BEAT AIR FORCE (Pretty Good Prank)

[cfam]

Saw 4 USAF Vipers do a flyby at noon meal formation today at Canoe U.

All I gotta say to the Chair Force is...

Is that all you got?

To make it worse, they got tagged by the FAA for busting airspeed restrictions. We got a call in the office from the FAA about five minutes after the flyover

 

[wingsB4rings]

...My personal favorite is the Sabotage at Notre Dame, but I may be biased since I had a role in it.

Since we're talking about Notre Dame...here is a spirit spot that (surprise surprise) never made it to the big screen.

 

[cfam]

Awesome!

 

[wingsB4rings]

^^^^ was made for the 2004 football season.

 

[scoolbubba]

It would have pulled the wings off, and taken twice as long.

not to mention the air pollution.

 

[DanMa1156]

To make it worse, they got tagged by the FAA for busting airspeed restrictions. We got a call in the office from the FAA about five minutes after the flyover

So what happens to them now? Do they get fined or something? Forgive my ignorance, but that's pretty funny.

 

[Schnugg]

So what happens to them now? Do they get fined or something? Forgive my ignorance, but that's pretty funny.

FAA Flight violation: Only if the USAF doesn't provide any high cover and provides the pilot's names to the FAA. Can affect (or prevent) a flying career with airlines later in life.

Lesson to squadron SDOs...when someone calls and want to know who's in a certain jet that did a fly by or any other kind of flight for that matter...never give out the pilot's name. As I'm told, someone way up the chain of command has to make a decision to release a pilot's name to the FAA. Don't be that guy.

 

[DanMa1156]

So if they never release the names, no further action is pursued?

 

[stalk]

So what happens to them now? Do they get fined or something? Forgive my ignorance, but that's pretty funny.

Probably nothing. The FAA actually has no direct jurisdiction over military aviators. Since licenses are not required to fly military aircraft their only recourse is to forward "violations" to the DoD and then the respective service has to deal with it. Before some get up in arms, I'm not saying the services blow it off. Its just that my experience with seeing many of these is that the incident gets investigated and most get put to bed with "don't do that again". A famous case it the Thunderbirds flying right over the White House Prohibited Area...oops

Also, there are several aircraft types that have 250 below 10K waivers (not that the speed limit ever stopped us from going faster) and I thought the Viper was one of them but I may be in error.

 

[stalk]

So if they never release the names, no further action is pursued?

The FAA can pursue certificate action. If there is no certificate there is no action.

 

[DanMa1156]

Another big win for Navy!!!!

 

[DangerousDan]

Another big win for Navy!!!!

Yeah I was sweating until the 3rd Quarter when we managed to get the go ahead score off of a fumble.

 

[DanMa1156]

My classmates who just got back from Air Force today said there was an impressive legacy Hornet flyby at Air Force over their dorms... at least we got em' back! (As if winning wasn't enough... )