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It seems you're kind of conflating your time as a phrog and V-22 driver, and the capabilities of each airframe. I disagree with your point that helo drivers view IFR as a "white knuckle exercise". Most helo ops are done VFR in VMC conditions, or at least Special VFR. There may be a cohort...

These are great points. Although, I can see the need for the FNG at his/her new squadron to go through the EP section of the brief to give warm and fuzzies that he/she is on the level (just to ensure they truly understand the SOP's) But yeah, from a spectrum of (A) a canned, rote, boring NATOPS...

These are very good points. I don't necessarily disagree with @phrogdriver 's points either. I just don't think there would be the dollars dedicated to a future RW/TR assault support airframe that would negate the need for 2 pilots. The CH-53E back in the day was the Cadillac of RW IFR...

As a former helo pilot, I still hated to ride in the back. I at least wanted to be hooked into iCS. Hence, I will never do a HI or Grand Canyon helo tour, without them allowing me to do a thorough logbook and NATOPS jacket examination. 😄 Kudos to this dude for handling this emergency...

Off the top of my head I can think of one specific instance. UH-1N in Iraq where PAC was shot in eye by small arms at low altitude. FNG co-pilot semi-recovered aircraft after the Huey went into weird attitude after PAC was struck, and basically crash landed it. The crew was scooped up by...

I don't care if the story was inaccurate or not. Earl, the Red Sea Menace, will forever strike fear in the hearts of Houthi drone operators.

Ha, I did this as an FRS instructor on a few 2P check rides. (thought I was being original, but I guess not) 😄 It was kind of funny to slump over in the straps, and get a "you alright?' on the ICS, and reply "Simulated", then come alive and be a brick.. Only did it though at the end of a good...

I'm going to try and find a video of this process. It would seem to be difficult to accomplish during rough wx/at sea. Also, reliant on a crew chief with big cajones to shove a big stick up in front of the tip path plane.🥲 Edit: I guess some airframes use this technique? But this looks like...

Speaking of FCF track and balance, I grew up in the strobe camera era taking data at ground, hover, 90, 120, and 150...it then progressed to the IMDS era. Like you said, the computer would a few times tell you the ground track was 'in' and ready to go fly (as you're in the cockpit watching 1...

Ahhh, makes total sense. I tried back in the day to get in front seat of an AH-1W FCF with @skidkid while on 31st MEU, but it never worked out. Would have declined with the UH-1N though...😄

Don't y'all come out of the FRS as PQM? H-1s can be single-piloted, which I believe is the major differentiator between the PQM vs H2P designators. Basically the same besides that distinction. I could be wrong though... IIRC correctly, the 53 NATOPS allowed for H2P/H2P day VFR, and I'd heard...

I think it was once known as the "Whistling Shit-Can of Death".😁

That's what we thought in our community, until I witnessed a COG Class-A as Dash-2...Not good Back to the original topic, that mod is super cool. Seems like it would induce severe nausea among most pax though.😅

Think of the interstate network of Hooters spotters available. As well as friendly AW aerial ISR and AEW assets curated from this site. You're uniquely situated...I'll work the Waze and monitor the scanners from the backseat. Will need a few mechs to install the aux fuel tank in the trunk...

Has a former cop ever made a run at the Cannonball Run record? @mad dog , I think you've got the requisite gear and experience. Maybe, a quick brush up on contemporary countermeasures, and I think you're ready to go. 😵

You're going to make a fine sked writer as a JO one day. OpsO's are always on the lookout for someone who can spell hangar correctly.

I know a guy at the PDX 7-11. He says there's always this dude wearing a very large (but well appointed) wristwatch, raging around the aisles like a bull in a china shop. They say he always demands to know who the "officer in charge of the heat lamp" is. It's probably not you...just telling...

Layne catching strays here on AW... Those dudes are pretty talented though. I've come to realize that if I couldn't quite make out the meaning of songs from that era, the song was probably about heroin addiction. 😆

It appears that RUS has lost another A-50 AWACS type plane. 2 down with 5 or 6 left. That's on top of them losing 7 Su-34 and Su-35s over the last week. Now let's get them some fucking arty rounds Congress.

A private US company is attempting to land a vehicle on the south pole of the moon in about an hour. It would be the first US craft to land on the moon since the Apollo program.

Hell, this looks like the landing timeline my HT IP blocked out for me on about FAM-3 in the TH-57B..😄 All kidding aside, hope it works!

Definitely make sure to talk to payroll, and don't ever let the Navy take your stapler.

