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The actual outrage should be directed at the fact that an open-and-shut case has taken almost 4 years to prosecute.

Damn. And I thought my instructor was crazy when he made me take off with the foggles. A few flights later he was able to demo what it is like to lose an exhaust valve during unusual attitude recovery and have to land in a cow pasture. I did take off the foggles for that one though.

Jeebus! And I thought the old bastard who gave me my ATP check was insane.

For our airline brethren, time to change this antiquated 77-year old law which gives almost all labor negotiating power to management. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/repeal-or-change-railway-labor-act-put-stop-lenghty-negotiations/jMz3ckM7

Depends, is he above me on the seniority list?

To show a little age here - the aaaaaaaaand is actually a hold over from the old HF days when the radios needed a tone to key in on and we did this by saying "Annnnnnnnd." There should be no need for this with the newer radios.

F'n A man, small world. It's a fun airport to be around on race weekends. Apologies for the thread derail, back to the C-130 carrier landing discussion.

No, on Mondays BQZip's mom stays at my place. The man was Bob McSwiggan; he's apparently in the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame now. Anyway, that was just the first 15 minutes of the flight. The final approach he gave me a plate from the late 80's, that had long since expired, and I gave him a bit of a chuckle and said "wow, that's an interesting approach" and handed it back to him. I had prepped all of the approaches in the area, so I figured it was just show and tell. Nope. It was a VOR/DME approach at like 20nm from the KATL VOR into Tara Field (circle to land). I flew about two miles off course before I realized it was reverse sensing, and Ole Bob, who had been eating peanuts the entire flight and dropping the shells onto the floor said "yeah I figured you were lost, I's just gonna wait until you learned how to fly or we ran out of fuel." Needless to say, it was one of the most interesting flights of my life.

If you couple to the ILS down to the runway in a Herk, you might walk away alive, but the airplane certainly won't. That's IF you get the flight director to couple in the first place.

^^^ THIS ^^^ Drove/drives me crazy to see guys getting all wrapped up flying some crazy tactical approach... and then Evergreen and a Tanker land right behind them on the ILS... and neither of those 2 were unstable or forgot to put their gear down!

It seems like an easier(as in software mod only) and more accurate mod would be a self contained GPS/INS approach, while not certified it would at least give you a usable emergency approach mode that could mirror an ILS profile. The HH-60G has the capability to provide ILS like cues in the cockpit based on GPS that can take the aircraft all the way to decision altitude, or the ground if that is what's inputted. It isn't certified as we don't have an FAA certified database or RAIM, but it will work in a pinch.

My first trip to Afghanistan our commander asked us to come up with a list of our risks and prioritize them in order. We ended up with environment as the number one "threat." It was a good exercise in combat ORM.

Exactly. Some dudes in the MAF are so busy trying to be Tommy Tactical that they wind up doing the enemy's job for them.

Wait, I thought we couldn't go around because of the "threat"? You know, the threat from Al-Qaeda. I think in the past 10 years Al-Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan has done bout 4 million dollars worth of damage to USAF aircraft, "we" on the other hand have done close to 800 million. Know your threats!

There has been at least one per rote since early 2012 (maybe before, but I can't remember a specific instance). In every situation that I know of, it was a shitty approach that the PF tried to salvage and could have been avoided by calling "go around." We are doing it to ourselves.

Sooo.. was she hot?

Great at queep, shitty hands. Gonna be a superstar.

The 189 guys are still going to be teaching IPUG in addition to the PIQ and other initial qual missions that they're picking up. The first few PIQ guys are trickling through now as they teach PIN. They're still making the attempt to keep IPUG out of the SIM (it's only 4 or 7 rides based on what you fly plus a checkride, so the 3.0's they're flying aren't exactly breaking the bank) in order to keep the quality of training high (sure, in the SIM they can kill you, but there's a lot more value added to the air over the wings when they demo student trends to you).