Thank you very much.Welcome to the forum Andi
Thank you, no, I'm not a mountain person. Too much trouble to get up there - and then you have to come back down again at some point!Welcome Andi.
Bavaria and soldier: mountain troops?
Madness!! Why jump from a perfectly serviceable aircraft is beyond me!!! Pure madness!!! (Hope the pay was good!!!!)Thank you very much.
Thank you, no, I'm not a mountain person. Too much trouble to get up there - and then you have to come back down again at some point!
I was Fallschirmjäger (Paratrooper / Paracadutisti ) - gravity does all the work!
Welcome again Brother!Thank you very much.
Thank you, no, I'm not a mountain person. Too much trouble to get up there - and then you have to come back down again at some point!
I was Fallschirmjäger (Paratrooper / Paracadutisti ) - gravity does all the work!
You have just summed up one of the major reasons why mountain-climbing would not be the hobby for me: I would look for mountains to climb that have a road, cable car, or whatever at the top that I could take back down. (The other main one is fear of heights, which would kind of be a drawback as well )I'm not a mountain person. Too much trouble to get up there - and then you have to come back down again at some point!
Bell UH-1D, CH-53G, Transall - our fleet wasn't exactly modern. We always sayed ourselves that it would be much safer to get out than risk a landing.Madness!! Why jump from a perfectly serviceable aircraft is beyond me!!! Pure madness!!! (Hope the pay was good!!!!)
Thank you again. Steve, can I ask you what unit you were in?Welcome again Brother!
Steve
Exactly my opinion.You have just summed up one of the major reasons why mountain-climbing would not be the hobby for me: I would look for mountains to climb that have a road, cable car, or whatever at the top that I could take back down.
Originally 3 Para!Bell UH-1D, CH-53G, Transall - our fleet wasn't exactly modern. We always sayed ourselves that it would be much safer to get out than risk a landing.
The pay was actually rather poor.
Thank you again. Steve, can I ask you what unit you were in?
Exactly my opinion.
Not just qualified to jump from your own aircraft but ours too!! Barmy!! - Twice as barmy!!I was allowed to practice with British paras a few times. I just checked, my British wings was awarded to me by 4 Para.
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So, sort of like that part in Band of Brothers where the real ones talk about how they ended up in a paratroop unit? “It pays ten cents (or somesuch small amount) extra per day.” “I’m in!”The pay was actually rather poor.
Para pay was worthwhile back in the mid-60's! Hardly given currently (to save the cash required for MP's pay rises, benefits and pensions I suspect!)So, sort of like that part in Band of Brothers where the real ones talk about how they ended up in a paratroop unit? “It pays ten cents (or somesuch small amount) extra per day.” “I’m in!”
Almost ten years after that, I had a bet with someone in school, “for a tenner.” I don’t recall what the bet was about, except that I claimed something and he claimed it was otherwise, then bet me that he was right. He wasn’t. He then took his wallet from his pocket, opened it, dug around, and gave me a 10 lira coin he had from a recent holiday in Italy … I wasn’t the only one there who felt he was unfairly weaseling out of having to pay ten guilders (in modern money, no inflation correction: about €4.50). That coin was worth about one guilder-cent at the time, as I recall.My first pay in 1983 was 1000 Italian Lire (50 cents, maybe 52 in today's €) per day. Not a big step towards richness
My poor brain couldn’t cope with the exchange rate back then!!! (Lire/GBP).In the early '70s you payed 100 lire for a small ice cream; 10 lire was the value of one chewing gum.
7 Singapore $’s to the pound in 1970/71.My mate reckons he recalls the Singapore rate of exchange (in the late 60's - 70's) was one over-priced drink per Whiskey Dolly! I thought it was less than that ...
Steve
In 1973 1 pound = 1300/1500 lire; I leave to you the conversion into non decimal pound sub-units as my poor brain can't cope with that system anymore.My poor brain couldn’t cope with the exchange rate back then!!! (Lire/GBP).
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