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Something went wrong while submitting the form.Oops! Tim Davies is a former fighter pilot and fast jet flying instructor with a 20 year career in the Royal Air Force. 0000002672 00000 n 0000104690 00000 n SPIN Recovery Programme . 0000008918 00000 n In order to maximise the training value for the student pilots you have to stay in the air for as long as possible and that often means running your fuel down to frighteningly low levels. We spent the next hour or so burning as little fuel as we could whilst orbiting in the overhead – everyone was hurting for fuel.

Tim Davies is a former fighter pilot and fast jet flying instructor with a 20 year career in the Royal Air Force. He’d shut down an engine with a failure and was now slow, burning more fuel on the one engine than he would be with two (due to flying a lower speed, requiring more lift and hence drag, and requiring a higher power setting) and was requesting an immediate approach into the Sigonella airbase.In my formation there was a collective sigh of ‘noooooooo!’ as we all knew what this meant!His ‘May Day’ call meant that nobody was going to be able to land until he did and the Italians were not going to budge. This is because you are being sapped of mental capacity by having to listen to inane chatter on some talk show when you needed all of your faculties to concentrate on driving.
0000001707 00000 n 0000094848 00000 n 0000007965 00000 n 0000003750 00000 n Learn from a former fast jet flying instructor in the Royal Air Force who will drop some 'truth bombs' onto your personal battlefield to help to accelerate your potential!Former Royal Air Force fighter pilot and fast jet tactical weapons flying instructor talks about performance psychology and overcoming struggle to accelerate your life.Mindset, Motivation and Group Accountability for men and women who want to TAKE BACK CONTROLI am a high performance consultant assisting individuals and organisations in creating a better and more productive future. Related Posts How to Not … This way you can check that your fuel airborne matches the fuel you calculated in the planning phase when you were on the ground and your head wasn’t trying to do a million other things.If you are conducting some upper air exercises, again, fuel planning is not too difficult and you can recover home with an excess of fuel, the result of the aircraft burning less fuel at height and with the use of mid-range power settings.But one of the most demanding scenarios for any pilot comes during ‘air combat manoeuvring’ or ACM. 0000009450 00000 n Think of it as driving past a fuel stop in the hope of reaching another one even though your car’s fuel light has been on for the last 10 miles.Except there is no hard-shoulder to park in should you get it wrong.And the penalties for making mistakes become harsher depending on the discipline being flown. We work out how much fuel we need to leave our home airfield with to fly straight to our diversion airfield. He is also a coach and runs a site called www.fastjetperformance.com. The weather was poor and the flight was going to be long, over five hours if I remember correctly. And with that I closed the throttle and, as the nose of my fighter jet lazily dropped below the horizon, I rolled out on a rough heading for home.‘Jester 3 is bingo, RTB.’ I called over the radio, letting the other two aircraft that I was with know that I was heading home and on minimum fuel.It’s a daily occurrence when you are flying to one of the most tightly packed flying schedules in the world. I was in the front four jets and behind us, by about an hour, was the next four. Learn More.
%PDF-1.4 %���� 183 0 obj <> endobj xref We call this figure our FOG or ‘fuel on the ground’ and, should we reach this prior to landing, then we either So, when we fly we have a fuel figure called a ‘bingo’ fuel and to this we can add an element of range or distance back to our intended landing airfield. About the Author: Tim Davies. 0000104963 00000 n A great and well written email from an 18 year old who is doing some great work on himself as he attempts to get into the RAF as a pilot - GREAT ADVICE here! Mindset, Motivation and Group Accountability for men and women who want to TAKE BACK CONTROL. Either way, the range is dynamic, it is ever changing but our figure that we add it to, our ‘bingo’ figure, should never need to change unless our diversion or weather back home alters which isn’t often.On a good weather day, when the airfield of Mona, about 10 miles from RAF Valley, is our primary diversion, we will hold about 200 kgs of fuel. At low level, the Hawk flies at 420 kts or (420/60) ‘OK, student pilot in the front seat, how long until we get home?’‘Home is 35 miles away, we are flying at 7 nautical miles per minute so (35/7) = 5 minutes!’So, more complicated – what about in our car at 80 miles per hour then?Work out what 80 is in miles per minute (80/60) = 1.333 miles per minute which is going to be really hard to work with, so let’s just leave it as Work with fractions when you can, brains don’t like multiple decimal places.If you have 80 miles per hour and 5 miles to go, just leave it all in fractions.Distance over speed = 5/80 which is 5/80ths of an hour.

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Tim has 6 jobs listed on their profile. Choose this level if you are a student in Advanced Flying Training (Hawk T2, M-346, T-50, T-38, RPAS) Fast Jet Performance's Warrior Forum is my commitment to helping you to create real performance in your life. 0000338439 00000 n