Buckingham Palace is pursuing a new helicopter pilot for an elite unit on a competitive salary and with knowledge of working with VVIPs.
The triumphant pilot or co-pilot will join the elite members of The King’s Helicopter Flight (TKHF).
They will be based at RAF Odiham and be given benefits including a 15 per cent employer contribution pension scheme and five weeks annual holiday.
The helicopter is available for all senior royals and the use of the Sikorsky S76 C chopper for 179 Royal flights cost £906,000 in the last financial year.
Royal sources said the King’s rather allergic to travelling by the whirlybird and will invariably raise an eyebrow and objects when it’s suggested.
King Charles took a charter plane and a helicopter for his travels to Belfast and around Northern Ireland in May 2021, at the cost of more than £29,600 – this dude doesn’t come cheap!
The new monarch and Queen Consort also flew by helicopter in July that year on their annual visit to Wales, with the bill coming to £15,920.
The King also took a helicopter journey for a 70-mile journey from London to RAF Brize Norton in November ahead of his official visit to Jordan and Egypt.
The advert said that the King’s Helicopter Flight (TKHF) consists of a small crew of pilots and ground support, delivering the highest standard of helicopter service to Members of the Royal Family on official visits.
When they join the unit, they will need to take on the position of either Co-Pilot or Pilot in Command, operating a Sikorsky S76 C++ helicopter.
And note the expense, millions wasted of our money, and I don’t care who they are, they still put their pants on one leg at a time – VVIP for goodness sake.
I do hope that this is an eco-friendly electric helicopter because we wouldn’t want Greta Thunberg getting her knickers in a twist over it, but there’s so much hypocrisy in the Royal Family. Helicopters, private jets, huge SUV convoys, palaces, mansions and they have the cheek to lecture us on climate change. Oh, the irony – beggers’ belief doesn’t it?
However, the King is apparently an egotistical complaining doofus and has a reputation for being a pernickety snoot with highly specific day-to-day demands.
One fact is that he never paid inheritance tax on the enormous personal wealth he acquired from Queen Elizabeth II, but that shouldn’t come as any surprise, and he displays incivility and tantrums.
On the other hand, this man has been rumoured to have the ability to be extremely charming, suggesting to his present wife, Camilla, that he would settle for being a tampon if it meant he had to live inside her knickers, but what it’s actually about is, do as I say and not as I do.
The Royal Family aren’t VIPs. Paediatric heart surgeons saving children are VIPs. Honest hard working carers for the elderly, the vulnerable and nurses are VIPs – what a crazy world we live in because when it comes down to it, it’s all about money and status.
I can’t believe that the Royal Family have a helicopter on standby when they want it at a cost to the taxpayer. Who do they think they are P Diddy? Get a train like everyone else has to, and surely the King of green eco wokey shouldn’t be using a helicopter, but then could you envision them using skateboards and push bikes? Although I’m sure if it was good enough for Boris Johnson, I’m damn sure it’s good enough for them.
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