Hey HAL ... your 767's blow ....

[Punk]

Atlanta - Tokyo on Delta last summer... 14-ish hours in steerage/coach, beers $5 = my own little personal hell.

I've done the ATL to Tokyo flight

but before that was the ATL - LAX - Sydney, my god that was a long day

and of course we landed in Sydney at 6 AM local, which was bed time, but just stayed up the whole day drinking, by the next day, was completly adjusted

 

[Lawman]

Your car doesn't have autopilot and mandatory crew-rest / rotations

Yeah but If I get a little blinking button or noise I can just pull off on the shoulder.... without going for a swim.

 

[Flash]

How did you manage a 10.4 leg? We did Hawaii to Guam in about 8.5.

Brett

TRANSLANT, Rota to Andrews coming back from OIF. I was ready to crawl the walls after 8.0.......

 

[Ryoukai]

TRANSLANT, Rota to Andrews coming back from OIF. I was ready to crawl the walls after 8.0.......

What does NATOPS say about having a gameboy in the backseat?

 

[phrogpilot73]

I just thought that I'd mention that NOTHING is worse than riding on the government charter TO Iraq. For some reason, it seems packed to the gills on the way there, but the freedom bird is a bit more spacious. Plus, not only do you have the jet lag to deal with - but the fact that you're going to the "Land of Not Quite Right"

 

[skidkid]

Uhhh Korea is the "land of the not quite right".
Iraq is the "Land of the just f*cking wrong"

The difference is Korea sucks but you can get a drink and noone is currently shooting at you

 

[Brett327]

What does NATOPS say about having a gameboy in the backseat?

Mefesto: Yes that would be being dragged by a tanker - nice because you don't have to do any of the planning.
Ryoukai: I think we can do much better than a gameboy. MP3 players are pretty standard and I've seen some laptops for games and DVDs. Plus, you be amazed at how many things you can think up to fvck with your fellow crewmembers, talk to random people on the HF, jam the other jets' RADALT or comms, carry out random simulated HARM attacks on merchant vessels. Plus, it would be completely wrong and unprofessional to hack into the windows based stuff in the jet to install porn or music. You know, geeky ECMO shenanigans.

Brett

 

[Ryoukai]

Touche. The Prowler sounds awesome.

 

[A4sForever]

Touche. The Prowler sounds awesome.

It's not ... but when you are running out of tactical jets to fly, what is one to do ??? It all becomes relative, yes???

 

[A4sForever]

Your car doesn't have autopilot and mandatory crew-rest / rotations

Sigh ... Autopilot??? Have you EVER FLOWN a 747 ?? No ??? That's what I thought ... try flying one 10-14 hours and be on altitude/on speed crossing the Pacific without an autopilot and then crack wise and wink about autopilots and the necessity therein.... I've done it when the autopilot failed --- don't want to do it again.

BTW, no "double crew" (either one or two crew adds) unless you are scheduled for over 12 hours in the air on the 747/200. That equates to a 16-18+ hour day ... but who's counting, right???

 

[Flash]

Was that being dragged by a tanker?

Several tankers, one took us the first half and another the second half.

 

[snizo]

Sigh ... Autopilot??? Have you EVER FLOWN a 747 ?? No ??? That's what I thought ... try flying one 10-14 hours and be on altitude/on speed crossing the Pacific without an autopilot and then crack wise and wink about autopilots and the necessity therein.... I've done it when the autopilot failed --- don't want to do it again.

BTW, no "double crew" (either one or two crew adds) unless you are scheduled for over 12 hours in the air on the 747/200. That equates to a 16-18+ hour day ... but who's counting, right???

Don't crew rotations and rest periods depend on what the pilots union has worked out in their contract?

 

[nfo2b]

No wonder I'm in my late '30's and look like I'm in my early 100's .... :icon_rast

WHY am I the first one to call BS on this? Late 30's??? HA! A4s, weren't you there for the birth of Naval Aviation--when Davy Jones was flying a kite from his frigate? Who loves ya, pops!