, just a case of braking down that wall to do more. I need more YT videos like yours.
I also agree with everything you said about the Ukraine War. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos. A pleasant change to the toxic, woke, videos out there. Thank you.
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Hiya mate
A few points in regard to the disgusting Huw Edwards saga…
Yes, sedition is still a very important crime, but it is NOT as serious as Treason, worse still High Treason; both of which are being committed by our public servants, on a daily basis.
In light of what their own colleagues are doing, would it be realistic for those public servants to prosecute us for our comments as to how we are able to lawfully repel such evil?
Realistic or not, the answer is YES, because they are devoid of all standards of decency and honour.
By contrast, the British people remain as honourable as we have always been, and we refuse to be coerced into acceptance of paedophilia, or the enforcement of non-crimes by public servants.
We also refuse to be cowed by Stalin Starmer’s threats to curtail our rights at Common Law. So what can we do?
We can petition the King and - not just ask - but INSTRUCT him to do his job and put the brakes on this tyrannical government. THAT’S HIS JOB!
Every sovereign indigenous Briton is allowed to petition the King, and as long as it does not contain swear words or threats of unlawful action; we are free to express ourselves through normal language.
However, LAWFUL threats are perfectly acceptable, because WE are sovereign and all public servants, including the monarch, WORK FOR US.
What are ‘lawful threats’?
An example is as follows:
When sending a petition to the King and requesting that certain unlawful actions by public servants be stopped; there is nothing unlawful in adding something like…
… ‘However, if you should choose to ignore this petition and not take action to curtail this tyrannous government, then I will invoke all of my rights within our Common Law and Constitution, which includes a multitude of freedoms that I may have concurred with to date…
For example, we are lawfully entitled to:
bear arms;
ignore requests for compliance from public servants;
refuse to pay ANY taxes
Refuse to pay for licences of any kind;
Ignore orders of the courts;
To completely ignore requests for our acquiescence from anyone…
In the light of such action by millions of sovereign indigenous Britons, I wonder how long it will take for YOU to do your job, and take the appropriate action?
I’m quite willing to find out’…
THIS comment does not incite anyone to do anything. It merely states what I am already doing.
The gloves are off!
Cheers
Mike
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So many entry points to comment on regarding this on-going issue. If anything, it has snowballed into an international disgrace and embarresment. You said in this post, you have been helping people through your channel and platforms since around 2010. I am one of those people. You helped me navigate through a facinorous divorce, that put me in the gutter for 2 years. We had a couple of conversations via video, and your coaching and words were not wasted. I am through it, living in a luxury apartment and picking up my new Mercedes 350E tomorrow morning. You need to know Tim, your library of videos and writings have been so valuable in my recovery, and return to normality. There is a natural tendency to over-focus on the challenges and negatives, at the expense of all the decency, goodness and added-value we bring about. We only go to the Doctor when in pain; we never return to share with the Doctor just how great we're doing now. I believe there are hundreds, if not thousands of people who have benefited from you, your platforms and your sincere desire to help ALL others. Though once they have overcome their challenges, you may not hear from them again or receive a great big attaboy. We need wankers and bell-ends, in order for us to distinguish and validate right from wrong, good from bad, sensible from potty, and most crucially courage from cowardice. When I drive my new Merc off the lot tomorrow morning, I will remind myself that FJP played no small part in my road to this new and exciting life. It would a nice thing to do, if those of us who have benefited from FJP in some way could share their successes with Tim. Let the Doctor know how great your doing now. I would be highly delighted to see Tim put a video out, summarizing some of the success stories that must surely be out there. Tailwinds and Blue Skies!
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Fascinating to eavesdrop on this chat. I've trained 25K practitioners in the management of large, complex defence projects, building stuff (Hawk, Tornado) for you guys to fly. Now approaching retirement having worked with MDs, CEOs, F35 instructors, Apache pilots, Nuclear sub captains. Like you I flunked my A levels , turned up at Blackpool careers office and got a BAC apprenticeship. 21 years building aircraft then 21 training/consulting. Majority of the stand out people were told by someone they'd never make the grade, so your thoughts on humility are spot on.
Fail often, fail better. Work hard. Trust God.
You're doing a great job Tim, keep it going.
Now learning Tornado IDS on XPlane ... all those switches and dials :-0
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I have worked with/ for fighters pilots.
Yes they are competitive, yes sometimes they behave like dush.
No they don't always show proper respect for the people supporting them.
But it goes with the type of people you need to do this job. At the end of the day, they put their live on the line to get the job done.
When I had to deal with type of dush, I just had to remember that I don't work for him personally, I was working for the service, I was serving the country.
And that type of people won't respect whining, if you have to say something, just say it up front (within proper rank limit).
Some French fighter pilot compared a squadron to a wolf pack. And from what I saw from the outside, it's quite accurate.
It isn't for "snowflake".
And while we are at it, being the air force, army or navy, any type of guy supposed to go to "fire" will be competitive and direct.
That's a matter of effectiveness and survival.
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Well, if that muppet read the original statement in the spirit it was written, it makes a proud declaration that everybody has a role to play and the support is highly valued and appreciated. There is only room for one fighter in the plane, but they are the tip of a very effective spear.
I personally wanted very much to join the RAF as a tech., specifically Jet propulsion tech. and would have loved to be part of that. I'm bloody certain that I would have made a very good one. so good in fact, that the person in the cockpit would have one less thing to think about. A failing jet engine. That's my job mate, you fly the bugger. I love being meticulous, I don't relish being shot at by a missile. Takes a special person to cope with that on top of all the constant rapid information processing/ quick fire decision making they have to do.
I took the aptitude tests and the guy just thumbed through the whole book of trades and asked me which one I wanted, and the jet propulsion tech one immediately caught my eye. Alas, I did not get in because my right hand has four short fingers on it. Notice, I did not say to myself before applying to the RAF 'Oh my hand is a bit wonky so I'll not bother.' I know my abilities and wanted to show others what I was capable of. If anyone has a claim to being a victim of non-inclusion it's me I guess. I own a tool chest that 3 men could not lift, you tell me what my aptitude is for mechanical tasks. Anything you could think of in a car and motorcycles. So i should have got the job. But some Air commodore took a look at my hand and told me I could not be treated any different than the others. I did not want to be treated differently, just assessed on my abilities. Their loss, I would have been awesome because my heart was set on it.
Anyway, back to the point. If you are in the RAF, you are included. More than I ever was. You are highly valued and just as important as the guy in the seat of the plane. Get on with your part of the job and stop whining.
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I'll be 65 in January and started working at 16. I was painfully shy but loved the good old banter with male work colleagues. I used to blush talking to anyone, but because I had an older brother and loved being around his mates who came to our home, I've never been shy of boys or men. I hated senior school as it was an all girls school, and I'd been used to being at school with boys before. The girls could be itchy, but I was popular with the boys and they looked out for me. When I started work in 1976 at 16, I worked in an office with 2 29 year-old women. Because I was quiet and shy, they got rid of me after about 4 months. It was the best thing they ever did!!! It was at a garage and car showroom, and they banished me to working down with the parts department men. My tiny office over-looked the large garage, where about 15 mechanics worked!! I loved it. Men everywhere had always whistled at me, right from when I was about 13, and they'd be cheeky to me - making me blush, but always making me laugh. Later, from 1980, I worked as a telephonist in the Portsmouth Dockyard. I loved it. The men (all ages), used to flirt with me, and I used to get chatted up my sailors on the phone. Some of the young women, around my age used to get so nasty when men called them 'love', dear, or 'darlin' and I used to to say to them, don't be so miserable, they mean it as a term of endearment. So even back then, some women were nasty. The only time I didn't like it was an Irish guy who worked in the telephone exchange, was very nasty. He used to tell really disgusting jokes. I'm no prude, but they were vile. At first I laughed and blushed, and I didn't want to seem prudish. But I asked him one day, to please not tell me those sort of jokes as I just didn't want to hear them. He came up and shouted it in my face. I never told on him as he'd been there longer than me. I'd left the job in 1985 you see, and returned in 1991, and he was new to me. It got so bad, I went home one day and never went back. My boyfriend met this guy (we had a leaving 'do' for a female colleague who left to have a baby), it was at a pub and we could take our partners along. This guy went up to the girl leaving and made a lewd comment about her breastfeeding him - my boyfriend said to me, "is that the guy"? It was a few months after this episode that I left. I chatted with a woman on Facebook 2 years ago (she is about 10 years younger than me), and she told me he'd died. I said that it was sad and a pity, but I said that I never liked him. It turns out he had been like it to all the women. But I love men, particularly British men, and I miss being whistled at. Even in the 90's, men whistled at me and chatted me up, telling me I looked like Marilyn Monroe, or Debbie Harry!! Women have stopped all that from men, and it's a crying shame. For a few years now, men keep quiet and don't know what they're allowed to say or do. Obviously some are vile, just like some women are vile. The BBC don't care about the vile ones - they just seem to promote them these days!!!
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Thank you. You've taken a very rational position in how you've presented this issue. Needless to say, like yourself, I've taken the time since childhood to appraise myself of our world, the various nations, and their interactions across multiple centuries right up until today. As a result, for the past four decades, I've found myself isolated from the general population both in the US, Canada, and the EU. It is so discouraging to engage with people only to find they know so little about the world around them. Many are unable to find their way to and from work if their traditional way is obstructed. I've found it very distressing that in the US, only six percent of university graduates read a book after they graduate, while China spends billions encouraging their citizens to read. These factors and many others fill me with fear, which led me to locate my family one hundred fifty miles from any military installation or major city. Thank you for your unbiased presentation, and I encourage everyone to not only view this video but to take thd time and research its various aspects.
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Dear Dr Name, you sir/ma'am, have my utmost respect.
Much of what Tim says echo's with me - I'm not ex-military, but I am a biker. I ride knowing the risks, and in reply to the "How was your day?" from my partner, pre-pandemic, my response was often "well, no-one killed me today, so it's a good one!"
I'm choosing not to ride, and sticking to the lockdown rules rigidly (including not seeing my Dad etc). The day before the first lockdown was announced in the UK, I was planning to go for a few hundred mile ride... back then, before lockdown existed... I cancelled the ride entirely because you & your team have better things to do than putting me back together.
Not that this will ease your head at all, even if you see it, but thank you. For everything.
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Stay strong Tim, Enjoy your chats, no I’m not a alcoholic, yes I have the odd drink, yes I have the odd demons curtesy of Bosnia, Falklands, Gulf 1, Gulf 2, Afghanistan and life, I know the signs, I stay away from the dark places and avoid the edge of that dark spiral hole in my head. Anyone struggling get out side and just walk, to the park, beach, up a hill, up a mountain get a dog make the walk enjoyable ! Find someone to talk to, Don’t be afraid to talk ………. Hence I love your Vlogs shippers 👍
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My experience, having worked in and around the military for 25 years and been in VR(T), and having come from a poor, working class, single parent house starting with a strong-ish accent, is that your accent will soften and change very quickly when you're in the mixed pot that is the military - accent will not be and is not a problem. As for class, it only comes into it if you make a thing of it. I'm proud of where I've come from, but it doesn't matter and it's never stopped me - because I've never let it! The thing I have had affect my self belief in the past was having never gone to uni. Could I have? In hindsight, yes, but it was never a consideration at the time, nobody like me went to uni or was encouraged to go to uni. I regret it, and I think it really would have sorted my confidence out, but actually, even that hasn't stopped me! As you said Tim, it's self sabotage that stops you more than class, education, accent, etc.
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Bloody Yank here...we are responsible for so much that is happening around the world in terms of DEI (BAME). Oh, the Americans are doing this...yeah, let's have a go. For the life of me, I can't understand changing the standard from the best being selected to percentages of color and women to satisfy quotas. This will eventually lead to accidents and people getting killed (probably already has to be fair). All because some woke bureaucrats decide that there needs to be less white men and more women. If it means those white men don't meet the standard, yeah, sure. It's obviously warranted. I served in the USAF from 1989-1995 as an aircraft mechanic. We had people from every demographic, ethnicity and gender. Back then, advancement choices were made by the standard set to pass. Having never served in the RAF, I suspect that this was the case over there as well. In recent years, parts of our military have changed standards. For example, the Green Berets lowered their standards to help facilitate a woman passing the course. She failed several times but was given changes to try again. These chances weren't afforded to men. She ultimately passed the course. But, think about what that does to moral? Especially to those who passed the course via the established standards. Bottom line is you want the best people. Period. Skin color, gender, all that DOES NOT MATTER. If you are BAME or a woman and you can't meet the standard, you don't pass. PERIOD. Changing up that standard is a big problem. Here in the states, that would be the "everyone gets a trophy" culture that has coddled our youth to make them feel better. Same situation here. You work hard to achieve. If you don't meet the standard, you don't get it anyway because of your skin color or gender. This how it should be in any Air Force and to be fair in society as well.
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- "This is not your normal DCS server where you throw missiles at a faceless enemy and wait to be killed by a 12 year old who has yet to learn how to start the jet.
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Yeah, that pretty much sums up why I don't do much online. Nothing wrong with it, just not my, as yawl say, "cup of tea".
- "My server is about everything you don't yet see on DCS. How to start, taxi, take-off correctly, formation departures, joins, re-joins, formation discipline, low-level formation, real comms, recovery to the airfield as a pair of 4-ship, circuit, instrument patterns and then when you've mastered all of that..."
Hmmmm. I try to do this on my own - which indicates I'm going to see you soon.
PS: Question
Comm's setup - how do you communicate? Discord, SRS, or the built in DCS stuff (not sure that works yet does it?)
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Mate, Tim is an experienced fighter instructor for the RAF. I'm assuming you've never done flight training IRL, because I've never had an instructor who wasn't "cutting with their remarks" as you put it.
Do you know why FI's are so ruthless? Because they don't want you dying. See, the thing with airplanes is if you make a mistake, odds are you're dead. So this isn't like any other form of education, because in any other learning environment mistakes are encouraged as a learning opportunity. In aircraft, mistakes are lethal.
You wouldn't know this unless you had real flight time. This starts from day 1 with any instructor, civilian or military, who's worth their salt. That's because they've usually seen students die. It's just the reality of flying, and they want you to live.
So don't jump to conclusions without understanding that flying is a totally different beast than anything else you've ever done or will do. Now, the whole point of flying full intensity in DCS is that you train the way you fly. So if you relax and muck around in the sim, odds are you'll do the same IRL. Therefore, to keep everything consistent, Tim trains with about the same intensity in the sim as IRL.
By the way, this is the reason this is such a unique experience, as there is no other place in the world offering this level of training as far as I'm aware.
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@FastJetPerformance yes, when I do manage to clean, even just 1 room, in the flat, it feels good. It is definitely an achievement of sorts.
Some of my family and friends keep telling me to get out more. I know I should, but sometimes I just feel I can’t. When asked to join family and friends I jump at the chance, cause I don’t get out enough (although there are times I make excuses not to join them). I think part of it is living alone, the confidence to go and do things on my own, is low. I am trying each day, and know I can’t totally give up. Even if I don’t manage to do anything, at least i know I want to and I am trying.
Sometimes it is a catch 22. Some folk say reading before bed helps, so might try that.
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I enjoyed both vids, but you're too hard on yourself, obviously a perfectionist. I'd concentrate on what you can do well in game for now, so we can learn that, especially the airmanship stuff you're hot on, do your learning off camera. There's loads of dcs dogfighting vids, but none of the airmanship ones that you excel at. Tactical flying, how to use the terrain, use speed, altitude, attack process thought profiles, time on target, things to get in the mind of a real fighter pilot. I'll shut up now. 👍🏿
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Hey Tim! Great video! One thing you said right at the start intrigued me. You mentioned something about a new part for the Warthog that allowed you to push through for the afterburner detent. I don't suppose you have a link to where you found that, do you? I'm really not a fan of the "lift over" detent piece that comes with the throttle as standard.
As for the 2 versions of the video. I do think I prefer the second one. What I'd actually like to see is the raw first-person footage first, and then perhaps an ACMI track shown afterwards mixed with a few key 3rd-person clips with an analysis taking us through what went right, what went wrong, and why.
