What a show!

The little patch of Scotland we inhabit is much used by the RAF for training...specifically the training of jet fighter pilots practicing low flying techniques.

It has long been a bone of contention with some locals, their displeasure is with the phenomenal noise and the danger. Well yes, it is noisy, very, and yes just maybe one day some poor pilot will make a mistake and land unplanned in a tragic manner, but is it not better that if it has to happen it does so here in the middle of nowhere, in an area where it is much less likely that a fall from the sky will involve many, if any civilians?

Would the objectors prefer they carried out this essential training over a city? Or would they prefer that they went into battle untrained?...Gah...the 'not in my backyard' mentality drives me demented.


GR4

I most certainly do not object, from a common sense point of view somewhere like this seems the obvious choice and from an individual point of view it is 'heaven in the back yard'! I have paid a fortune over the years to see these jets at one show or another but here, this morning, not the usual two but six Tornados at once, playing directly above my head, and play they can, these are serious big boys toys, performing so low I could define the pilots......the noise is deafening, almost painful the ground vibrates underfoot and Ditto hates it but hell, I love it...bring it on boys (or girls as the case maybe)......what a show and all for free, you practice all you want!