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Can I fly jets!
- Thread starter dustydog
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I always thought I was owed the P-3 by the navy. I was born to it. I was entitled to it! I DESERVED IT DAMNIT!
It was my dream since i was 9 to fly something with a rack, a kitchen, and laser beams. I got 2 outta 3, that ain't bad.
A4's, you wana talk about true stick and rudder flying by the seat of your pants?! Try this: You're at 300', doing 180 kts, your PPC is flying, you've got a plate of breakfast sausage and pancakes in one hand, your other hand on the AP disconnect button on the yoke, and a coke between your legs. You've only got a few minutes before your food gets cold and you coke gets warm - WHAT DO YOU DO?! That's difficult flying. You mean to tell me an A-4 is more difficult than that? What navy were YOU in?!
It was my dream since i was 9 to fly something with a rack, a kitchen, and laser beams. I got 2 outta 3, that ain't bad.
A4's, you wana talk about true stick and rudder flying by the seat of your pants?! Try this: You're at 300', doing 180 kts, your PPC is flying, you've got a plate of breakfast sausage and pancakes in one hand, your other hand on the AP disconnect button on the yoke, and a coke between your legs. You've only got a few minutes before your food gets cold and you coke gets warm - WHAT DO YOU DO?! That's difficult flying. You mean to tell me an A-4 is more difficult than that? What navy were YOU in?!
PropStop said:
You win :icon_wink . The only time mine was "difficult" was @ 3/4 of a mile, "call the ball", totally BLACK, no horizon, the ship can't make enough wind, we're low fuel state, no "needles", there are lightning storms all around, I have vertigo, I've got to take a leak, and my B/N is screaming ... "We're GONNA' DIE!!".
I defer to your degree of difficulty
... my Navy @ 50' > 450 KIAS (no need for an altimeter -- "you can feel" it) -- was FUN !!! ... but "difficult"... Naaaaa ...
bch said:
I can't even walk backwards, but fly?? I've done it --- kinda -- or was it "falling backwards" from a zero-airspeed, nose-high "zoom" climb in a dogfight? In any case, I just sat there and waited for the nose to fall through (with a minor "burp" from a compressor stall) -- helped by a light "tap" on a rudder -- and I was back flying and wreaking devastation on the hapless F-4s I was fighting/training.
squeeze said:when you have to come down through ~4k' of solid goo at night on the wing and dirty up in the sh-t, come talk to me
/hardest. approach. ever.
like a P-3er doesn't fly through the goo. Seems like all we do is IMC flying. It isn't hard. Now do that with a doughnut in one hand and hot coffee between your legs - oh, SNAP! now we're talking REAL flying!
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