Its so refreshing to hear good commentary in a fight like this too, as opposed to the usual "Shit! Come on, come on! Turn faster!!! Jesus!!! Ah, ground! Ah, mountain!" Calling out the speeds you were trying for to get the best rate or setting yourself up for the verticals was so helpful. One comment that suck out was something like "Not happy with that ground so going to take the oblique." It concisely explained why you didn't just go for what many would consider the shortest path, which would have probably put you down a gopher hole.
More of these videos, please!
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Tim, who told you no-one watches things longer than 10mins? Maybe the younglings that can't sit still longer than a kangaroo after drinking a gallon of coffee...
I guess I'm like Mrs Davies... I enjoy a drink, whenever I want. I've never had the urge to get drunk (though I have been completely and utterly wasted at times), I drink because I enjoy it. Last year, my Mrs turned around to me with a "I'll stop smoking if you stop drinking" - OK, done. She lasted about a week, I didn't drink a drop for 2 months just to prove a point. At one point in the two months she even commented that I had bottles (plural) of whisky gathering dust. "Yeah, just don't fancy any right now," was the reply.
I thank my highschool biology teacher for the psychology - her take was "everything, in sufficient quantity, is a poison, and if you burn as many calories as you eat, you won't gain weight. Everything in moderation, including moderation itself." She was a big lady, so while she didn't practice what she preached, she certainly put me on the right path.
January for me, is "One Punch Man" month - 100 sit-ups, 100 push ups, 100 squats AND a 10k run - every day, for the month. Gotta burn off that Christmas pud!
11mins 51... and I watched every second.
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The indigenous population
whose forefathers built and died for England, have the moral, natural and legal right, responsibility and duty to discuss and enact laws on immigration.
It is not hatred of other cultures to love the indigenous culture of England, and seek its preservation.
Beware, the Main Stream Media, and You tube shape the narrative to silence the people who built the United Kingdom.
I suggest we freeze imigration for 10 years while we assimilate what we've got.
Immigrants are new borrowers.
The whole system is run on debt at interest; without new borrowers, it all comes crashing down, our real estate bubbles collapse.
We are experiencing the exact result of Rothschild's motto: " I care not who makes the laws if I control the currency creation. "
Unless you fix the currency, you die.
The monetary system has evolved since 1694, not by natural forces; but rather by the designs of bankers, who profit by their manipulations.
Therefore, what you are experiencing today is not what it was in 1940, or in 1900 or in 1860 etc.
It is important to keep this in mind, that the currency system is still in a state of flux, and ever further manipulated to advantage the banker and politician, and disadvantage further (steal from ) the ignorant common people (99.9%, ) but we the people dont understand this, or the extent to which monetary practices have evolved to steal from us, because in our minds we work for money, our parents worked for money and so did our grandparents, so isn't it all pretty much the same with a little bit of inflation ?
Hell no ! There have been massive machinations and manipulations designed to harvest your work and energy to the advantage and privilege of a few.
And because monetary principles are abstracts that cannot be seen with our eyes, they require mental effort to get our heads around. They are in fact, a completely separate topic to practical daily living, yet they effect our daily life totally.
The first principle to understand is that you have been robbed of real money by successive bankers, because the whole idea of 'Money ' is to hold something of real value as your own property, and to receive something of real value for your labour and productivity.
But you get nothing, you get zero of value. You get paper, or plastic or electrons for your work and efforts, and these, having no fixed intrinsic value weight or measure, can therefore be manipulated and devalued before you even believe you have it, and faster than you can accumulate it. Devaluation through inflation is the insidious tax your vote or will has NO power to address; the banker alone retains that privilege, and uses it to rob you every second of every year, night and day.
You have been hood winked by slight of hand and mind into accepting a constantly devaluing IOU for nothing, all at the point of a gun, because 'legal currency ' means, you shall accept this degrading note alone for your labour, or the armed sheriffs will pay you a visit, and commit further theft and violence upon you, as the state retains to itself the Exclusive franchise to exercise violence. When the State does violence, that's OK.
Your forefathers were paid in real money, Gold and Silver, but the bankers were limited in what they could loan out by metalic money, so they sought to do away with it, and they invented the promissory note, the 'bank note' which promised to be redeemable for a Silver or Gold coin.
They did this to remove the natural restriction on what they could loan out, because new debt at interest is their primary tool of harvest. Then, gradually, they removed the metal altogether, telling you it was for your own good, because now you could have a booming economy and more commerce, and no limitation on how many hours both you and your partner could work .
(The 'full employment' mandate simply means you all shall work all of the time until you die, but in the 1700s 6 months work would keep you alive all year if you owned your land. )
Once they had the Exclusive note printing power, they went to town, printing any amount their bought servants in government wanted, creating the national debt, whereby an unborn child is born in servitude and serfdom to an now $100,000 to $ 150,000 debt to who ?
That would be the share holders of the Federal Reserve if you live in the United States, or the Central Bank in your country, and also the large private banks, for once government abrogated the currency creation power to both the Central and large private banks, they must then go cap in hand to the banks to build new public infrastructure. So now every county, state and nation has indebted their ' citizens' in totally unpayable debts to the currency creators.
Meanwhile after Bretton Woods the Federal Reserve sent its agents around the world to ensure that all Central banks were created in its own image, doing exactly what it does, so no one shows them up, even though quite a few Central banks are not privately owned like the Federal Reserve is, yet they still create ALL new Currency as Debt which indebts you, your children and grandchildren forever.
That is a small taste on the first faulty monetary principle and that's before we talk about the unpayable interest on the new worthless currency that they create for zero cost.
There are 4 faulty monetary principles in practice that ensure 99.9% will live in servitude to the .1%
Unless you educate yourself and then teach your children and grandchildren, you will remain enslaved, 70% of your work goes to the bankers and bureaucrats.
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@lojzekiki8572 So, as an example of what can happen if you don't, cool story time. On July 4th 1989, a MiG-23 took off from an airfield in Poland, during the takeoff run the afterburner failed, causing a loss in power. The pilot, believing he was facing a complete engine failure at low altitude pulled the handle and got out, but the engine kept running, just with no burner. After quite some time, the aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed, 900km away in Belgium.
Of course, this caused a bit of a stir, a fighter jet flying fairly low over europe, not talking to anyone, and with no prior permission. It was eventually intercepted by a pair of US F-15s, who were... somewhat surprised to see it had no crew. I believe the plan was to shoot it down when it crossed over water, but it never got that far.
Where it crashed in Belgium, it did hit a house, sadly causing 1 fatality.
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This is a major issue adversely affecting operational excellence; the constant lowering of the recruitment bar in order to meet D&I targets, against 21st century threats to national and global security. A double negative. It is now rife, and in every institution, be it military, civil, educational or political. I have lived and worked in the USA these past 25 years. I have as many years experience in Org Dev, including writing and facilitating D&I (based on values and diversity of thought, not race, colour etc...) Following my recent divorce, also of 25 years, I am returning home to the UK. A few weeks ago, I applied for an Org Dev position at my local council in the borough I was born. My credentials were perfect, and being a home town lad, my candidacy was ideal. Last week, I received an email from the recruitment team, saying I have not been selected for interview. I was one step ahead, having already, researched, the organisation chart of the council, and the HR team, this position reports to. 19 people make up the team, 17 of them women. My disqualification, demonstrates how this once insidious behavior has moved far beyond and is now ubiquitous, and its damaging consequences adversely discriminatory and downright dangerous. I'm so thankful for people like Tim, who are standing up for not just what's ethically right, but what's legally right! Thank you Tim for your advocacy on this issue. I would be more than happy to rewrite the D&I curriculum for the RAF. One based on diversity of thought, and the extraction of the latent potential of intelligent minds, with no reference to the colour of the skin that encases them.
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Tim, totally agree 100%, I retired last year after 28yrs as God's chosen trade. In that time had a total of 12 yrs on XI and XXV, the respect was always mutual between aircrew and us plumms and the banter fearless, especially on 1435. I look back at that time as being something that only the lucky few have, that differentiates you from the rest of the RAF, and that's serving on a fast Jet Sqn. Not only have you served in the RAF but you've also become part of the history of that Sqn, especially during campaigns, and that's documented forever. Whether you're an Engo or aircraft trade, unless you've served on a fast jet Sqn you don't understand the working ethos. The last few years of my service were spent teaching trade training in the west midlands and it's here that I fully encountered the woke environment. Constantly being fed D&I shit as well as told to alter my teaching style, which had some Sqn mentality thrown in. The fact that I was assessed by Ofsted on different occasions with exemplary assesments didn't alter the managements views. Eventually I had enough and along with my now arthritic knees banged out. I didn't notice the change from that Sac/JT and Cpl who would put service before self, to the SNCO who had been slowly grinded down until I had my clearance chit and I signed the majority of it myself, even for the interview with Stn Cmdr. I look back with pride for what I achieved on a work and personal level, but I'm glad I'm out of it and the way the RAF is going is possibly not a good one. Well done the Armourers 😆
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I work in the care sector and am surrounded by women all the time. Women are awful to work with, a group of women with no men to balance things out, hack, maim, and screw each other over in a way you will not see with men. You have to be on your guard with them at all times. They are loud, they are aggressive, they are vulger, and they are sexist in the extreme. They have all the exact same human failings as men do, but they are not responsible for their actions in the same way men are. They are on a completely different deal to men, and only some of them will admit it. I'm not saying men are perfect, far from it. I'm saying women are not perfect they are far from it. They have a right to judge men, but if men judge them, they will temporarily unite to destroy you, or they just cry, and then they win. There are plenty of wonderful women I work with, too. It's just that we still haven't found a way to deal with the really bad problems women bring to our society. Everything is still and will remain focused on how bad men are.
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Hi Tim, you said you wanted comments on suffering, so here they are, in no particular order.
(1)10:59 "I'm probably oversharing".. BULLSHIT!. it might seem like it, but it's just not true.
What youre talking about is VITAL. The problem with topics like is that they are not talked about enough.
So, well done you, don't stop.
(2) I'm not ex military, but i've been through the wringer enough to be able to say a thing or two on stress, suffering and alcohol.
I drank after my parents died, and I burned out at work, all in the same year.
I drank to manage pain
I drank to go off duty from my job for a few hours
I drank to manage past grief
I drank to manage shitty relationships
At the same time, I took my problems to God, and wrestled through them with Him .
The two experiences of drinking and wrestling happened in parallel.
I have gotten better, slowly.]
Drinking only happens occasionally, now.
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Don't agree with your view on passion. Passion's good. It drives excellence. But proper passion. Not the nonsense in adverts and written on the sides of plumbers' vans.
I was totally consumed with planes and flying since I was a little kid. Books, Airfix kits, air band radio, air cadets, hanging around airfields, air navigation and meteorology O'level (grade A). The lot. Because I'd read everything, by the time I got on an ATC gliding course in Ventures in 1981 at the age of 16, I solo'd in 3 hours. Asked to stay on as a staff cadet and spent every weekend for the next few years helping out at the airfield, flying like a lunatic, doing stupid things, and getting drunk on Saturday nights with the other staff cadets.
When I hit 17, I applied for a Flying Scholarship. Off to Biggin Hill. Aced the aptitude tests, all good in the interviews, and then they found my eyes didn't work as a team. They did work hard to get me through by sending me to the CME in London for a second look, but the doc there said, "Nope, there's a chance you'll see two enemy aircraft in the distance when there's only one and fire one too many expensive missiles." I said I thought they had radars for that, but it didn't fly. And nor would I.
They said I could be a navigator and awarded me a Navigation Scholarship instead. I spent two weeks in the back of a Chipmunk out of RAF Abingdon telling a bloke where to go, but I much preferred tossing the thing about myself when the driver let me. And it really only served to confirm that I wasn't going to be flying for a living any time soon. A PPL was out of the question within the next few years, being at school, and there was no way the old man was going to cough up the green. So, I was adrift. No idea what to do and directed my efforts to birds, booze and partying.
While trying to work out my next move, a mate who liked fishing suggested marine biology. I was doing the right A'levels, so applied and pretended I was into it. Scraped into my first choice university, got the degree, but was bored with it by my third year and had no idea what to do next. A mate suggested advertising - there's a theme here - as he thought I liked business and did a lot of painting. So I got a job at Saatchi & Saatchi. Didn't particularly like it, but I figured that's what I've chosen, might as well be as good as possible at it.
Five years in I was making enough money to get my PPL. Three years later bought my first plane. A mint 1947 Aeronca 11AC. Got into aerobatics and two years later bought another plane. A beautifully, totally rebuilt by Hawker Restorations Extra 230 (Brian Lecomber's old bird). Won some aerobatic competitions over the next two years and packed in advertising and started my own aerobatic display business with another Extra (a 200) and a Pitts S2B. Then a Giles G202 after another 3 years. After another 12 years of ridiculous amounts of fun and incredible experiences, I got bored of it, and it became increasingly difficult to keep things going as costs rose, airfields closed, and aerobatic piston aircraft became as popular as a bad case of hemorrhoids.
I now do completely different stuff. Don't fly at all. Been there, done that, got lots of T-shirts, and my passion has been totally and utterly satisfied.
I am with you on the importance of variation. A lot of people do get stuck doing the same thing forever, even when the shine has well and truly worn off.
Keep on keeping on. You're giving a valuable service. Later.
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I have watched your videos about training at the start, and liked the calmness and informative approach. So apart from that I live in Kent near where the officer was stabbed, shocking in itself, but then the incident that you are discussing. The funny ha ha thing about it is the crap media concentrating on whatever apart from law officers being basically attacked, one with a broken nose, so where does that leave us? Just guessing that the very people who did this would ring the police at a moments notice if they were in trouble, the hypocricy of it. So I get from this, thanks for your emotion, how crap the media are, and I'm sure that if I went to another country, and broke a shall we say member of the laws nose, I'd deserve a good kicking for the lack of respect for that country, let alone the law, end of rant. It seems to me that some people want to have their cake and eat it, thanks for reading, if you do.
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Tim, an excellent introduction and I'm definitely interested in learning how to fly these amazing simulations realistically. I am currently working in KSA and I am three hours ahead of GMT, so lesson times seem to fit in with my work patterns. I've got the F5, F18 and Nevada maps along with quite a few WWII aircraft. My current kit is:
AMD 5800X, not overclocked as CPU isn't taxed much.
64 GByte 3600 RAM,
GTX 3070 Ti graphics,
1Tbyte M.2 SSD with Windows 10,
2Tbyte M.2 SSD for games.
3 monitor setup, so in DCS front and side views.
Logitech X56 Joystick and Throttle box
Logitech rudder/brake pedals.
So, the kit is there, just lacking experience. I can cold start F5E, taxi and take off. General handling is basic, I can trim level flight, done a little Ground attack with rockets and bombs. Landing technique is poor though, wobbly, but usually I can walk away from it. Which according to Chuck Yeager is a "Good landing.". Navigation and finding targets I'm pretty hopeless at. Anyway, good to find your product, and I've joined the Experientia package to have a look around.
Anyway, enough of my waffle. Well done setting this all up, thanks!
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Just watched this. Was going to throw out a simple :+1: but then I started typing (uh oh)...
Some points from my perspective:
1) If I heard right Afghanistan is confirmed?
2) Getting people to convert from War Thunder - newbie's in general.
All I could think of watching this was: DCS models the real world [more than any other] ;the real world is difficult; it requires skill; skill takes practice. That's the appeal of DCS (as far as operating a machine goes) versus, say, War Thunder (mentioned). War Thunder has a different appeal (not better or worse, different).
I'd put a "warning label" up front: "DCS World is a designed as a detailed simulation of the real deal. It requires an investment of your time, and money in extra equipment, to become proficient: proficiency is the reward, more so than points on a scoreboard. You can of course 'play' it anyway you want; the level of depth means it has fewer limitations." The marketing types likely would nix this.
Doesn't DCS support things like "Easy" this/that/another already? NOTE: I've never tried any of these easy settings so I could be way off here.
Some of the points about setting up input devices are noteworthy; the control bindings still have me scratching my head at times (ie.; losing the binding(s) for no apparent reason).
3) Dynamic Campaign. I suspect it's too late for this but, how about supporting the fundamentals required for a DC: 'Influence' Level Of Detail (ILOD - best term I could come with off the cuff) and Persistence (saving State). Then provide a API for those that are into this kind of thing (most current 3rd-party campaign dev's for instance).
The former would have to be done for performance reasons - "Abstraction" was mentioned and I assume this is what he was referring to. The tricky bit is blending this; some things have an influence measured in hundreds of miles (ie; long range radar), while many/most are short range (ie; a static tank).
