Flying & Fighting in the Typhoon | Mike Sutton (Part 2) 

I was groundcrew on jags and typhoon and remember Sooty well. I moved to 11 sqn the same time as Mike, when it stood up with typhoon, and us engineers had the same issues as the aircrew did; everyone posted in from different types, with different ways of thinking and operating, and lots of things to sort. The work was non stop but very rewarding. Mike was always courteous and chatty with the engineers, although when in his “pilot bubble” pre-sortie he could be very quiet. Great to hear the same stories I remember but from the aircrews point of view.

This guy had an amazing career. It was a good interview. he seems like a top bloke all round.

Makes me feel good that we have such high calibre men in these fast jets as Mike.

Hey guys I just got done reading Mike Sutton's book Typhoon - it can be summarised in one word - outstanding on so many levels. Firstly the book is written with a humility that is so lacking with most fighter pilots. Given what Mike has done that borders on a miracle that equates to parting the red sea. However for me though what is much more important about this book he is totally open about what the Typhoon was good at and what it wasn't good at it. The mark of a true professional. A great read.

He's so humble! Mike Sutton had a great career, a dream career, and that cannot be sheer luck as he puts it.

I was in Cyprus on that first night. Still feels like not long ago, trying to get everything together to load the jets. I remember eating dinner on the pan next to the aircraft as we didn't have time to properly stop, cold beans and half a baked potato as the armourers had been forgotten about so we got what was left. I was the safety man for pulling the flare pins giving the pilots a thumbs up as they left, seeing the Tornadoes take off with thrusters blazing and then the Typhoon like it was no effort at all. Was great when they came back with some ordinance dropped and another thumbs up indicating it had gone well. 👍

I had the pleasure of being friends with Mike in our first year at SUAS flying out of Boscombe Down. We drifted apart as I changed university. Glad he fulfilled his dream. He appears to have stayed every bit the great chap he was then too.

I remember Will Saunders, he also had a degree in engineering. A very clever guy.

Great interview! I absolutely love the Typhoon but hearing this, I was truly surprised by the actual power of this beautiful jet... It's crazy that they don't use reheat that much

What a thoroughly humble guy.........actually, the kind of guy I'd love to have a beer with and know that whatever he told you would be free of hype or bull! Dare I say it, the Americans could learn a lot from Mike!! Great interview!!

Just ordered his book!

Just finished his book myself, absolutely superb. What a career, one can only dream…

Mike’s book is a great read

US Kindle is available! Just bought it! Excellent interview! Mike Sutton is a very cool dude!

What a man. I’ve just finished his book and I was captivated from the first to the last page. If I’d have had the ability to be that good I would have hoped to be that humble.

Aircrew Interview, great interview. Suggestion: When the interviewee is standing in front of the plane he flew, it would be nice to have him do a short walk-around.

Another cracking interview 👍🏼 Respect to the RAF and our allies ♥️

Wow! What an incredibly intelligent man this is! A true pleasure to listen to. Thank You, Cheers!🇨🇦🍺🇨🇦

Brilliant, one of the best interviews. Really interesting on the real combat ops part. Book sounds like a great read.

Absolutely captivating one of the best interviews you have done to date !

Just bought the book Mike wrote looking forward to reading it .

Thank you for doing this interview, I really enjoyed his book as well. Great to hear from him in person.

18:46 great to know, it is not just the machine capable doing it but the pilot also can.

Must have been one hell of a jump from jag to typhoon.Hats of to you SIR regards and respect and thank you for your service.😊😊👍👍

Fantastic briefing! Thank you for putting this up!

He's got a great book read it recently highly recommend.

Just read his book, thoroughly enjoyed it. Excellent read on a modern fighter aircraft.

Super interesting man. Never flown but find all this fascinating.

Absolutely loved Mike's book

Great interview - going to give Mr. Sutton's book a shot

Another brilliant interview 👏

Really enjoyed this.

Great interview. Cheers

Watched this then bought the book. Thanks for taking the time to write it. I know it's a massive undertaking. Looking forward to listening on audible.

I listed to Typhoon on Audible - a really good listen, couldn’t get enough!

When flying over dangerous ISIS controlled areas, and this pilots main concern is performance anxiety. Awesome professionalism 👍

Great interview. Really interesting. These pilots are so cool calm and collected. Thanks

You need to read Typhoon - it’s a must!

Designed as a very simple and safe aeroplane to fly: augmenting tactical and situational awareness.

One of the best parts of seeing an Aircrew Interview reminder 'info post', Re a Sunday interview vid, is when its timed to perfection. Will with no rush finish an Earl Grey right at the moment my Deliveroo guy's tracker turns into my street, portaging 2 x 10% Cloudwater; excuisite pre-chilled Barley wines, and a bag of judiciously chosen cheese balls. Riveted for it all, best regards to AI and Mike.

I only the typhoon had thrust vectoring hopefully in time it will wow a very formidable aircraft it will become

Wow Mike, best interview yet, great insight, sorry Godders lol

Great interview as always. FWI, I was able to d/l the e-book a few minutes ago from amazon US.

Hello!! Always great work !! Keep it up!

Looking forward to the interview with Paul Tremelling

What an enlightening interview i have learned so much,thank you Mike.i Live near Coltishall where Jaguars and Tornados were based so had brillianr views of them from the garden!!

Awesome!

My opinion the typhoon is the best fighters out there imagine getting paid to fly these incredible machines.

Listening to his book on Audible. Very good. Should have named it from the Jaguar to the Typhoon. Was the S400 a problem over Syria

I live in Tucson Az.

F22 vs. F35? Thoughts please.

Britain used to produce so many aircrafts during the past. It's sad for me being a scale modeler and a huge lover of British aircrafts watching this big aircraft industry dying ! The only British made aircraft from the 80's till now are collaborations like the Eurofighter with the exception of Nimrod MRA4 and Westland Lynx. .

There’s a lot to unpack and process from this interview. Key takeaways are the multicultural convergence of Tornado, Jaguar, Harrier, and RAF-USAF exchange pilots who all contributed to the multirole mission sets available with the Typhoon upgrade packages in RAF, which turned it into a different combat system than the pure interceptor it was mostly envisioned as. The other interesting aspect of his story is how those capabilities actually came into play operationally in CENTCOM, where they would mission set-swing on individual sorties, rushing from PGM delivery, then reacting to TIC CAS calls, then pushing out to execute ISR, then hit the tanker, then react to any other pop-up taskings, before heading back into the Med. Excellent interview

What is the reliability quotient for the Typhoon V F-35?

How to make a delta design , to be, ground attack capable !!!

Again, where is the flying?

No pin in that drag brace...

That’s awesome! When I go to vacation in Mexico, we drive through several of the shooting ranges he mentioned. Unfortunately, the truth is that illegal immigrants are literally walking through shooting Range is trying to get to Ajo, Arizona or other places in Arizona in order to get a job send money back to their family in Guatemala, Venezuela, Mexico, etc. Also, I’ve seen A-10s shooting their 30 mn guns as I’m driving through to get to Mexico. It’s a lot of fun seeing the pilots shooting at targets.

I always think a Human brain 🧠 is an essential component of a weapons platform, It's designation is HUMAN .a pilot.

Om!g unreal ,=))

Colour Party

If you Take obviously very clever Humans out of the Picture have you got a Painting?

I clicked like but then had to unlike ..... It was on 633 and I just couldn't do it .... Will come back later 😆

What American F15 isn't the best! Heresy. . .

Awesome interview.. thanks for uploading. 🤘🏽🥃

Is the typhoon the euro fighter forgive my ignorance

Great interview.

1st class. ..thanks for sharing