Snooter

I know folks who memorize the whole thing. Way beyond my bandwidth, but hey, gotta make sacrifices amiright? It's never the first nor the last, and if you've never seen one of those magic eye images, your stereoscopic is shot (from experience)...

Depth perception waiver here too, took a little longer to work the wickets during my C1 and subsequent renewals but it's doable, been flying for 5 years now.

shack

Concur

Thank the Lord! Maybe this logical thinking will become contagious!

Critical Field lengths are in the 3,000' range, TO Ground run is probably somewhere in the 1200-1500' range. If you're slick floor and low gas which I'm sure they were, a max power takeoff wouldn't be an issue. Heck, we were getting numbers in the sim yesterday for a 3/4 flap approach onto an assault runway (3,500'). Just in case you want to do something amazing (Like land at your home field).

You can fly any airplane around without trim. The C-17 has certain functions in its Flight control computer that reduce or remove the need for trim i.e. Roll Reference trim, roll automatic trim, pitch automatic trim, pitch reference trim, yaw normal mode, and EOCS. The -1 puts it better under trim systems: "1-1000. The trim systems provide conventional surface displacement, selection of an attitude (reference trim), or automatic trimming depending on the axis, the phase of flight, and the pilot inputs."

Bump for the two year anniversary, Rest in peace brothers...

Yeah that whole theater scene in there...

PI strike

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Dam*it, after I typed it all out and posted I see the story has already been told...