The later is mandatory - you can't have progression with without the ability to save, to disk, the current state. This should be built in (API) without having to modify your files (as is done with some/all current 3rd-party mods that attempt this).
You get those things done and let the community go at it. ED can then spend more time on, oh, AI improvements - they will compliment each other.
4.a) Air Traffic Control (ATC): I HOPE they aren't trying to model this too closely airspace and procedures-wise anyway: at a high level you need only 3-4 entities: Tower, Approach/Departure/Arrival [you can combine these], and 'enroute/other'. Throwing in a PAR dude shouldn't be too tricky.
Give each a standard 3D (hierarchical) space to work within and, done (I've scripted it and it works well enough). In the real world every one of the above entities is different for each (non-minor) airport - and they change all the time, hourly even. Seems it would be a waste of programming effort to get too into the weeds here.
4.b) Audio (to support ATC as discussed). I've mentioned this before but I've done this (worked around the existing system) using a free text-to-speech app. The only 'con' is it does sound a bit robotic. The expense of getting around this seems unreasonable in money and time (to develop). However, I've noticed that after a short time I don't really notice (or care) about that anymore - I care that I am hearing it (versus trying to read it).
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My favorite DCS module! No Harrier aviators are not normal. But they are not abbeynormal either. In fact, IMHO, in some regimes, Harrier is a safer aircraft to fly, then any other fixed wing fast jet. Landing in near zero viz weather on conventional runway. As long you are within proper gross weight. That is no stores, except 2 X AIM-9M, and 1500 lbs of fuel or less (900-1000 is best), you can approach using AWLS (ILS) and TACAN, with low sub 100 knots IAS, at low 5 AOA. At 1000 lbs of fuel or less, you dont need water. Have it on, but running out is not a disaster.With nozzles at 60% you can safely approach threshhold at 50-60 knots IAS. Thats speed of a car on motorway. You have plenty of time and power to correct approach, or execute missed approach. At 50-60 knots, you can approach runway from an azimuth straight into wind, being mindfull of obstacles. Carrier landings are far easier in Harrier then in F/A-18C or A-4E. Two things. Harrier does not like crosswinds. When crabbing to touchdown, straighten flightpath just before touch down, or suffer damaged outrigers. Harriers do not like snap high G rolls and sustained high G turn. AV-8 is not an F-16 or Mig-29 or F/A-18C. IMHO, most difficult dask in DCS:ABV-8B and in DCS as a whole is inflight refueling a Harrier. This is DCS equivalent of Daniel-son catching fly with chopsticks. Harrier pilot should fight air-air like a barn cat. Quick vicious strike with claws, then separate and run away. So don't seek dogfights. If caught, turn to kill or fire a Fox2 putting threat on defensive. Then either kill with second FOX2, or guns, separate and runaway. If possible.
I wish RAZBAM would add Scorpion HMQS and AIM-9X Blk II. Better yet, make it Harrier Plus+ replacing ARBS with radar, and adding AIM-120 as a munition.
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No. The primary role or our armed services is to protect and project military power on behalf of the uk's interests all around the world, obviously primarily protect Britain and its allies. In the same way I never want my kids to have their schools teaching them this, because their role is to give a child a fundamental understanding of essential skills for the workplace. Society and everything it encompasses is far too nuanced for even a child to find their place in it, what's good and bad, wrong or right, and the establishment like schools and sadly even the military has proven itself not capable to give a fair balanced take to allow kids when they become adults the ability to decide for themselves and take personal responsibility in their thoughts and actions. Not becoming a tool for someone else's beliefs.
A large group of people in companies, cults, governments etc.. etc.. are blind to biases (usually....) because there are so many minds and bodies running this massive machine. I an individual know my biases, what I lean towards, and where counter arguments are right and wrong, I know I have irrational beliefs no matter the facts I can't get over because I am human, but I see them, I can tell someone I have them. And I can work to correct them. And as such can raise my child to take in multiple viewpoints, see the facts, see where their personality sways them, and make the right call for them. Their call. Not anyone else's not even mine. Because when I'm gone they need to fend for themselves and make independent decisions followowing an unbiased and educated truth.
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I am an American combat Veteran (US Army 505th PIR 82nd Airborne Division). And, I fully support my British Brothers and Sisters in their courageous fight to uphold the Great British Heritage, and maintain the world admired British life-style of Democracy, and The Rule Of Law. Additionally, these outstanding British Subjects are letting the World know that they will no longer apologize for being White. In fact, they are proud of it. And, if for saying this, I am called, "Far-Right, then I am damn well, Far-Right!
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I've just recently come across your channel Tim and I wish there'd been something around like this when I was a young lad, unsure of what I wanted to do in life. It's great that you're giving this stuff for free, and your passion for it is mesmerising! You do tend to be a bit grass-hopperish in that as thoughts ignite in your mind you express them and veer off track and I worry you'll forget to come back to something you said you'd talk about - but so far you always do! Knowing that, I now appreciate these side-wanderings.
I always wanted to fly and indeed applied to the RAF and went to Biggin Hill Aircrew Selection Centre but was not selected. Likewise back then the airlines trained in-house at no cost to the applicant and were very selective as to who they took. But to be honest, they were both right - I wouldn't have taken me then either. I'd have maybe taken me a few years later. I was a late developer and very immature until my late teens. I ended up in a bank, which I hated, got out, got into computing in 1970 right on the cusp of it taking off and had an absolute ball of a career - loved it! I did well and am now comfortably retired with 2 daughters in great careers. But what gave me the confidence I needed was flying! I started by gliding, but soon moved to doing my PPL, went solo at 10 hours, licence in 45 hours (would have been 40 but for some poor wx at the end), then bought a share in a Chipmunk. I flew that aeroplane for 35 years and it felt like an extension of my own body. I also had a share in a Yak52 for a few years for more advanced aeros but the Chippy was always my first love.
Flying gave me self confidence and taught me decision making, self reliance, and gave me a sense of proportion and an appreciation of 'what HAS to be done NOW and what can wait'. Very useful in a business career in big-time IT (multi million £ IT deals into large corporates and the public sector).
When the engine begins to misfires like its going to jump out of the airframe losing over half its meager 145bhp at 300 feet on climb-out over a built up area, everything vibrating so you can't read the instruments or hear the radio, it's amazing how one's concentration focuses! Fly the aeroplane! Unload NOW. Very gentle turn downwind (the Chippy talking to me through the stick all the way round that precarious turn), transmitting blind to tell others what I'm doing, low level tight downwind, descending turn to land on the numbers. There's nothing like flying to teach you to set and stick to priorities!
Please keep those videos coming. At 70 I don't need the career advice but I love seeing your wisdom being freely disseminated. By the way, I run an MX5 too - a foldy electric hard-top NC Roadster I've had since new. I can't understand folk who drive with roof up in dry wx either. (Yes, I caught your Heinz Tomato Soup coloured MX5 vid as well!)
Best
Vince
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Many of the comments here run a common theme; the cost of being a high-performer. The Surgeon/Doctor, and the F1 engineer are in high stress environments. Pilots, first responders, and even a hedge fund manager on Wall Street are also in similar environments. Those who seek to attain lofty goals, or pursue excellence, and reach the pinnacle of their potential, must pay the devil his purse. Low performers live a low stress life, and will never owe the devil a penny. Average performers, understand their need to develop further and do pay the devil his due. These people are the best hires, because they are keen to learn and develop, and are not abrasive 'Alphas'. But, high performers are a cut from a different cloth. They are more than strident; obsessive, and see personal performance as a continual loop of investing in learning, development, and improved performance. They are in their stretch zone everyday, sometimes the panic zone too. There are those who say they thrive in a pressure cooker environment such as A& E. However, we all have the same physiology, and the stress is the same on the body, no matter if you are a low performer, or high performer. Burn out is a fact. It occurs when your account has run dry, and you've nowt left to pay the devil. Your limbic system has a 20amp fuse, and, as a high performer, you've put 25amps into it. in the words of David Bowie, 'the circuit's dead, there's something wrong". I suppose what sets people like Djokovic, Verstappen and Messi apart, is that they are performing in a competitive environment at 80% of their potential, while their best opponents are flat out at 100%. You see it in how one is sweating, while the other is not. And that is what we call X-factor. Sadly, I don't have it! Yet!
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15:06 All right then Tim, as requested. With a total population of 250, and a subset of 20 Females. Let's look at random selection. For the first appointee to be female is 20/250. For the second appointee to also be female is 19/249 (the pools of both total population and female population have decreased by 1). For the third appointee: 18/248. For the fourth and final appointee 17/247. Multiply those altogether and you get the combined probability which is 0.0000305 (to 3 significant figures) or about .003%. In other words vanishingly unlikely.
By comparison, the probability of all 4 being male is about 71.5%. Additionally, the expected number of females is 0.32.
To be fair though, this assumes the selection is completely random. Maybe the females all have superior training management skills which are being more valued... yes, yes, I'm sure that's it......
Honestly, these sort of articles (all female group does this that or the other) I find absolutely cringeworthy. I wish I could say that I expected most women would be embarrassed by such stuff, but sadly this isn't the case; most love the self promotion. When you see the national press pandering to this stuff (recent young woman 'setting out to challenge the idea that women can't be pilots' I just think to myself "if you want to fly to prove women can do it, you're wasting your time. It's already been proven, decades ago!".
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Hi Tim, correct as ever. I was brought up on a Council Estate, went to a Secondary School, Dad was a steel worker, Mum was a cleaner, we were a very white family. Society and the old RAF gave me the opportunity and, like you, I ended up as a Senior Officer, Flight Commander, QWI, flying the Jaguar. I doubt that any of that would happen in today's environment. I no longer recognise the RAF I joined and within which I spent 24 years.
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Hi Tim, I rarely comment on anything with any platform on socials but feel the need to give it to you, I’ve listed to 100’s of podcasts including lots from Chris Thrall, love all of your stuff, extremely refreshing to hear a high performance individual speaking the truth, I haven’t disagreed with anything that I’ve heard you say, keep the good stuff coming man, addiction has wrecked me for 20+ years, still working on it, found your drinking videos extremely helpful, thank you, your a Top dude, love you stuff ❤ Thanks Nick
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we all have knives, always have, nothing to do with knives. Racism is a natural instinct in my opinion, and it exists in every race, always has, its a survival instinct. people naturally gravitate to similar. It's natural. Ignoring your natural instinct and gut feeling is not good. Do you know what I mean. When I go for a walk, quite often, I am the only non-muslim non-white, I do not speak their language and I do not wear their uniform. they ignore me of course, I am not in their gang so to speak. I feel threatened and uncomfortable, I am not taught this, this is my own natural reaction
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My Dad was a submariner in the RN (1943 onwards) Served on HMSm 'Tradewind' and 'Sealion' among others. He modestly shared one or two stories, but it wasn't until after his death, I applied to the RN for his service record. Recieving the 'On Her Majesty's Service' brown envelope, I opened it with anticipation. Turns out Pops was selected as a crewmember on the 4-man X-Craft midget subs. All those years, he said little. Was a Fieldgun competitor too. I'm now in the process of trying to recover his medals, which were pawned off by his first wife. My full-time service was cut short by a hearing injury, but I did do a couple of years in the TA as a youngster. If I casually make reference of it over here in the USA, I often have people 'thanking me for my service'. I remind them I was never deployed, and service record is quite modest and unremarkable, and vastly different to my Father's. A friend of mine (we are both youth rugby coaches) is a retired Lt. Col US Rangers. He is blunt about this issue. If you signed up, you are valued and valid, end of. Like my Dad, he talks a great deal about rugby, and very little about his military service. Whether by choice, or by necessity, it's none of my business. As usual, stand 100% with you on this issue.
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Hi Tim, the good news is that mental health is being taken more seriously these days, and the majority of employers are supportive of people with mental health issues, as you say, there are things we can do to help ourselves, hobbies are a real help, for instance, I'm also a railway modeller, when I'm feeling down, I just go and play with the train-set, it's no big deal, but it helps me process things, and it can stop a small problem becoming a big problem,that's what works for me, for others it will be something different, stay safe, all the best, Stephen.
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@FastJetPerformance I agree in part with your answer, discrimination does not work in favour of the discriminated. However I think you should look at the history of the RAF here, particularly after WWII. The RAF provided 'common' 'wealth' citizenry the opportunity to enlist and created a diversity pool of types. Many coming here from the Caribbean found positions for polishing Spitfire rivets or cleaning mosquitoes from windshields, as Noigel, Dickie and Tosh (heavily mustachioed ones), scrambled to chase Huns from UK airspace. Such valour and distinction not been open to the RAF's more melanated members of staff, many were never unable to build on the 'rich' legacy. So returning back to your Histogram, the one lacking the 14.8% recruiting object for representative inclusion (or whatever the figure was), is simply an equal and opposite wrong. I don't know why anyone would want to exploit the risk of being flambéed in a high speed projectile, but learning from those Caribbean citizens who did, the RAF offered zero opportunity for such as in their flight training schools. So worry not solely for the future you would like to see bequeathed to members of your own family, but worry also for those who were never able to build on their legacy, having enlisted from so many 1000 of miles away to sacrifice their lives for 'King and Country'. Chocks away as they say!
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I've read most of the comments here. I am black, I have been in the Royal Air Force (briefly back in the 90s). I have been an observer of the RAF, UK military and aviation in general, and I'd like to offer a perspective.
I have frequented around thirty RIATs, numerous airshows, and visited so many RAF stations in that time. I can quite honestly say the number of Black and Asian service personnel I have could be barely counted beyond 100. Commissioned officers, barely hands, black aircrew, 3!
That is the perspective many people view the RAF at venues such as RIAT. You are on the inside looking out, if you viewed it the other way, it is deeply disheartening. It's no surprise to me that for whatever reason the subjects of racial diversity come up, the majorty become defensive and object to quotas, which was not the subject of the email. I do not, and would never want your quotas, If I felt I had been recruited purely to satisfy numbers, I would never have applied. But see it from the perspective of a young person of an ethnicity thinking of joining. Do I truly have opportunities? Were will I work? What's pay like? etc etc. I need my family's support, I was asked this at Biggin Hill (those were the days), but how does said individual pusuade a family and friends who see the perspective I discussed earlier. One Daily Mail article about an Army regiment with Nazi memoriabilia in the barracks or such like is enough to dissuade many people of ethnicity from joining, didn't see any commentators raising that point.
The email was very poor, like many emails that pass between units of the forces, this one got press traction because of it's content. It's not the email that is at fault, it is the state of the RAF recruitment policy that is at fault. You are correct that the RAF has many fine solid people i9n it's ranks. But to recruit many fine solid people from different backgrounds, we do not need gimmicks, just sensible targeting with a clear message. We are part of this country, and if we wish to contribute to it's security, we should be allowed. We do not want to be considered 'Poltical', that means we have to work so much harder to prove we are there because we are able. Does it now ring true that we have to work much harder to get just as far?
You qouted percentages for the population of the country percentage as being of an ethnic background (13% according to GOV.UK), may never be reflected in the forces population, especially given the consistent reductions by government, but the RAF can and must do much better, if our NHS can reach nearly 50%, any increase in numbers (and sufficent highly qualified people exist, no need for quotas, just realistic targets), by the RAF would be a positive outcome.
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In 1997 I was a part time cleaner ar RAF Cranwell. An 18 yr old Cleaner was placed in the next building to me, and while we waited for our transport to collect us she told me her experience. She had previouly cleaned the Red Arrows section, and had been harrassed and individuals pulled her skirt up which indimidated her. I was livid, and spoke to our Manager, who immediately told us he wouldn't place her there again, and put an elderly cleaner in that section. They had not been drinking, which is just another excuse to cover up. There may only be a few to blame, but I dont belive the rest of the team are unaware. As a team the rest should stand up and support the individual being harrassed, otherwise they are equally to blame. Those that are elite have big egos, and we all know what goes wrong in the world of VIPs, who feel they are above decency and law..... they need their mothers watching over them !! Caro
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5m30s yes absolutely.
I play in a Brass Band. At the last rehearsal the conductor was trying to explain a point to some of the players, but the group he was trying to help continued chattering among themselves and ignored him, until eventually he gave up.
I said afterwards he should watch Hitler's speeches, where instead of trying to talk over people he'd stand looking bored and wait, until the chatters realised he, and everyone else was waiting for them and fell in to silence. Then when Hitler had everyone's full and undivided attention he would continue, speaking in a normal time of voice.
