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08-04-2022, 09:37 PM #51
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08-04-2022, 10:44 PM #52
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08-05-2022, 12:15 AM #53
Much respect for the carrier landings.
Some friends have a family member that's been in some sort of teaching role at Top Gun for a while. Apparently each year is mostly made up of pretty intense stuff--which he desperately looks forward to during the few weeks when it's time to prove he can still land on a carrier.
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08-05-2022, 01:26 AM #54
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08-05-2022, 05:26 AM #55Registered User
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We practice quite a bit for landing at the carrier - also have the Landing Signal Officers on the edge of the carrier talking to you to ensure you aren't going to hit the back of the boat. Not a lot of hook clearance on a 3.5 degree glideslope and the prescribed touchdown point about 210 down the landing area from the end of the ship (think SOH-CAH-TOA so I guess TAN 3.5 = Opp/210). On the perfect prescribed glideslope the hook clears the end of the ship by a little more than 12 feet. Depending on the sea state - Factor in pitching deck, the boat heaving (bobbing up and down), getting out of sync with the back end of the carrier coming up, the 12 feet can disappear quickly, especially if you are a little low. Again, lots of training goes into this before you go do it by yourself. I still remember first time going out for a night trap....asking myself what am I doing here....launching off a perfectly good ship.
Done flying....help teach the "young kids" how to fly the Super Hornet as a contractor. Great gig.
That stuff they do out of Top Gun is quite impressive - pushing the tactics, how to fight the jet, in Fallon, NV....always game for trips to Tahoe on the weekend. Plus Squaw Valley was super cool in giving free tickets to active duty military.
It's a good time to be in Naval Aviation - post college go to Officer Candidate School, get a guaranteed pilot slot, go to flight school on the Navy's dime. Lots of good opportunity to fly cool planes, have a highly rewarding and challenging job, work with cool people, etc.
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08-05-2022, 07:40 AM #56
No more free tickets, You got out in time. (They do sell a very cheap Palisades only pass to military.)
About all those sorties--I recall that one reason the US won at Midway was how quickly they could rearm and relaunch the carrier planes. (Air and Space Museum again. My kids were much more interested in the WWII stuff than the NASA stuff.)
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08-05-2022, 07:43 AM #57
It's the guaranteed pilot slot thing that's a bit iffy sometimes. I have two cousins who both went to AF Academy. One became an F4 pilot and the other flew B-52s. So heading off to college, I decide hey that's cool, but to be different I decide to apply to NROTC program. Some chap calls me up from Pensacola and tells me I'm accepted. Start going through the process for a few weeks and I start asking about how does one go about becoming a pilot? "Oh, we don't need pilots (seems after Top Gun Version 1 came out they were full up), so you'll probably end up on a submarine." Hell no. That was the beginning and end of my career in the Navy.
"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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08-05-2022, 08:21 AM #58
One of the many cool things we did in scouting was go stay at Patriot's Point on the USS Yorktown carrier. We got to play with the flight simulators there. Definitely more difficult than an ordinary video game. Kinda surreal sleeping in bunks in the same area where people died in battle. Thanks to all who sign up and show up. Just leave your politics aside while you're doing it please..
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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08-08-2022, 07:05 PM #59
"My co-pilot just ran out the back of the plane"
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08-08-2022, 08:22 PM #60
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08-08-2022, 10:00 PM #61Registered User
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no waitresses or secrataries at the mother corp shit got lean and mean in the early 90's ever buddy had to deal with their own stuff for at least he last 30 yrs
the big guy at IBM Canada tells us the anecdote of flying economy due to the business climate in the 90's ( we didn't make any money) some new canadians have their prayer carpets in the aisle hoping they are facing east so its very economy, so the guy in a skinny seat next to him asks what he does and the big guy sez he is in sales so the guy sez oh yeah i am in sales too what company ? Ceo sez yeah I'm the CEO of IBM and guy sez "wtf are you doing back here in the cattle section "
I don't remembr his name but I liked that guy, its important to be that guy people will work forLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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08-09-2022, 06:43 AM #62
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08-09-2022, 09:12 AM #63Registered User
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08-09-2022, 09:16 AM #64
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08-09-2022, 09:30 AM #66
I'm sure that's part of it. But he seemed particular annoyed at the thought of circling the area like he was going to be late for dinner. Extreme situation. Not bagging on the guy at all. Just wholly weird.
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08-09-2022, 11:14 AM #67
It's all going to revolve around what the fuck happened in Raeford when they wrecked the landing gear trying to land the plane there. I wanna hear the cockpit audio from that, and immediately after it..
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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08-09-2022, 11:44 AM #68
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08-09-2022, 11:48 AM #69
^^^He was prolly thinking about all the paperwork he was gonna have to fill out…
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08-09-2022, 11:48 AM #70
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08-09-2022, 11:56 AM #72
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08-09-2022, 01:06 PM #73Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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08-09-2022, 03:23 PM #74
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