The Great Milestone Thread (1000 traps club + Carrier milestones)

[montellv]

He was talking about the Stennis 100,000th trap. It's in the original link.

I just left The Black Knights to start my new career as a bad guy F-5 pilot in Fallon. Way to go CDR Troyer. Although he is a Prowler transition, he went to the best school in the country so that makes up for a lot (Go Buffs).

And 187 of those traps are mine.

 

[A4sForever]

Has it been 11 years? How time flies, 100,000 traps!

from the article: “Black Knights” Executive Officer Cmdr. Clark Troyer and pilot Lt. John Young successfully completed the arrested landing after returning from a close-air-support mission over Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom."

Uhhhhhh .... Anyone we know ... ???

 

[Sarge]

CDR Troyer is a pilot...LT Young must be the WSO.

 

[The Chief]

Uhhhhhh .... Anyone we know ... ???

Hehehehe.

... must be WSO ....

WSO Aye.

 

[montellv]

CDR Troyer just finished the pilot transition from Prowlers to become XO of VFA-154. John "Clocktower" Young has been in the squadron about a year and he is indeed a WSO.

 

[Schnugg]

During a deployment on Stennis, there wasa milestone trap coming. Our CAg was an NFo riding in the back of an F-14 supposed to make like the 75,000th trap on the stennis.

They announce here it comes on the 1MC...there he is rolling into the groove...

FDWO!!!! Interval was too short.

The LT and LTjg in the F-14 behind them flew a good interval and got the trap and "glory" if you can call it that.

Because they announced it right before the FDWO, there was no way to sandbag it and let CAG come around for another pass...he didn't get it.

JOPA was thrilled.

 

[A4sForever]

....They announce here it comes on the 1MC...there he is rolling into the groove...

FDWO!!!! Interval was too short.....

Actually .... WOFD!!!! But: I LOVE IT!!!

And ... that is exactly when and why I waved the Admiral off when he was LIG .... i.e., long in the groove ... had I accepted him (the ship's plan for PR purposes) ... he would have caused a fouled deck wave off for the Aviator following ... who was flying the correct pattern.

Not on my deck. You fly the pattern and do what the LSO says ... or you go away and try again .... it works mo 'bettah and is much safer that way ....

Maybe that's why I went into the airlines ... ??? :sleep_125

 

[The Chief]

... "Clocktower" ... has been in the squadron about a year ....

Ahh let see, ten months, fifteen days .....

 

[HeyJoe]

I just left The Black Knights to start my new career as a bad guy F-5 pilot in Fallon. Way to go CDR Troyer. Although he is a Prowler transition, he went to the best school in the country so that makes up for a lot (Go Buffs).

And 187 of those traps are mine.

You ought to PM the Webmaster requesting wings on your profile

 

[BigIron]

So does a WOFD count against your landing grades, or is just a matter of screwing up the pattern?

 

[A4sForever]

I just left The Black Knights ...

When they were still flyin' Turkeys I let one guy in the cockpit for the ride coming back from Tokyo (actually ... NAS Atsugi for him) .... callsign "Buick" ... a really, really good guy ....

 

[A4sForever]

So does a WOFD count against your landing grades, or is just a matter of screwing up the pattern?

WOFD is a "freebie" for YOU .... UNLESS you were NESA ... i.e., NOT-ENOUGH-STRAIGHT-AWAY .... and therefore "caused it" ... in which case you get burned on the grades.

... It could have been caused by someone getting "hung" in the gear; that's why it "generally" doesn't "count" against YOU .... but as it hurts the ship's/AirWing's boarding rate ... it is NOT desireable ... it pisses off the Boss and the ship's CO .... and it puts you (the pilot) one more trip around the pattern and lower on fuel ...

.... and that counts, big time, on your sphincter quotient, especially at night.

 

[cosmania]

I made the maiden deployment onboard JCS in '98 with VS-31 and
CVW-7. Awesome cruise - especially the port calls in Australia and Hobart, Tazmania!
:icon_carn

I don't know what Stennis '98 Cruise you were on, but "Awesome" was not how anyone categorized that cruise. This is the same ship where the Big XO broadcasted over the 1MC that ". . .the nutritional value of brown lettuce is the same as green lettuce, so stop complaining."

It's was also the same cruise where we didn't get our beer on beer day because a port visit was like 2 days away.

Lastly, wasn't it VS-31 that came up with the best cruise patch ever? The Crimson Donkey (a.k.a. the Red Ass)

 

[kmac]

WOFD is a "freebie" for YOU .... UNLESS...

Here's my threadjack on WOFD:

Two CODs are flying form to the boat (scary already) and dash-1 waits until 2.5 miles upwind to break (nugget). My copilot is flying in dash-2 (with me) and has to break a few seconds early to avoid getting much further past 4 miles (can you imagine dash-2 spinning when we're the first ones to recover???). Anyway, dash-1 doesn't really pull on his break and extends out wide on the downwind. He maneuvers back in and is super close to us. My copilot slows to on-speed early (screwing the guys behind us) just so we can try and get some interval. Because dash-1 took so long to break, the Hornet behind us had to spin. That Hornet was flown by DCAG. Well, there's no chance that we can get aboard even though we've slowed since we're at the 90 as dash-1 is in the wires and so we get sent around on the high side. Since now there's a COD in the pattern that wasn't supposed to be there, we're flying interval off a Hornet out of the break. At the same time DCAG is coming around from the spin and guess what... he has to spin again because there's not going to be any interval behind us. That's twice he had to spin because of the late break by our dash-1 and then the WOFD by us because the interval was so screwed up. FORTUNATELY, another Hornet guy ended up cutting him off and forced DCAG to spin a 3rd time. Well... all the anger at us just got rolled off onto the Hornet guy and DCAG never did say anything to us. Phew! So yes, interval is important!

 

[MasterBates]

You mean CODs are not always banished to the Starboard-D with the helos?

Seemed like there was always a COD in the penalty box with us, he did the last trap, and the we came in on spot 3.5, 4 or 6 depending on where they parked him.