Dylan Smith wrote:
On 2008-04-15, Dudley Henriques wrote:
The RAF has no interest whatsoever in losing either Prince William or
one of their aircraft and are quite competent to keep each in one piece.

He is also a Police-trained motorcyclist, with a strong interest with
the Isle of Man TT. It causes some interesting problems for the police
officer who is charged with his safety while visiting!


One can only imagine the conflict some of these people endure when asked
to "instruct" the Prince on these endeavors. On one hand I'm sure they
want to do a credible job of teaching him what he needs to know, while
on the other hand they have to be sweating bullets to insure he isn't
hurt in the process.
So far so good anyway. I'm sure it doesn't help the "instructors" any
when they realize that William doesn't seem to fancy himself special in
any way and wants to go at these things head on like everybody else.
:-)
I like the Prince and I admire his guts and style. I also feel sorry for
him and the people charged with instructing him because strange as it
might seem, when you are instructing in things that can kill someone,
holding back in any way can actually make the endeavor more dangerous
than it would be otherwise. Trust me, I know about these things having
instructed VERY rich pilots on go-arounds in airplanes like the P51 :-))
I remember Vince Lombardi the famous football coach once saying that the
quickest way to get seriously injured playing football was to hold back
on a tackle.
For the Prince it has to be very hard learning things like flying and
motorcycling with his instructors over compensating to protect him.

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Dudley Henriques