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Oh for sure a good technique (or for us without ILS, I'd normally radar map the end of the runway and build self contained guidance off that)

I imagine you are talking about a GCA/PAR approach. Very common at mil airfields, especially those serving aircraft without self contained precision approach capability. It is exactly as you describe, and sometimes civ traffic can get them in low volume moments. I don't know of any mil fields...

And to be even more specific, I'll always remember the wisdom an old skipper of mine told me before my first deployment. Something along the lines of "nobody is going to see or care what you do outside 10 miles, you are going to be solely judged by your conduct in the case 1 stack and behind the...

Undefined decades later from @Tools experience, I'd say the pilot ratio is about the same. Any given airwing probably has a half dozen female pointy nose pilots at most, on average, out of maybe 50-60ish. That being said, there have been decent numbers of female WSO/ECMO/EWOs (backseater...

I imagine he probably actually did it. The issue (apparently) is that the govt case isn't strong, in a legal sense. I.e. OJ Simpson, but in a much different world of legalese

It's truly amazing that, throughout generations of idiots in orange/whites, more of us don't die right here. I think a nuclear detonation could have occurred nearby and I wouldn't have noticed. Was so focused on the procedure, the shooter, etc. I was probably a first tour JO before I even had...

Yep, hand on the "towel rack" of the canopy bow was a Hornet invention. Most previous aircraft required direct aft stick input to affect rotation, even on a cat shot.

It was kind of funny listening to the audio + HUD (and other) footage from the 2017 Fitter shootdown in Syria. The guy who shot it down was (previously) a training O/weapons officer in an old airwing of mine who I'd briefed/flown with before and have since many times, and 2/3 of the rest of them...

Similar scenario for us in the USN. We have two scales for AvIP (aka flight pay). The baseline scale tops out at years 14-22 at $840/mo. The second scale is applied if you are hitting your administrative career milestones, aka aviation department head, CO/O-5 command, major command (or I would...

TCABM is speaking to USAF/CAF hours I imagine. We use our Vipers entirely for red air (also known as adversary - USN, or in USAF terms - aggressor), though you do some currency flights every now and then. The real short flights were normally BFM, aka "dogfighting", and occasionally as a bandit...

GD man, that is a lot of hours in that thing. Most of my viper hours were a .3-.7 at a time. Takes a very long time for that to add up to a 5000.0. (granted CAF and deployed Guard fly much longer sorties) Well done good sir

Yessir, I can attest that none of this has changed (aside from the pre-ETS stuff) to this day. I think Nauga's explanation is more accurate than mine. As an aside, have any of you former employees worked on the Commercial side, and if so, is it the same as well? I was kind of under the...

Interesting topic, and man, SpaceX does pay a more appropriate rate, IMHO. Side topic, or point of order......there are places in the civilian aerospace industry where you can be salaried, while also filling out a daily/weekly time card. Because that is what Bill Sr. wanted in 1916, before they...

Agreed. I got the Pfizer x2 pretty early on when it came to general consumption, and a booster after my wife guilted me into it last dec. Shocker that I got a strain that the 2020 vaccine didn't protect from a few months ago. I had a sore throat for less than a day, and that was it.

To further confuse the discussion, operational VFA squadrons are either E or F, not both. So you have single seat squadrons with no WSOs, and then a lesser amount of F/2-seat squadrons with WSOs. I only say that to touch on the "specifically assigned" part of your question. In practice, VFA and...

:D @midwestpa24 for practical flying qualities purposes, I have never noticed a big difference between it and the Rhino in clean, CL tank/pylons only configuration, though both fly differently than the Hornet did (in subtle ways). That being said, the "battle grizzly" configuration (2 ext...

Yessir. I honestly don't know the answer to your question. It is very subtle, but the leading edges are also slightly different in the G compared to the E/F (sawtooth on the Super Hornet, blended on the G). My *guess* is for high AoA stability/control reasons, but I could be wrong. The Hornet...

To clear up any confusion, there is a lot of different "software" in an F/A-18. The difference they are speaking to is the mission computer software. The Blues jets are low lot, early build Rhinos that have not been modified to carry the advanced mission computers that most of the fleet uses...

I think there is a pretty wide variance in that experience, depending on where you go. All should, of course, be holding anyone to ACS, but "bedside manner" tends to vary from what I've seen/heard. Choose wisely!

Don't think it is a real fear, just not wanting to enable Iran to maintain/sustain their fleet. Realistically, the Tomcat still has the ability to wreak regional chaos, even if it would get smoked very rapidly by US/NATO forces.