BREAKING NEWS-Canadian Fighter Escort

[ChuckMajik]

... gave the RCAF something to do.

Hate to burst your bubble, Hagar.
But the Air Force hasn't been called the RCAF in years.

[C]

Hate to burst your bubble, Hagar.
But the Air Force hasn't been called the RCAF in years.

Shame...

[Hagar]

Hate to burst your bubble, Hagar.
But the Air Force hasn't been called the RCAF in years.

Ah well, never mind & no offence intended. I'm sure everyone knew what I meant. They seem keen on changing things on a regular basis these days. No wonder I'm permanently confused.

It did keep them occupied for a few hours & gave them some useful practice for if the real thing ever happens.

[jrpilot]

If this was not a mistake by putting 7500 instead of the, I think, 7600, the pilot will probally be seeing a early retiement or possibly even get fired.  You just don't pilot the largest aircraft in the sky and make a stupid mistake like that.  Their just is no roomfor error when you are a pilot.  Again I don't know if his sqwauk box get stuck or not.

[Hyperion2]

Again I don't know if his sqwauk box get stuck or not.

Then does it really make sense to say anything about the repurcussions that the pilot will face?  I mean God, the engines aren't even cool yet.

[Craig.]

gotta agree with hype lets wait for a final report before making serious acusations. But theres no harm in a little fun with it as it turned out to be nothing serious.
Maybe Branson was just upset at the lack of attention Virgin has gotten lately. "fly virgin and you to will experience a personal escort to your final destination"

[H]

Yeah, kind of like being part of a parade in the sky; they say most everybody likes a parade. It's preferable to TacitBlue's food cart theory which may bring cramped spaces to mind (or elswhere).
As Hagar said, it gave Canadian pilots something to do. They must get bored up there because this incident brings another to mind. An RCAF (this was that long ago, I'm sure) pilot once ran low on fuel and couldn't safely make it back over the border so he landed on a private plane runway. Since they feared there wasn't enough runway for it to take off again, it was shipped back to Canada in pieces -- carefully crated, of course.
Hmmn.. by "it" I mean the plane, not the pilot. I just realized the forum I was posting to.

[ATI_7500]

They seem keen on changing things on a regular basis these days. No wonder I'm permanently confused.

Sorry...

[ChuckMajik]

it gave Canadian pilots something to do. They must get bored up there

What do you mean bored, that better be joke.

[C]

What do you mean bored, that better be joke.

Ejection seats are the most uncomfortable form of seating ever devised by man - and when you get uncomfortable you can't just pop up for a quick leg stretch. Hence after a while sittin in a cramped jet cockpit can get pretty tedious and painful...

As an RAF Tornado pilot put it during Desert Storm, the missions were "98% boredom, and 2% sheer terror"

[ChuckMajik]

Works when worded like that.

But see this from my view.
"Up there" and "Bored" brings reference to stupid stereotypical jokes.
Like let's say, Canada being a large northern country, and our lack luster military spending.

[C]

lack luster military spending.

Join the club! I think if you want any decent military spending you need to be in one of very few countries... I won't name names...

[H]

It wasn't intended as an insult: I've a few true idiocies from our own Air Force, which I was part of for a short hitch. Also, lack-luster spending can be seen as other than amount -- I mean, such as $200 for a single toilet seat?
For the account I spoke of, it's just that it "appeared" to the general populace that they got carried away sight-seeing since one of them ran short on fuel while well within the U.S. side of the border and couldn't get back.
Secondly, I actually have some relatives, native and otherwise, of my own on the other side of the border (particularly, Prince Edward Island) although they may be more than 2nd cousins (or 3 times-or-so removed 1st ones). Heavens, where do you think most of those of French extraction tromped down here into NH from?
Also, I'm unsure how it started here but please understand that we have this tendency to call "north" up and "south" down. If you're headed for Mississippi, you're going "down" south. So, too, if you're in the air, you're up; if you're on the ground, you're down.
Reminds me of the old time pilot who saw someone below when he finally came out of the fog. Flying low, he yelled out of his open cockpit, "Where am I?"
"You're up," the fellow smiled upward.
"Where in Europe?" the pilot again inquired.
Now, after this little tidbit, you probably wish you hadn't questioned my motives, not that I want you to think I meant anything derogatory.