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NATO strap as I wore out the metal one so went with the official RAF one.

One club I'm in is Tach and one is Hobbs. Flew this yesterday for a 2.3 Hobbes and 1.8 tach (@ $170/hour on the tach) but I had slow flight, stalls and a couple approaches in there to play with the new panel so a lot of time at less than rental power. Both models work fine.

When I went through VT-86 in 88 I ended up getting winged with several OV-10 USMC Captains that were there in abbreviated syllabus to transition their wings from Aerial Observer to NFO and back to the OV-10.

During a port call in Trinidad on TR circa 1990 met the Naval Liaison for the entire Caribbean . He had a C-12 he flew (A-7 guy) and they sent his wife to flight safety too so she could be SIC..... Yea, I'm never "that guy"

Same @ Whidbey. If I'd agreed to another tour at NAVAIRES, which I was already cutting short to go to VAQ-209, they waived flight safety at me. I'm still torn but like all things Navy, I'm sure I would have been screwed out of it.

Have one of Capt Spuds ballcaps too. But I got the upgrade model with two anchors on the wings! ?

Frederick to Winchester VA to Hancock MD to Chambersburg PA then the long arc around P40 as the president was at Camp David so the big ring was hot, over Gettysburg and home. Rough as all get out with west winds over the mountains. New tower controller @ KFDK and he was under water with all...

Yep, Tamiya 1/48" kit. My process? Open box, build plane. ;) I did use the Eudard woven seatbelts that were very neat to work with. As usual, and just like years ago, I always find stuff I could have done better but the on-line resources are amazing these days both videos for techniques and...

Broke into the stash myself.

Yep- Took them from Jan to June to do it with them being shut down and 1 AMU but worth it. I have one other one with a metal band that is worn out and I know the band alone will be expensive. Looking for someplace other than Omega to send it to. I'd rather spend the money flying.

Finally back from Omega after a substantial amount of work. That's what happens when you wear it for 20 years and never do anything to it. And in it's natural habitat.

Got 1.7 of IFR out of a 3 hour flight with an actual RNAV in the 182 a couple weeks ago. Nice to use the IFR ticket occasionally as its meant to be used.

Right behind you in 09-87 GYSGT Bowling

Were they Panthers or Cougars? I'd love to read more about this. Very similar to the MISTY Fast FAC at the same time. http://mistyvietnam.com

If we're talking the definition of a FAC being the directing of weapons from airborne in direct support of troops by other aircraft as a formalized role I suspect you are right - See my note on the other board. I will also reach out to Barrett Tillman and that crowd. Good article here that...

Unlikely, they were much more likely the recipient of FAC help I think but Rocky can certainly reach out.

Yes, I understand most of the old folks with context of Naval Air history were driven away from here. I've of course reached out to Rick Morgan as well - http://www.rickmorganbooks.com/index.html. Rick was my mission commander first tour and well regarded historian and Naval Air author.

All, Rocky is a friend of mine and the real deal. You should consider picking up his books that describe his tours there flying the 0-2. WRT the topic at hand the only folks I can think of are VAL-4...

I was there too. Amazed to see them gear up well before the end of the angle.

I'm old but not that old. Desert Storm the Naval Air sidearm was crap. Our issued weapon was a 5 shot .38 S&W snubbie. The vast majority of us carried our own. I carried a Browning Hi-Power, my pilot carried a Glock 9 and the other two carried the issue weapon. Of course our new jg wouldn't...

A little more of an update. It appears a 27 year old woman named Korrine Aquirre made the whole thing up. To what end I don't know. Shocking to me is that media didn't do any checking at all it appears in pursuit of the story and in these days of viral media everything I could find on the...

http://www.cowtown.net/proweb/tornado/tornado.htm

This now going very weird - Apparently a Grandson - The guy who wrote the story is backing off. http://www.examiner.com/article/shotgun-executive-taken-into-custody-at-colo-gun-show-on-cabbie-terror-tip Still being reported on the news...

A cabbie in Denver turns in Daniele Perazzi, president of Perazzi (quite possibly the finest sporting shotguns in the world) as a terrorist because of his foreign accent and the guns even though he was going to a gun show...

I think this shows why filling out your profile would help people understand the context of your question. Lot of good info here and interesting for someone who's never had any interaction with the community.