"Are you saying James is like Hitler then???"
No. I said if he was, we wouldn't be having such problems with disruptive time wasters.
That doesn't mean I want him to march an army in to Austria, or follow his divisive political policies, just it's a great example of public speaking.
Like you say, too many people can't separate facts in their head and instead just get swept along like flotsam and jetsam in a tide of popularist emotion.
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The 600,000 a year is nett. The difference between the number of those that enter the country, 1,200,000, and 600,000 that left the country.
So 1.2 million new faces and cultures enter, 600,000 leave, don’t know the mix but certainly some whites with money, because they won’t get hand outs from anyone elsewhere on the planet. But the net gain is 600,000 every year as a minimum, with nothing. With the hands out for the begging bowl to be filled with cars, houses, medical care and money. That folks is all Westminster thinks of your efforts at work.
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Youtube did not like my use of a couple of l;inks, so I will try again!
There are two aspects to this. The first is a process called 'labelling', which is well explained in Cohen: Folk Devils and Moral Panics. The lefties will throw a label like "racist" at the views of someone not supporting their agenda, because it shuts down the debate. How can you disprove a (usually) negative label? You might say you train ethnic minority pilots, but that does not prove anything in their eyes. The actual response would be quite complex, but who is going to listen to that? So, it is easy for them to label others. Then as the label sticks, your views on anything are immediately interpreted in the context of the label - so you are really "pushing a secret agenda" despite what you are actually saying. Then, there is guilt by association, so few people will back you up for fear of getting the same treatment and in this way, they enforce their agenda. It is helpful if they can injure you financially - hence cancel culture.
Secondly, keep up the fight as diversity will die and indeed, is already under sustained attack. Diversity began in a series of sex discrimination cases on Wall Street in the late 90s and early 2000s. It is difficult to disprove, so the answer was a more "representative" workforce as a shield against this discrimination industry. It is easy to see the nonsense of it, when the average age in the UK is 40, but no armed force or sports team could operate on that basis! Following the 2008 financial crash, productivity fell off a cliff and so, businesses were looking for ways to recover the old levels. First, it was recognition - remember "Employee of the month" etc.?- but that usually involved pay and there wasn't much scope for that. So, in 2015, management consultants McKinsey (biggest crime: setting up and cheerleading for Enron) produced a report, which claimed there was a close correlation (statistical relationship) between the ethnic/gender diversity of senior company leadership teams and financial performance. Two more reports followed in 2018 and 2020, coinciding with #metoo and BLM. Poor managers and especially the coffee-drinking middle-aged white women in HR loved this as a simple solution to productivity issues. The HR wimmin suddenly saw that they were the high priests of recruiting now, rather than the line managers, who would be looking for the best candidate - put in the nonsense of the gender pay gap and HR should get a pay rise for doing nothing. It is easy to start with "Recent research shows", because few people have the mathematical and critical thinking skills to read these reports properly. It is easy to see how this has drifted into popular culture if you look at the BBC 'The Apprentice' episode 11 - at 5:12 mins, Flo, who is starting a recruitment agency, reads out "Companies in the top quartile for gender diversity for leadership teams are 25% more likely to have above-average profitability". This is McKinseys, but in their 2020 report, they admit that they cannot show any causation for this supposed correlation. That means that the correlation must be chance (look up Tyler Vigen's site for some fantastic examples and the AI essays, which "explain" them) or data manipulation (for which McKinsey have plenty of form). As the sample size reduces, the likelihood of a chance correlation increases and McKinsey's inadequate sampling sizes have been shown up in an article on the Social Science Research Network by Dr Ian Gardner (look up SSRN Gardner data McKinsey).
So, diversity has a greater hold as HR and others have a vested interest (McKinseys estimate the diversity industry will be worth $15bn worldwide in 2025), which they believe is based in actual data. Consequently, this pernicious cult will die in the private sector, when the promised improved financial performance does not materialise. In the public sector, it will die by other means - we have already seen the diversity hires at US unis being fired for their failure to reject calls for genocide of Jewish students. In both sectors, the staff issues will show through with talented people not applying, leaving or just "quietly quitting". Initially, as this is a religious cult, there will be calls for more diversity, but that will just bring the failure time forward. The battle is underway and we are making progress - we may be at the end of the beginning.
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I don't know how I ended up on this video, but I've got a tip if you want a tip to keep the good nutrition going, even if you feel extremely bad or exhausted: Get some pre-packaged packets of frozen vegetables which only require heating or steaming from the supermarket.
That way you only have to fill up a pan with water (or you could use a steam-pan), rip open a plastic bag and pour the contents into the pan, set it to about 60%-70% heat and set a timer for 20 minutes and go off do something else. When the timer goes of, empty the contents of the pan into a colander and from the colander straight onto your plate.
That way you have a near-zero-effort, but very healthy meal.
Seriously it's almost just as easy as making cup-noodles.
The trick to keep on eating healthy, even if you are tired, down or depressed, is to make the preparation take as little effort as possible so you can do it no matter what state you are in.
Oh and if you are feeling terrible, remember this: It's okay to prepare a meal of vegetables like this at any time of the day (even if it replaces a snack) because it's healthier than everything, and certainly the typical British breakfast, you'd otherwise eat.
When you do, you can praise yourself with having made "at least one proper decision" that day.
Keep it up for 4 days and you'll notice that your mood improves.
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12:10 "How am you not dying". You're ACM/BFM is excellent (obviously), as is your verbal description of what you're doing in the fight. That said, your gunnery may be good in the real world, but in DCS, the shots you were taking previous to your last couple of bursts were both far, far out of range, in addition to being far off target. You wasted 90% of your ammunition on pointless shots IMO. I say IMO because in this same fight set up vs Ace AI in DCS in the F5, I kill the threat F5 regularly with guns (yes, the Aim9 on the F5 really sucks unless you have a non maneuvering/aware target right in the heart of the WEZ). Unless you have a very modern radar directed gun sight (unlike the F5 in DCS), taking shots where the bandit isn't at least 2 or 3 times closer than nearly all of your shots here until right up until the end when you ran out of ammunition, just wastes precious ammunition.
I have a relative that flew the CF5A fighter in Canada (the best F5 variant ever made until the F20 came along). Great video, and fantastic, fantastic "instructor" voice description throughout the fight. Again, a small change in gunnery habits and this British pilot will wipe the floor with Ace AI IMO.
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@FastJetPerformance thanks for the clarification about comment removal.
My main point - about the Inquisitor's (hypocritical) shouting-down of the accused's plea for Context) still stands.
As some of the more perceptive commenters here have touched on, those Inquisition excerpts are a vile piece of political theatre, engineered to generate a chain-reaction avalanche of outrage (chaff), distracting from the truly outrageous, actual, deliberate, unashamed, tribal slaughter being perpetrated, at this moment, on the Palestinian people, with the shameful, hand-wringing acquiesence and assistance of so many powerful people in the UK.
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Subscribed, because you said some new things that made me think, unlike the depressing dross out there like Jeff Taylor-every show he does seems to be negative with no solutions, we need solutions right now not complaining about how it is.
Just like America in the 1920's, you ban something like Alcohol and it just drives it underground, well you can stop people voicing opinion as they have for me over the last few years (This is probably shadow banned to everyone except the creator of this channel) but they cannot stop opinion, and opinion unexpressed bubbles away fermenting transforming into anger, many people I guess are just waiting for that one moment they can take action and make a difference, some will be driven to madness, others mentally destroyed. Now, the question is, is this by design? are they wanting people to explode into a fit of anger? because if it ever does kick off, people knowing they will get jail sentences for just words online will have nothing to lose by turning to violence. The politicians need to get their act together quick and oppose this agenda otherwise I fear the UK and the EU will turn into utter chaos.
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Everything said in the original statement is correct, air crew is obvious in how they serve pilots, you look through any job role they all link back to being beneficial to pilots, as an example, a chef serves food to a regiment gunner, a regiment gunners primary role is to protect an airfeild in turn protects the aircraft which allows a pilot to perform there role, and without that chef mainly a pilot is not able to perform, everyrole helps eachother perform there roles but mainly helps a pilot fly and perform there roles
Like is also said it's bloody hard to become a fighter pilot is one of the hardest roles to gain within the royal air force aswell as the most dangerous as it's likely that you can loose your life during training, one of the only roles this can happen, so I believe a pilot has the right to have an elitest attitude out of every role within the royal air force, the only other military units that can have a elitest attitude it commando units and special forces given how hard those courses are and the prestige you will receive with joining them, so people are getting hot and bothered over a very little, so I commend anyone in those roles as I can understand how hard it is to perform that role
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RANT ALERT
If you can you will. If you can not you won't.
I don't care if you're green with pink spots/male/female/white/black/asian/ginger etc, if you can't, it's a you issue. If you want it handing to you and don't get it, it's a you issue. If you get offended when others do what you want to do with apparent ease, it's a you issue. Don't become mad/offended/snowflake. Just do what you can do and stop taking swipes at those that can do what you can't.
When it comes to skill levels, equality, feelings and ill gotten misconceptions can Foxtrot Oscar. I want the best up there defending me no matter where they are from. I want the most oppressive and strictest guidelines adhered to at all times. I want the training to be so hard and the standards so high that even the best respect them. But that means most will fail. That's reality... have a participation sticker for your log book and Foxtrot Oscar.
Meanwhile some idiot gets offended by a basic statement of truth. That is also a bit of old fashioned banter.
Granted, a bit on the nose, maybe missing some of the nuances needed to elude to the genuine respect and appreciation that pilots have for the entire ground ops. But, not in anyway "offensive". Whomever submitted that, if you ever read this "pointless YouTube comment" grow up. You time wasting goit. The grown ups have jobs to do.
END RANT
[insert why I'm wrong below]
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Hi Tim, loved that.
If anybody at work said anything I deemed offensive in the work place to me I'd have a word with them. Only if it was sustained and that "word" failed to have the desired effect would I escalate it and that is how it should be, and it would be the same if I spotted anybody making off comments about another person, I don't get this perpetual need to report things, maybe it is what you say, this entitled generational thing, a generation that I am part of, but maybe because I can remember hiding from the repo man coming for the TV as a child after my parents missed a payment or two I don't have that attitude of entitlement.
Bit about me, I am a mid 30's trans woman, I came out last year and transitioned at work. I am now involved in the works D&I programs and Mental Health support at the company I work for. I got involved with it because of the support they gave me in transitioning for me its a way of giving something back. Unfortunately and annoyingly I see the same attitudes in civvy street, D&I being used to pull in quota's rather than as an educational tool to teach people about the issues that minority groups have to endure to create an atmosphere of understanding and acceptance.
I do have one criticism though, you did miss astronauts out of your list 😉
Mel.
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To me, it's a fuss about nothing. Growing up in the 70s and 80s and being reasonably attractive (apparently, I didn't think so, I was excruciatingly shy) you ran the gauntlet every time you left the house. From wolf whistles and shouts to men pressing against you on the tube, lewd comments shouted at you, talked about sexually as if you weren't there and so on. Try being the only female in an all male Customs and Excise office aged 21! Or lodging with your uncle's mate as near uni when they were both in the SAS! Things have changed a lot. I don't remember my daughter going through this and hopefully my granddaughter will not. I thought we were empowering young women to stand their ground. So what if Greg Wallace has a stupid 'Carry On' Viz type humour? If he was thrusting his groin at me in a kitchen I'd likely grab a knife and jokingly say "Watch I don't chop that off" or "Keep your meat and two veg to yourself, thanks". These women were/are adults not naive little girls.Why has Rod Stewart gone all public saying that GW belittled his wife, why didn't he defend her at the time? Oh yeah...Glasto....
I don't know, maybe more will come out and he is an awful man, but so far I just don't get it. Is he a scapegoat? Targeted for some reason? Shortage of newsworthy misogynistic men? How could a woman claim to have left TV all because of one man and his smutty humour? It's not like there isn't one in every family. Is this how weak we are? Trust me, I'm a very emotional woman, but seriously? If he's assaulted some-one, sure, go for him, but I am not understanding this. The BBC chose him for his barrow boy humour initially one assumes? The only comments I have heard so far, such as 'You have Coke on your nose' are just ridiculous. I would have just said "Shh don't tell anyone" 🤷
P S Hate football whoever is playing it.
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Harvey Weinstein - OK, here I go (you may need a stiff drink to get through this! (gentle smile)...
McGowan kept silent about her alleged 'sexual abuse' by Weinstein for c20YRS, thus leaving her 'sisters' wide open to him, if her story was true.Strangely, said with sarcasm, she went public almost at the same time as her NEW BOOK was published. I believe she also had a CD due out too. She said Weinstein's office paid her c$100,000 to keep her allegations silent, yet ODDLY there was NO 'gagging order' attached to this payment. Stay with me.....
PRE these allegations, in 2016, Robert de Niro went public re new documentary he and Harvey were working on re Autism and Vaccines, to ask questions re any connections. He said...and it's out there still, that he didn't want to say too much, as whenever he talks about this "bad things happen". Shortly after, in 2017, Weinstein allegations went global...
Some of the actresses making claims against him were all over him, physically, in photos, on Google Images, kissing him/hugging him/laughing/pushing their bodies against him...including McGowan. Some removed now, but many still there.
Do I think Big Pharma played a huge part in his downfall? Well, only they'd know that....but HW became the biggest abuser of all times, according to global news....and focus finally shifted away from poor Rolf...but Rolf's a whole other story, which you can read more about on Facebook page called 'Support Justice For Rolf Harris', via the photos section, each one loaded up with links and info....What was done to Rolf was abhorrent. Suffice to say Met Police Officer, same force as Op. Yew., was on Jury 1, but remained silent about his job for 11 days (!?!) until discovered, then Judge refused to replace him when requested. Case of 'youngest victim' overturned in 2017. Rolf NEVER at venue, she LIED. So much more I could say, but...go to the page and see the photos and comments under them.
Gregg? What you say makes a lot of sense. I fume at the war against men, as much as I do re the war against women (Transworld's war). So, he's a bit cheeky, a bit sexist, but he's always come across as 'a bit of a lad' hasn't he? Are women now so drippy that they fall over sideways in despair if a blokey bloke's a bit naughty, verbally? These fooking feminists upset me deeply. No humour, dislike men, will tear men apart for 'the cause'. Wark should've complained at the time, but chose not to. Now, they're using him to launch new campaign 4 older women, even had videos all ready to go on to X.
GOSH!
Once, in my day, b1955, men and women flirted happily, laughed and were, in the main, friends, not enemies. Now, men terrified to touch/speak/glance at a woman in case bloody hell breaks loose. I HATE what the feminists have done. Yes, there ARE bad men, but there are ALSO bad women...and good women need to speak up about this.
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Just subscribed to your channel, i am from uk now live a nice peaceful life in Asia
You are completely right in what you say , i was in a tank regiment and it was shoved down our throats all the time that russia was the bad guys, and it hasn't changed this is the narrative from the west to push for military spending especially with nato
I same as you know this conflict in Ukraine didnt just happen and also it could have stopped in april 2022 if it wasnt for that great leader boris johnson sent out to Ukraine, telling Ukraine to fight on against the Russians we have your back,all this for a country not even in nato
So this is a game by Washington with russia been played as the bad guys, and its really nato are the bad guys they are just provoking russia to a point of no return
I can tell how you speak you dont believe its putins fault and i totally agree
I can also say living in asia we get to know things on the media that is not shown in the west
At the moment Washington is trying to stir up trouble with china as well in south china sea,saying that china is the aggressor, how many american bases are there in the world and then count chinese, its a ridiculous argument
America says it has allies in asia,mainly Philippines and Japan, this not true yes america has bases there but the people of these countries would not stand for the US to use these bases against china
The whole of asia is interlinked and a key player in all trade is china for the prosperity of everyone through the belt and road
Yes the US might give funding for bases in asia but thats not like economically trading with someone, and also asia is a very peaceful area they do not like conflicts as they have seen many invasions before
Back to original topic you are totally right, it is not like russia wants to take over europe it just likes to keep its own population safe, something that is lacking in the west
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I never noticed, but you are right I respond and perform better to criticisms, than compliments - I go back reassess and try and do better, suicide yes that can enter thought train, alcohol - my missus and I drunk heavily for years - but she hit bottom before me, and I got fed up having to deal with her, and just quit, my missus has become so dependent she's in care has been for last 7 years, I took it upon myself to quit drinking and take my boys around Europe, in bars etc, evenings I drink coffee, tea, soft drinks etc, my not drinking helped me help my sons,
but I am still impacted my missus still my missus, now in stages of muscular atrophy / myopathy and that plays heavily on my emotions. To counter that and also have reason to isolate and not visit her in UK so often, I took on a puppy, he's now 8 months old. If I hadn't see my missus go under first, it would have only been a matter of time for myself.
