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The Navy looks at every bit of evidence it can find to create an accurate reconstruction of events. Personal testimony will be weighed along with the data from any flight recorders. They may even salvage the entire wreckage for more info. The weight of each bit of info lies within the Mishap...

I'm in the market for a shotgun and looking for advice. I am pretty sold on the Remington 870 Express Super Mag but wanted to hear the gun guys opinion. I am not looking to specialize, but for something I can use all around. i.e. trap shooting, hunting, etc.

Hey that's me! HI MOM!

Hey! In pic 4 you can see my engine turning over the nose of 248. That was a rough det. Got there on Sun and didn't fly again until Wed. My liver almost quit.

No mention of the war hoov? There is still 6 squadrons of Vikings flying. Talk about no respect!

As a former S-3 bubba and now a COD bubba, I have several problems with this. 1. Do you want high priority parts and pax from shore, or do you want a tanker? You cannot do both in the same flight (tanking is too dangerous for pax to be onboard). 2. The airwing/ship should never ever...

I'll be the COD be-atch forced to det to KW for the week. See you out there!

Wanna know the whole story? Just go to SERE. They covered it in full when I went in 2000.

I hate the way those IA billets just pop up and ruin a perfectly good day... I hear about 1 every other week or so that my community has to fill, is it about the same pace for the other communities? How often do you see them pop up?

I know a Hornet guy named Chum. It's because he got hit by the prop on a boat while waterskiing during API. That really set him back on the time to train. :)

I certainly don't know the particulars of this incident, but in general with proper SA & a reasonable safety awareness program we have managed to make this a rare incident. I've never heard of it happening in Civil aviation and I have only heard of it happening a few times in the Navy. There...

I don't think you have to set up the witch hunt, I had a female E-3 who worked for me try and make the unwarranted "He offended me" complaint against an E-6. All it took was the Command EO guy to explain that he would investigate ANY complained of sexual harrassment to it's fullest extent, but...

1. NFO platforms are: P-3, EP-3, E-6, EA-6B, F/A-18F(G), E-2 2. I don't know of any Fleet Navy Jet platforms in the San Diego area. Mirimar is a Marine Corp Air Station. A few Navy guys may be instructors at the FRS there, but that would be it. North Island has Helo's, S-3's & C-2's...

Yup. The C-2 has a pretty decent CAINS system. Ring Laser gyros, GPS updates, all fancy and stuff. It is actually 1/2 of the system that we had in the S-3, but it works pretty well. E-2's have a more arcaic system but don't feel bad, they have some state of the art stuff just around the corner.

450 miles in the war hoov. Not the most fun, but all worked out well. By the magic of ducting, I actually had crystal clear comms w/the ship at 300-350nm @ 200' but nada comms at 450nm.

How long have you been waiting to use that one? :icon_tong

Oh yeah... I've had it. It hurt the first bunch of times, but I think my inner ears got used to it and it didn't hurt so much when I had to valsalva the next morning.

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These people are not doing an interservice transfer, they are being sent as Naval Officers to fill Army billets. I guess the Army has made it clear that they cannot continue their current optempo and SecDef and CNO have signed off on Navy guys filling some of their jobs. It's happening now...

I hear that the Navy wants to have people with "the stink of war" on them. Even kind of use it like a pre-req for higher advancement. I think that is just them trying to polish the turd called IA.

Except when you know the envelopes, you will know in a bad situation if a quick pull on the controls or a tactically timed pause before ejecting will put you into a better/survivable envelope. Knowing the envelopes will possibly allow you to make the ejection decision BEFORE you are out of the...

I am a former S-3 guy who recently went through the VAW RAG doing a COD transition. My experience was different from most in that I was treated pretty well. But I was given some credit for my previous 5 years in the Viking. From what I saw NFO studs life sucked the worse, E2 FRP's were not as...

Score! First neg rep I've ever given.

I do know an S-3 NFO who has ejected from 1 A-6 & 1 S-3 and has been in at least 1 other Class A w/out an ejection. He's still flying now and on track to be an XO/CO. Like was said before, I don't believe that there is an official limit on ejections, just on damage to the body before NOMI...

