A beautiful day in the office... (VC10 Air-to-Air)

[Trev Clark]

Great to see young 'Charlie' at work at last! What a job he has landed (no pun intended!); I agree about the gloves Dave, 'white ones every time', shows people you have been 'busy'! That big undercarriage lever looks like it was always intended to be operated by a co-pilot too

[Nigel H-J]

Great photo, nice to see a face from behind the keyboard.....So, when can we expect to see you Tonks?

C'mon Charlie, take one when he ain't lookin'!!

Regards
Nigel.

[Hot_Charlie]

C'mon Charlie, take one when he ain't lookin'!!

Bit difficult this week - we've been in different aeroplanes!

[jab]

Brilliant Pictures Tonks thanks for sharing :dance:

Oh so we have two RAF VC-10 pilots on here Nice :tab: I hope when the RAF retire there VC-10's they Tour the UK I was hoping they would do pleasure flights like they did on the last Concorde
flights :prayer: :prayer:

I just hope our lords and masters let her stay around long enough for me to have a year or two in the left hand seat one day.

Maybe you could start the VC-10 to the Sky after the RAF retire them ;-) :roll:

One other thing is why do you wear white gloves when flying ? :think: Don't see airliner pilots wearing them or is it an RAF thing?


James

[Hot_Charlie]

One other thing is why do you wear white gloves when flying ? :think: Don't see airliner pilots wearing them or is it an RAF thing?

Matches the knuckles...

On a serious note they have a range of functions. Particularly pertinent in the pics above, they provide a level of grip on the control column, which would otherwise have been dripping with my sweat!

Normally we only wear them for take off and landing on the 10.

[jab]

Oh right thank you for that information Charlie CHEERS I was thinking it was so that you dont wear the paint off the control column :doho: Yeah I see what you mean now by if you have sweat on your hands and you slip and the control column goes with you it wont be nice.


Well have fun flying the 10 :flying:
James

[DaveB]

James..

I often wonder where you go to when you're not here :roll:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Garry Russell]

I always thought the white gloves were so you could check your malteasers hadn't melted :think: :roll:

Garry

[DaveB]

I thought it was easier to see if your biro was leaking! Good job Charlie had is on

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[jab]

James..

I often wonder where you go to when you're not here :roll:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Into a cold Dark room

Well when I first saw that picture with Charlie & the White gloves, I thought thats posh must be an RAF thing

Regards
James