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Here's another vote for MWH!

This will send us off topic, but out of curiosity, is the T-38 OCF procedure (not sure if you use that term in wild blue yonder land) the same as the F-5? Because when the F-5 guys would recite their OCF boldface in mass briefs, it was like a really awkward, never ending, verbal diarrhea that...

The words you are looking for are "panel check". It is a safety of flight related inspection, and can only be successfully accomplished at high speed and low altitude due to the requirements for high speed and low altitude. :)

Typical NFO, just on their Own F**king Program, contributing nothing :) J/k This is a pretty crazy story that I've heard various versions of over the years

I think we are quietly closer than we have been for decades, if not ever. But that is based on the assumption that we don't know what Putin will/would do. If he is saner than I imagine, I'll walk back that statement. But if he is dumb enough to resort to nuclear arms, we will likely barely know...

Well it appears there is that! :)

First rule of Golden Eagle is that you can't talk about Golden Eagle......duh :)

There is no way I would be able to tell the difference, especially at night, between 300' and 500' AGL (or even 1000'), particularly with a relatively dimly lit pair of helos. Also, turning off anti collision lights is pretty standard for military aircraft in formation at night.

21 years of flying and I imagine I am not there yet. Specifically the holiday months I'd for sure fall short. This is interesting though, thanks for sharing. I imagine I'd see some very consistent patterns of heavy vs light months, clusters that make no sense out of context, etc.

^ someone did get sucked into an A-6 intake once upon a time and lived. But yeah, probably not something to bet your life on.

SEA really beat this into my head. I'm sure my CA was super pumped on (my) OE when I auto switched to the middle/east runway tower after clearing 34L :) I can say I am now one with their flow for the most part......190 on vector base/dogleg, 170 until FAF, stay up west tower until they barf a...

I used to work at a place where this happened perhaps every 6-8 months. It was exhausting, and in the end, most of us just disregarded whatever initiative was being attempted, and just went about our jobs.

This was actually something I had to get used to, during the transition from mil flying to 121. In the mil, at least at fighter bases, you are generally told to switch to tower, but conversely, you auto switch to ground when off the active (without tower prompting you) after landing. At pretty...

You wouldn't be the first person to (legally) fly VFR into a MOA. Sometimes it is a pain, sometimes it is absolutely no big deal. Just depends on the airspace and if it is actually being used (and of if so, where the participants actually are). We can share the skies pretty easily, I wouldn't...

I'd liken it to the crew missing a really critical window of opportunity to do the right things in order to recover. Recognition and application of the appropriate procedure were the missing link. Which goes back to training of course. You can blame that on MCAS, but another type of stab runaway...

Also good points. To the OP, I don't think many (if even any) pilots are saying "these guys crashed a perfectly good airplane because they weren't skilled enough". It wasn't a perfectly good airplane. That is cause #1. And that is what Boeing has paid big money over. There was a lack of...

I think the statement that the aircraft were unrecoverable is only fact if you caveat that by saying that the aircraft only became unrecoverable due to a lack of the PF actually flying the aircraft and applying an existing procedure that would have remedied the situation. 400+ knots with the...

I got my original MEL with a CLT restriction (based on my F/A-18 time). A few years ago, they stopped requiring that distinction because there is no published VMC for the Hornet/Super (and I believe the same is true for the Eagle/Raptor). I'm not sure if I understand the rationale, but that is...

The USN (and USMC) uses takeoff to land time. No additional 0.1 or whatever. My understanding is that the 0.2/0.3 conversion for mil to civ flight time is to account for the fact that we don't log taxi/engine run time that doesn't involve actual flying. So in that sense, it would still apply to...

Yeah, the fuselage is smaller than one would think. First time I flew close-ish formation with one, it surprised me.