I'm an S-3 guy on the super JO tour in C-2's now. I have 3 year orders, but I expect to only be here ~2yrs. At the 2 yr point I'll be an O-4 sel or O-4. I'm told that I will go stash somewhere for a year to "mature" and then I'll return for a DH/OIC tour. The other option is that I just stay...

Thanks for the great article.

S-3 limit is 200' day and 400' night.

That's a tough story and I'm sorry it isn't working out for you. Denial of waivers happen and it can be frustrating. Maybe there is a Flight Surgeon on the board that can give us some explaination of waivers and how/why NOMI chooses to decline to issue them sometimes. Have you looked into a...

Fair 'nuff, I was just curious about the debate. I went to OCS a while ago and I wasn't prior E so it wasn't even an issue I had thought about.

Why not just follow the rules on the Official website? Not trying to be a jerk, just curious about what makes this such a burden?

I can only speak for carrier Navy... There are too many variables to have specific crewing. People have duty, go med down, get special projects, etc. A squadron can and does pair types, i.e. nugget pilots w/senior NFO's and vice versa.

The issue in the C-2 is that it is a prop plane and as a result, it requires a pilot to use the rudders. Every power or attitude change of the aircraft requires different rudder. This is not the way it is in a jet. Generally speaking, in a jet there is not noticably different rudder position...

The Viking is single piloted. Yes there are 2 sets of flight controls, but the Viking was only dual piloted until the early/mid '80s. As for your other questions, the C-2 & E-2 are dual piloted because they are airframes that truly require 1 pilot to just fly the airplane and another one to...

That message was ammended with a statement that the JFK was on the list by mistake. She is in official limbo - No decom date, but no real funding to fix the problems either. Don't worry about the 4 wire being stripped, you will not know the difference and it will not make things harder for...

The S-3 RAG won't close until late 2006 or so. There are still students there training. Not so much CAT I studs (only 2 pilot ones left I hear), but CAT III, IV, etc.

send me a pm and i'll see if I can make it happen.

23 Months to wings and a solid year at the S-3 RAG (1998-2001) 9 Months for COD RAG (2005)

Quote: Originally Posted by HooverPilot View Original the props require MUCH MORE piloting/skill than a jet. Ok, so I don't communicate too clearly. I was not trying to get into the jet vs prop vs helo better pilot argument. I'll try to make my point with analogies. My point was...

Schnugg - I'll take the hit. I brought up that I couldn't think of a mishap in the break outside of the training command. Chipolte - Yes a jet is inherintly unstable, therfore gaining maneuverability, but have you ever flown an E-2 or C-2? The yaw associated with the roll rate and power...

Weak arguments in my opinion, but here is a few thoughts 1. The break is not aerobatic flight according to 3710 & FAR's. 2. If you "have" to be above corner after the break, what have you accomplished? :confused: You still have to slow down to dirty up and land. 3. Every Navy fixed...

I was able to get my AW fix from the JFK last summer while deployed. It was just VERY SLOOOOOOWWWWW...

A female with the callsign SAM i.e. She's A Man

I knew what you meant but had to get the jibe in.

This photo shows that early attempts at IFR started before WWII, so IFR predates the Japanese constitution. :icon_tong

I know that a few middle eastern countries maintain a margin of proficiency. I have tanked Omani aircraft on both of my previous cruises.

The noise on the night video is NOT an S-3. Just listen to the day one for the difference. In the night one, you can tell it's not a turbo fan! As for the O2 mask, no it is not normally worn by the crew in the S-3. The O2 bottle just isn't big enough to provide constant O2 for up to 4...

CONGRATS! I guess you are getting out while there is still a retirement avail.

The wipers were absolutely useless in flight and not very good on deck either. Once, after a trap in a very nasty thunderstorm I really needed them, it was raining so hard I couldn't see the yellow shirt w/o them.

I'm sorry, as I flew my 150th night trap in the Hoover, the windshield wiper must have blocked out my view of the tailhook on the harrier. Wait, what is that, you don't even have one? My bad...I didn't mean to embarrass you in front of the other Naval Aviators. Smilies in effect, I just...

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