Champ Kind

Definite '2' on that! But hey, maybe you'll strike gold and it will be "Nine Dollar Beer Night" at some of the Riverwalk bars... :rolleyes:

Well played!

Turning something off and/or closing something = SECURING

I could just picture someone's face stepping to a jet that was lacking an engine. Hilarious!! Thank goodness for thorough preflights, huh?

My point exactly. Try the better part of a year. EDIT: Not intended to be a dick-measuring contest.... Disengaging and moving to another topic. [ 13. March 2006, 15:12: Message edited by: PhlashNU04 ]

I'm sorry, but as a graduate of a military college myself, I do not subscribe to the notion that the "freshman experience" at an academy can be compared to frats. Going through a year of hardship to become a part of something larger than yourself is, in my humble opinion, a little more involved than taking hits off the Sigma Phi paddle, followed by funneling an 18-rack of PBR and then stringing up a cinder block to your junk.... I see where you are tying to come from, but I just cannot imagine it being the same in any way.

Sounds like a conversation better to be spoken of on e-Dodo or something....

Wow.

I know that the Tweet sure as hell doesn't have one to speak of. It either blows hot air at you, or shoots ice chunks at you. No happy-medium. The T-44, on the otherhand, has a great A/C when it works.... If not, its grinding and trying to eat itself alive :rolleyes: EDIT: Yes, I know, none of the above-mentioned aircraft are fighters. I am going to watch Top Gun now. [ 09. March 2006, 09:39: Message edited by: PhlashNU04 ]

It's not portable like a cell, but I've heard good things about Vonage from some of my buddies who are overseas.

"Pretty hard"? How about impossible!

Hoser, we're in Navy-land.... No such thing as an MPF. Not to worry, I helped a brother out though! 'preciate it!

Well put... If you act like a douche, it seems (in my very, very limited experience) that people associated with you are just on the prowl waiting for you to screw up to make that karma come full circle. ....maybe he should have drained the fuel and left the battery....

Cope, check PMs

Am I the only one that thinks "Captain Moped"'s idea was hilarious and nothing if not resourceful, and that the higher-ups blew things out of proportion in firing him? Now, if he was still drunk/hungover and at the controls, that's another story. But going out and doing it up and arranging for your own transportation back..... that's good stuff!

Glad to hear some things never change...

Is it still a "dry" institution? :rolleyes:

I say just keep drinking beer until your body becomes to depend on it, then the taste won't matter after that.

You're a conundrum.

Do we still pass through Incirlik at all?

Not a part of an IAP, but I think the "CHEETAH" working area here at NAS Corpus Christi is a reference to a gentlemen's club off of the SPID.... Not sure though.

Well played....

Do any of you have one on you (or in your bag, whatever) when you fly? I ask because I had my final sim (Thank God!) here at Corpus today, and it was our IFR EP sim. Scenario was brought up about what if you took off at mins, got right into IMC, and then "bam", total electrical failure. WX at mins, so no visual approach. No radios, no navaids, nothing. I threw some quick solutions on the table, but the instructor brought up an interesting point: if you were carrying a handheld GPS and/or radio with VHF or UHF capabilities, you could at least be talking to someone and/or know your position and how to get somewhere that's VFR. That idea really opened my eyes, and I'm thinking about buying one... If anything, as an insurance policy. Plus, it'd be cool to play with. Anyway, if any of you do carry any of said equipment, or know anyone that does, what would you recommend?

And no matter what, there will ALWAYS be someone that demands that it be hotter....