Terror risk for Britain as jihadis are allowed to return
the puzzle” regarding their preparations. “This simulator is by far the most realistic simulator that I have ever been in. “You sometimes forget that it is not real,” he said. “Sometimes your heart rate increases on some of the manoeuvres that we are performing, some of the more challenging conditions that we are flying in.
“You genuinely feel as though you are in the real environment. Without the sim... we would be going significantly less prepared.
“It gives us the data, the noughts and the ones, that are required to prove that what we are going to go and do is a sensible thing.”
The facility also features an accompanying FLYCO control room, which mirrors the one on the £3bn warship, and also allows the ship’s landing signal officers team to be trained.
BAE’s, David Atkinson, an engineer working on the aircraftto-ship integration, said the evidence gathered through their work was “critical” in gaining flight clearance for the trials off the ship. “It is not just a visual simulation, i.e. pilot flying and getting that visual feedback,” he said. LETTING ISLAMIC State jihadis return to the UK is like “inviting the wolf to dinner”, a Briton fighting against the murderous group has warned.
Having battled the extremists for the past three years alongside Syrian Democratic Forces, Macer Gifford said there was a “real risk” those returning could carry out terror attacks.
Earlier this month Max Hill QC spoke of “losing a generation” by automatically using the courts to punish those who have travelled to the war zone, with the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation calling for a focus on “reintegration”.
But Mr Gifford, 30, from Cambridge, has issued a plea to the Government to sit up and listen as he states it is not possible for former IS fighters to come back and be reformed.
“As someone who has been out here and seen what the Islamic State is like on the ground and what they have done to the people – this is a wake-up call and a warning to Britain,” he said.
“When I see a man like this official who said he wants these young people back, when I see them saying this on national television – you are inviting the wolf to dinner.
“You are inviting back into the country an insidious virus, that we are actually almost grateful to see go, because they have attacked us and in the places that mean the most to British people.
“That is our children in Manchester and the very heart of our democracy in London Bridge.”
Mr Gifford, a former Londonbased banker who worked in foreign exchange before heading to the Middle East, and who uses a pseudonym to protect his family, said the fanatics could not be trusted.
“The foreign fighters are actually by far the worst, and the most aggressive, most deranged of all the Islamic State fighters,” he said.
“They are the ones who have come from abroad and forced their twisted, perverse ideology on to the people.”