I'm no expert, but I believe you are correct WRT state finances. I know there are certain states where their pension liabilities aren't looking real good, but I believe they'll have to suck it up, bc there would be zero political will for any federal bailout. I could be wrong though. Like...

You may be right, but this was Caveman's decision alone. Every retired Admiral on Coronado with binoculars lit up the base ops phone lines on this one, I believe.😄

That's some good shit! My HT CO (phrog pilot) Col "Caveman" Holzworth told a great story about as an O-2 HAC/section lead how he led a flight under the Coranado bridge on a frag with SEALs on board. Upon return to base, his CO taxied him into the line. And an epic ass-chewing ensued. Bottom...

I can detect feverish googling going on somewhere in the force right now. 😄

That's the Mirage we all know and love on here. Good job.

Go buy a fancy cover with scrambled eggs on the bill @number9 . You rate it, and will probably never be called out for it in the reserves. When you hit O-3, get a swagger stick.

I believe you are correct sir.

Top Gun:Earl will be out in about 5 years. The dramatic end will involve a shit-hot break at the LHD (unbeknownst the Houthis have jammed the Tower Flower/LSO freq). Earl successfully turns his water switches on while abeam, plants it on spot 9. Deck crew swarms him. Box office gold.

From now on he is known as Earl, the Baron of the Red Sea.

I love it. And the fact that a dude named Earl did it is awesome. That's some old school WWII or Korean War stuff right there. It could just be his nom de guerre for all we know though. 😆

I thought the Senate agreed to send over the border bill as a standalone, and the Speaker said it's DOA bc a certain someone told him to. The Senate GOP hung Sen Lankford (OK) out to dry. He's one of the most conservative Senators, but alas it's apparently more useful as a campaign issue.😢

I'm assuming that that has already been happening, but what do I know... What was weird was the way the congressman (Mike Rogers) lit his hair on fire and announced via a cryptic tweet to the public about this threat. Kind of strange if you ask me.

I pretty much stopped reading after the author blamed the US "Deep state" for the 2014 Maidan revolution in UKR that chased Yanukovych out of power, and that Biden's dirty hands were behind it. Also, the author points to BS RUS administered referenda as evidence that UKR residents in Crimea and...

It appears that another Russian Black Sea Fleet warship sleeps with the fishes.👍 Hopefully, the House can get around MAGA Mike's opposition and pass the Senate's bipartisan aid deal.

Cropdusters are scary. Especially, the ones in Imperial County that scare the shit out of you at night with their bank of lights coming up at you, then doing a wingover to make their next run. Those dudes have brass balls. 😆

Most receivers allow medium lift platforms to raw-dog their drogue. They generally require more powerful platforms to show up with a light coat of CLP on the tip, and at least play with the turkey feathers a bit. 😁

Well, that conversation would certainly be easier to logically walk your way through than trying to explain to your girl why she needs to get a penicillin shot bc you had a "kidney infection".😁

It does seem like the anti-virals they prescribe start doing their job within a few days. It's the type of drug though, that if you saw in the medicine cabinet of someone you just started dating, you'd throw a ninja smoke bomb and exfiltrate the premises (Valtrex). 😆

As I understand it (pre-kid vaccine for chickenpox), it was assumed that your kid would get it at some point, with the preference being the younger the better. What's crazy is that tthere are still parents doing this at present...

The CDC website says its only FDA approved for 50 and over. You can only get it below that age if you are "immunocomprimised" Not sure what's magical about 50, as clearly you can get shingles in your 40's.

Yeah, I don't understand the arbitrary age thing.. Looking back now, several months ago, I noticed that the front left side of my scalp felt like it was sunburned, then a few days later, I noticed a few small blisters. Ignored it, and it went away. This one erupted from the same place...

Whatever your plans are,get a fucking shingles vaccine if you had chicken pox as a kid. It was on my to-do list, but just struck with a vengeance on abouat the whole of the left side of my face, including an eye swollen shut. Believe me, you want no part of it!

If you ever get off AW active duty, I think you can still build good years on AW IRR by responding to various OCS/Board threads with "use the search function". It has to be one weekend a month, and maybe a week in the summer though. ☀️

It depends on how many good years you've had on here, and you have to wait for bennies until you're at least 60. 😄

I think the Wally bit is recent. The greybeards on here use Skeeterman as their baseline for frauds and trolls 😄

Same same. I thought I was like Alan Turing when I came up with a similar system (apparently there are many others), only to be defeated by their ridiculous password reset requirements. I exhausted all known keyboard geometry tricks. It sounds from the prior posts that the problem is somewhat...

Just curious, out of that 40k goal, approximately how many would be filled by non-citizen green card holders?