Nick-S
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i was in the ATC for 7 years 
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Mike GSi
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Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Drives:Astra VXR
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i live in a restricted air zone tbh  Boring!
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Daimo B
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Originally posted by GSi_16v
i was in the ATC for 7 years
Yay, fellow old skooler... 
I only lasted 3 years. Loved the activities, loathed the drill practice, winter classroom learning, and the twat head C/O's we had (some were ok, most were power hungry idiots who just liked shouting at anyone).
Boot camps rocked!!!!! Me and you could share war stories how we hid in bushes at night when going to training bases and playing "capture the flag" etc...
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Nick-S
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that is sooooo true 
probly the best 7 years of my life. some of the thing we use to do were awesome. i still miss it now 
[Edited on 30-10-2009 by GSi_16v]
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Daimo B
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Was indeed the best "activity" time outside school. Done SOOOO much, and where we were on school fields (many acres worth) in the summer we'd jsut go down in greens and go out and make fires and play in the woods.
Winters, those nasty itchy jumpers, sucked though
You ever do any "river runs" or anything (nipple high in water with full kit ).
[Edited on 30-10-2009 by VXR]
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C2RL R
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there is an air cadets place right behind my house but i've never been in there except for to ask for my ball back.
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Daimo B
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Bit old now
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IvIarkgraham
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corsayoung
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where i live, by cheltenham surrounded by hills we have like the jets flying past every day usually in twos as well as they practise there low flying over the local hills just behind our house!
Can hear them coming from miles away, i thought it was only me that kept jumping up to the window and having a peak
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ryzer
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im a Civilian instructor with the Air cadets, its pretty good, we are rebuilding a Yamaha FS1E made in 1976
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Ojc
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I always do that Jambo, it scares me how alike we are
Last aircraft I saw that was of any interest was XH551 flying quite low over Newbury, I heard it from inside my car it was that loud.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Mike GSi
Saying that ^ an Apache was hovering about a field near me the other day, about the hight of a lamp post! just hovering for about 15 mins 
Get a few around here, usually hovering just above the tree line near the A600 (obviously coming from Chicksands) and then just slowly drift across the road - the amount of people that slam on their brakes is comical
Get a load of chinooks, a few lynx and the odd Black Hawk (which i thought was odd) flying around here No decent planes though
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Ojc
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Oh how cool is this.
On Northloop is an American pilot that is stationed in Germany, he flys the A-10 and when on exercise they fly over the Nurburgring and use the cars going around the track as laser target practice.
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fir3vip3r
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
Oh how cool is this.
On Northloop is an American pilot that is stationed in Germany, he flys the A-10 and when on exercise they fly over the Nurburgring and use the cars going around the track as laser target practice.
i bet youd get a good run if you knew the thing was loaded!
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FAZ
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quote:
Originally posted by GSi_16v
i was in the ATC for 7 years
me to, just left as a cwo 
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Fonz
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quote:
Originally posted by FAZ
quote:
Originally posted by GSi_16v
i was in the ATC for 7 years
me to, just left as a cwo
i've been in for 9.5 years now, the last 5 of that as Adult staff as Sgt!
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sand-eel
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Those chinooks are fooking loud, one flew over ma maws hoose, so have many tornadoes, hercules, one of those big things with the radar on the roof too, can't remember the name....4 jet engines.
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sand-eel
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Nimrod
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FAZ
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quote:
Originally posted by sand-eel
one of those big things with the radar on the roof too, can't remember the name....4 jet engines.
e3 sentry (awacs)
[Edited on 30-10-2009 by FAZ]
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sand-eel
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Thats the one
That why I got confused with a nimrod, its got the refueller thing as well.
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FAZ
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im a bit of a geek with the old air recce im afraid 
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sand-eel
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A chinook helicopter crashed near the house as well.
http://forargyll.com/2008/12/hutton-refuses-to-clear-chinook-pilots-tapper-and-cook-of-gross-negligence-for-1994-machrihanish-crash/
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Nick-S
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quote:
Originally posted by Fonz
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Originally posted by FAZ
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Originally posted by GSi_16v
i was in the ATC for 7 years
me to, just left as a cwo
i've been in for 9.5 years now, the last 5 of that as Adult staff as Sgt!
its 10 and half years ago since i started. omg were has time gone 
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