HerkFE

I'm not sure but I bet I am allergic to pen ink. If I ate enough of it, I would probably throw up.

I've always thought the same thing. I'm only 43 and only knew two or three kids growing up who were allergic to stuff like bee stings. Never knew anyone who had peanuts kicking their ass. Seems like every kid today is allergic to peanuts.

I wasn't even thinking of all of that. Mom probably needs to just STFU. I kind of took special interest in this incident. I work for the FAA on the Tech Ops side of the house in an Operations Control Center (we are kind of like a MOC for Navaids, Radar, comm equipment, etc. used in the National Airspace System). We are also a POC for aircraft accidents. Our job, when it comes to accidents, is to make determinations (based on the circumstances surrounding the accident) about Navaids that may have contributed to the accident...think about the initial moments following the Buffalo commuter crash....that ILS was quarantined to determine if it was messed up and caused/contributed to the accident. I am working on knocking out a checklist of items to set me up for a promotion in the future. One of the items on that checklist is handling these incidents and making determinations about possible Navaid malfunctions. I was working the night the call came in on this and got my first real OJT on this incident. When we worked it we didn't have all of this info. I just stumbled upon it the next day in the newspaper. Thought it was kind of interesting because of that as well as all of the fishy details.

I'm not too sure here but it seems like there is more to this... I have a couple theories but both are about as stupid as this whole story. http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/viewart/20130103/NEWS02/301030015/Mom-Boy-didn-t-steal-plane-crash JASPER — A teen pilot killed along with two friends in an Alabama plane crash had his own key to the aircraft and had flown it many times, his mother said Wednesday, denying authorities’ assertion that the plane had been taken without permission. Sherrie Smith said her 17-year-old son Jordan Smith was the one flying the plane that went down in the Alabama woods Tuesday night. The Federal Aviation Administration said the Piper PA 30 crashed less than a mile from the Walker County Airport in Jasper, which is northwest of Birmingham. Smith says the owner of the plane had let her son fly it many other times and had given him his own key. Her son was a high school junior who fell in love with flying at an early age and was one test short of earning his private pilot’s license. “He had used the plane many times before,” she said. Walker County sheriff’s Chief Deputy James Painter said earlier Wednesday that authorities believed the three teenagers took off in the plane without permission. “We don’t know for sure but we think it was some teenagers who stole the plane and were sort of joyriding it,” Painter told The Associated Press. Walker County Coroner J.C. Poe said the other two people killed in the crash were Brandon Tyler Ary, 19, and Jordan Seth Montgomery, 17. The plane had departed from the small airport around 10:30 p.m. in overcast skies and a low cloud ceiling, airport manager Edwin Banks said. “It was a student pilot flying an airplane without permission, an airplane that he was not qualified to fly at night,” Banks said. Banks said Smith had flown single-engine planes in the past, but the plane in the crash was a double-engine aircraft. The Piper PA 30 is also called a Piper Twin Comanche. It is a low-wing plane with two propellers and can seat four to six, depending on the model. Sherrie Smith said the plane was parked behind a security gate, but that her son had been given a security code to access it. She also said her son had enough promise as a pilot that he’d already earned a scholarship to Wallace State Community College to study aviation. Jordan Smith’s father is an Alabama state trooper and member of the Alabama National Guard who is currently serving in Afghanistan. “We were working on getting him his own plane when he was a senior,” she said of her son. The plane went down in a wooded, swampy area just over the fence from Margaret Swann’s hay farm. She said training flights from the airport circle over her farm routinely and she guessed that Jordan Smith was flying the same pattern before the plane went down. “It’s just three kids making a wrong decision,” she said.

Now THAT is WTF I'm talking about

Damnit! WTF fellas? I thought this thread was about midgets with three titties. Enough of the constitutional BS. Get back on track......Bring some F'd up stuff. Perverted minds need a fix!

If there is something wrong with you the med people will find it. If you go in there telling them about every sniffle you ever had then you are just making their job easy. So you threw up when you ate some peanuts....I threw up before when I ate some chicken. "Are you allergic to peanuts?" ... "Not that I'm aware of". "Well according to your blood work it looks like you should be allergic to peanuts" "Really, I never really liked peanuts and never ate them so I guess I didn't know that I was allergic to them." Tell your parents that you appreciate their concern but you will let the pros determine if you can do it. Good luck.

Become better acquainted with the terms "situational awareness" and "taking a hint". Having these skills will take you a long way in the military and are better than any PME you will ever take.

Yeh, WTF is the FE taking pictures with a flash in the cockpit?

We had the airport manager from a podunk airport about 10 miles NW of MXF call the SOF desk one afternoon raising hell because "[we] just flew right over his airport less than 300 feet". Quick thinking Captain who answered the phone..."Really, when?...Less than five minutes ago?....Good." Airport Mgr:..."what do you mean, 'Good'?" Capt: "Well sir, we don't have a single airplane in the air right now." Airport Mgr: "Well who was it then?" Capt: "I have no idea." click

You are probably right. I just couldn't/didn't get past the cheesy website to see the rest.

If a unit held it against you for continuing to look/apply under those conditions, you probably wouldn't want to go there anyway. I've listened to some of the feedback from some of the selections at my unit and I have heard the guys mention that alternates stated that they would keep looking. I never heard anyone say "Well screw him then!" The sentiment was always "I don't blame him, I would too."

Quote When Vernice finally earned her wings in July 2001, the ambitious pilot ranked No. 1 out her class...piloting the AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopter. I bet she was so excited that she went out and got huh hair did.

DAMN. I'm embarrassed for her

Uhhhhhhhh...nevermind

Safety FIRST!! I like the earplugs, eye protection, boots (probably steel toe), brain bucket, and most of all...the reflective belt. I do have a problem with all that bare arm skin showing. Dude probably should lose a stripe.

Now we're splitting hairs....

I was only in one Guard unit then switched to the AFRES. Spent 18 years between the two units and saw PLENTY of people moving between units, both Reserve and Guard. Don't worry about it. As long as you are doing it for legitimate reasons it will never be a problem.

I couldn't decide whether to laugh or cry listening to some of the news interviews of the dumbass passengers on the broken seat flight. "It was like...... a total nightmare". Okay, so your f'ing seat falls over backwards and lands in the lap of the people behind you....slightly startling, yes. "Total nightmare" ???? YGTBFSM.

I was in the Reserve unit at Maxwell and lived about 20 miles from there. If I were still there I would hook you up. Alabama has probably the best laws for making deer hunting easy. No tags, no check stations etc. About the only thing you can't do is hunt over corn and spotlight. From the start of bow season (mid Oct) to the end of gun season (january 31) you can pretty much bag a buck AND a doe a day. I may have heard of people getting more than that in a day but they made sure they had enough people with them to claim the extras. The deer aren't huge in central Alabama but still a lot of fun.

Sometimes it's the obvious things that get ya.

^^^ Basically, if you have a pulse I would say "yes". I really don't think you would have to be able to spell your name.

I don't care who you are....That's funny right there.

This dude in my FE class got the boot. They (the FE school house) gave him every opportunity to drop himself. The dude was hard headed and wouldn't take their advice so the school kicked him out. I ran into the registrar a few months later (after I had graduated) and he said they coded the guy so that he would never fly anything, ever, in any service. Six months later the dude was back in Army helo training........oh, and he had washed out of Army helo training prior to coming over to try the FE thing. True story.

I have it at home and will try to put it on here later. Was hoping to get it sooner so I could give to a co-worker.