MasterBates
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If you are comforted by the ejection seat, what exactly do you think is coming to get you when it does its job?
Why's that? The TH-57 (Bell 206) is the safest aircraft ever built, fixed wing or rotary wing...
yes. we all get 5 goggle flights in ht's.
If you are comforted by the ejection seat, what exactly do you think is coming to get you when it does its job?
I'm pretty sure it's a lime...a cat in an apple helmet (or apple hairdo...whatever).
Flight schools job is not to teach "war fighting basics" in any way shape or form. You claim that HTs produce commercial level pilots and nothing more, I disagree. HTs do what they are supposed to do, produce a guy with basic aeronautical skils: insturments, form, basic monkey skills and serve as a screening period that's it.
The HTs are not equipted or informed on the the day to day tactical changes to even attempt to give a grounding in "basic warfighting"; and what form should this "warfighting" training take: the missions are too diverse across the spectrum of Naval Aviation.
Dont look to the Army as a model on how to produce Naval Aviators.
Without getting into a tactical discussion, ASW is more like chess and less like boxing.
IBB is on the right track though, a good chunk (not all) of senior leadership, both aviator and particularly SWO had a hard time seeing the 60B as more than a ASW or RADAR/ESM platform.
For those of you going Helos, it is changing.. Slowly but its changing.
What I mean is that helo advanced seems more about producing competent instrument efficient aviators vice tactical gurus. I've gathered the same about maritime advanced. However, jet advanced seems to teach some of the basics of tactical, weapons on target, "basic warfighting" skills.
but I recall a post awhile back where it was said that the old school smallboy skippers were really reluctant to send their Bravo's out for anything other than ASW for fear of losing them (i.e. overland).
That's gotta be nice. Especially since we only got 3 NVD flights in the FRS and none of those was overland...and this is in the 60S, the first Navy Helo designed from the start for NVGs.