"Approach, GRIMM 41, previous ECMO no longer a factor. Request the overhead Runway 25 with Zulu."
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NEWS Lemoore FA-18 Crash
- Thread starter Farva01
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When in doubt just respond with your side number.
Keep at it. It's step one to one of the coolest phenomena in the known universe: a successfully executed Case I, zip-lip, cherry recovery. Only things you hear on the radio:
"Tower, Paddles, radio check."
"Loud and clear."
"Oooon the backup."
"Loud and clear."
Then 19 jets come aboard without another word spoken.
"Roger that"....because if you didn't add the "that", lord knows what you were just rogering up to/for.
You missed that in the middle of this silent dance, a helo will check in.
"Uhh, Climax tower, Fluffybunny 43, is currently at your 283 for 9.6 miles, inbound for pax pickup"
"ON THE BALL!!!"
I said successfully executed. Does that happen every time? Nope.
"Power . . . PO-WER! Easy with it . . . bolter, bolter, bolter . . ."
Not a fan of boat flying in any way/shape/form......day or night, it sucks. I think I tricked myself into thinking it was cool on cruise, but it is not. Kinda like boat schoolers say about Annapolis........"a good place to be from....." Not the landing part.....that's whatever, just everything else that goes along with it......fuel, cycles, in country tanker fallouts, wingman who can't take gas into the externals, basically just fuel in general. And I honestly don't understand people that gave a shit about grades......fair, okay, NOT-scary no-grade.......couldn't have given a fuck which it was. Caring about your landing is like trying to be the best at exercising.
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There was a couple of ASOC radio talkers in AFG that loooooved to say "break". Used it like a comma. "Wombat 21-22 break Proceed to KB44Charlie break Contact Poleaxe on Green 3 break How copy?" Five hours of that and I was ready to cut some motherfuckers.
Blasphemy!
Boat flying is the best kind of flying there is... except the night traps. Those still suck. You can't look me in the virtual AW eye and tell me that a day dick-around SSC line in the middle of the ocean haven't been some of the greatest moments in your life. It is cool on cruise, that's why we endure the pain.
So that's why you were the happiest guy in the AIRWING, you lied to yourself and didn't give a shit about any of it. Did the P-3 crowd teach you that? It's a pretty popular coping mechanism for the disassociated.
I'm Kenny Powers and I approve this statement
That hurts me to my deepest core. The CAVU day 45 minute BFM cycle back to the shit-hot is one of the greatest flights in aviation.
I truly enjoyed boat flying....and the night traps didn't even bother me that much, because I always felt that I was in control. But the night cat shots were a different story. I really disliked them because I felt like I had no control whatsoever and was in God's hands for about ten seconds until my eyes and brain became un-caged...and I prayed that I was on good terms with Him.