JeremiahWeed

Truth. I gave an I-ride to a crew chief, briefed him exactly what we were going to do and he was gung ho and normal as shit for the whole experience........ Riiiiiiiiiight up to about 5 seconds after brake release. Full AB and off the ground shortly after that, 5-bills at the end of the runway and into the vertical. He's hyperventilating for the acceleration which didn't seem that abnormal. At the start of the pull up he starts "ohhhhhhhhh" and then as we're vertical he says, "Sir, I want to go back." I level off at 10K and offered to just be an airliner and we could do some sight seeing and take it easy. He just kept repeating that he wanted to go back in a scary, panicked way. I started to get pretty concerned he was going to do something crazy, so I told him to put his hands under his thighs, don't touch anything and I'll have us back on the ground in 5 minutes. Should have done a straight-in but I wanted to get down fast. He almost lost it when it put some G on the aircraft in the pitch out. I figured out he no likey the Gs. Not an experience I'd care to repeat. Absolutely no fun having a panicked human trapped in your back seat with access to some fairly "reactive" handles and actuators. 0.1 KPAM-KPAM 🙃

Sure. That's a "holy shit, the rabid tiger escaped it's enclosure and is about to pounce on a 3-year-old kid - shoot it!!" solution to a problem that was avoidable 10 minutes earlier with a simple 360 or a "no circle to 33 with a helo on route 4" mandate. There's lots of blame to pass around. But saying the solution lies in the last 30 seconds of the event is not very realistic.

I agree with your post after this one I’m quoting. But, come on….. if they were “ at or below (not above)” the minimum clearance as the pax bird crosses over top ON GLIDEPATH was 75 feet. There’s no way anyone involved creating this procedure should have found that acceptable. I guarantee if the pilots flying into DCA knew that was a possibility when they accepted a clearance to sidestep to the other runway with a helo on that route, they would have declined every time.

I gotta call BS. Maybe a good on-the-fly excuse to his leadership and a face saving option for media consumption. Sure. But if anyone in the business actually thinks that abortion of a maneuver and near destruction of beach side property and potential death of numerous innocent beach goers is a better alternative to taking a bird or two, they’re not playing with a full deck. He wasn’t even going that fast. The canopy is easily rated to take that and if an engine gets involved, well he’s got another. UFB.

Soooooo....... Not an appendix carry fan I take it? 😄

My guess is the pilot was either very new to the demo world or possibly untrained and just a wild card. It really looks like something he was just making up on the fly, which is obviously a recipe for disaster. I will say the video with him going away from the camera looks a lot more ugly than the one with the camera closest to the recovery. But he’s definitely a lucky fellow. Too bad it’s not one of those self critiquing mistakes where you scare yourself, but no one else sees it. I imagine he’s got some explaining to do.

Off current topic, but looking for holster recommendation for everyday appendix carry. S&W MP shield, 10/13 rnd mag

Are you sure about this? I know an Academy grad or ROTC candidate already has an ADSC due to the money spent on their education. But why would someone who shows up and signs on the line to go to OTS have any commitment at that point? All they’ve done is 90 days of basic training, gotten maybe a couple of airline tickets and attempted UPT. A ROTC commission with likely hundreds of thousands of dollars paid to a college gives that new officer a four year commitment prior to them getting their wings of course. It seems unlikely that an OTS candidate would have a similar ADSC with a fraction of the money spent on them so far. I would think if they were so inclined that would be the end of their USAF career.

Isn't that just falling into the common attitude that "if we only understood them better and found common ground we would all get along"? There is an extreme faction of a particular middle eastern religion that wants us all dead and wants to take over our country and wipe any record of our existence off the planet. We have no ability to affect that one way or the other. So, the premise that we have anything to do with the actions or goals of those on the other side of that war or the current less obvious war is ludicrous in my opinion. Their end game remains unchanged regardless of what we may or may not do.

I’ve passed between China and Korea well north of that area over AGAVO on my way in and out of TAO/ZSQD. From what I can see, there are four very large SIGMETS from surface to FL400 for embedded thunderstorms just north of where they made that big turn to the east. My guess would be they were either preemptively avoiding or they just weren’t happy with their ride and what they were seeing on the radar. or it could be what FF said. It looks like historically, they do jink east (though not usually that big) in the vicinity of Shanghai, which is the normal corridor.

I don’t understand what is being correlated to drinking/smoking.

If you make it through and get your wings, I’d say there’s a better than average chance you get a callsign as a result. Probably not a good one. 😂 Free advice. There’s almost zero upside to putting your personal shit out for public consumption. A picture, opinion, video, look what I did, listen to what I know, etc. the cons far outweigh the pros. Think about applying for a future airline job or maybe a Guard unit and having them read a questionable Facebook post or play your podcast and then ask for an explanation. Your older, wiser self will thank you if you just STFU and live your life. You’ll mess up enough in private or within your normal circle. No need to expand the list of people who you might have to explain extra shit to sometime in the future.

WTF? The effing airplane is upside down, sliding down the runway, on fire at one point and idiots have their damn phones out while they’re trying to evacuate. YGBSM!

Ok, fair enough. I’ve always heard it with the other word, but I stand corrected.

Just a minor point. I believe the word we’re all looking for is actually “deviation”, not deviance. Deviance is a word with its roots in the word Deviant. Deviant behavior is any behavior that does not conform to societal norms.There are many different types of deviant behavior, including impoliteness, violence, and substance abuse. These behaviors may or may not be criminal.