Be interesting to see what the aircraft attitude was at impact. See 18 years later and ASO mishap site investigation questions still won't leave my head. :rolleyes:

http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/a-pilots-son-flying-solo-20130509

It was still there when I went through in 86/87 but, of course, it was the AOC club by then. The decline for my generation (87-07) was post Tailhook and the arrival of full blown PC and its associated programs.Even up at sleepy NUW the base got very aggressive with DWI enforcement to the point...

Nope - Just buy her guns for all three games. See, it's so simple! :D

Very different games. http://www.nssf.org/shooting/sports/shotgun.cfm Most guns that work fine for Skeet will work fine for sporting clays with the addition of some screw in choke tubes. Trap can be shot with anything but moves towards specialized single shots pretty quickly and is best served...

The mission they were lost on is summarized here http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/p/p380.htm

IMO there is no need for a 12 gauge at skeet and very little in the upland field. I've shot most of my pheasants over the pup in the last decade with a 28 or 20 gauge. When I shot skeet hard core I shot 1 oz loads in the 12 gauge.

Briley http://www.briley.com/companiondrop-intubesets.aspx makes any gauge of tube sets and I have all three gauges (20, 28, .410) for my beretta but unless you're going to shoot registered skeet there's no need to go that way. While 28 gauge is my favorite (and the only one I ever hit 400...

Has she shot a lot of over/unders? I would certainly consider a good gas operated semi-auto to reduce felt recoil. In addition, for trap and skeet you have no need for different chokes on sequential shots so a single barrel gun is fine. That being said, if she is set on an over/under I would...

The Turkey of Ataturk and the spirit of Kemalist that he founded is in serious jeopardy there. The military has always been a counterbalance to the radical side of Islam but as of late (the last decade or so) the radical side is winning and there have been mass arrests of senior military...

I've been using this one from LLBean for a couple years and have been pleased with it. http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/78579?feat=hunting vest-SR0&page=men-s-upland-vest-pack&attrValue_0=Tan/Hunter Orange

A well reasoned leftie has a reasonable view of the gun control obsession of the left http://kontradictions.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/dear-democratic-gun-control-lobby-how-to-get-better/ In fact, what I take away from this is that if you want to commit political suicide on this third rail...

I was listening to a podcast of Grisham's Gun Talk (http://www.guntalk.libsyn.com/) running the 10 mile arc on the beltway from NOVA this afternoon and he had the President of Bennelli on (Beretta, Bennelli, Stoeger = same) and he had some interesting stuff. (1) They will make no announcement...

If you're a quality guy that delivers what you promise and add value to the mission there is always another contact/job out there.

All is not lost!

Saw the same thing during ODS in the Gulf. TR, Midway, Ranger and America all milling around in a pretty small space and mixing it up in marshal. I think I'm glad we didn't have goggles. Seeing all the lights was bad enough. :eek:

Especially with my 29" inseam. :D. The beacon antenna on our seat wasn't attached to anything.

And a Shiner Bock too. Congrats Bunky!

MagPul, a well respected manufacturer of various magazines in Colorado including (gasp) those evil high capacity types, has been very clear that they will leave if Colorado outlaws their products for their citizens. I'm sure there are several states that will be happy to have their jobs. In...

New to me. Savage 99F (1954 with a ser# < 1 million) in .300 Savage. Worked 4.0 on a piggie last week. Next big event will be a Newfie Moose in 2014.

But back then we still had new Prowlers they were better, I swear! I picked up one new from Grumman in 90. It smelled like a new car and came with new leg restraints and the seat cushions were (gasp) cushiony!

What is not included in that summary is they pressed without EF-111 (or Prowler) support. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

(Start sarcasm font) This just fills me with confidence (end sarcasm font) http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/f-35s-ability-to-evade-budget-cuts-illustrates-challenge-of-paring-defense-spending/2013/03/09/42a6085a-8776-11e2-98a3-b3db6b9ac586_story.html

40+ years of Prowlers and the USMC is the only ones that have managed to whack the ground or another fixed object with one (the one in Yuma killed the CO/XO in the same jet IIRC) So, for that you get another rule. CVWR-20 didn't fall under COMVAQWINGPAC so we even did (gasp!) overheads in...

Well, they looked like Spits on the metal detector. :( http://www.flyingmag.com/pilots-places/pilots-adventures-more/burma-spitfire-dream-gets-rude-awakening?cmpid=obinsite