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Coming from someone who has done several CV and FFG/DDG cruises I've always thought the difference in goggle usage between communities demonstrated some sad dogma. I never fly at night without goggles. Even after 9 hours in an aircraft the benefit that they provide is invaluable compared to...

Sadly I have several but here are the 3 at the top. Night CSAR-X off the coast of Oki going to the NTA in 0% illum. (For those who have been there it's f'in black) We are flying dash 2 and the amp on the Pilot's helmet comes apart in flight making him NORDO right seat. I take the controls...

This goes back to the big problem with ACOL and NKO. If the material isn't important enough to have an actual person teaching it, then 99.99% of sailors aren't going to view the material as important enough to bother learning on their own. Whether or not the material is really important...

The Jacksonville O-Club isn't even open anymore. Unless you book it for a special occasion, which really means it's no longer an O-Club.

Depends on how you look at it.(Closer to 3 or 4) The Marines had the Cobra go down a few weeks ago. And if you go back to Feb we had the 60s in Fallon, but everyone survived that.

To think that the current problems there could probably have been dealt with back in the 90's if we had only followed through with the rebuilding. With that in mind I just read the book "Three Cups of Tea." Great read and definitely backs up the theory that if we had only put some effort into...

So that's where all the money for flight hours went.

It's too bad there's not a brief gives that shows the amount of sailors deployed at any given time in the Navy and historically how many months sailors spend deployed and how many they will continue to be deployed in the future. Then you could compare those numbers to the Army's deployment...

You don't need some super slick custom pubs bag at this point in your career. When you make it to the appropriate point in your career you will know it. Until then the standard pubs bags work as does your helmet bag. If you are really into custom crap here are the best 2 places I have found...

I finally found a pair of glasses that work great for flying. They are the Oakley Flak Jackets. For me they fit great under the helmet and don't restrict peripheral vision. Here is the helmet that I really wish we flew with. Seems to solve the visor issues as it offers 2 visors as well as...

This was part of a discussion where they were asking for a wish list of things we would like to see on future 60 models. ie If we could have anything in the world, what would it be. So I don't think it was under the terms of any given contract.

When reps from the company that make your aircraft tell you that something is impossible, yet the locally manufactured model has one that is already working, it really makes you wonder.

I think the fact that they have a great digital cockpit setup, while still having a traditional caution panel is much smarter than the way we are doing business. The rotor blades, bigger airframe and better engines again are smarter decisions. Their plug and play accessory system (ie SRM) is...

Getting to play with their aircraft and simulators while I was over there. IMO we're lucky the Navy finally ponied up to put 80's technology in the new birds vice the 60's technology we have been living with. But we are still behind the curve when it comes to putting new "OTS" equipment in our...

Again we will probably do nothing. And the UN will continue to do what it does best. Nothing. No surprise there. NK launching the missile is no surprise either. Anyone who has been in that area of the world knows just how crazy NK and China are and how little they really care about world...

Actually the aircraft I was referring to was their 60K. Still a 60, but it's actually bigger, better engines, better gear, smarter designs inside, features we could actually use. When some of the Sikorsky reps came out to FDNF a few years ago asking what we wanted to see on future helos we...

Japan may not be allowed any "carriers" but that doesn't mean they don't have have any. Flying around the harbors they actually have what they are calling a "DDH" that looks remarkably like something sized between an LHA and a CV. Can't speak for their fixed wing capability, but I will say...

2 Reasons, 1st is the near 360 FOV the second is that the FLIR, (even the legacy systems) was designed to be mounted upside down. Ever notice the little hole at the top of the ball on legacy FLIR? That is the drain hole for any water that might accumulate in the system. Of course the upside...

Anyone looking to buy? I have a P229 chambered in .357sig that I'm probably going to sell. It's got a black frame with a stainless slide, 1 std magazine and 2 hi-caps.

The vaccum canister that you mentioned is a waste of space IMHO. Most people I know actually take theirs out in order to clean up the engine bay as well as increase performance. (Albeit the vac canister doesn't sap that much HP, but having open vac lines like that will.) Agree with the above...

My winging present was a Citizen Eco-Drive. I love it and wear it every day. I fly with it and have had no issues with it breaking or scratching, even around the boat. It has even survived a "crash" and still works fine.

That is a video clip of Travis Pastrana from his movie 199 lives. He does all the Nitro Circus movies. He was the first guy to do a double back flip on a dirt bike. He does all sorts of crazy/insane stunts. Like most of the guys to pioneer stuff like that, it probably won't end well.

I left HS-14 with 900 in model. And I was on the low end because I did 8 months on a "Proof of concept" det that involved very little flying. The norm prior to that was 40 hours a month whether on deployment or not. Some guys left with 1200 in model. (Though usually they are ops guys padding...

That all depends on your definition. Practically any squadron you select will put you in the middle of something. It just depends on what mission and where in the world. Without going into details a lot of the NSW type stuff comes up at different times and places and isn't likely to be...

http://navyreserve.navy.mil/Public/Staff/Centers/Forces+Command/Centers/Helicopter+Reserve+Wing/Centers/HCS-4/WelcomeAboard/MissionAndHistory/History.htm As Otto said, it is a reserve squadron. They have taken a few students from HT's but it was several years ago and there was a specific...

