Reconjoe
Active Member
I just got off the phone with the Anthro office down at API on NASP. My question to them was to clear up a misunderstanding that I may have been too light for ejection seat aircraft (ah the jokes will follow I'm sure), with the number being thrown out as 136 pounds min. I however am not that far off, thus my anthro sheet actually notes no pipeline restrictions, however it has a separate section that notes "Applicant shall be advised of increased risk of ejection due to body weight" and proceeds to list every jet. So I call anthro up to verify because I distinctly remember the old Anthro officer telling me there were zero exceptions for training commands and I would not select jets under 136 even if my anthro sheet says i'm good.
The conversation I had on the phone today however was more confusing. I am now hearing that above 103 you are good to select Jets (T-45), BUT below 131 you shall not select TH-57 thus by proxy you will not get Helos. I can find no documents online that say anything one way or the other (sans some heavily outdated gouge and now cancelled orders). Does anyone out there have any real time insight into this? I doubt this off the bat just because I've seen some helo pilots walking around the HT's of the female type who don't appear that heavy. Then again I have a thing for "healthy" girls so maybe I'm just using that as an excuse to look the other way....
The conversation I had on the phone today however was more confusing. I am now hearing that above 103 you are good to select Jets (T-45), BUT below 131 you shall not select TH-57 thus by proxy you will not get Helos. I can find no documents online that say anything one way or the other (sans some heavily outdated gouge and now cancelled orders). Does anyone out there have any real time insight into this? I doubt this off the bat just because I've seen some helo pilots walking around the HT's of the female type who don't appear that heavy. Then again I have a thing for "healthy" girls so maybe I'm just using that as an excuse to look the other way....