Danger41

Fighting Falcon standard.

It doesn't surprise me that Raptors wouldn't be victorious in all wvr merges. It would surprise me if they (Eurofighters) were able to get to those merges without getting schwacked on the way. But shit happens and that's why you practice BFM/ACM. And the Eurofighter ain't exactly a slouch. Nor are the cats flying 'em. *Edit for grammatical buffoonery

Because we didn't back up the visual with 4 redundant ILS's coupled to a PAR and have the loadmaster, FE, 2 nav's, a copilot, and a priest backing up our clear and a million visuals into 11,000 foot runways. So unprofessional to not do that.

I saw this on the NBC show "Rock Center" the other night and had never heard of this man. It was the story of Billy Fiske. He was an Olympic Gold Medalist in 1932 (Olympian in 1928) who also carried the flag in the opening ceremonies of the '32 games. He faked Canadian citizenship to fight for the RAF and was the first American born citizen to be killed in World War 2. Link to a short version of the story: https://video.msnbc.m...310493#48310493 Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia....iki/Billy_Fiske

Yeah, because seeing a C-17 with the lights off is pretty tough.

The most rational explanation I've heard for VFR aversion is ATC not being directly responsible for traffic separation anymore. I'm ready for all the AIS grads and Stan Eval weenies to flip shit about that, but that's how I understood the reg. I've always preferred VFR flying. Even earned a downgrade in UPT on a checkride for cancelling too early. Still proud of that. Just use the mark 1 eyeball and if you're in a jet that has an auto acq, even better.

That will happen.

What is going through your mind when you sign on for something like that? Seriously.

Thanks for the new sig. Classic!

Push it up a little bit Clayton. Poor number 2 needs the boards to not zoom past.

If you're an IP, you should bring that up to your flight commander and run it up to have check section get their heads out of their collective asses. If you're a flight commander, have some balls. If you're a student, suck it up and drive on. Don't give those check sections fags anything to hook you on. Not a damn thing you can do about it. If there's really over a 50% hook rate, that's ridiculous.

I'd argue that all of the criminal mindsets in that cute little meme could be classified as "mental illness".

Did a little search and here is the airnav link to Peter O Knight airport. https://www.airnav.com/airport/KTPF Look at the airfield, then move down to 7 o'clock and see that the runway is aligned exactly on the same heading at Macdill. Also, here is the ILS to 22 at Macdill. Notice the note in the upper left of the planform view. https://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1207/00418IL22.PDF No dog in this fight, just thought I'd share the info with the bros.

Had that happen to me and it was freakin' scary as shit. However, I wasn't over the ocean and didn't involve a new tie from Martin Baker, thank God. Glad to hear that he's okay.

They got that big bastard airborne with ~1000' remaining on the runway. That is some impressive performance.

You can borrow Rainman's recently repaired sarcasm detector for the FCF.

https://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5950 For those wondering who that is.

"The Dark Knight Rises". Very solid flick. Didn't find it to be as good of a film as "The Dark Knight" and Bane wasn't as good of a villain as Joker (hard for anyone to measure up to that), but it was a good conclusion to the trilogy.

Why's that in the WTF thread? You some kind of hateful bigot?

Sounds familiar.

Since we all have Masters degrees now, we should be able to use some of that next-level thinking to come up with a solution.

IIRC, things were pretty great for the 7 letter A word types pre 9/11.

Check out this article about Officer retention in the Army. Apparently it's not just us dealing with the clown act. https://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/why-our-best-officers-are-leaving/8346/1/

When she completes the giant death ray on the moon and enslaves humanity, don't expect a good word from me!