Wall, head, bang…repeat…
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How many cockpits would you have been in where there aren’t loads of other things carried by the people there every single day.
One can only assume that incubus has errant pins on his uniform that keep falling off. I’ve never had to reattach a pin since becoming a Flt Lt all those years ago. Maybe I’m unusual among staff.
If you want to look for a problem, you will find one and then convince yourself that it is greater than it is and blow it out of all proportion. This is what has created the industry around H&S.
When I go Flying there’s nothing loose in my cockpit!
Where the pins are is one of the issues. On the shoulder which is where parachute/harness straps are fitted. Fitting straps could easily dislodge them?
If one fell out onto the apron, somebody could stand on it and inadvertently transfer it into an aircraft?
Nobody’s creating the issue. The issue exists…!
Maybe speak to the squippers, or to current military pilots, and get an understanding how how they deal with potential loose articles in a small cockpit and what happens if they think something has gone amiss.
The reality is that any inverted flight can result in a canopy full of gravel and pens but that is no reason to be blasé about the potential risk and to take this opportunity to remove something that has, for whatever reason, been highlighted as a potential problem. Also, I’m 50% certain that many of the concerns are fed by walts who want to ponce about in gro-bags masquerading as regular pilots and if we can remove that opportunity to then I’m all for it.
The insignia is, for whatever underlying reason, changing. This is an opportunity to get rid of the pins (which have always been stupid, breakable tat) and move to a better system.
I’m in the “sew it on with nylon thread” camp now, by the way. I was on the “superglue it” camp but that wasn’t stable enough and I dropped a few (due to seatbelts mostly) so I upgraded, Most of the real issues I’ve heard of were from officers struggling with cheap VRT pins which either break too readily or, if they don’t break, they swivel.
@Teflon For someone who castigates HQAC for spending huge amounts of their finite time and effort on absolute irrelevancies that have no more impact on anyone than a snowflake at the South Pole, you, err… don’t half go on about absolute irrelevancies…
Instead of your interminable whining about stuff that doesn’t amount to a hill of beans, why don’t you plan an exercise or an AT day for your cadets, or given your endless appeals for HQAC staff to actually do what they are paid for, why don’t you do some work instead of spending hours wittering about gilt pins!
Is there an ignore function?
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You have to try and manually tune him out.
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All I’ve done is make comment on something that I see as being something that is a poor argument for not having something.
Stop feeding the troll.
Is it too much to ask for consistency in the ‘A’?
Did you take that photo or did you find it online @bfg ?
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We don’t get consistency anywhere else!
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They will be the old version …
I don’t know what you lot are honking about, I reckon they’ll look well tasty cutting about Tesco…
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A colleague took that one earlier in the year. I have seen the new ones and they don’t have the bar under the R but can’t recall what the A was like.
Its been fixed and now looks like a A should look like
You mean I’ve got to draw another one?? I don’t think i have time for this!!!
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They really need to settle on one design, these Tesco quips are going to get boring if I have to do a ‘new’ one for each mock up…
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They are hideous with those backing bars and lower line is off centre
Those are a previous iteration. The actual ones are on a list on the VRT Commission change post (post 2104). Not great but far better than this version.