my wife used to get taken up lots with her Dad (RAF helo instructor)

this was all back in the pre health & safety era though.

When I was a pseudo-army brat, we used to get school trips up to the AAC hangars and had Father Christmas land in our school playing field in a Gazelle helicopter. That was pretty cool, but ruined somewhat by the gizzit being a bloody orange rather than sweeties!

Posted By: CWC on February 4th 2014 at 17:12:00

Message Thread

Anyone know anything about airline jargon? What's "ASK traffic"? (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 4, 15:33:59
- Air traffic control??? (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Feb 4, 17:58:38
- I'm ex RAF..... (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Feb 4, 15:41:57
  - Ever get to do anything like this? (General Chat) - Adster, Feb 4, 16:34:23
    - my wife used to get taken up lots with her Dad (RAF helo instructor) (General Chat) - CWC, Feb 4, 17:12:00
      - down south.... (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Feb 4, 17:18:07
    - kinda..... (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Feb 4, 17:06:51
  - gis some free flights. Wouldn't mind flying home and back for a pittance (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 4, 15:49:05
    - i know..... (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Feb 4, 16:00:56
      - Woofter (n/m) (General Chat) - colincanary, Feb 4, 16:06:32
        
        oooooosh! (n/m) (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Feb 4, 16:21:42
- what's the context? ASK is sometimes Available Seat Kilometres (ie capacity) (n/m) (General Chat) - CWC, Feb 4, 15:40:52
  - yes, that must be it, they're talking about passenger capacity. Thanks! (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 4, 15:47:22
    - and now.... (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Feb 4, 15:48:18
      - Airline companies don't usually kill people intentionally (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 4, 15:53:32
        
        that can change in 2014! (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Feb 4, 16:12:04
        
        Ryanair and Squeezy Jet are trying their best (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Feb 4, 16:15:42
        
        Bizarrely Ryanair and Easyjet were up among the top-ranked airlines (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 4, 16:59:58
        
        that was 2012, last year was pretty much the same though (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 4, 17:02:17

Reply to Message

In order to add a post to the WotB Message Board you must be a registered WotB user.

If you are not yet registered then please visit the registration page. You should ensure that their browser is setup to accept cookies.