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IRC stands for Instrument Refresher COURSE. The Instrument TEST you take associated with your checkride has NOTHING to do with IRC. The two are NOT linked together. IRC is a currency item, not a test. And that stupid Instrument test is completely BS for helicopter pilots. I could care less about a HI ILS, have no idea what an MLS is, don't think I'll ever reach 250 kts to hold, and our approach minima are completely different.

maybe he's the MSG/CC

raise your hand if you want the JTAC to be rolling an AC-208 in on your position during a TIC...hopefully they don't work that ROE out until all the American troops are gone!

when I hit reply to someone, where a quote is already imbedded (sush as right now, me replying to you quoting me above), the previously imbedded quote doesn't stick around, like it used to. Also looks like there are some other coding issues with quotes in the General Discussion thread that are related.

with the board upgrade, I can't tell where a quote to a previous post ends and the actual reply starts. Is there a setting somewhere that can be tweaked with? In the previous version, quotes were in a white block to differentiate from the response.

Finance Guy can expand, but don't forget about BAH you still get paid if you are doing a TDY enroute to your next duty station. I still got BAH for my previous duty station for the 6 months of my TDY enroute. That coupled with the lodging amount would have been plenty to find a furnished place in town where I wouldn't have had to pay out of pocket. If you will still get your BAH for your previous base while you're in SA...

Mess up, fess up I was on the Dean's other list 6 of 8 semesters Hey Gang! Ahhh G-Lo...

yes, blues Monday applies at Safety School unless you have crash lab that day.

hellllloooooooo....obviously, flying slower means smaller turn radius, so the answer is obvious! The helicopter.

I had a flickering chip light on my transmission last week during runup (Main module right side). For those not in the know, if the xmsn seizes, the spinny thing up top stops spinning and this usually proves fatal if you aren't on terra firma when it happens. It would flicker on, stay lit for about 10 seconds, then go out. This cycle repeated 3 times...the system has a 30 second delay for fuzz burn, so if the light comes on, it's already been trying to burn a chunk of metal for 30 seconds. MX pulled the chip detector, cleaned it off (a couple small metal shavings or so I was told), and said good to go! I run up again, and lo and behold there's a chip light! Goes on, flickers, goes off. MX says, oh that's ok, and at that point I gave them the finger (mentally) and asked for the spare. Turns out it was a bad chip detector, but no fucking way was I going to take off with a flickering chip. sorry, I guess this morphed into a mx thread...

shit, I'm a helo driver and I know what Ps (we just call it "Pee sub ess", though)

discus, good luck! and it's Hurbie with a U, as in Hurlburt. ;)

at bases run by the Army (Bagram), you can't have a holster that points the gun backward, it has to point down at the ground. Just keep that in mind depending on where you go. Who does concealed carry of an M-9 anyway?

drunk drivers, high crime south of I-40...

what airframes are listed in his Bio? Pope already took it down so I can't look. That will tell you what he might have flown at the Zoo.

they came up the road and did a static/capes with us. We were all drooling over their bird, and by we I mean not me, as I was asleep (it was 9 am), but we heard all about it from the boss, who was sufficiently impressed.

https://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/...an-battles.html their bird is pretty sweet.

I'll just say we had a visit from someone in a position to have his voice heard earlier this week and I was heartened by what I heard about the future for CSAR.

some of the DUSTOFF birds have a FLIR now, yes, but it's not integrated like ours, and there are still limits imposed upon the Army crews about how low they can fly in low illum situations, which in turn mitigates some of the benefits of the FLIR. Theirs is mounted on the side of the nose, with an additional viewing screen mounted on the side of the center console (in front of the pedal adjust lever). It's an improvement, but not as capable as our system.

PIO - Pilot Induced Oscillations PIS - Pilot Induced Shittiness

which still didn't answer his question.

bingo.

the shuttle falls like a brick, so I wouldn't exactly call it a lifting body...

The USAF uses the UH-1H and the TH-1H (rebuilt UHs with upgrades) as the primary helicopter trainer at Mother Rucker. Since you asked.

which I would have done for you if only you'd posted 2 weeks ago...