Wednesday 23 April 2008

RHIP - Prince William flies again

Prince William has now been had up for a fifth time for flying his Chinook outside your regular training flight path. Having been caught out paying a flying visit to see his girlfriend at her family's estate in Berkshire, dropping in to see his Dad at Highgrove, buzzing his Gran at Sandringham, and picking up his bro to give him a lift to Cowes for a stag weekend, he's now been had up for using his Chinook to get to a wedding in Northumberland.
But if you're the heir to the throne, you should be allowed some perks - it is called the Royals Air Force after all. Rank has its privileges or as the MoD put it: “In retrospect, there was a degree of naivety in the planning of these joyrides.... I mean, sorties.”

Link> The Telegraph: Prince William in fresh row over helicopter use