Not always true....had a buddy who got a 2 BELOW with Mr. Kay. His boots were brighter than my Irish ass in sunlight.
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Meridian Gouge
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Not always true....had a buddy who got a 2 BELOW with Mr. Kay. His boots were brighter than my Irish ass in sunlight.
And he must have SUCKED. 2 belows?! DAMN. Mr. Kay was a good instructor, he really cared, but never a hammer on the grades. 2 below? Yeesh.
Because this IP expects it, thus we show up with boots which shine brighter than the aforementioned Irish a** . . .
It's funny, he complained to me once that he has a worldview of aviation he tries to instill in students, and it nevertheless gets boiled down to "show up early and shine your boots . . ."
yeah no sh!t, what did the guy do, land in the IFT or something?
Harrier Dude
Living the dream
Is "One Above Bob" still there?
Oh yeah. "I have to go outside for a smoke break, shoot an approach until I get back".
I liked him though, nice guy.
Rep points while I clean Sierra Nevada off my screen . . .
I walk into the briefing space with him for an RI hop and he starts talking in all seriousness about buzzwords. How "jointness" used to be the new buzzword that we had to honor, but it's been replaced by "diversity." And how he had a new plan to have the name of the base changed in order to promote diversity.Harrier Dude said:
Without so much as cracking a smile or changing that trademark deadpan tone of voice, he turned around and wrote on the board:
NAVAL MASTER JET TRAINING BASE MERIDIAN
A DEVELOPMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIANS
So I sit there for a second going
and trying to digest the randomness, when without any fanfare he just launches right into briefing the hop. Bizarre . . .I had him for an EP sim... "here's some emergencies, why don't you take care of them while I have a smoke break. I'll be back in 15 minutes..." I'm sure I earned my one above by talking guns in the debrief. Most of these guys seem to have a couple of things that they want to see/hear, and the gouge from the student ready room has been dead on. Creatures of habit, I guess you might say.
Edit... Come to think of it, I don't think I did get a one above from one above Bob. It was an EP sim. Anyway, talking guns is still the way to his heart.
Edit... Come to think of it, I don't think I did get a one above from one above Bob. It was an EP sim. Anyway, talking guns is still the way to his heart.
Harrier Dude
Living the dream
He has a bad side? Is the still the absolute picture of healthy living that he once was?
For those who don't know Bob, the typical T-2 sim with Bob is as follows.
Any SNA: "Gear up"
Bob: "You're lost comm"
(Door slamming, the sweet, sweet stench of cigarette smoke wafts into the sim trailer)
Any SNA: "Sir, are you there?"
Silence
Grading Criteria:
Crash= 1 above
Decent flight= 1 above
Dual engine flameout approach to the boat (IMC at night) to an OK 3= 1 above
Mefesto said:
My class was 12.5 months or so. Right on timeline. Not sure about the classes behind us, but I'm sure it's pretty comparable. All the badness has been taken out of VT-7, at least when I left. VT-9 was the fvcked up one at that point... but I think they fixed themselves too.