hfrog84
Token Air Force (Viper) Guy
Sit on our hands?! Are you kidding me? We have to keep them free to hold the banana and slap the monkey.......so to speak.
uh, has your monkey been bad?
Sit on our hands?! Are you kidding me? We have to keep them free to hold the banana and slap the monkey.......so to speak.
We didn't really. I was exaggerating. It passed through the area before we got there. We were twiddling our thumbs waiting on the ground for it to pass. But we definitely were in the soup.
See, this is a learning point. This is why IPs get into trouble when they weren't doing anything wrong. Just food for thought all (not just you Bogey).
FWIW, in TW-5, flying through a SIGMENT is not illegal.
When I IPed in 5, flying through a convective SIGMET (or SIGMENT, for that matter) was a no-go. It had to get "hatched out" over a segment as "not progressing as forecast." in order to fly in it. Oddly enough, the areas that it never seemed to progress as forecast in seemed to be in narrow corridors between S. Whiting, Santa Rosa, and Spencer.
I suppose the reason the rule might have changed was that Whiting weather forecasting was going to be remoted to Jacksonville and their metro wasn't with the program.
It got annoying in the fleet that new joins always thought SIGMETs were no-flies, like WWs. I always made sure my helo students knew the difference so they wouldn't look stupid in the fleet.
/end threadjack
How about the argument that the base for Navy Aviation Wx should be in P'Cola due to the excessive volume of flights between P'Cola, Whiting, and being fairly close to Meridian. Not to mention there would probably be more comm between CRP and Kingsville, too, basically making the Wx HQ have legit SA on the areas with most Navy flights. It seemed to make sense, so I doubt it will ever happen. Ever.
Doesn anyone know why it was moved to that particular location?
There's your problem: you think you're a "customer", where in fact, you are the "supported". Big diff. A customer pays for a "service" and has "choice". The "supported" gets a "service" from a "supporting element" at a "common output level" whilst taking it in the ass.But the overall system is broken from the customer's stand point.
There's your problem: you think you're a "customer", where in fact, you are the "supported". Big diff. A customer pays for a "service" and has "choice". The "supported" gets a "service" from a "supporting element" at a "common output level" whilst taking it in the ass.
how the hell else would we get weather/file a flight plan? Answer: you can't. You use FSS.