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F--- you TSA!!

Yeah I think I've heard her too whenever we have to make a stop up at Goose!

Yeah sorry, they film Inuit porn there! No really it's because it's out of the Thule defense zone, so if you get hurt out there, no one will know it. This is what base personnel have told us, unless they've come up with another lame a$$ excuse.

Last week, I was on my way to MSP for a Guardlift, and was talking to Minneapolis center and heard this: Mesaba Jet: "Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome aboard Mesaba flight ###. We're crusing at an altitude of 32,000 feet....." blah blah blah. This went on for a solid minute, then went something like this: My A/C: "WAFER!!!" Me: "That was beautiful!!" Mesaba Jet: "Ah darn it! I hate it when that happens!" Another Jet: "Dude that was better than my speech to the passengers!" MSP Center: Multiple laughter from controllers followed by "Mesaba flight ### contact MSP center on ###.x" About 5 seconds later: Mesaba jet thinking he switched freqs: "Center, Mesaba..crap!" Immediately by another jet: "GIGGITY!" Everybody in the cockpit was in tears for the rest of the flight!

Everything he said. Stay away from Dundas peninsula, it's off limits. Enjoy the scenery, it's actually quite beautiful. It's too bad you're not going up there in April because you can see the Northern lights, like I did when I was at Sondrestrom AB.

I think we've confirmed that this needs to happen...so how do we proceed? I'm not trying to slam anyone in general. We've taken action against fighter pilot posers, so we need to take action here.

Christ, I'm going there in October for my GRACC tour!

Yup, and we're next in line to get em at the end of August. We sent a crew there last month to fly the WY bird, and they said it was awesome to fly.

Very true on your argument. Apparently how the grading system worked was that everybody started off as an Excellent on every single graded item on a checkride, I $hit you not, plus this is the quote from the IP from my debrief. Yes I know it's sick how I remember this, "So we fly out once, strike one, downgraded to good. We fly out twice, strike two, downgraded to Fair. Fly out three times (which I still stand-by it being questionable), strike three, I'm out." Again, this is how I remember it.

Our WG/CC is a NAV as well

We just had a guy come back from Columbus the other day and said he witnessed the T-38 crash that occured recently at CBM. He told me what everyone is suspecting happened, but I'm not going to post it here because it's just that, speculation. I agree with Chuck, probably an AETC safety stand down on the horizon.... May god be with them and their families

You know what they say....Majors are the butter bars of the field grade tier!!

Oh we joked around about that, but we knew the Wing King wouldn't go for it. However we did do a spirit run and kidnapped the OG/CC. He was laughing his a$$ off for hours!!

Yeah, it's probably my class....05-08. If it's one of those kinds of buses that's short, was used to transport handicapped people, and it'd painted gray, then that's it.

zero downgrades with an excellent overall to eight downgrades with a good overall.... Had to show up in blues huh? He should have just taco-ed him then.

I'm what you would call the "Legacy" MPD pilot. I attended LRF from 27 July 2005 to 13 Jan 2006 in the Single Ship Airdrop/Airland Syllabus. I was the VERY first person in my unit to complete this program. My unit has not had a TAC rating in 15 years, and just last year starting getting back to it's TAC roots. I went unqualified in the TAC/NVG world, but flew my first in-unit I-Qual Check in the left seat exactly a year ago. My unit is now in a frenzie to get me and a bunch of other crew dogs TAC re-qualified. I'm going to PCO next month in Minneapolis. If anybody wants to know how it goes, I will be surely glad to pass on this information.

MPD!!!! (Sorry I keyed, I just had too! )

On another note...when they were raising the wreckage of the Challenger, they also found the wreckage of the infamous Flight 19. This was the flight of the four F4U Corsairs that were suspected of dissapearing over the Bermuda Triangle in 1945. Pretty freaky stuff!

Yeah our maintenance guys have told us about the "fallopian tube." Again, freakin' great!!

While in New Zealand: Mac's Gold Mac's Black Guiness and whatever sounds good While home in the states: Yuengling Coors Light Saranac Any kind of Microbrewery stuff and of course anything that's free

Yup glad to hear that they all got out ok as well. The IP in the first aircraft gave me my Formation 88 ride. He was cool as hell!

It looks like George Michael joined the RNZAF!!! In all seriousness, I've seen these guys in Christchurch before, but I'd like to know where in NZ they're based.

Exactly, welcome to the MPD world. I'm the first in my unit (LC-130's) to go through MPD, and they friggin hate it, along with 99% of the Guard/Rerserve world.

Now all we need is the picture of that flight nurse!!

eh, I gotta disagree with you on that one, at least in the top ten anyways. Sure it can be a little hair raising, espcially in IMC with the rising Fjords as you get further down the inlet, but I would definitely fear the traffic pattern of any UPT base anyday. The only incident that I ever heard of was back in the 70's when a C-141 cartwheeled on landing there because the runway gave the pilots the optical illusion of it coming to an end a lot quicker than normal.