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How did you paraphrase my post and say exactly what I was trying to say before I even made my post? Coincidence?

You won't have ZERO hours if you do IFS. You'll have almost exactly the same hours as most of your peers. Besides, the difference between someone with 25 hours in a Cessna and one with 150 or 200 hours is probably nil. Well the difference is nil aside from the initial arrogance of the guy with...

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I've seen it, though the particulars seem to have been permanently misplaced in my memory. It tends to be a skill only the IP's have, and I'm content to leave it to them. It doesn't help with the ball flying, and right now I need all the help I can get.

Cooking cheap is my life. Breakfast: Blueberry Muffins- 1 box blueberry muffin mix, 1-2 cups water or milk. Mix ingredients and enjoy. Lunch/Supper: Hot Dog Puree- 3-4 hot dogs, 4 slices white bread, ketchup and mustard to taste. Pour ingredients in blender and run on high for 45...

city people really are pussies

yup. that's the one. there is a newer model out, but I think they are basically the same.

I'd get him the Eflite Blade CX. (not the CP) It is incredibly stable. Even my buddies who don't know how to fly helicopters can fly it after a few tries. You'll go through some rotor blades, but they're cheap.

I think that is the beauty of the equation. If you know your grades in primary and your prospective pipeline doesn't have an intermediate stage, you can plug it all in and solve the equation to find out what your advanced NSS will be. This way you can just skip advanced and move right into the...

Very true. This is because you are presumably trying to push the ball down while you are in the water yourself. It only seems hard to push the ball very far down because you are basically floating near the surface and your arms have a limit to how far you can push the ball below your body. Try...

OK you were right about the source of buoyancy. The book answer is still wrong though. The reason the ball has the same buoyancy at any submerged depth is because the pressure differential between the top and bottom of the ball is constant with depth. Remember P=Rho*g*h? Well the buoyant force...

I think the concorde would give it a run for the money. Especially on the landing roll with the thrust reversers. It was doing $800/seat half-hour supersonic rides at oshkosh a few years ago. If I remember right they had to go to canada for the supersonic portion of the flight. Anyway, I'd...

There was this kid at school that i didn't really like... he told me to come here to find a place to live in pcola, which I did.

Yeah, after flying a "modified bingo" for a bit, they settled on dirty bingo numbers, which are flown much slower than a clean bingo.

There were several ANG dudes in my AF primary class. They had between 800 and 3000 civilian hours and were all basically hired off the street. Most were going to units in states where they hadn't even lived. I don't think any were really enlisted prior to applying for officer spots. The one guy...

The IP was right that the airspeed schedule in the PCL changes with altitude (IAS changes much more than TAS). In these tables, the airspeed to be flown depends only on the altitude and drag index. The airspeed to be flown does not take into account different fuel loads at a given altitude. If...

I think you mean the indexer. That doesn't matter, since you don't use the indexer outside of the pattern. On the other hand, the AOA gauge always works.

The AOA stuff in API is pretty basic and has some assumptions that don't 100% agree with reality. That said, I think your IP might be full of sh!t. He was spouting gouge and slapping your peepee for not knowing gouge. Usually when they quote random gouge numbers (0-2 units AOA??), they are...

If you know you're sucking and you IP's know you're sucking, they can get you extra help. Extra sims or even extra flights. Knowing how many aboves in stage you need also tells you how much more time you need to spend in practice sims. If you don't know your grades and just assume that you suck...

This is exactly what I did. I did the FASFA forms and spent a year and a half at a community college. With the government aid it was only like a few hundred dollars per semester. I got most of my gen. eds out of the way and came out with a 3.96 on 40-something credits. From there I walked into...

There needs to be a third option-- the nintendo wii thing. I was looking that thing over, and it would be totally awesome... if only it had a star wars game. The controls would be pretty sweet for light saber fighting. That might be even better than reading the books:D

If they have all of the popcorn, it's only because they came to us begging for some when their supply was cut off in response to improving morale.

Yeah, but the baggage pod is about the same size and shape and we don't even factor in it's effect on cross country range. I think the story about drop tanks having limited benefits is a myth generated by the sim building (and one t-45 hater in particular) to keep us from having some good old...

Funny you mention it... Just the other week I found myself "borrowing" some stars from those guys. They didn't seem too happy about it either. The T-45 is getting a new engine. Who knows if it will have anything like the rumored 8000lb thrust. It already has plenty of thrust anyway, except...

It is totally different when you or someone you know is driving the airplane. Plus, once you start to understand what is going on, the comfort level increases. I think it is pretty common to feel uneasy about riding in something that somebody else is driving. I still don't feel 100% comfortable...

Speaking of which, I should be off to my AN with freddy. Better de-gouge my approach plates and practice some dirty jokes.