All HS and HSC squadrons are capable of NSW and train to it. Some squadrons may do more actual operations than others. The main squadron that does NSW focused deployments is not "normally" one you can select out of flight school.

Jet Pilot Music Video I'm sure quite a few people have seen this already, but I haven't seen it posted yet. The truth and nothing but. Enjoy. Here is a link to the guy who sings it.

As stated previously that is Standard Operations in Japan. 1 guy gets a DWDI (Japans version of a DUI .012BAC) and CAG decided that all of Atsugi is not allowed to drive their cars for 2 weeks. (Because obviously its the cars that are the problem.) One Yokosuka sailor gets drunk and makes...

Illinois proposes mandatory $1million gun insurance http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/02/18/97987.htm The proposed bill seeks to amend the state's Firearm Owners Identification Card Act to provides that any person who owns a firearm in the state maintain a $1 million or...

Macbook for traveling, Alienware for games on the boat.

Not a good period for the surface community. http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=60761

The problem with all the computer based training is that it is computer based with no real instructor. It has crept into the aviation community as well. I can tell you the general consensus when it comes to this crap, at least among everyone I have met. "If it's not important enough to spend...

The best way I can ever describe VMI is with 2 quotes. The first by a good friend of mine shortly after graduation. "It was the coolest thing I would never do again." The second was given by BG Alan Farrell to my class at Ring Figure. "Nothing is precisely the glory of the one who's done...

I had the same impressions the first time I wore mine for PT on the boat. Extremely horrible choice of both material and color. I had read somewhere that the Navy was re-evaluating the choice of material for the shirt as well as the design of the liner in the shorts due to these complaints...

Food for thought. How Long Do We Have? About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier...

Phrog's wife is correct. Myself and several people I know have had to print out the applicable portions of JFTR and take it in to PSD in order to make things happen. PSD is notoriously horrendous at customer service and actually knowing the pubs they operate from. (Funny since it's their...

There have been a few more recent T/R failures in the 60. Also if you get blade stall in the 60 the nose will tend to pitch up and left. This is because the retreating blades (Left side of the helo) are the first to stall due to seeing less airflow than those on the right side, so the effect...

Agree with the above. We just closed on our house Monday. The age of our oldest account was definitely looked at. Mortgage companies are getting much stricter on how much money they give out these days and to whom. Of course it all depends on what kind of loan you are going for, ie VA...

Reading the press releases and such it supposedly requires less torque in a hover and less torque at a given airspeed versus conventional tail rotor. The extra airspeed would be nice for NSW inserts/extracts and not that we'll ever do one, but CSAR as well. Plus look at the wing area, maybe it...

HSL=HSM same people, same mission, heavier aircraft. Almost no one from HS is going HSM. (Ive heard of 2 in 3 years) So theres not even gonna be fresh blood trying to change it.

Busdriver: No tricks required to make it run on Vista. At least not that I experienced. As for the USB thing, I didn't really try any tricks there either. I just plugged in the gps and exported the data set with no problems. (Although I have also exported the data to the Garmin Mapsource...

I disagree on both of those points. I run Falconview on my HP tablet that uses Vista. I also transfer routes and points to my Garmin via USB connection. What version of Falconview are you using?

I have used the tool to import google earth "snapshots" into Falconview. It actually worked reasonably well. The other method is to import and "georectify" google earth imagery as satellite images. I haven't heard of a decent Helo Specific course. Most of the ones taught (in the Navy at...

It all depends on what you need. The biggest problem with all the large screen GPS units is battery life. You'll get about 3-4 hours depending on the model. With the small handheld units you are looking at about 24 hours on a set of batteries. Of course then you have the small screen...

I was thinking the same thing a few weeks ago. Turns out they are only in the Test and Evaluation phase right now.

While I agree that he is an awesome golfer, this is one of the problems I have with society today. The guy plays a freakin game for a living! This doesn't even come close to the accomplishments of true heroes. Everyone idolizes these people and when it comes down to it, they get paid...

And when we got underway on summer cruise 2 years ago the KH had a fire at least once a week and either toxic gas or flooding a good 2 times a week. (No not GQ drills.) Ever since there have been numerous fires, flooding, gas, fuel oil leaks, and smoke every time she gets underway. Good to...

Just to throw it out there. The Army has fucked up before and not paid people. My college roommate spent about 9 months without a paycheck. After going to ranger school, he showed up at his next training assignment and his pay got messed up. He was told that it could not be fixed until he...

Its not completely uncommon to land like that out here. I've seen it happen a few times and had to land "Down the Throat" once myself. The Kitty likes to hit some shitty weather and on occasion that is the only way they can get winds in limits to land. What isn't on the video is their...

My wife and I had to do all the quarantine stuff when we brought our cats in. Im deployed right now but she has lots of useful info if you want it. Just shoot a PM to helo_wifey