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I've seen O-6+ folks removed from command tours for similar types of things. Getting into a physical altercation with an enlisted person (or just subordinate in general) is a pretty bad look at a minimum, and depending on circumstances, generally judged pretty harshly by one's own higher echelon...

Yeah, and if I wasn't clear, I meant that I'm just talking to the USN side. Which is sort of ironic, if continuing flying is less common in the AIR Force :) Makes sense though, you guys have a much bigger community writ large, of pointy-nose/fighter/tacair people than we do. They all can't go...

Hindsight is probably speaking realistic numbers for the usaf, but that isn’t really what I ever experienced in my career (at least the active duty part). 250-300 hrs/ year when not deployed/in workups, maybe 400-500 in a deployment year if you hustle. I flew 75 hrs a month for a while on my...

I’ll buy that he could have not been best suited to be flying it. I don’t know the details of his assignement. In the navy it is very normal to have flying O-6’s though. Like flying every day O-6’s. I’m only a promotion away from being that, and am still pretty tactical I believe. Don’t put that...

That was me I was talking about. I’ve seen it happen a handful of times over the years in my personal experience. Cant really speak to the fleet as a whole. Not saying this is the exact scenario this guy encountered, but I am saying that there’s some gray in this business. How about the scenario...

You may not have personally seen that same standby digital attitude indicator (yes it has speed and altitude too) flip completely inverted on a night catapult shot for no reason whatsoever, when the manufacturer swore it was impervious to failure, like I have in a Super Hornet. Not saying the...

I think this is a huge part of it for many of us.

Some times suck, and some are better. Everything gets better with seniority. Where I'm at right now at my major/legacy, I can pretty consistently get a schedule that is about 10-12 days of work/month. I'm still a fairly junior FO, in the bottom 50% at my base (though in the 60%'s at the moment)...

Yeah on a technical level, that's what typically is done for routing on these. This particular route, especially the segments north of where they were, can get a little spicy if you need to pop off. I've had to do it plenty of times, and it is a fun phone game trying to get someone with SEA CTR...

They can come f*king talk to me if they have questions, in person. I'll tell them where they can go f*** off to. Fortunately I don't care about what idiots say on FB.

Cool story, I just re-watched Braveheart, which took place 100 years after my first PPL solo.

I haven't had one out there before, but it certainly wouldn't be unheard of. My most recent was dead in the center of the canopy, right above my HUD, and splattered back across the top of the canopy. Happened at about 120 knots on landing rollout, back at whidbey, at night. Was a little bird though.

Yeah I was not involved, thanks for checking though

Nice. You guys ultimately built a really fantastic radar. Cheers!

Yeah what a story huh? I've only read about it, didn't participate (I was a kid at the time). But to be fair, there was a lot of technology/engineering transfer from the A-12 to what eventually became the block 2 super hornet. Which was/is probably a better airplane than the A-12 ever would have...

I would opt out of workers comp if I lived in TX too. Because I'd move there again only if I were dead, so it wouldn't be needed. bdump ching......ill be here all week.....

What were the individual fingers signifying? For us, it is the "a ok" thumb to index finger with the other 3 up, to signal APU start. Then shake 2 fingers to crank the right, followed by one finger to crank the left. Interesting

I've found that most crazy people say they worked for the CIA, or some other clandestine organization. Or they are just meth heads. I don't know if I would take eccentricity as a sign of being a legitimate former employee.

I don't have the patience to watch the video, but is this not some sort of border area reconnaissance? There are NOTAM'd aerostats all across the southern US for this reason.

Yep, I remember a friend’s mom asking my mom if she wanted to get me at such a “party”. She actually asked me, and I said “please no” since it was summer, and then i got it that fall and missed a bunch of school. Much better end result :)