I got a similar brief at Miramar in ‘78. We were told if you engage it, shoot it down, because you’re not going to successfully run from it.
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MIG-23 Ejection/Crash this past weekend . . . .
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The owner is a UA pilot. I flew with him several years ago when he was a captain on the Airbus. Some fascinating stories. At the time he had a squadron's worth of MIG-23's/parts but only one was airworthy and was working on a second one. IIRC his wife had/has a really good job.
Was he once a reservist B/N? You can't be a reserve NFO without a sugar mama.....it is like codified into the instruction
Good video and interview, thanks for sharing . . .
Completely agree. This would be a worthy tool to show new aircrew what happens in a situation like this and the little bit of time that you have to make all the decisions you need to. But most importantly when it's time to know that you have done everything you can and the handle is your only and last option.
I sadly have friends that pulled the handle late and didn't make it. Believe the investigation said they were about 0.4 seconds too late in pulling the handle due to their sink rate.
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Who’s suing whom?
Much as I wouldn’t mind being a kept man of leisure, this must only apply to hardware units. ?
Everyone will sue everyone else. There was a contractor operated helo mishap here a couple years ago, fatalities involved. Various lawsuits were ramping up against the contractor and the government even before NTSB released its investigation.
Semi-sarcastic quote from whoever the interview guy is: "yeah, it's kind of a Navy thing, you roll your sleeves up and don't wear gloves because it looks cool."
Tell me you've never flown off the boat without telling me you've never flown off the boat.
Tell me you've never flown off the boat without telling me you've never flown off the boat.
Agreed. Dumb ass move on his part, IMO
You'd be surprised dude. Things have gotten pretty lax, at least on my boat, regarding sleeves and gloves.
Not sure if it's trending on other boats, but I see aviators walking to jets on the flight deck all the time without gloves.
I have also seen what @Gonzo08 is talking about. My first cruise's airboss would definitely yell at dudes he saw over the radio about to launch without gloves on and sleeves rolled down... the most recent cruise I did was basically just the CVN Safety O begging guys to do it with little to no effect. Maybe Handler would get on people's cases, but that seemed more out of spite than any sense of Safety. Definitely had to self police.
Not saying it's right, but saying the leadership capital was spent on other things.