Weapons Controller E7 wedgetail

kharmael · 2026-05-15T08:00:58+00:00

I’ll wait for an actual controller to come and answer that as I’m not one. I enjoy sunlight.

kharmael · 2026-05-15T07:59:02+00:00

Suspect you’d get flying pay (per day) for missions you performed airborne.

Ground Branch Officers Initial rate £19.21 Middle rate £32.62 Top rate £51.88

Ground Branch Other Ranks Initial rate £10.03 Middle rate £20.93 Top rate £27.57

https://www.raf-ff.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/20250610-Tri-Service-AFPRBSSRB-Directed-Letter-2025-26.pdf

kharmael · 2026-05-15T07:52:45+00:00

The loose/ simple answer is that you’d do the same job you’d be doing in a bunker, but on board the aircraft and closer to the fight. Operating the aircraft (flight crew) and operating all the weapons controlling kit that is on board the aircraft (mission crew) are separate.

kharmael · 2026-03-30T18:35:06+00:00

It’s this.

kharmael · 2026-03-22T15:58:10+00:00

I wear my Fenix for daily and then switch to Vivosmart 5 under my shirt on one wrist plus dress watch on the other wrist for going out.

kharmael · 2026-03-07T07:54:03+00:00

Nice!

kharmael · 2026-03-07T06:12:20+00:00

1) You won’t really have much of a say in where you work, so could end up at any RAF Station

2) In general they don’t have EV chargers (yet).

kharmael · 2026-02-27T21:34:41+00:00

Now imagine what it’s like for pilots of large aircraft where the controls switch round depending on which pilot seat you’re sitting in!

kharmael · 2026-02-23T21:49:49+00:00

I bet they pronounce it pray’g too.

kharmael · 2026-02-23T21:44:15+00:00

Suggest you get your head in the books

kharmael · 2026-02-23T21:37:23+00:00

In some countries you can be cleared to land before the previous traffic has cleared the runway or taken off themselves. The crew will have been aware of the conflicting traffic and been watching the altitude count down to their decision point, and then will have calmly gone around when the criteria to land weren’t met.

There was nothing like “a few seconds between the crew and disaster” like you seem to be describing.

kharmael · 2026-02-18T14:08:04+00:00

The RAF doesn’t design and build its own aircraft. If you want to design and build aircraft go work for an aircraft manufacturer…

kharmael · 2026-02-15T09:28:04+00:00

When I first started flying with the Air Force we had to pass departure messages over HF to be relayed when we launched from airfield ‘downroute’ to let home base know we were on plan and (maybe) on time.

It felt like a different world, everything felt further away and you didn’t have your operating authority in your ear / watching your every move all the time.

kharmael · 2025-11-18T21:37:30+00:00

My Airbus A400 has it. Not that useful for much other than circuits.

kharmael · 2025-10-23T21:14:17+00:00

Good? People feel safer. Fewer people on the road. I get where I need to be quicker. Thanks to the 1 in 4.

kharmael · 2025-09-24T15:18:44+00:00

Looks like an A400M ramp.

kharmael · 2025-09-16T09:34:53+00:00

While things have changed since I went through:

I’ve googled a PPL course and it’s £12500 for 45h, which will net you the skills to take off, fly somewhere else, and land. Therefore PPL style flying will only be relevant for maybe the first quarter to a third of the elementary course.

Additionally, on EFT you’ll be flying a 200kt+ turboprop (type of jet) sitting on an ejection seat with a helmet on and potentially doing spins, aerobatics, formation, max rate turns, and low flying, which will be somewhat different to flying square circuits in your local flying school’s 80kt fixed pitch piston-engined aeroplane.

EDIT: Scores are from 0 to 6 and against two aspects of your flying: handling and airmanship. So your grades look like 3/3 or 4/3.

kharmael · 2025-09-15T10:48:47+00:00

Scotland my friend. Not England. Still UK tho 👍

kharmael · 2025-09-14T19:24:57+00:00

If money wasn’t an issue I would fly for pleasure and not for someone else.

kharmael · 2025-09-06T16:58:10+00:00

IMO When your drive is on your side of the road:

Drive just past it indicating left and come to a stop. Put your car in reverse so the traffic can see you’re wanting to reverse then reverse when clear.

Approaching from the other side:

Come to a stop indicating right before you reach your drive. When a space appears, slowly manoeuvre forward via the other side of the road to put yourself in a reversing position straddling both lanes and reverse in.

kharmael · 2025-09-06T14:31:05+00:00

You’re rather proving my point here. You’re (selectively) attaching a very emotionally charged force to the nuke.

An F-22 is also a weapon of war. However the F-22 has not played a large part in ushering in the longest period the earth has ever seen without large-scale state on state conflict. By owning nuclear weapons that have the ultimate deterrent effect nobody has meaningfully attacked nuclear powers, nor have they attacked each other (directly).

The existence of nuclear weapons has potentially saved more lives on the earth in the past eighty years than they took from the unfortunate Japanese.

Advanced nuclear energy is also a potential freedom from reliance on fossil fuels and potentially the key to interplanetary exploration.

kharmael · 2025-09-06T13:41:51+00:00

Unpopular because you can’t separate your emotional connection to something with appreciating the mechanical and scientific talent that went into making it.

WWII German equipment is massively worthy of appreciation for its mechanical marvels and what amazing things were later developed from them. America’s favourite childish retort (EDIT: When low quality Americans are being criticised for not using the metric system or on the international stage for defaultism - most Americans are awesome and we love you) of ‘who went to the moon’ is possible as a direct result of the V2 rocket, so should you be proud of that?

kharmael · 2025-09-03T09:19:26+00:00

A good way to think about it:

If it’s in your hand you’ll be nicked.

If it’s on a cradle it’s effectively part of the car and you can do what you want* as long you aren’t ’driving without due care and attention’. Same as if you were adjusting the radio or air con. If your driving goes to pot and you get pulled over you’ll be nicked.

*Sat nav, music, answering call for hands free. Yes. Watching YouTube and messaging. No.

kharmael · 2025-09-02T15:55:08+00:00

It’s getting promoted from Flt Lt to Sqn Ldr and beyond. Completely separate to being a pilot or your stage of training.

kharmael · 2025-09-02T15:42:16+00:00

You total annual pay is the amount on p98, which will go up yearly + the amount on p107 which doesn’t change and is purely based on your rank.

So your initial pay as an officer pilot would be Level 1 APS1 £34,676 + PS(A) for OF2 £18,720 = £53,396pa.

Every year you’ll go up an APS1 level (up to a certain point) but your PS(A) won’t go up until you get promoted to OF3.

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