Seriously, I don't get all the hoopla about his training flights. He has to fly and land
somewhere. He didn't visit Kate since he didn't even get off the helicopter. What difference does it make whether he flies to Berkshire or anywhere else really? He did not land in their "frontyard" but on a field that just happens to belong to the Middletons. Who knows how far this actually was away from their home? And the article didn't even tell whether Kate and/or her family were even there to witness his landing. So how can anybody say he only took the flight to impress her (as if he needs to
).
To me it looks like the papers just try to jump on the band wagon and unfortunately this time it's William who got on the raw end of things, I could to a certain degree understand the criticism about the stag party flight but to complain about this flight to Berkshire is just ridiculous, IMO.
He is trained to learn to fly smaller aircrafts and helicopters and I do not see how it matters where he flies to or where he lands. Even if he just flew in circles over the base, his training would have cost just as much and used just as much fuel etc. Whether one considers this training useful and/or necessary is a whole other story but has nothing to do with those recent articles.
And this helicopter would surely never have been dipatched to Afghanistan or Iraq anyways even if William hadn't flown it. Other trainees would have used it or it would simply have been out of service thatday. If the military lacks equipment, the people need to complain to the MoD and those responsible in the government but not be all over William who is certainly the least responsible.
He doesn't have to land or fly anywhere because he doesn't have to be in the RAF for show, he could have joined the RAF and not learnt to fly, my dad and sister are in the RAF and both do not fly, but it seems William is jsut intrested in the "cool" part of the RAf which is flying, he dosen't seem intrested in learning about the back work that is put in by many many otehr trades in the RAF.
I agree with you int he fact that if he is training, which i'm not massively against, he had to land somewhere, what i worrry about the most is the judgement, or lack off, that William, and yes Clarence House officials and William's superiors have shown, they should have know landing in William's girlfriends backgarden would have LOOKED bad, flying over Birkhall would have LOOKED bad, flying to the Isle of White would have LOOKED bad. He didn't do anything wrong, but he didn't do naything right either.
i've always admired William, i think he has grown up under impossible circumstances, and has shown real maturity and sense, but these revelations do not look good, and the fact he obvoisuly felt it was acceptable showed he does not seem to, in this instance, have realsied the huge public scrutiny that people righlty have into his life,when he i sspendign TAXPAYERS money, with no intention to serve in the Armed Forces.
If he was going to go off to fly helicopters and risk his life in te armed forces, seving in conflcit zones, as his uncle, Prrince Andrew, did then he could land a helicopter in the middle of Hawaii and take a 2 month holiday, but he is not. That is wherei have a problem with this. He's been through Army training, learning to fly a aircraft and now a heclipoter and soon will be on baord a navy ship, simply so he can say when he is King " i was in the military" which to those who have or know people who have been in armed conflit is to a degree insulting.
If he apoliges, simply saying - "Yeah, i had fun and messed around a bit in my training which everyone does but i realsie people might have expected better of me" then most people would be pleased, and i'd be one of them.
Its the fact that in years to come he'll use this as justification or saying "i was in the military" that gripes me.
Sorry to those that don't agree but thats my opinion.