When I joined the RAF I was slender and fit, and when I left had a beer gut and skin problems, then went to Germany but didn't stop the drink. how it started for both of us, was lets buy a couple of bottles of wine and drink one each, to take the edge off and that became a daily thing, and eventually ended up with bottles jaeger meister hidden around house, fights, problems and two kids going off the rails with dysfunctional parents, that is behind me now -- and I live in Spain, difficulty with relationship still plays my mind. I have to own that, I share some burden for taking my missus with me on same journey
I do have advice recognise that little thing -- "a drink to take the edge off "
red flag, indicating an emotional issue needing addressed. (take notice please)
(re how you sir mentioned in a different video nail biting)
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Hi Tim, I'm only a road worker, but I'm learning to fly a Gyro-copter ( with the eventual aim of becoming an instructor, hopefully), so I'm probably not qualified to comment on this, but my message to "D" would be, you are already doing great things, you are further along the path than me, and you have a great future in front of you, I'm in my late 50s, so I have come to this late in life, and there are some that would say I'm too old, but, I'm determined to see it through, you have youth on your side, so don't feel downhearted, there are many options open to you, stay safe, all the best, Stephen.
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Hi Tim, am an Ex RSM , with 50 girls embedded into the Regiment, discipline is is everything, it goes with the job, but started I as a junior soldier , previously I had to travel 12 miles to hold down a a job working on a delicatessen, I listened, and worked hard.
As the leader of the senior Non commissioned ranks was a crucial role , not over drinking , and I have since my my mother ( eldest of 8 ) she was pivotal in shaping my moral compass , which I carried on , into military; police CT work and 7 years as an NGO working in hostile environments as an NGO, discipline takes many aspects but when on convoys Beirut to Syria, the discipline to check and practise rehearsals was critical especially on, kit checks.
Integrity goes hand in hand as well, I simply explain to the young people I work with “ it’s defined by doing the right thing when no one vis watching “
I was given a great lesson by my mother I made a rude comment towards my black mate , I simply used the words “ black Jonny), she took me upstairs and pricked my finger oozed out the red stuff , and stated simply irrespective of our skin colour we are all human” , that was in 1975.
as some of your great subscribers state , it stems from out family, parents, Uncles . Young men need role models and mentors , we simply do not have enough, There should be jobs created and do away with DIE training or dumb it down.
My brother has brought his lad up to be respectful even at 7 , he was sent home two weeks ago with a book called my “Pink shadows”, you could not make it up
Standards values are a highly set of learned skills , your never too late to change. , or addresses your behaviours.
Great work mate keep it doing
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This is important, and it comes from Danish political journalist Anders Bruun Laursen. ........... He managed to squeeze out of the former Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen at a dinner party, the fact that, when the EU signed the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (in 1995, and in effect since 2010) deal with Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, the Palestine Authority, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey, secretly bound up inside it was THE FREE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE. That means, basically, that people from these countries are in the EU at the EU's own invitation. The EU just didn't want anybody to know, but that is why there is no political will from the EU to prevent mass immigration into Europe from the other side of the Mediterranean.
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Not trying to evangelise here. But ok there is a point to how we got here. We have all these memes and themes, diversity, inclusion, gender stuff woke stuff, claim culture, blame culture, victimhood, bad politics, bad people, despots, greed and avarice, people relying on the "digital endorphins" of phone and internet and and approval addiction of social media. All of this stuff is deception in a fight of good versus evil. But we should understand that End days are here. I would say that started about the First World War. We are already in the prophetic season. Yet people choose to ignore the signs. Bitter will become sweet, sweet will become bitter. Our love for each other will become cold. Lovers of money. Nations fighting nations. Power struggles. Environmental disasters. An all-out destruction fueled by devastating high-tech wars. We are but on the cusp of these times. Yet people choose to ignore the signs.
We have arrived at that uncomfortable point where profit and morality are in conflict. The age of anxiety, angst and anger, no doubt perpetrated by the increased use of social media. We are all putting our fingers up to God. If end times are at midday, our society is at 11.45.
Thank you Tim for your insightful channel.
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Brave Tim, very brave, not exactly clickbait, but WOW!
Not only aircrew but most service personnel; routine, checklist, male companionship, alcohol and why can't, my son, learn my routines. I subscribed to watch a QFI fly and you pull a "Coach Carter" on me. I needed to watch this while I was serving, self-taught now, unfortunately, took far, far too long. Thought-provoking, unsure I would have learnt the lesson, I will never know. Why do the final scenes from Black Adder occupy my thoughts? Unsure if I can call you a "mate" but thanks, mate.
Just like last night, I wonder how many will watch the whole brief?
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@FastJetPerformance cheers Tim, I appreciate the sentiment and let’s hope you’re right. If I’m being overly cynical I’d say that the Anglo-Saxon world has never faced the kind of insidious threat as it does today, in 5/10/15 years time whatever values you and I know are objectively correct may not even be recognised as possible, the assault on family, values, decency, meritocracy etc etc isn’t just rhetoric but it’s backed up by very real actions. We are getting to the point where an entire generation plus of managers, politicians etc have been brought up in this ESG woke world where something like 25% of gen z think they are LGBT++++++ where diversity hires are put into positions they aren’t qualified for (fyi I’m not white) and at the same time we are importing the best and brightest (/s) from the armpits of the world and where Mohammed is the most common name in much of England. Even if the rubber band snaps back it’ll revert back to a state that’s still so far gone it’s not worthy of the name civilisation.
Just my heavy thoughts on a Monday
N.b please don’t take my pessimism as an assault on your service to your country, you volunteered and did your duty, there’s not much more noble than that, sadly we in society failed to make it a country worthy of that sacrifice
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The current police situation is quite divisive. Your either going to say it’s bollocks or yes, they should gave greater legal scrutiny. The issue here is that the officer has been charged, therefore no command element will speak as it’s likely to be prejudice to justice. Personally with a background in carrying a weapon on the streets of the UK, having completed judgemental training etc I do believe some degree of accountability has to be in place. Murder is or was the only charge available for service persons who’s actions result in the death of a civilian, having discharged a firearm. Why, well because like this Officer. They are trained and authorised to carry and use firearms. They are not heroes, they are paid volunteers who have a primary/ secondary lethal and non lethal options when facing whatever criminality. It seems it was the vehicle not the man they reacted to. Though knowing the link to a previous firearms incident will automatically subconsciously or not immediately put you at a disadvantage of reacting to an action of the driver that is not what you think. However these Officers are trained to overcome this pre conceived attitude and only react in a judgmental manner. There in lies the problem, we can only assume this officer reacted in a manner conversant with their training, they only fired one round (not the USA entire magazine and further reload). With that in mind we have to consider, have we provided adequate training? If yes, then how an we charge this person with murder when they react in a manner conversant with our training? Obviously if during the investigation evidence was found that places the Officers actions contrary to training then yes, they should face disciplinary action. A head shot though does imply intent to kill, though if the driver was seated that may well have been the only option to this Officer. Let’s be honest though, until the entirety of evidence is presented in court. Only those involved know the reality of the situation.
As to leadership failures, I can honestly say over my twenty odd years as an infantry bloke, I can’t really say I’ve been bent over the boss’s desk.
Tim, are you watching the current RAF documentary?
Have to say and I’m not blowing smoke up your bottom, it’s always the aircrew that impress. Unfortunately the RAF Regt having a hard time on their first tour (Cyprus) is not very impressive 😂
Shame they wrecked all the Tonka’s though. Be quite the tool for low level deep strike in Ukraine just like they were first designed for during the days of RAF Germany.
Take care of yourself.
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@FastJetPerformance I'm with you - it ain't a fair system, but it's the system we have, and taxation has always changed over the years.
And to slightly rebuff the "doesn't pay to get the roads fixed" - doesn't pay AS MUCH. As we know, fuel tax, VAT, council tax etc go into the same pot and gets used on the roads, in part.
It's also a proven fact that folks buying second homes drives prices up, reducing the ability for local folks to buy a house.
The "brain drain" influenced by property prices has led some in Wales to start talking about reductions in income tax to "compensate" and try to encourage locals to stay in the area. Of course, that will probably mean an influx of population in those areas from outside, fixing the "brain drain" but doing nothing to help house prices.
Can't please all the folk all the time. The day they force me to pay VED, I'll consider what I want to do about it. The choices seem like "accept it and pay" or "buy a different vehicle with a different tax bracket," but there might be another option when that day comes. Same thing if the tax band on my house changes, really.
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My system spec is an AMD FX8350,
GTX 1080Ti,
32G DDR3,
500Gig SSD for Win 10 Pro,
2x1Tbyte SSDs (1 for DCS Beta and 1 for stable),
240mm AiO cooler,
Warthog stick & throttle,
MFG Crosswinds V2 pedals,
TrackIR5,
3x 24in 1080p monitors,
HP Reverb G2 running OpenXR.
When I play in VR I get around 45fps in single-player missions on average depending on the complexity of the mission file. I get 25-35 fps in multi-player servers with OpenXR unless there are more than 20 players on the server where the frames start to drop because the FX8350 cannot handle the load in VR.
When I play in 2D I get around 75 fps with the triple monitors on most multiplayer servers, but when there are more than 20 other players on the server frame rates start to drop depending on the complexity of the missions.
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@FAST JET PERFORMANCE
i hope 1 day you read this ,
At the age of 3 years old myparents fed my GUINNESS to get me to sleep as a 4 , 5 , 6 year old i ran around inside a public house as my father fed me sips of his pint, by the age of 11 years i smoked ciggies every day , aged 13 I'd took acid and fet.
Aged 14 my father took his own life by suicide, I LOST TOTAL control , that I'd never had ......i was a raging loose cannon i still am !!! Afflicted with severe mentsl health , and physical health issues ..........my father made sure i was the last to see him alive .........like i never knew it was going to happen
THE IMPACT
Iv struggled so much .........with alcohol, its sooooo dangerous one of the worst , i think !!
I hit N.A me 3 meetings a day every day did 13steps it was ok
I dont go N.A anymore , i realised its not for me
I wish you the best of health Tim 🙏
If youve read this THANK YOU , respect
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I found a rather good documentary, explaining the WEF, and exactly what has been going on, and why. In 2020, G20 governments, in collusion with the World Economic Forum’s Stakeholders, discretely and undemocratically enacted a global ten-year transition to an authoritarian political system, called Stakeholder Capitalism.
After propagating a Marxist idea that black and trans people are oppressed and indoctrinating us to fear climate change, the Stakeholders are mandating their pre-planned political system, which its criminal mastermind, Klaus Schwab, alleges is better for ‘people and planet’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1m4zZvyCxg&t=2988s
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As rambles go, it was a good 'un. I'm not as 'relaxed' (not the right word, I know...but I hope you understand what I mean) about the incoming Labour-geddon as you are. It will utterly crush this nation.
I do get the point you were making, but I do not share your 'shrug', I'm sorry to say? I am absolutely certain that many, many people, FAMILIES, will suffer terribly because of the relentless policies of this ultra-left cult. These families will lose people close to them, directly because of the policies Labour (and the Tory govt) push onto us, despite us voting for them to do the opposite.
Let's get it done then. Crash, break apart...then look to rebuild. I still say, there's no real need to do the crash thing? We could just build instead? But, hey...cults, especially ultra-left cults, want to destroy all that is good and there's little we can do in the short term because we were so utterly blind-sided by the institutions we placed our faith in.
I voted Reform. What good it does, we shall see.
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Hey Tim, ex-Commando Engineer from Northern Ireland here! I came across you thanks to your appearances on Lotus Eaters, and have been enjoying your channel for a couple of months now.
I concur with your opinion in this video, but I think Labour this year, with an even bigger majority than Tony Blairs first term victory will be worse than even you are willing to imagine. The reason I say that is because (Woke) Labour and the blob (Civil Service, Bank of England, NGO's, Charities, legacy media, and QUANGO's etc) are all converged to the Revolutionary Progressive Ideology.
If Liz Truss is correct in her summation that the blob works against government ministers who do not agree with the Woke Agenda, then the Blob refuses to do the bidding of politicians who arent from woke parties. Suella Braverman also said the same thing when on the Triggernometry podcast a couple of months ago. So... As all the institutions have been infiltrated, corrupted, and converged by the aforementioned Revolutionary Progressives, then I expect Woke Labour will get to pass every new law with a minimum, or no resistance from The Blob.
There is perhaps one wild card in the Woke Labour deck, and that is actually Kier Starmer. If his woke back benchers dont get enough woke insanity passed they may well knife him for a properly woke maniac.... Watch this space.
There is only one up-side to Woke Labour getting 400+ seats in the house of commons, and that is they will have to own every ideologically retarded law, bill, and regulation they push through parliment. Thus everyone with a position to the right of Chairman Mao, and Stalin will finally see Woke Labour for the anti-British, anti-White, anti-religious, resentment fueled, hate drive, spiteful mutants they are. All that said, I think we'll have to take hard, and unlubed for 2 elections before the balance of the(non-woke) population decides that the revolutionaries need to be voted out and Labour destroyed, in the same way the Tory Party needs to be destroyed. As Dr Neema Parvini has been saying for some time.... Zero Seats! for the Tories.
So, if I'm not completely bonkers, I think we will need two sets of parliamentary elections to completely destroy the Tories. This election will hopefully see the Tories reduced to a rump party of 50 -70 sitting MP's, and the second election in 2028/29 destroying the Tories completely. The 28/29 election will hopefully see Reform, or its successor wipe out the Tories in time for the election in 2032/33. Where we will hopefully see the same non-woke majority of voters reduce the Woke Labour Pary to a rump in its turn after 8 - 10 years of progressive insanity.
Unfortunately even if my prediction of a right wing backlash to the woke wankery does play out as above, a right wing party elected with a sizeable majority will still face all the institutions of the UK that will not do as instructed by ministers from a right wing government... This will leave the leader of any right wing government with only one option... To go to war with all the woke institutions, purge them of the progressive revolutionaries, then de-fund every charity, NGO, and QUANGO that works against the good of the UK and its citizens. Then they will have to go through every piece of legislation written, and voted into law since 1997 and strike them all from the rolls. If there is no flamethrower taken to the system, then the UK will be driven into the abyss of chaos, and once there it will all end in blood and fire as all collapsing empires do.
Sorry for the long winded ramble.
Best regards from a proud son of Ulster.
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Had a Brain Haemorrhage; almost 8 hours Brain surgery; was in a coma; was Paralysed; put in a room with mattresses on the floor, crawling around like a baby for god knows how long. Did not know who Anyone was; Not even who I was or even what world I was in. Had to learn to Walk, Talk, Read, Write, Count, even tell the time, all over again, 'At the age of '30'. My mother and father nursed to back to something like heath. Watch my father eaten by cancer; watched my mother wither away to 4 and half stone and die of a broken heart; watched the best friend I've Ever had drink himself to death. watched Two unbelievably loyal dogs that I thought the world of die. Had Bladder cancer and countless surgeries to get rid of it. Have spent well over 31 years out of the last 33 inside the same building, mostly spent in the same 3 rooms. Lost All my teeth and my hair through side effects of prescribed medications. Even though I don't drink, I Sound like I'm drunk, walk like I'm drunk, because those medications have permanently damaged my cerebellum. Have Blurred vision in my left eye, Double vision in my right eye. Tinnitus in Both ears All my waking hours. Have Night Terrors Every Single night ... And All of that at the same time as having countless full blown, Grand mall Epileptic Seizures a condition that follows me around like a Monster that can Jump on me and take my life at Any random moment. Am on 'Permanent Lock Down' because my breathing is so bad that if I caught corona virus it would End me pretty damn quick. So now I hardly ever see another human face... Now it's just me and my dog 'Bullet', who is Way More than a 'Pet', he's practically my only reason to live. But I'm NOT a >>>"VICTIM !"<<< I just figure I got dealt a tougher hand than most. Life is a Fight and you have to put your MITS up and do your best to deal with it...
