RAF to give up flying planes.

[john fletcher 1Participant @johnfletcher1]

Don't know about Spitfires, but some where in WWII there was "LINK TRAINERS" and if you live near a training air field you would be please.

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

there was a training airfield at Jurby on IoM towards end of ww2 – many polish airmen were taught there – there is also a long line of graves of those who ‘failed’ the course in the local graveyard at Jurby (so many that the church had special links to RAF.

[Tim ChambersParticipant @timchambers76147]

Posted by J Hancock on 08/09/2021 19:22:36:

NDIY , yes, you are right about only pilots with previous fast-jet experience go from simulator to solo.

But that was my point , there are no Typhoon 'trainer' aircraft.

Two heads in there I think.

[John Doe 2Participant @johndoe2]

Posted by Bazyle on 07/09/2021 16:11:05:

Nobody yet mentioned the saving in fuel and greenhouse gas production. Hopefully sometime soon they will wake up to the negative effects of the massively antisocial hobby of private light aircraft flying.

Aviation contributes less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. A much much greater amount is produced by cars and vehicles, meat farming, home heating, shipping, power stations etc.

A few people flying Cessnas around is nothing compared to the thousands of cars per hour on the roads or lazy people driving when they could walk.

[J HancockParticipant @jhancock95746]

NDIY , let's compare apples with apples.

In 1940 a new Spitfire cost £9000 , in 2007 Germany priced a Typhoon at £120.000,000.,each.

By year 2000 our MoD refused to give anyone an idea of how much they cost !

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