{"product_id":"confessions-of-a-flying-instructor-tug-wilson-9781781559079","title":"Confessions of a Flying Instructor: Teaching the Raf's Fighter Pilots","description":"After surviving three years flying the mighty Phantom, the RAF's greatest and most terrifying fighter (for those in the cockpit), Tug Wilson was sent to RAF Brawdy in Pembrokeshire and then to RAF Valley on the Isle of Anglesey to teach the flying skills he probably should have known when posted on the Cold War front line.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt Valley, Wilson quickly discovered that being an instructor was much more than just teaching: it was falling out of the sky after a stall at just 300 feet, inches from pulling the ejection-seat handle; it was zooming into cloud at low level knowing there's a hill somewhere straight ahead; it was suffering the horror of nearly killing your student by chasing him too hard in air combat; it was being a mentor, a father figure, a best friend and a worst enemy if needs be; and it was the joy of guiding the struggling but hard-working ones away from the brink of being 'chopped' and towards their dream of becoming confident aviators, ready to join an operational squadron.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Flying Instructor\u003c\/i\u003e is a gritty, unvarnished, highly entertaining account of what it was like to be a tactics and flying instructor on an RAF squadron in the early 1990s--the banter, the egos, the insecurities, the cock-ups, the tragedies, the friendships, the triumphs, and the pure, unadulterated exhilaration of raging around the sky in a Hawk T1A day after day. Have you ever wondered what a fast-jet pilot needs to go through to learn how to win in air combat? Or how to cheat in dogfighting, for that matter? This book is an intimate, revelatory memoir of an often overlooked but intrinsic aspect of the RAF.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tug Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781559074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781559079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fonthill Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Tug Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45065030598911,"sku":"9781781559079","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2b085aa2-9762-4993-84dc-6a581e197422.jpg?v=1712125427","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/confessions-of-a-flying-instructor-tug-wilson-9781781559079","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}