Here's some good advice : Throughout my life, if he ever seen me getting down or upset my late father (God rest his soul), used to say the same thing to me and to this day, even though he's no longer with us, I Still take strength from his words... "DON'T LET YOUR HEAD DROP SON...!"
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All very good for discussion. Personally, the UK policy and controls are non-existent. In 2002, whilst living in the UK, I looked into possibly emigrating to NZ. I was down there on a visit and went into to speak with an immigration official to see what would the chances of a 33 year old, ex police officer with 10 years service and who was fluent in Cantonese, who was single and had 3 A Levels and 9 O Levels. He told me, frankly, zero chance of being allowed in. It was on a points system, but given my situation, scored about 25 points. Then needed minimum of 50 to get your foot in, so you'd have to find a sponsor, then undertake a program (apprenticeship or academic for a designated trade that they needed, and work full time, and in about 5 years, I might qualify. Now, if I was a plumber, electrician, builder, doctor or nurse, or a hairdresser (yes I know), with a family and dependants, I'd be straight in, no issues at all. They had a policy and they controlled and enforced it. A country the same land mass size of the UK with a population of under 5,000,000 (excluding the 24M sheep) could control that. UK... it's grown impossible. If someone tried to tackle it, they'd be shouted down as racist, extremist, you name it. Even if you got it off the ground, the lawyers and courts of human rights would hold it up for decades. Much of the internal strife in the UK can be attributed to the out of control immigration, that the taxpayer is paying for, which is tearing apart and destroying communities. In Nova Scotia where I now live, the Federal and Provincial government open their borders to refugees and immigrants from places like Syria. They were welcomed with open arms and the communities donated freely to help them settle. 5 years on, and it's totally falling apart. The parents are to blame as they're busing working 2 or 3 jobs to provide for their families. The cost of living is horrendous. With the parents away, the kids have no-one taking care of them and they're now in gangs, engaging in petty crime and anti-social behaviour.... which is now escalating to serious violent crime. Everyone carries knives and use them freely. The local communities who once welcomed them are now turning against them. What was originally viewed as a good idea by the Liberals, to boost jobs and generate growth and build the purse... only drove up an already serious housing crisis. Homelessness is out of control, There's a housing crisis and people are living in tents at -20C.... People didn't think it through nor did they have a discussion..... we need more discussions. Apologies for the length of this, but it's a global issue me thinks.
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Hi Tiim, thanks for your response. I too have trained hundreds of people 😊in several differing fields. Admittedly, as previously stated, your channel is new to me and no I, obviously, haven't watched all of your posts. However, that does not negate my observations and the comments I made. My main points to you were easy to validate, in fact I would be amazed if you were not in possession of the same. FACT: The colour blind recruitment exercise carried out by the R.A.F. was abandoned after the quota for diversity was anhialated during the selection process for totally spurious, woke reasons which could not be tolerated in the current political climate. FACT: Wherever any physical attributes are employed certain sections of society ( how's that for P.C. 😂 ) will, ultimately, be found wanting and floundering. This I have experienced first hand when the " We're as good as you." brigade start off the route march wanting to carry all the heavy gear but by 15/25 miles or so are reneging and handing it over to certain other elements of society when the going gets tough. At some point the potential/necessity for physical endurance, stamina, longevity kicks in ( e.g. shot down behind enemy lines or dragging wounded comrades across no mans land in order to save them. ) and lives will be lost because the pace of the slowest is not as high as it could (should) have been. Big who har many years ago, when the first female was deployed on a Royal Navy battleship. She was placed in a gunnery unit. Simple fact was she wasn't physically capable of loading the cannon shells if the chief gunner was disabled during battle. I would not post anybody in a roll that they were not FULLY capable of carrying out their duty given all eventualities. This scenario is more paramount in the military than any other walk of life. 3 rules I, ( personally ) would apply to the armed forces. 1) Meritocracy 2) Meritocracy 3) Meritocracy.
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@FastJetPerformance Well yes, masculinity can inherently be those things of course. Masculinity can also be warm, brotherly, nurturing, peaceful, agreeable and spiritual. I think the idea of toxicity really comes into play when the balance of these attributes is well out of whack or even eschewed entirely. Wouldn't you agree? I'm talking about society in a wider sense, rather than the more specific environment of eg frontline forces roles in national defence which is arguably and understandably different. In the case of politics, ideology is often more at play. At the extremes this can be shown in the sense of nationalism, racial prejudice, traditions, etc which may be totally at odds with a more progressive, modern world view. The "English Defence" league being a case in point - it's not at all about defence of the people at large but rather more an idea, a kind of warped idea to be honest.
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Great video Tim. A little note on what you said about sugar. I'm 51, my professional training is in running buses. When my last boss sold up in 2016 I was fed up of the industry, lot's of hassle and no money, so I took a job stacking shelves at night for Tesco. The idea was I would do it for six months, get my shit together, chill for a bit, and then go get a 'proper job' again. The problem was that the job was hard physical work, which I like, and minimum stress. There was no motivation for me to move on and away, the money wasn't great, but I could get by. I was totally in my comfort zone. One of the big problems which I didn't notice until it was too late was the effect it was having on my health, constantly tired and downing enough energy drinks to keep RedBull's aircraft collection flying. Earlier this year I decided I'd had enough, I quit. I then decided that I would get off the sugar and caffeine. I spent weeks lying in bed mentally destroyed, totally failing to find even enough purpose to get up and go out the front door. I really couldn't see any point in carrying on - although I wasn't ever suicidal, because I just wouldn't do that. Eventually after about six weeks the black clouds split from in front of my eyes and I could only see clear blue sky. I went out walking and for the first time in many many years instead of every little thing that was going on around me annoying me I was at peace with it. When I laid down in the park on one of my walks and could hear and see children playing nearby, instead of wishing them gone or quite I found it quite soothing and started to reminisce about my childhood and filled my brain with happy thoughts. Unfortunately I have fallen off and on the wagon various times since, and no doubt will do until the day I leave the world, but what I can say is the personality change and the benefits of dropping sugar and caffeine are beyond what most people would I suspect think, at least for me. Keep up the great work.
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Thanks for sharing, really interesting and very true.
I had something similar around 15 years ago. Very high pressure time at work with mission and life critical decisions involving firearms, getting extra responsibilities due to ‘managing’ my already massive workload, high pressure at home and then a problem with my eyesight. I began getting debilitating headaches. The headaches built up, becoming multiple times every day. The wife started getting worried that I had a brain tumour or something equally nasty and that in turn got me more stressed. I went to the GP seven to eight times and they didn’t look me in the eye once, I just got fobbed off. It was only one Friday when I went to the GP and got a locum doctor who sat me down, and talked to me for 30+ minutes, despite there being a massive queue to see him, about what was happening at home and at work. He then took me through my eyesight issue, brain tumours etc and explained it all and told me verbatim “Tell work, from your GP to f*** off, you will do your job, not everyone else’s”. On Monday I went into work and binned off all of the extra work.
From that day the headaches receded and disappeared after a couple of weeks. Every time I think of that doctor I want to buy him a beer.
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Hi, Tim, a dude from Norway here. Seen a couple of your clips now, deeply fascinating. Couple of years back in my taxi, I got this dude entering my taxi
in the middle of the night, like 02-03 AM. He ordered a very long drive through the streets of Oslo. Turned out, he was the equivalent of a member of the SBS in the UK.
Having a bit of experience with the camo green myself I knew instantly that this guy was the real thing. Turned out, he had just quit the service a couple of weeks ago.
He simply struggled a lot to cope with the civilian life. As he said, 'I try to cool down during the nights, they are the worst. I used to cruise around in rough waters
in a Zodiac at this hour, you know' I felt so heartbroken for him and I wished him all the best. You could see that he was in immaculate shape, he looked like a male
model in a magazine. He was very polite, soft-spoken. Yet, you could sense his uneeriness in his eyes, and the soldier in him. He simply needed to chat a little.
He was unquestionably drinkin hard at that moment so in the end I dropped him of at some night-club joint. He was among those best Norway can muster in sharp
conflicts, and that is saying some-I know a little about how the yankees among others used some of those guys especially in Afghanistan.
I just hope that he managed to finally cool down- in a way he was used to your cockpit-life in the ultra-fast lane. He tipped me off like no billionaire sissy would ever do,
jumping out of the car like a cat, wearing all black and vanishing off into the night, like his unit most probably would have done.
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Here’s a comment Tim. First of all, glad you’re feeling a bit better. So, ……So much of what you have to say generally, but especially today resonates so much with my life experiences. I WAS in the RAF though for odd reasons that never worked out. I am that frustrated fast jet pilot, recently retired from a totally unrelated career and now struggles with getting his flight sim to work properly! In my real life though I found myself, quite by accident driving freight trains on the British rail network for thirty years. I was a qualified driver assessor, team leader, and qualified Rail accident investigator for root cause and analysis! Everything you just commented on from imposter syndrome, self confidence, affected holiday, afraid of making a fool of oneself, etc, could have been written for me! I left the industry 3 years ago burnt out through shift work. But boy am I glad to be here in the next phase of my life with an amazing woman and a greying beard like yours! Ha! Keep up the great work Tim!👍🇬🇧
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Tim, I'm British, white, and live in the UK. Profile pic is genuinely me, years ago.
So called "two-tier policing" is nothing new. I was a teenager when I walked up the road in Bradford as rioting happened. I wasn't part of the rioting, I was just walking up to my then girlfriends house. I guess it must be that I was in the area often, people knew my face, and I wasn't trying to get myself involved in the rioting, so I was left alone. I walked straight up to the line of police horses, since they were in my way, and with a "alright boss?" to one rider, they just shimmied out of the way, and let me pass. Genuinely pretty surreal. There's plenty of other things I could cite for people getting a "lucky break" or "favourable treatment" from the police.
I just pulled the statistics for West Yorkshire, 2021 - 23% were minorities. 2011 it was 18%. In the 80's where I grew up, it honestly felt like some areas were more 50/50.
IMO, those that want to come, and contribute to society (regardless of intelligence/education), and not try to enforce their culture on me & my family, then hell, yes, they're welcome. I've helped a dude from Ukraine (before 2014) move with his wife. I remember they had to pay £3000 on a skilled migrant visa, just to be allowed to use the NHS. Anyone that just wants to freeload, or bring their ideologies with them, can go on an all expenses paid holiday to Rwanda for all I care.
Talking about people being thrown in jail for rioting, there were 297 arrests for the Bradford riots in 2001 - 200 of those resulted in jail sentences. It's not only white folks that get arrested/jailed. The last sentence to be handed down from those riots was 6 & 1/2 years after the event.
I'll stand up & be counted when the time is right, but protesting / rioting has never actually solved anything. I was taught back in junior school not to jump on bandwagons.
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@FastJetPerformance ah ok, thank you for clarifying and apologies if I missed that in the video.
And of course I’m not suggesting you tell men suicide is the answer. I think your whole angle of using the word “weak” is incorrect. I genuinely love how direct and to the point you are with many things going on in the world right now, hence why I’m subscribed, and you’re a darn good motivational speaker. But I just feel this is the wrong way to approach the subject of suicide.
You’ve said here, correctly, that seeking help is the answer. Of course it is. But again, my point being that luckily you were self aware enough and of loved ones around you that you could seek that help. Many people who go through with suicide or do not seek help and go through life suffering on their own, don’t seek help for a reason. They’re so far down that hole that seeking help doesn’t even come into it. To suggest that they’re not thinking of their loved ones or that suicide is selfish (I’m not quoting you here) is so incredibly wrong. That person killing themselves is not their true, rational, logical, caring, loving self. Think yourself lucky that you were able to think of your loved ones, to gather the mental strength to get yourself out of that horrible situation. People who can’t, who kill themselves or suffer all through their lives, are some of the strongest people on this planet.
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Hi Tim, I think with the drag chute when the handle is pulled to that first stage it arms the chute, and it'll then auto deploy when the weight on wheels switches are made, the 2nd stage of pull cuts the chute. It gets a little confusing, as on one of the other jets available in DCS it deploys when you pull the handle...… I've got those confused a few times and popped the chute on final, ooops! As far as why the reheats wouldn't light, you could try dragging the throttles through the gate with the mouse, not an ideal solution, but it would confirm that it was an issue with control setup, rather than an issue with the jet.
Anyways, great stuff, thanks!
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Hi Tim, thanks for sharing, but one thing, I have been wondering, what is a (/the...?) dead wing, I can't find it explained anywhere....?
Well, and another, if possible, You will want to cancel thát new mac, I have the best iMac that I could get in 2017, with a quad-core i7 4.2 Gz processor, with a 4.5 Ghz boost, 40 GB ram and 8 GB graphics-card, but, I simply can't get it to perform....
-The processors are sitting idling in 50%, and the video-card is not particularly busy either, and it appear to be due to the machine being under-cooled, or in other words, the processors would melt if they were firing on all cylinders, and Apple have then coded the machine to avoid thát....
So I have a super-computer, which I well to note did pay a premium for, that in real life is nothing more than an Intel duo....
-I am contemplating to file a law-suit against Apple for false marketing, I mean, it may actually be able to run full power if I'm sitting outside on a chilly winter evening in the arctic, ie. where the cooling is fed with ice-cold dry arctic air, but other than thát, it can't perform more than for about 10 seconds, then the protection-code jumps in and slow the processors down....
Don't get me wrong, I love my computer, I mean, the big beautiful screen and the convenience of the package, it just isn't able to run X-plane very well....;- /
And well, there is a third thing, do consider the Thrustmaster pendular rudders, they are nothing less than amazing...
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It's all well and good prepping for selection, but anyone can fake it for a few days. There's a lot more preparation required of someone if they're to succeed and 'go all the way'!
I passed OASC in 1984, so dropped my degree and place on the UAS to attend Cranwell (85 in '85). I was far too immature to succeed, and the wrong type of 'fitness' - I could swim, and run long distances - but put a pack, or pine pole on my shoulders and I was dead in minutes! If you can't cope physically, there's no way you can lead effectively. I had failed to prepare effectively!
Long story short, 'suspended from training' for two years ('Go away and roughen your smooth edges!'); went back to college, re-joined NUAS, and discovered enough about the RAF to decide it wasn't for me after all! (Mainly on my instructor's advice - thanks Noddy). This, despite it being my only ambition since a single digit age.
Fell into commercial aviation instead, and now fly the 787 for a well known mob from Heathrow. Love flying with the ex-mil guys, as they always have stories to tell, and I can appreciate what they've been through, just to end up flying with a w@nker like me!
So, my flight commander, Flt Lt Pete Drissell (later Provost Marshal RAF) was absolutely correct in 'chopping' me - I would have been no use to the RAF at that point in my life, and would be putting myself and others at risk of serious harm I suspect!
What I would advise this young lady, is to decide whether she really really wants to fly for the military, and if so, do loads of prep as Tim has said. I would certainly start working on her fitness now, as failing exercises due lack of fitness is demoralising and ends up in a death spiral of gloom - there's no time to play catch up once on IOT.
But equally, I'd advise that there is life outside of the military - airlines are crying out for pilots right now, and there are a number of sponsorship schemes available - though competition for spots is probably even higher than for the military, so it's not an easy option - but it is an option!
My own lad decided the military wasn't for him and is now honing his craft flying around the Highlands and Islands of Scotland for their national airline - some of the best civvie flying to be had in the UK!
This young lady needs to get her head in the right place, decide what she want's to do, and spend a lot of time preparing for what lies ahead - 7P's?
