i was a weapons instructor in the RAF cadets.

this isn't "fake" ... this goes on all the time, it's at least an accurate reconstruction of real events. it's pretty shocking to think that this happens with the family "protection". heck, even weapons instructors shoot people accidentally.

and that's one of the reasons why I wouldn't keep a gun in the house unless I was living in some kind of warzone.

I have my commercial license with multi and IFR... I still have to get a job with it but that won't happen in Quebec for various reasons, so I'll have to move west when school's done. I usually fly 172s but I've checked out on Piper Seminole and I used to train on Diamond Katanas which were so sweet -- nimble and fast, I used to roll them when nobody was around

So you fly Hercs? How is it -- nice life?

In reply to your comment:
“Nice! What do you fly? Yup, im afraid you do. I think you can have laser eye surgery, but only minor corrections, not sure about fairly large type operations.

In reply to your comment:
“You're a pilot! Me too, civvy-side... I'd be in the air force if I had 20/20. Do you need perfect vision to be an RAF pilot? Do they allow laser surgery?”

Nice! What do you fly? Yup, im afraid you do. I think you can have laser eye surgery, but only minor corrections, not sure about fairly large type operations.

In reply to your comment:
“You're a pilot! Me too, civvy-side... I'd be in the air force if I had 20/20. Do you need perfect vision to be an RAF pilot? Do they allow laser surgery?

You're a pilot! Me too, civvy-side... I'd be in the air force if I had 20/20. Do you need perfect vision to be an RAF pilot? Do they allow laser surgery?

In reply to your comment:
“I fly these in the RAF.”

It's called an insurgency tactic.

It COULD count as a disaster... if you're near the propane.

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It seems that the policy in the US military is 'if in doubt, shoot'. In every other professional, 1st world army it is the opposite. Why is this? Why do US pilots possess so few inhibitions about dropping their ordnance? If you listen to their cockpit radio chatter from Gulf War 1 all you hear is primitive whooping and cheering as they watch their bombs killing complete strangers. The RAF chatter by contrast is completely subdued and professional. Why is this? Is it just piss-poor training? Does the US military simply recruit the wrong kinds of people? Can any Americans enlighten me?

Darksun, wasn't that a british clip? Seems like a harrier from the RAF to me. I could be wrong though....

Ill sum it up in three words and one abbreviation farhad. I'm in the RAF.

This clip is rubbish and absolute propaganda. Talk about leaving out facts! One small example of its omission of major facts is that it does not mention the six soldiers who were killed when they kidnapped the other two in Israeli borders! This clip mentions so many incorrect things that I don't know where to start to criticize it. Here is an article with some sense: Frederick Forsyth (Daily Express, 11/8): “It must surely be true that the level of lies and hypocrisy that a society can tolerate is in direct proportion to the degeneration of that culture.

Personally I am not particularly pro or anti Israel, pro or anti Arab or pro or anti Islam. But I do have a dislike of myth, hypocrisy and lies as opposed to reality, fairness and truth.

Watching the bombing of Lebanon it is impossible not to feel horror and pity for the innocent civilians killed, wounded or rendered homeless. But certain of our politicians, seeking easy populism and the cheapest round of applause in modern history, have called the Israeli response “disproportionate”. Among thee politicos are Jack Straw and that master of EU negotiations William Hague.

That accusation can only mean: “disproportionate to the aggression levelled against them”. Really? Why did the accusers not mention Serbia? What has Serbia got to do with it? Let’s refresh our memories.

In 1999 five Nato air forces – US, British, French, Italian and German – began to plaster Yugoslavia, effectively the tiny and defenceless province of Serbia. We were not at war with the Serbs, we had no reason to hate them, they had not attacked us and no Serbian rockets were falling on us.

But we practically bombed them back to the Stone Age. We took out every bridge we could see. We trashed their TV station, army barracks, airfields and motorways.

We were not fighting for our lives and no terrorists were skulking among the civilian population but we hit apartment blocks and factories anyway. There were civilian casualties. We did not do it for 25 days but for 73. We bombed this little country economically back 30 years by converting its infrastructure into rubble. Why?

We were trying to persuade one dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, to pull his troops out of Kosovo, which happened to be (and still is) a Yugoslav province. The dictator finally cracked; shortly afterwards he was toppled but it was his fellow Serbs who did that, no Nato.

Before the destruction of Serbia, Kosovo was a nightmare of ethnic hatred. It still is. If we wanted to liberate the Kosovans why did we not just invade? Why blow Serbian civilians to bits?

Here is my point. In all those 73 days of bombing Serbia I never heard one British moralist use the word “disproportionate”.

The entire point of Hezbollah is not to resolve some border dispute with Israel; its aim is to wipe Israel off the map, as expressed by Hezbollah’s master, the crazed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. That aim includes the eradication of every Israeli Jew; i.e. genocide.

Serbia never once threatened to wipe the UK off the map or slaughter our citizens, yet Straw, in office in 1999, and Hague, leading the Conservative Party, never objected to Serbia being bombed.

As an ex-RAF officer I am persuaded the Israelis fighter pilots are hitting civilian-free targets with 95% of their strikes. These are the hits no TV network bothers to cover. It is the 5% that causes the coverage and the horror: wrong target, unseen civilians in the cellar, misfire, unavoidable collateral casualties. Unavoidable?

Israel has said I effect, “If you seek to wipe us out we will defend ourselves to the death. You offer us no quarter, so we will offer none to you. But if you choose intentionally, inadvertently, or through the stupidity of your government to protect and shelter the killers among yourselves then with deepest regret, we cannot guarantee your exemption.”

Yesterday we Brits learned that certain elements in our society had tried to organise a mass slaughter of citizens flying out of our airports. We will have to take draconian measures against these enemies in our midst. Will Messrs Hague and Straw complain our methods are disproportionate? Not a chance. Now that, dear readers, is blatant hypocrisy.”

I fly these in the RAF.