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yes, blues Monday applies at Safety School unless you have crash lab that day.

hellllloooooooo....obviously, flying slower means smaller turn radius, so the answer is obvious! The helicopter.

I had a flickering chip light on my transmission last week during runup (Main module right side). For those not in the know, if the xmsn seizes, the spinny thing up top stops spinning and this usually proves fatal if you aren't on terra firma when it happens. It would flicker on, stay lit for about 10 seconds, then go out. This cycle repeated 3 times...the system has a 30 second delay for fuzz burn, so if the light comes on, it's already been trying to burn a chunk of metal for 30 seconds. MX pulled the chip detector, cleaned it off (a couple small metal shavings or so I was told), and said good to go! I run up again, and lo and behold there's a chip light! Goes on, flickers, goes off. MX says, oh that's ok, and at that point I gave them the finger (mentally) and asked for the spare. Turns out it was a bad chip detector, but no fucking way was I going to take off with a flickering chip. sorry, I guess this morphed into a mx thread...

shit, I'm a helo driver and I know what Ps (we just call it "Pee sub ess", though)

discus, good luck! and it's Hurbie with a U, as in Hurlburt. ;)

at bases run by the Army (Bagram), you can't have a holster that points the gun backward, it has to point down at the ground. Just keep that in mind depending on where you go. Who does concealed carry of an M-9 anyway?

drunk drivers, high crime south of I-40...

what airframes are listed in his Bio? Pope already took it down so I can't look. That will tell you what he might have flown at the Zoo.

they came up the road and did a static/capes with us. We were all drooling over their bird, and by we I mean not me, as I was asleep (it was 9 am), but we heard all about it from the boss, who was sufficiently impressed.

https://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/...an-battles.html their bird is pretty sweet.

I'll just say we had a visit from someone in a position to have his voice heard earlier this week and I was heartened by what I heard about the future for CSAR.

some of the DUSTOFF birds have a FLIR now, yes, but it's not integrated like ours, and there are still limits imposed upon the Army crews about how low they can fly in low illum situations, which in turn mitigates some of the benefits of the FLIR. Theirs is mounted on the side of the nose, with an additional viewing screen mounted on the side of the center console (in front of the pedal adjust lever). It's an improvement, but not as capable as our system.

PIO - Pilot Induced Oscillations PIS - Pilot Induced Shittiness

which still didn't answer his question.

bingo.

the shuttle falls like a brick, so I wouldn't exactly call it a lifting body...

The USAF uses the UH-1H and the TH-1H (rebuilt UHs with upgrades) as the primary helicopter trainer at Mother Rucker. Since you asked.

which I would have done for you if only you'd posted 2 weeks ago...

I was just there last week, and they do advertise having a website...

negatory. Some of the buildings have a community kitchen in the basement. I was in the "new" building 22018 and the stove/oven was not usable due to fire code issues...so it may be the same in the other buildings as well. FYI, they (Lodging) aren't very friendly to having kids in the rooms due to the high number of aircrew there with crew rest issues. My class had a lot of feedback for Lodging on that one, so I recommend e-mailing the Safety School folks ASAP to get the ball rolling. Or, refuse lodging and find a place off base that the $39 a day (lodging cost) will cover (like Southwest Suites). They won't give you a non-A since it's an AETC/AFIT funded school blah blah blah.

no, it's another dude, who spent no shit 30 minutes going over his resume with us.

yes bring blues. Not much work required, took me about an hour to type out my article at most. Day goes from 0800-1600 then have a good time out on the town...I had a good time and found a lot of the information to be interesting. Not so much the metallurgic analysis, tho.

or, a CSAR and a MEDEVAC roll down at the same time, and the Army takes the CSAR and we get the MEDEVAC (happened to us on this last deployment).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93d_Air-Ground_Operations_Wing the 93d AGOW is the parent wing for all non-SOF ASOGs and their ASOSs.

sorry, I got having AOs for it mixed up with it being an aeronautical badge. My bad. What they said above.