Yes, but there are certainly older photos of F-5Es floating about on the internet, thus my question.
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Stupid Questions about Naval Aviation (Part 3)
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AircraftGeek513
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Stupid question: I heard that they combined the Rhino and Growler NATOPS into one manual. Is this true or was someone feeding me BS?
Yes, that happened around 3 years ago. It is the same "qual" now, annually. There are some annotated "EF" or "G" differences, where a procedure only applies to one and not the other, and the bingo tables are different. When it first happened, it was kinda weird briefing a BFM flight in Key West (while guest instructing a -106 event), and when we got to "currency", I met the sortie requirements (based on recent Growler flying) so was thus "current"/legal, but I hadn't flown an E/F in something going on 2 years
AircraftGeek513
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Makes since I guess with 80something percent systems in common.Yes, that happened around 3 years ago. It is the same "qual" now, annually. There are some annotated "EF" or "G" differences, where a procedure only applies to one and not the other, and the bingo tables are different. When it first happened, it was kinda weird briefing a BFM flight in Key West (while guest instructing a -106 event), and when we got to "currency", I met the sortie requirements (based on recent Growler flying) so was thus "current"/legal, but I hadn't flown an E/F in something going on 2 years
Begs the question… given a slick F or G, with the obvious exception of no gun or 9X, do you fight them any different during BFM? Also, did they ever get around to getting 9X approved? I heard the Red Sea AOR might have been a forcing function on that.Yes, that happened around 3 years ago. It is the same "qual" now, annually. There are some annotated "EF" or "G" differences, where a procedure only applies to one and not the other, and the bingo tables are different. When it first happened, it was kinda weird briefing a BFM flight in Key West (while guest instructing a -106 event), and when we got to "currency", I met the sortie requirements (based on recent Growler flying) so was thus "current"/legal, but I hadn't flown an E/F in something going on 2 years
Only difference is really the tactical systems, and NATOPS doesn't deal with tactics or weapons. So there ya go
No not really. I might be less lazy now without JHMCS and 9X, but no, the thing fights the same as an F in the configurations we fly BFM in. Last I heard, RAAF is cleared and NAWDC is cleared. Still standing by to probably stand up the first AIM-9 lecture for VAQ......theres basically the 3 of us in the SAU who have prior experience in Whidbey, though to be fair, the skipper was formerly the AIM-9/Gun SME at SFWSL like 10+ years ago, so maybe it'd be him. I was just the dirty HARM/AARGM/Standoff SME at my schoolhouse.......shhhhhh, don't tell them I know how to MN FILE