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Just got an e-mail from my friend, who works with the military on projects (consultancy type stuff). It read:
I'm now depressed too.
And too old and fat to become a fighter pilot.
depressed management consultant said:
Last night I had drinks with one of the UK's top Typhoon pilots. He is 27.
My life is rubbish.
He has a point.My life is rubbish.
I'm now depressed too.
And too old and fat to become a fighter pilot.
Edited by Harry Flashman on Tuesday 28th October 09:43
I got chatting a guy in my local years ago. Turns out that we were both pilots. I mentioned that I'd gotten my PPL a couple of years previous. He asked what I flew. I mentioned 3 or 4 single-engined 4-6 seaters. I asked him the same. Tornadoes. Oh. 
Edited by fatboy b on Tuesday 28th October 09:50
Jealousy is never good.
Its very easy to think that life's greener on the other side, lets face it, most fighter pilots think that its better working int he city shouting buy buy sell sell and getting multi million pound bonuses rather than sat in a cramped cockpit for eight hours a day waiting to be sent up and only getting to fly one day in ten.
Its very easy to think that life's greener on the other side, lets face it, most fighter pilots think that its better working int he city shouting buy buy sell sell and getting multi million pound bonuses rather than sat in a cramped cockpit for eight hours a day waiting to be sent up and only getting to fly one day in ten.
Harry Flashman said:
Just got an e-mail from my friend, who works with the military on projects (consultancy type stuff). It read:
I'm now depressed too.
And too old and fat to become a fighter pilot.
How much fun do you think I have sat in the office on a sunny day in the summer, crunching numbers, doing my project managementy bidding whilst said fighter jets are being test flown on site?! (actually, theres a selection, Hawks & Typhoons)depressed management consultant said:
Last night I had drinks with one of the UK's top Typhoon pilots. He is 27.
My life is rubbish.
He has a point.My life is rubbish.
I'm now depressed too.
And too old and fat to become a fighter pilot.
You walk back to your car at the end of the day pondering whether there really was any point to the last 8 hrs of your life whilst Maveric and Goose saunter past in the opposite direction grinning from ear to ear.
[and yes, theyre all roughly the same age as me too (mid twenties)]
spikeyhead said:
Its very easy to think that life's greener on the other side, lets face it, most fighter pilots think that its better working int he city shouting buy buy sell sell and getting multi million pound bonuses rather than sat in a cramped cockpit for eight hours a day waiting to be sent up and only getting to fly one day in ten.
Yeah. I bet he looked at the management consultant sat opposite him and thought "you know, I really wish I had that guy's life. It seems so...exciting!"Only downside I can see in Maverick's career is that no woman would ever believe you in a bar when you told them what you did. Ever.
Cara Van Man said:
Harry.
He may have one of the most enviable jobs ever by flying one of the fastest, most agile, most advanced fighter jets ever to be built.......
but you, Harry Flashman, have a love life which is the envy of thousands of sad internet geeks.
Oh. Good point. Life's a s
tter eh?
It is, vanners, and thanks. Especially as the halcyon days of swanning around the place bonking tarts have been replaced by a grim tide of monagamy, relieved only occasionally by some monumental fHe may have one of the most enviable jobs ever by flying one of the fastest, most agile, most advanced fighter jets ever to be built.......
but you, Harry Flashman, have a love life which is the envy of thousands of sad internet geeks.
Oh. Good point. Life's a s
tter eh?k up on my part.Christ, I'm a ray of sunshine today, eh?
- sulks about listening to his parents when they told him he was too fat and stupid to join the RAF
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