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Career Reflections by Pickle

wlawr005

Well-Known Member
pilot
Contributor
Speaking of one prop vs. two (or even three or four), what happens if the Osprey loses an engine? Are the props interconnected to run off one engine?
 

Jim123

DD-214 in hand and I'm gonna party like it's 1998
pilot
No. It spins wildly out of control to a violent and fiery death.

That's because the engineers who designed it are retarded and never took into account that one of the engines might someday fail in flight.

Dang! I know better than to eat while reading AW.
 

picklesuit

Dirty Hinge
pilot
Contributor
Well, looks like some hard work paid off, I got verbals to Whiting, Get to keep flying and hopefully try to pass some knowledge to nuggets...God help us...I'm pretty excited, now just have to get this pesky deployment out of the way....
 

CommodoreMid

Whateva! I do what I want!
None
Super Moderator
Contributor
^ Of course it is. You have to do all the stupid safety messages and reports for a P-3 non-event vice a real problem in the E-2.....

Was just rereading this thread, and I had to laugh again at this. A couple weeks ago I was on crutches due to a possible stress fracture in my foot. It was likely just an overuse injury, these things happen, whatever. Not knowing what was wrong, our Safety/NATOPS LCPO comes up to me asking if I had filled out the safety report on my injury yet, thinking I had had an accident or something. I said no and that I wouldn't be filling one out, but how have we come to this? Yeah, if I had hurt myself on the plane or something, I could see this, but say I had just been retarded and dropped a weight on my foot at the gym or something, why the hell should I have to fill out paperwork on a non-work related event like this? Not to mention I really don't feel like becoming a candidate for the Friday Funnies or something.
 

scoolbubba

Brett327 gargles ballsacks
pilot
Contributor
The friday funnies is just some dickbag making fun of unfortunate individuals in most cases. I want to find him so he can have his shins broken with a sledgehammer, then ask him why he wasn't wearing catcher's pads.

"A man hit himself with a hammer when it slipped because he didn't properly apply grip tape to the handle. 2 days of LIMDU gave him to to properly apply protective measures to all his tools. What a dumbass!"

Fuck head. end rant.
 

Pags

N/A
pilot
Was just rereading this thread, and I had to laugh again at this. A couple weeks ago I was on crutches due to a possible stress fracture in my foot. It was likely just an overuse injury, these things happen, whatever. Not knowing what was wrong, our Safety/NATOPS LCPO comes up to me asking if I had filled out the safety report on my injury yet, thinking I had had an accident or something. I said no and that I wouldn't be filling one out, but how have we come to this? Yeah, if I had hurt myself on the plane or something, I could see this, but say I had just been retarded and dropped a weight on my foot at the gym or something, why the hell should I have to fill out paperwork on a non-work related event like this? Not to mention I really don't feel like becoming a candidate for the Friday Funnies or something.
Because whether it's work related or not it still might count as a ground mishap and the safety dept is responsible for tracking and reporting on such things.
 

BusyBee604

St. Francis/Hugh Hefner Combo!
pilot
Super Moderator
Contributor
Get to keep flying and hopefully try to pass some knowledge to nuggets....

Your pleasure and satisfaction will come... from the fact that your hard work and experience have contributed greatly to their attainment of "nuggetship"!
BzB
 

Recovering LSO

Suck Less
pilot
Contributor
Well, looks like some hard work paid off, I got verbals to Whiting, Get to keep flying and hopefully try to pass some knowledge to nuggets...God help us...I'm pretty excited, now just have to get this pesky deployment out of the way....
Congrats, now we can shift the thread to "how not to be the P-3 guy in VT land who makes lift absolutely miserable for students who don't want to be P-3 guys...some of whom may be brash enough to want jets...." :cool:
 

scoolbubba

Brett327 gargles ballsacks
pilot
Contributor
Never understood that stereotype...every P-3 guy I flew with in primary was just happy to not be in a VP squadron when they showed up for their shore tour. Even at Vance.
 

picklesuit

Dirty Hinge
pilot
Contributor
Like I told my wife, if I could contain my landings to the same 1,000 feet of runway I would have considered trying for jets...I don't think I can push anyone from any of the pipelines, and I don't think I will be the bitter "Fuck P-3's" guy, seeing as how I love my platform...I guess I am one of the few who haven't been boned by my community...or maybe I'm just grateful they let some dumbass redneck fly planes for a living...
 

scoober78

(HCDAW)
pilot
Contributor
The same 1000 feet of runway is a whole different animal when you don't flare. That's where most of the difference in touchdown is induced...at least from what I'd seen instructing.

Oh, and dumbass rednecks don't have profile pictures that look anything like yours. FYSA...
 

C420sailor

Former Rhino Bro
pilot
Never understood that stereotype...every P-3 guy I flew with in primary was just happy to not be in a VP squadron when they showed up for their shore tour. Even at Vance.

Very happy, especially once they decided to play NATOPS stump the chump, complete with the "you're a drop of oil in the oil sump..." game. Good times. :)
 
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