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She's a permanent instructor at USNA, if any of our ambitious midshipman want to try to get her to give the inside scoop...

There was a sim instructor at HSC-2 when I went through that was part of a land based HSC-84 detachment in South America. One day while flying over some body of water they spotted a body. Thinking it was the right thing to do, they sent a swimmer down to pick it up. Evidently the body was in...

Concur. We had AWICS and it sucked. No one used it because of the magnitude of it's suckage.

Such a sexy airplane...

I think he's senior/in charge, so that's the plan.

They're planning to start at Thorn Brewing Company after the sim that they are currently in at Miramar. Probably after 1700. 2 Marines,1 Navy, and 1 AF dude.

My buddy flew that Codsprey in from the factory! I'm having dinner with him and the rest of the crew in a couple hours. If anyone has any questions, post them and I'll try to ask him tonight.

Liked. Despite the training wheel!

I saw the same thing with a few VR A-dubs that would whine about things like what hotel we were staying in on the beach somewhere because it wasn't their chosen hotel for points...

Anyone that advocates calling someone a cab or letting them walk home is out of touch with the current reality (looking at you @taxi1). I'd wager that the number of times that happens in todays environment is an outlier, and are a failure in policing when they do. Most states have a catch and...

Yes.

This one and it's sister (also painted in AD colors) were imported. I remember seeing a YT-34C at Oshkosh in the late 90's, so I asked this ones story. He said the pair were imported from South America, Argentina maybe? They looked brand new with all glass panels. I thought they were low...

This bad boy was for sale at Oshkosh for a cool 1.2 million...

Yes, that accident was tragic. I'm still hoping another B-17 might do it at some point. I have some friends with T-6's and DC-3's. That will have to work for now. I got to fly this DC-3 back from Oshkosh last year.

It looks like fun. The name of the game is getting back on deck as fast as possible from altitude to make more moneys. I've got video of a King Air rolling inverted after I was the last one out. The jump plane is usually landing at the same time I am, and I was in free fall until about 3k...

This really screwed up my weekend plans. I thought Sky Dive San Diego was on the ropes before. I fear this may be the nail in their coffin. That T. Otter was on lease from Skydive Kapowsin primarily for SDSD's SPECWAR contracts. I've jumped out of it many times.

I've flown them. They aren't worth that.

That was really hard to watch. Wes was a really good dude. The best. I'm lucky to have known him.

It's pretty easy to condemn something that doesn't affect you. I'm in no way defending slavery, but the places that were condemning it were largely industrialized. The south was still an agricultural system. North of the Mason-Dixon line they may have denounced the evils of slavery (and why...

I got to sit left seat in a VBPD Bell 407 to show them course rules to come in for one our wing safety stand downs. It was a pretty sweet deal and I got some stick time. On the way back the pilot (former Navy 46 dude) asked if I wanted between two buildings in town center. I was like, can we...

Chaos 2020!

While I agree with you that should be done, I believe the unions are a big reason why they are hesitant to immediately fire someone. The same reason when an airline pilot gets caught trying to fly with alcohol or drugs in his system he or she is not immediately fired. They are usually put on...

Have you gotten your hands on a 43X?

The requirement suspiciously went away when pilots were blatantly (talking about it in online groups and in wardrooms) not submitting a picture in order to 2x FOS and go to "The Show" with a hefty severance check. Marines were talking about the same thing with JPME requirements and such, as I...

Why? They're standard issue for HSC squadrons.

I've got a couple 85 friends that got to go to HAATS a few years ago.

I heard he survived the weed allegation at the wing or safety center. Any validity to that?

Was that the guy at 26 that got violated on his first HAC flight? Wasn't that the same dude that popped for weed and claimed his wife/girlfriend gave it to him via vaginal transfer?

Dude, they're adversaries. They want guys that have gone to a school to be adversaries. I don't see what you're still not getting. Top Gun is a school. They have a class that teaches you to pretend to be a bad guy. They don't give out trophies for the best pilot and the list of the...

Contracting out certain aspects can be in the fiduciary best interest of the country. That 204 million dollar contract can (and did) go away overnight. DOD got a very niche need filled overnight and when it went away overnight it cost zero dollars. What military unit do you know of that can...

No offense to the OP, but you really have no idea what you're talking about or asking. Our fighter pilots are the elite. Units like the 160th do a very specific task. They aren't just a place to send the best army pilots. That was also the intention of most of the SOF units that were created...

We wore the Johnny Cash's at OCS in 2007 timeframe. At HSC-2 we recreated a picture from 50 years ago, on the sea wall. In the original picture there were 3 pilots that were in AWG. Everyone else was in SDB's. It just so happened 3 of us had AWG's. The picture turned out well. It blew the...

"I see here you put down that you traveled to Russia last year. Where did you go and what did you do?" "I went to a Russian air base outside of Moscow to fly fighter jets."

Cheaper to fly to Russia and do it there. They've been selling flights for over two decades.

You can repeat off the students MFD's and switch them to night mode, which makes them go black. The student can just turn their brightness up (if they realize what happened), but it was good for giving them an oh shit moment. The BFI is actually extremely good in the T-6. Pretty much the only...

We tried doing some of this. Shifting some intermediate flights to the T-6 and changing our approach speeds to mimic the T-45. Advanced eliminated some BI/RI events and their students struggled. I was told they were doing partial panel work in the T-45, and we didn't have the ability to fail...

We had a Doc in Corpus that flew hornets then went to med school. He still flew with students in the T-6.

One of my squadron flight docs was a pilot in the squadron, then got out and went to medical school, and when he came back in as an O-4 he happened to go to the same squadron. Our skipper had been his 2P.

Just do all the leg work for it to be in Tokyo... and then actually be in Tokyo. I was assigned PIO for someone that went OCONUS without approval, lied about it, and it was the biggest shit show of my career. The CNO got involved and they got kicked out in the hardest way available.

Thanks for the insight.

Blackwater's "Ass Monkeys" were under contract to State as described in Erik Prince's book. They were made up entirely of retired high time TF-160 guys. Seems like they were made up of the most varsity rotary wing pilots out there. Can you expound on how they were operating "under the...

There's a dude that started AFR/ANG F-16's and transitioned to Navy reserve F-18's, then went back to the Air Force. He has a youtube channel. Definitely uncommon.

An example where I used it: ATC called and said "home field just went IFR @800OVC/3 what are your intentions?" I was coming in @500 feet (normal) and almost had the field in sight, with a cloud deck that was obviously no lower than 800 all the way in and no obstacles (I was well aware of the...

If you really want to blow some minds, request a contact approach...

I totally agree.

As Jim pointed out, things can get squirrelly if you slow down too much in IMC. We had a new HAC flying plane guard for CQ's one day and after recovering the jets, the carrier drove in to a fog bank. His first CCA he broke out about 30 feet over a chained rhino at about 80 knots, and couldn't...

Although it didn't apply on low levels, it was pretty common to brief that if you went IIMC you would do a 180 and fly for 30 seconds, if you were still IIMC you'd climb to MSA (briefed) and pick up a squawk. So this mentality definitely is prevalent. A single pilot trying to do this while...

This is a question that gets asked a lot and there really isn't an answer. You could be the best student pilot the training command has ever seen, and there just aren't any jet/cobra slots the week you select. All you can do is give your absolute best and hope you get what you want, but at the...

OPSO/MO are usually the big ticket punching DH jobs.

The 737 has a plug behind the copilot's head. Each pilot carried their own issued iPad as well as a 3rd, as a contingency. Somehow in the VR world we managed to keep them charged, sometimes even hot seating them several times when the jet stayed moving for days on end. I don't know what the...