Speaking of the RAG, I haven't heard of any plans for a 2-seat JSF trainer. How will that work? I can just imagine a metric sh1t-ton of sims before actually flying. After the TS sim experience, who in their right mind would volunteer for the pipeline? I mean, they won't have the Jdizzle or...

If every airline is subject to the same taxes right now, why does the airline care that private jets are paying less? Do they view the private jets as competition with an unfair advantage? Maybe the thinking is that a reduced ATC $$ burden for them will encourage more people to travel by airline...

I just love how the media digs up these sob stories. They worship these guys as "courageous" for speaking out against the military and the war. Seeing as he is a Seaman, I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that he joined AFTER the war started. Why? So he could get a platform for his...

Up until like a few weeks ago I was anthro'd out of prowlers, but now I'm happily qualified. The selection bubba said the change was needed because the number of SNA's that were PQ for the prowler was low enough that prowler selections became a perpetual draft for short guys. If they did this...

For you, brett. If you're gonna do a hi-yaka wifferdill (points with elbows) you have to bank it up and clear like a big dog or you'll bounce your nugget off the cranium container, so to speak. Technique only. Time to step.

I'll second the meridian comment. I was happier at vance than in meridian, that's for sure. Enid might be a miserable little town, but at least the residents speak a form of english that you can understand. I don't think I can say the same about meridian. If you are into hunting or fishing...

What is auto trim all about? Do all hornets have it or just the supers?

akdorsey-- I think you'll find the Navy to be more flexible than the USAF on asthma. The policies are designed to keep people safe, and I think they are justified. If you refer to officer programs, there is never any shortage of qualified applicants. Pass the methacholine challenge test and...

I had asthma around age 12, although only "diagnosed" by my pediatrician, not a specialist. I later passed the methacholine test and was accepted for NROTC and later SNA. I needed no waiver. Temporarily flying the T-45.

At Vance, it wasn't required, but a number of us got to do section landings in the T-6 as lead or wing. It was totally based on whether or not the IP trusted the stud enough not to kill them. They never really gave us a good reason for landing as a section though.

I've seen way too many people take this advice too seriously in their freshman/sophomore years...much to their disadvantage. The first two years in college can affect your options for the rest of your working life. Don't piss it away. The time for fun and games is your last year, after you are...

Maybe I'm retarded, but I've always found it hard to fly a stick with my left hand or a yoke with my right. My left hand is programmed for a yoke and my right hand for a stick, I guess. At least for me, it isn't at all the same feel.

Not to get off topic, but... I knew helos were like lawn mowers in most respects, so I guess it does make some sense that you would "ride" them not "fly" them. I guess the main difference is the location of the blades.

There was a Marine hornet dude and a cobra dude plus others of unknown origin. Almost all of the Navy/Marine IPs I ran into there were outstanding. For those thinking of going to Vance: I think you might be smoking something if you volunteer to go there. Don't think, "oh well I'm a Marine...

I had asthma in my record at like age 11 or 12. No symptoms since, although I've never been able to get below a 10:15 on the 1.5 mile even when running every day. I took the methacholine challenge test and my volume dropped about 18-19% on the last dose. I was accepted as an SNA without any...

I had him for an EP sim... "here's some emergencies, why don't you take care of them while I have a smoke break. I'll be back in 15 minutes..." I'm sure I earned my one above by talking guns in the debrief. Most of these guys seem to have a couple of things that they want to see/hear, and the...

Having flown the T-6A in primary, I don't think it has helped much, if at all in the transition to the T-45C. Like others have said, the T-6A has digital representations of analog needles, so it isn't even a glass cockpit. I'm having to make the same adjustments to the T-45C cockpit as the T-34...

I'd have to put my vote for the SU-27 as the best looking modern airplane. It combines some of the most elegant features our airplanes. It has the widely spaced engines and twin vertical fins like the F-14, the blended wing-fuselage interface like the F-16, and the large LEX's like the hornet...

superglue can replace stitches, I've tested this. I guess it works good on animals too. oh, yeah, I had same prob with the running. I'm not sure if enough people have said this already, so i'll add myself to the list people who are saying that compression shorts work good for this.

I decided not to apply for a transfer, at least not now. I had wanted to be a Marine regardless of MOS, but I feel like I've got a good future ahead of me in the Navy, one which I won't risk for anything. I've got a ton of respect for Marines and probably will sometimes wish I was one of them...

type A is over rated. veiled aggression and cold calculation combined with a chameleon personality do just fine.

Your picture is of an X-35, here's a drawing of the canopy for the F-35. One is for the B variant, the other for the A&C, I think. There is a picture of the canopy opening forward on the first F-35A in the 2005 year in review. http://www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/12225.pdf

The F-35A and F-35C appear to have much better rearward visibility than the X-35A and X-35C did. http://www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/6355.jpg is side-view picture of the X-35A. http://www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/12428.jpg is a picture of the first F-35A The current 3-views...