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Tim, I have followed your account for 10 years now and I am now 21 (yikes). I have never commented but this video has really resonated with me in an unexpected way. I was once that naive entitled kid who not just wanted to be a pilot in the airforce, but almost felt entitled to it. For reasons out of my control I had to accept that aspiration was not a reality at quite a young age. I had to grow up quite quickly and realize the world does not owe me anything. Learning this however has made me far more appreciative of the opportunities that are still potentially there. I used to look down at roles that were not pilot orientated in the military, now I would feel privileged, honored, and lucky to serve in any capacity. This girl may not realize how lucky she is to have even the chance to serve, never mind being a pilot. I have recently passed the DAA for a officer role in the navy and having interviews coming up and I take none of it for granted now. Even though it's not certain I'll be accepted, and there maybe a lot of extra road blocks for me personally before they might accept me, the journey of going from assuming id be a pilot to being grateful for any role they might give me is a humbling but important experience. I hope people like the girl mentioned while not necessarily give up on being a pilot, acknowledge and appreciate that they are very lucky to have any role in the military. Even if being a warfare officer (for example) isn't ones original plan, its still a hell of a lot better than being stuck in an office in your 20s. Words of wisdom from a 21 year old who really doesn't want a boring office job :)
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Peacetime beaularks ! See the change when the "Great and the good" need their arses protected . . . Although for slightly different reasons, in WW2, shed loads of "In effect" civvies were sent to the colonies and the States for flying training, which I was told, was far more intensive and systematic than what was being offered UK side at that time. Of course, nowadays, commanders won't have the luxury of time to do that nowadays . . It will be all over before they've signed the MOU.
I was told that instructors in the States at that time mostly came from ex-WW1 and barnstormer types who whilst being adamant in their opinions weren't on the whole recriminatory. . Frontseat: "But if I put the stick in this position, at this airspeed and attitude, this aircraft type will stall, sir. Backseat "Do as you're *****-well told". Frontseat "But sir . . We're only 50 foot off the deck" . . Backseat: "Goddam Limeys, just do it" . . Aircraft stalls, falls 50 foot onto concrete landing pad, . Undercarriage legs come into cockpit to say 'Hello' "
Next three weeks is spent in base medical facility being visited by the American League of Friends
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I got a phone call off my mother this morning, blaming me ,why she cant leave the hospital. Its my bad attitude, and I've always been a failure etc.
She doesn't consider the fact ,she cant stand up or look after herself.
Shes 85,86 had a stroke an heartattack, but its my fault, get that.
So tim,dont take it all in ,or it will send you into a spin .
Jesus life is hard,and other people make it worse.
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Namaste All,
The issue here the News Media and Politicians seem to be missing, why did the Russian Overseas or Military Intelligence Services or Putin’s Soviet Russian Regime Political Leadership.
Decide now to expose maybe a long term Russian Intelligence Operation, tapping German Military and/or Government secure communications, or so called secure communications just for cheap headline news?
If the Russian Overseas or Military Intelligence Services, either the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki, Rossiyskoy Federatsii, or SVR RF) or Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (formerly the Main Intelligence Directorate, and still commonly known by its previous abbreviation GRU).
The GRU is subordinate to the Russian military command, reporting to the Minister of Defence and the Chief of the General Staff, whereas other Russian security and intelligence agencies. The likes of Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the Federal Security Service (FSB), and the Federal Protective Service (FSO), their heads report directly to the Russian President Putin.
So if the Russian Intelligence Services agents, spies or in-bedded intelligence assets in the service of the Russian or agents of the Russians, had more than likely been worked months or years.
To obtain not only a communication intelligence coup over the German Government and German Military plus German Intelligence Services too, but equally communication intelligence coup over the rest of Nato Governments, plus their Military and Intelligence Services, including the British, French and the Americans too.
Let alone a similarly communication intelligence coup over Germany’s European Unit Partners as well, though equally over Germany’s International Western Allies around the World too.
Why would the Russian Overseas or Military Intelligence Services or Putin’s Soviet Russian Regime Political Leadership, leak the product of this communication intelligence coup over German’s and her Allies, to a Russian Tv presenter to broadcast on the internet.
It cannot be to obtain cheap World Headline News, on European and American or British and Countries around the Worlds Evening Television / Radio / Internet News programmes, or on western Social Media only.
Or to try and split Nato Member Nations Governments and Military, over carrying on supporting Ukraine, as these tapped or bugged German Generals were clearly supporting supplying weapons to Ukraine.
In fact these German Generals wanted to supply more Advanced German Weapons (likes of long range air launched cruise missiles) to Ukraine, which is not at all in Russia interests.
Even if the Russian idea was to create distrust between German Political Leaders and their own Military Senior Officers, or with German Intelligence Officers too, or to undermine the present German Chancellor Olaf Scholz!
How much can this Russian communications intelligence coup, being made public by the Russian’s themselves, actually gain the Russian’s?
It cannot be just over Putin’s wanting more headlines for himself, over his illegal War on Ukraine, Putin is on most of the world’s evening news Tv / Radi / Internet News programmes 7 nights a week as it is, or all over Social News Media as well.
There is a lot more to this, than the Russians or German’s, let alone European and Nato Governments, Military and intelligence Services are say, or the news Media are reporting too.
Are The Russian out to cause a Witch-Hunt or Mole-Hunt within Western Government, Military and Intelligence Services, carried out by all Western Counter-Intelligence Services and Law Enforcement plus Cyber Security Agencies too?
Or have the Western Nations actually checking and search, ever Millimetres, Centimetres, Meters, and/or Kilometres of underground, over-ground and undersea Western Military and Civilian Telecommunications and Internet Data-link Fibre-Optical Cables, plus checking and search every Western Military and Civilian Communication Satellite too?
For non-existent Russian listening, tapping and bugging intelligence digital electronic devices, which could be any size and that could be anywhere in the Millions of Kilometres of Western Military and Civilian Telecommunications and Internet Data-link Fibre-Optical Cable Networks.
Equally checking for non-existent implanted enemy intelligence gathering software, which could be anywhere again within Western Military and Civilian Telecommunications and Internet Data-link Fibre-Optical Cable Networks too.
Or trying to find and capture or just stop again, non-existent enemy communication data-link system hackers operating on behalf of Russian intelligence Services, or Allies of Russia, the likes of North Korean, Iranians, Belarusians or Syrians intelligence Services and Government too.
Or telecommunication data-link system hackers, international terrorist groups or international crime syndicate too.
Or did the German Government and Military, foolishly purchases Chinese telecommunication data-link systems and equipment, with built-in eaves-dropping software already imbedded in these Chinese telecommunication data-link systems and equipment.
Which records everything that is said or transmitted and then uploads to a Chinese military communication satellite over Europe, which in-turn transmits and downloads to Beijing Chinese Intelligence Services and the Chinese Government Leaders.
Who then may share intelligence with Moscow and Russian Intelligence Services and the Russian Government Leaders, more thn like for a price knowing the Chinese too.
So the Russians may just be trying to cause all Western Counter-Intelligence Services and Law Enforcement plus Cyber Security Agencies, to carry out a fruitless Witch-Hunt or Mole-Hunt for Russian Spying Devices that just don’t exist!
Or only find Chinese Spying Devices that do exist, or North Korean, Syrian, Iranian Spying Devices that do exist in Western Telecommunication and Data-link Network Systems, because the Russian’s have removed theirs already and waiting to re-install them once the West feel safe?
That would be a Russian intelligence Coup of the 21st Century, getting the Western Nations to waste Millions of Hours and equally Million of Dollars, Pounds and Euro’s hunting for non-existent Russian listening, tapping and bugging intelligence digital electronic devices!
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Hello Tim, interesting and topically relevant as usual. I was a infantry warrant officer, got MD in 2012 after 23yrs. Yes, when I joined there was a degree of Queen and Country but that came on the back of being 5th generation to join. As a single bloke NCO etc the cash is great but once your married, look8ng to buy a property your in the same boat as every other house hunter. Therefore if pay has not kept pace, your going to suffer. Though management of finance should be a mandatory school subject. Most of the young lads are just pay day millionaires, then by week two they’re flogging off TV’s etc for beer tokens. Gen Z are a totally different animal, having not been exposed to grandparents who fought in WW2 or had the continuing dialogue centred on the Cold War, arms reduction treaties on the BBC etc. Their global social awareness is greater than ours ever was and the internet has given them everything they need to know about foreign affairs whether that be truth or conspiracy. There’s also greater civilian employment and no background conflict drawing young men and women into service because they fancy a bit of a fight in some desert. Equality and diversity is a necessary part of life. I witnessed some horrendous racism in my early years and whilst a young trading NCO at Catterick battered another NCO for abusing 2 of my recruits (both black). Those two lads went to my unit and ended up in my platoon under contact in Kosovo!! I do though understand your thought process with regard negative use of policy to favour one group. Being totally upfront now, really enjoy your films. Your delivery is on point, slightly aggressive but it suits the environment your working in and emphasises the importance. On recruitment though, we can offer our thoughts based on past experiences, what’s available via open source material but I don’t believe we should ever say, no, don’t do it. That’s the individual to decide based on whatever knowledge they’ve collated. Apologies for my disjointed comments but the grey matter is a bit battered and 2+2 often =5 😂
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Recall a School teacher friend at Brugge in the 80’s, who tendered his resignation from the Officers Mess, (Teachers at RAF schools had automatic officer status) The Station Commander interviewed him about the reason. He stated that like some other teachers they had stopped using the mess, as he found that yes it was initially welcoming, once the officers realised that the teachers could not really have pans boost value to their careers, they were left alone. So no point paying into a place that ignored you. That didn’t go down well at all. But nothing changed. It’s part of the officer system that the ‘old boy network’ is something that’s still alive & well. It’s that pressure to ‘fit in, to get further up the food chain. Probably worse now as the forces have been reduced by so many.
Prior to leaving in 2000 TheSgts were to meet the AOC, in the Sgts Mess at RAF Linton On Ouse. The AOC had come from the ATC tower where he had met Sgts on duty. Even he was taken aback to meet the 4 of us, Comms, Armoury ,Catering & Admin. His parting words were, “I can see the future is going to be even more challenging, but we’ve done our best to lead the Air Force forward, good luck. I retire next week.
We were polite as usual…but one voice it for us after he’d gone. so we’ve cut you to nothing, but I’ve got my pension,,,,,bye!
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Thing is today most intelligent realistic people know full well that we have to live undercover as our adversaries are very toxic and bitter, there is no logic or common sense, the ramifications are dire and can have long lasting and life changing effects however justified or righteous you or I maybe, just look at the raft of cancelled people or even people in hiding today , like the poor teacher, and there are more than just one, the list is growing daily. One can just hope you can subtly change from within in this young mans case. All this just makes me think of how things went wrong in Germany in the 1930's and how a nation was dragged into so many atrocities. There was constant propaganda and fear mongering people turning on there neighbours and friends, it all went from bad to worse, history can always teach us so much if but just look. I won't even bother mentioning Rome. As for myself thank god I am self employed so do not have to worry so much, but if I was to work for anyone in my chosen field I would be doomed as it is blatantly obvious that it is rife with the WOKE mob, I am a designer. Thank God my father an RAF officer is not around today to see the state of play. He would truly wonder what he fought for.
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To answer you question Tim, YES we are that far gone AND beyond it. These politicians and civil servants (and we should really stress the SERVANT part of it) are spineless and I will swear because it deserves it, spineless fuckers who's word I would not trust for one second and although I've no personal service knowledge of it I probably wouldn't trust the word of anyone in the military above the rank of Major or Squadron Leader ( I don't know the RN equivalent, sorry) and I base it on the way you have shown how you were treated by the MOD when you pulled the RAF and in particular the ( at the time, he's retired now lol) Chief of the Air Staff of the RAF, Mike Wigstone. (Not going to use the Sir because I don't think he deserves it). About their not wanting to recruit young white men into the RAF and pushing diversity requirements. If you have Integrity, and you need to loose that integrity in your life and work,to get the next promotion, and the next and so on, then shame on you. The others who get to the same level in all probability had no integrity in the first place. It's the same in many organisations, useless articles ( read in that ars***les )get promoted upwards where they can do, not the least damage but the Most damage possible to that organisation. I believe is what has happened to the previous chief of Air Staff, RAF as you said he was a good squadron boss when he was at RAF Valley, but onwards from that he lost his way and I believe his integrity. All due to towing the Cabinet Office ( unelected civil servants!) agenda of "diversity".
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I’ve self published a novel, a light hearted, fun fantasy adventure, and I’m now editing my second. It’s a traditional sort of ‘good stuff’ story, the sort our parents might have read. The point being, though, that if we want to get away from ‘woke’ and all it’s run-off, we do have to develop ‘us’ and our way of being. More and more people seem to be agreeing with this and it’s right for we’re now in the solutions stage and, if we don’t have any, we are fu—ed! Let’s read OUR books, watch OUR films and develop OUR culture, if we do we’ll be strong.
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As an ex-rozzer from Hong Kong, they did the same thing prior to the handover in 1997. The powers that be, stated the heads of all Disciplined services needed to be Hong Kong Chinese, beyond that, China wasn't bothered. Fine. No issue with that. In preparation to have this implemented, they started what they called the "Localization Policy". They identified very competent local officers and put them on an accelerated promotion path to senior ranks. These we good cops. Smart cops. So smart that when they reached fairly senior positions 5+ years prior to the handover, they left with their pensions and went overseas. then, then next level of competent officers were fast-tracked.... and they did the same, leaving for places like Canada. Again and again, this was the case. Expatriate officers were overlooked at senior ranks in favour of the locals, until all the competent ones had more or less retired. Locals were promoted far beyond their capabilities and thus things started to breakdown. It fell to the expatriate officers to keep things together and morale at the rank and file out of the gutter. Some are still there doing that now. What you end up with is too many people in positions that they are not qualified to be doing. In the UK, the only people working int he police are mostly white. The numbers of police officers have been slashed to the bone. Crime is out of control as a result. Courts fail to lock criminals up. Human Rights are out of control. Violent criminal immigrants can't be deported. The list goes on. You'd have to be insane to join a police force now.....
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Mate, great video. I spent over twenty in Australian SAS Regiment, we have exactly the same problems in Australian military
Woke, DEI policies, members are leaving in droves, there is no incentive to stay.
Poor pay, poor equipment, poor housing, crappy postings, incompetent officers, some of them are pathetic! You wouldn’t follow them out of curiosity.
I’m glad I’m out!
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Tim, I am an ex Phantom and Harrier Pilot and am very proud to have served my Country. You are 1000 per cent right. The RAF has not changed since the second worls war when the Public School boys were officers and the working class lads were Sargeants. They never shared tactics because the Officers were not prepared to listen. The working class boys shot down more enemy aircraft than officers, and I refer you to ex Sargeant "Ginger" Lacey who, because he shot down more enemy aircraft than the officers in his Squadron the chiefs commissioned him to Squadron Leader. The woke squad are now running the place. Does this happen in Russia or China do you think. No. They put the best people they can find in the cockpit, whether they are white, black, men or women. My son is in the RAF now and he can't believe how it was when I was in 45 years ago. A time when we could laugh and joke and be politically incorrect because it was banter, yes woke brigade, BANTER all the lads gave it and all the lads took it and we looked after everyone on Squadron, whoever they were, like brothers and God help anyopne who fucked with us. Until you reallise that it is part of our DNA to be unbending to bullshit thngs are only going to get worse. When people are forced to observe things that they don't believe in they will resist, didn't we fight Hitler to gain this freedom, only for pen pushing pricks to do his job for him. Good luck to you Tim. Strength and Honour.
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From a veteran here.
It’s an argument that has to be said the old fashioned way and I’ll probably be painted as a bigot (when I’m really really not) even my Polish wife can see , and agree with my opinion. This woke left liberal movement is so far left, they’ll never be right….literally, they will never be right!
Wokeism and leftism and liberalism bullshit is destroying not only this country but the values that made the west what it was in its prime. I wish the politicians would stop with the business of thinking that they control people as a government, because they have lost the way and we have become sleepy and silent when we need to shake them to wake them. They don’t care ably the country, only their own and they have their fingers in all the pies and lies dreaming about their bank balances and power only. I wish they would have people from a certain industry in that job in government, I.e….former or serving military as defence secretary.
And for f#*k sake stop pandering to agendas, because THEY ARE AGENDAS! Even handicapped and disability have been for about and pushed to the side in order to appease pure filth and a horrid side of living that’s even pushed on children…and get rid of all this rainbow bullshit, pride shite….a month and then some a year they celebrate it, pride used to be something that was attained not entitled….a month ffs! That’s longer than Christmas yet we’re almost at the stage of being forced to have it rammed down our throats.
Kids can’t even be kids anymore, they’re so confused, crime and evil behaviour is not feared by those who commit it and then when “punished” it’s pretty much the holiday inn, put it to work as service to those who are victims and instil a need to become a valuable member of society and love of this country.
