Primary on Monday

[Moc1Sig]

Just do the old fasioned partial panel, IP given PAR off the ILS, it gets the X in the BOX right?

 

[Erin M.]

Head up to north to TOI. I went there for a few GCAs and when we departed they told us to come back and bring more guys. They want us to do GCAs up there.

 

[Erin M.]

Especially if you've got an O/I. MGM is only 20 miles or so north of TOI. You can get a ton of approaches in and then head into town to get some bbq at Dreamland.

 

[Erin M.]

FIFY

Yeah, that is definitely the truth.

 

[Criminal]

Finished Friday night.

I've been trying to distract myself with the gym, cleaning the house, working on the car, taking the dog on super long walks, and none of it is working well.

WTF? Why don't you try drinking? Works well for most.

 

[Gatordev]

If I were you, I'd think about taking leave, but I hear it gets denied all the time.

 

[Erin M.]

I prefer BBBQ myself.

In any event, an even more important question: What tasty beverage did you give to the IP who flew your last T-6 flight in order to help destroy his/her liver...especially since your flight was on a Friday night?

None. I am a terrible person.

I was unaware I'd committed such an awful offense at the time. I am going to bring some things in this week for both my on-wing and for the instructor that flew my final flight with me.

 

[Erin M.]

Yeah, my computer decided to post that 3 times. Awesome.

 

[Gatordev]

I prefer BBBQ myself.

I miss Seasons 1-5-ish.

 

[BusyBee604]

Yeah, my computer decided to post that 3 times. Awesome.

I thought I was suffering 'double vision' and just about to dial 911, when the third dupe popped up, phew.
BzB

 

[Erin M.]

If I were you, I'd think about taking leave, but I hear it gets denied all the time.

If your profile did not say you're out west, I'd swear you flew with me on Thursday and Friday....

 

[Gatordev]

If your profile did not say you're out west, I'd swear you flew with me on Thursday and Friday....

I wish...trust me.

 

[ea6bflyr]

None. I am a terrible person.

I was unaware I'd committed such an awful offense at the time. I am going to bring some things in this week for both my on-wing and for the instructor that flew my final flight with me.

You are never wrong providing libations for those that hold your future in their hands....

 

[e6bflyer]

You are never wrong providing libations for those that hold your future in their hands....

This is an honest question:
What is the social norm on providing gifts for your instructors?
Back in my day, when we wound our 8-day clocks before flying, you bought your onwing a bottle after your initial solo (tie cutting) and you were debt free after that. The latest variations that I have heard: gift for first flight (an air force tradition), tie cutting, final flight, NATOPS checkride (for Aircraft Commander), the list goes on.
I am not hating. I am the recipient of 16 hard earned bottles of booze and other various assorted gifts from my stellar onwings. I felt that after 10 hot, sweaty, flights in the trenches beating up the landing pattern and trying to teach things that can't be taught like headwork that I was not out of bounds in expecting some compensation.
Most of the "last flights" that I did in Primary were just as good a deal for me as they were for the lad or lass doing them...I only expected them to be reasonably prepared and went in with the expectation that we wre going to have some fun.
Have times changed?

 

[scoolbubba]

This is an honest question:
What is the social norm on providing gifts for your instructors?
Back in my day, when we wound our 8-day clocks before flying, you bought your onwing a bottle after your initial solo (tie cutting) and you were debt free after that. The latest variations that I have heard: gift for first flight (an air force tradition), tie cutting, final flight, NATOPS checkride (for Aircraft Commander), the list goes on.
I am not hating. I am the recipient of 16 hard earned bottles of booze and other various assorted gifts from my stellar onwings. I felt that after 10 hot, sweaty, flights in the trenches beating up the landing pattern and trying to teach things that can't be taught like headwork that I was not out of bounds in expecting some compensation.
Most of the "last flights" that I did in Primary were just as good a deal for me as they were for the lad or lass doing them...I only expected them to be reasonably prepared and went in with the expectation that we wre going to have some fun.
Have times changed?

We did a dollar ride 'gift,' but mine was as simple as a picture of a B-52 flying over Hokie stadium (IP was a BUFF pilot) with a dollar underneath it, cheapie frame, signed and dated. Tie Cutting/Solo check guy got a bottle, as we didn't really have on wings at Vance. Circa 2007...nothing else really expected or required.