Brett1
Banned
My trip to Colorado was ending yesterday and I flew from Vail to Atlanta in a Delta 757. At about 160 miles out of Atlanta the captain comes on the comm and says that there is a nasty storm on Hartsfield and we will have to hold for 40 minutes. I could see the mess going on in the distance and we had a pretty big circle of planes going in the hold. Finally the captain says that we are going to "shoot an approach" and see what happens. That was my first clue that we may have a naval aviator on the flight deck.
As we started to descend he tells all of the crew to buckle in its "gonna be a bit bumpy". We rolled left, we rolled right, and we went up and down like a farking elevator!! It was rough as shit. I looked out the window and it looked like the plane was flapping its wings for propulsion. We finally broke out of the soup at a few thousand feet with heavy rain and crazy winds. This guy was working his ass off up there and frankly I thought we might be a smoking hole in the ground at any minute. My 2 year old is laughing his ass off and having a great time, my 7 year old is immersed in nintendo and I am starting to not have fun. He dirtied the plane up and we did the roughest approach I have ever been on and right before touchdown he leveled perfectly and slammed it on the deck. Unreal landing executed perfectly under the circumstances. I was shitting.
With all of the kids and carry on crap we were close to last off the plane. As we exited the captain was standing at the door and my son blurted out "must be a navy pilot"..... the response was, "no son, marine corp f-18 pilot"...... then he says to my boy "can i get an OK 3 wire?". I told him that we would have felt a whole lot better knowing that he was a Naval Aviator before the descent. He said that he didnt want to hurt any AF guys feelings. Bad Ass pilot. Even my wife was impressed.
As we started to descend he tells all of the crew to buckle in its "gonna be a bit bumpy". We rolled left, we rolled right, and we went up and down like a farking elevator!! It was rough as shit. I looked out the window and it looked like the plane was flapping its wings for propulsion. We finally broke out of the soup at a few thousand feet with heavy rain and crazy winds. This guy was working his ass off up there and frankly I thought we might be a smoking hole in the ground at any minute. My 2 year old is laughing his ass off and having a great time, my 7 year old is immersed in nintendo and I am starting to not have fun. He dirtied the plane up and we did the roughest approach I have ever been on and right before touchdown he leveled perfectly and slammed it on the deck. Unreal landing executed perfectly under the circumstances. I was shitting.
With all of the kids and carry on crap we were close to last off the plane. As we exited the captain was standing at the door and my son blurted out "must be a navy pilot"..... the response was, "no son, marine corp f-18 pilot"...... then he says to my boy "can i get an OK 3 wire?". I told him that we would have felt a whole lot better knowing that he was a Naval Aviator before the descent. He said that he didnt want to hurt any AF guys feelings. Bad Ass pilot. Even my wife was impressed.