Britain was built on Judeo Christian values, cut and dry it anyway you want but is was, deal with it!….Those values are being shot to bits by the like of people like Jeremy fucking Corbyn, Sadiq bloody Khan and other so called leaders, no matter what heritage or background or place of birth. Minorities are not minorities anymore so this argument of inclusiveness is garbage, your dead right in the video because no matter what job is done, it’s most successful when people in that industry of skill have pursued it from youth or a very long time. Pandering to minorities and agendas is the problem.
When it comes to dealing with problems in society, feelings have taken priority over physicality, even disablement has been pushed to the side for the likes of transgenderism and sexuality, I mean for goodness sake, men are men and women are women but you can’t even call a mother a mother now, it’s ’a person who can give birth’ give me a fucking break, how can that be treated as a ‘crime’ these days, calling something what it is….All these isms and agendas and woke bullshit, let’s say it now it is…. THATS the real problem, pathetic people screaming for attention, looking for offence so they can put themselves over rather than earn it….because we have weak men and women as leaders.
The baby boomers were spoiled and now they’re in positions of power, the new up and comers are millennial self entitled people coming into pre position of power and after that , Gen Z are just attention seaakimg self entitled pathetic people who are some now getting their way and will be so wreck less and dangerous through the way they think and behave it doesn’t bare thinking about.
We need to get an ass kicking now and again for people to see what will happen when spoiled attention seekers get their way and move away from the basic core values that really do work and cause the least amount of problems.
And now it’s our turn for that ass kicking. Get ready for hell because it’s coming and then it will be the 40-60 year olds who will be expected or asked then probably forced to ‘ordeal’ with it.
Plain and simple.
Rainbow crossings, for heaven sake. God have mercy on us!
The stuff that’s happening today….if you to someone 15 years ago the sheer depravity and filth that goes on today, you’d be laughed at and called a lunatic.
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Sounds like the allure of being a pilot is the only thing preventing the system from collapse, were it not for that, who would put up with poorer terms and a limited length of career when they can earn a lot more in the private sector and without needing to retire out young. Prioritising diversity at the expense of meritocracy, what a line, that applies to so many professions right now. Equality of opportunity, sure, but outcomes/progression should only ever be based on competence, consciousness and drive, regardless of race, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation. If that happens to be a grouping of white males, so be it. Provided everyone had the opportunity and that's how the cards fell, perfect. We're not dealing with the law of large numbers here, having a particular role skewed to 1 demographic isn't statistically significant in any way shape or form. Forcing equality of outcome is a fundamentally flawed concept is it requires tyranny to enforce and standards will inevitably slide.
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Tim, mate… sounds like you’ve made and rationalised your decision.. never ever compromise your inner self, your basic instinct, you’ll be compromising your self respect, beliefs and then always will be in turmoil, your soul won’t be at peace, a restless soul results in acrimony between the physical you and the spiritual self, an analogy would be.. you’ve had a row with the person you love most or care about dearly, you and that individual are not quite gelling, you know as most do in that situation somethings just not right, you can’t I.D it, nor isolate the cause, all you know is it gnaws and upsets you, your balance, your equilibrium, your sense of well being… you need to set it right, to square it… you eventually do so, the relief is palpable, you are settled, more at ease, relaxed, your old self, you’ve slotted and fallen back into being the personality and person you and others know you are and to be.
Never ever argue or put yourself into any circumstance whereby you compromise with self, it will be your undoing, worse, first your fingers, who knows an a whole arm… just kidding, but citing the reference you made to what is Excoriation disorder you don’t want go there.. you sound content, happy, yet it seems you’d go back in a heartbeat … if you do … on your terms mate, they kow tow and fully accommodate you, you’ve had your time acquiescing to their whimsical and ridiculous demands…. DEI, ESG, be damned… both fads, dangerous, uncertain still… think Boeing, the issues Supermax, the recent reveals, that’s where small minded, brown nosers who agree and kiss arse going along to get along gets the individual or in this case, a major multinational working and operating in an extremely specialised and sensitive realm, just as you 35 -48,000’ up in the air, travelling Mach 1-1.5 find yourself with your charges…. Your terms or stay out of it… be happy, the biggest salient, those making these ridiculous decisions never pay nor are accountable their errors of judgment or misguided policy decisions, they get promoted, you and those like you, get frustrated and asked to take it up the gungaroo…. why, so they can pontificate and yardi yah at conferences about how modern, liberal and with how WOKE they are and can be… they have no loyalty, least of all to you and your colleagues, I think we all learned that the health events of 2022… how they managed that fiasco, the damage done, narry a word or accountability, nor apologies for errors made, many of which were we know, fatal or life changing for those poor sods still suffering long term effects… give it a berth mate…. a wide one.. stay content and happy, most of all in control of your life … at least you’ll keep your fingers…. Kia Kaha from New Zealand
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I'm recently retired after 33 years of providing technical expertise in legal settings, including interviewing people for court cases, assisting people who are not experts in certain fields to understand the technical aspects of this field. My apologies in advance for a slightly long comment in response to your video.
Firstly: I thought your video was very balanced given the difficulty of this subject. Any incident that results in deaths evokes strong emotions and trying to deal with the topic objectively is extremely hard, either at a personal or professional level. I feel you have done that very well.
Investigating any accident or incident potentially involving pilot error requires walking a very fine line. When investigating such matters we rely heavily on the willing and open participation of pilots so we can learn critical lessons that improve aviation safety internationally. It is always fraught when pilots are prosecuted in courts of law. A good friend and colleague of mine was killed in the 'Yogyakarta Runway Overrun' (Garuda Indonesia Flight 200) and after the captain was later charged and convicted of negligent manslaughter I personally felt this was a reasonable outcome. A year later the conviction was overturned, and as someone who had lost a friend in the incident I saw the 'red mist'. After a few months I was calm enough to again think from a more professional perspective about the reasons for the conviction being overturned. Put simply, the captain and first officer had taken part in the joint investigation by several aviation authorities into the matter. They had contributed because it was their duty as pilots, as do all pilots in such circumstances. To then take that evidence and use it in legal proceedings is a huge disincentive for any pilot to take part in any investigation without seeking legal advice first, thus tying the hands of investigators to an unreasonable degree and delaying findings that could be critical to preventing similar errors. Personally I hated the idea that pilot error could cause the death of my friend, but professionally I understood why it was that the conviction was unsound and could prejudice future investigations involving pilot error.
There are often mitigating factors when it comes to pilot error, not all errors are negligent, some are errors that we might all make faced with the same set of circumstances and pressures. When the Su-27 went down during the Ukraine airshow incident, the pilots involved spoke of their objections to undertaking the manoeuvre that led to the crash. They felt they had insufficient time to practice this change to the routine, yet they also felt pressured to perform it as part of the show. Ultimately it was their call, but all of these things contributed to their ultimate (and fatal) decision to perform it in the end. Hindsight is wonderful at sweeping away the human element of decision making.
Secondly: Cognitive impairment as a defence does not mean it was a contributing factor to the accident, just that the pilot was unable to remember the events leading up to the crash and could not therefore add anything to his defence - as you point out. Fascinating insight into the way cognitive impairment after massive trauma affects memory can be found in Richard Hammond's (of Top Gear fame) book, co-authored with his wife, 'On The Edge: My Story'. In his book Hammond describes waking up in hospital with no memory of the final Jet Dragster run that resulted in the crash that left him with severe acquired brain injury. His wife instead tells much of the story in her chapters of the book. It is a great study of what makes the human brain so fragile, so fallible, and yet all the more remarkable.
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Great video, mate. I'm also ex military, and my emotions range from immense anger, frustration, and wanting to weep at what this once great country has become in the hands of pygmy politicians.
Of course, it's all planned by the UN, WEF, and other alphabet bodies. They are flooding Western white nations with immigrants to destroy our cohesion, our sense of loyalty, and belonging to this nation. People who feel this way are far less likely to retaliate and fight back, or so they think. They've made a huge mistake if they think the proud English, Irish, Welsh, and Scots are just going to lay down and be shafted.
This is our land, our home, and our country, and we will fight peacefully or otherwise if necessary to keep it that way.
Evil never ever wins the war, and they are NOT going to get what they desire.
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I was in a dark place many years ago. I was 19, studied and trained all my young life to be able to have a career in the R.A.F. Then to be told, because of my asthema I wouldn't be able to pursue my career. I hit the drink hard. Alcohol and a shitty upbringing, i just didn't see how my life could change. So one morning I decided to go to the local main line railway and just lie on the track and wait, i was ready.
Then after 20mins or so, I though Anth WTF are you doing mate. Your 19, so you cant have a career in the R.A.F, don't be a pussy. I got off the track 10 seconds later train went past. I went and seeked help, got talking to this cool guy called Mark. He helped me get out of my dark and desperate state. I started hitting the gym, cutting out the drink. Lit a fire under me and give me the desire and passion to live my life. I now work as a fork truck mechanic (job I love) I have to kids and a beautiful partner.
Guys, you're not alone. If you ever have dark feelings, please talk to someone. Like Tim said, go to a church, even if your not religious they're there to listen and help. Phone a friend or family member. Your life has a purpose.
Apologies for the length of this comment.
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I am an uncle to a white multi generation English young man, like he may have a bit of Roman in him English, from a 1000 years ago. His dream, wish, and goal, since he could speak; was he wanted to be a pilot in the RAF. As soon as he was old enough he joined the air cadets, at the age of 18, he got his pilots licence to fly solo in light aircraft, academically, top exam rewards in everything from English to science; you could not wish for a better candidate for the RAF. He applied to join the RAF, and failed in his attempt to join the RAF because apparently he did his press-ups wrong during the physical test. Complete bullsh.t, as we now know that at the time my nephew was trying to join the RAF; there was an general order from top brass; that only woman and minorities are to be employed. My nephew never stood a chance of fulfilling his dream of flying for the RAF, despite being the perfect candidate for the job. Where are we now?. Army, Navy, and Airforce, are all struggling to recruit. Yep, you reap what you sow.
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As an immigrant and son of an immigrant (my father enlisted in the Army, got his citizenship and I became a citizen, then was commissioned in the Army) I remember time in the US when you saw a rich person, people said "Look at that guy..I'm going to work my ass off and be like him" Nowadays it's more like "look at that guy....I deserve his money" Tuesday Nov 5th will be one of the most consequential election. Lincoln v Douglas and Lincoln v Breckinridge is up there. Reagan vs Carter is up there. Trump v Harris is up there too. Vote wisely, America. Also, during Covid and now, I don't recognize Canada, New Zealand, Australia. And now UK. I keep thinking, surely, it can't be that bad. Then on Twitter, I see it getting worse and worse. (US is right there as well)
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That noble death you described there made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end and a lump in my throat. You have to listen to the song “soldier of heaven” by sabaton. Lyrics:
I won't be coming home
I won't be going anywhere
I will guard this post forever (forever)
Here on the Alpine slope, where I did my final stand, I shall remain
Among the ice and snow that binds me to this mountain
A force of nature too strong, sent from above
Where spirits lead the way, the winds will never fade
White Friday, I'll take the stairway to Heaven
I'm sky high, when I die, I'll be immortal
Forever, I never
I won't return to Blood Mountain
I am the soldier of Heaven
I saw the end of war
I watched the soldiers come and go
And I kept my watch forever
So many brave men fell in the battles that were raging down below
I have seen it all, but none will hear my story
All of these years I have been frozen in time
I cried for spring to come but here, winter remain
White Friday, I'll take the stairway to Heaven
I'm sky high, when I die, I'll be immortal
Forever, I never
I won't return to Blood Mountain
I am the soldier of Heaven
I always dreamed that I would serve high above
Where spirits lead the way, the winds will never fade (will never fade)
White Friday, I'll take the stairway to Heaven
I'm sky high, when I die, I'll be immortal
Forever, I never
I won't return to Blood Mountain
I am the soldier of Heaven
White Friday, I'll take the stairway to Heaven
I'm sky high, when I die, I'll be immortal
Forever, I never
I won't return to Blood Mountain
I am the soldier of Heaven!
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5:30 yep, and you have to push hard to get any change too, officers are great at pretending they care but it takes ages for things to actually happen, so just do it, if you can, take initiative and do whatever needs doing. easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. obviously it depends what it is you're looking to change. as simple as this sounds, every sqn HQ needs a suggestion box (im actually looking on ebay for one to give them, or i'll make one) because i often hear some great suggestions from operators that dont make it further than the mess chit-chat.
8:20 im a newbie in the raf, and at cosford they were talking about D&I vs skill, hard work, meritocracy. the overall feeling was that D&I is a bit 'excessive' but they're not really allowed to say it. you could see it on their faces though, and they'd say things, pause for a moment, smirk and carry on with the powerpoint. I think the raf is on the mend personally, but i never witnessed how bad it was. have faith! the only worry i have is if all the old heads that witnessed the crap end up leaving and don't pass on lessons learnt to the newbies.
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One thing DEI has done is reveal the real character of liberal western governments. As far as I can tell, this is all about the crashing birth rate crisis that has been going on in developed countries since World War Two. They like to call it "the aging crisis". Arguably, how we got here is another leadership problem in my opinion, and it can be different reasons, but too late for that. I am assuming some consultant at a UN meeting, or the like, showed western governments they do not have the birth rate capacity to do generational replacement, and DEI was the solution. The trigger that put the full plan and open borders in play was retirement of the largest population since WWII -- the Baby Boomers (retiring in mass coincidentally with the arrival of the virus - another related story). You will notice Russia, China and others do not seem to have this disrespectful, disruptive and inconsiderate scheme hitting their citizens, though they have other issues (our enemies). No, only the west decided it not the merit of the herd, but the quantity that mattered to them (the mindset when only power and money matter). If this theory is correct, and gov. respected and did not fear their citizens from all their BS, they could have done the right thing and communicated early on to get citizen input and support for the crisis, but to this day not a word about the aging crisis, and in the US they still push into the culture abortion, alternative life styles and breaking glass ceilings to celebrate and give little attention to the benefits of family life and kids. I guess they figure, when this new generational herd gets used up, they will just open the borders again. Time for a new management style.
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Have never been in the services so wont say anything other that than what you are saying broadly matches what most all ex forces personnel say when asked.
In terms of the state, you are completely correct, we have nothing more than a 100.1 IQ managerial class (that think themselves geniuses), who are only ever interested in how something sounds on the news tonight.
This has become clearer than ever during the proxy war in Ukraine. If indeed a strategy ever existed it was all pinned on financial sanctions, because they never think outside of their self created fictional box and it was never even considered that this would fail. As they didnt give much thought to just about anything else they are now desperately trying to cover their error. . . And look good on the nightly news.
I follow that war reasonably closely and anyone who isnt programmable can see its going really badly. The politicians across Europe with very few exceptions simply dont have the ability to find a reverse gear and so now are begging people to come back and dig the hole deeper than it already is.
I notice that the UK media is very low on non aid news stories about that theatre right now. Hardly a surprise, the line of engagement moves west every day and despite mountains of wishful thinking the situation has only changed from Ukraine isnt joining NATO to Ukraine definitely isnt joining NATO and will be lucky to be a country in the end and even if it does remain, the demographic timebomb has already detonated.
This could have been negotiated at any time, but the country itself has a law against that and the NATO powers refuse to accept that soft soap and PR offensives have been useless in the face of an opponent that simply doesnt work on the same calculus.
So they continue to escalate. There arent many places left to escalate to and training people to fly jets wont even matter if that is their mega plan.
This myopia in the UK can be seen on small scale when a small number of roads are remodelled at great expense to be green, yet destroying the purpose of them, whilst most roads are a slalom of trying to find a driveable bit of road. Sounded good in the news though, didnt it?
In terms of DEI, my last three years of water bill increases have been 10, 10 and 17%. On receiving the most recent I went through the annual reports for the last ten years. The reports in days of a reasonable increase were bereft of current thingism, they are drowning in it now.
Like yourself I have great affection for the country. I lived in the US for a number of years and when I flew back here I felt something quite deep and special on seeing the familiar land beneath. If I was young though I'd be either considering having to rebuild soon when the house of cards comes down, or be looking for an exit.
There is no vote you can cast to change this. My only hope on that front is that 'none of the above' becomes an option and wins 650 seats. Even then you have an army of people at all levels operating on the same principle.
As was once said, 'civilsations die overnight, but it takes a long time to feed on the corpse' Have we hit the bones yet?
Thanks for the video. Stumbled in by chance, will stick around to listen to more.
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