Recent content by dmcmurry

Not publicly available, but for any of the DOD types out there, the iPad app Phaero from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is not bad. Free EFB, but you have to have a CAC for initial account creation. Might not have all the bells and whistles of some of the others available, but the...

It was <edit> 21.5 </edit> hours in the aircraft, 4 hours in a sim with no visuals, and 3 in a sim with visuals, IIRC. I'm going to have to check my logbook tomorrow when I go into the squadron.

After 12.5 hours in a 172 (including a solo), I strapped myself to an ejection seat in an 1100 shp complex aircraft. And after another few hours of dual in that they let me solo in that orange and white T-6B. Thank you navy. But the first time we did engine run ups in that plane I thought I was...

I disagree with the assumption that failure rate would go up. Maybe that's just because I am a navy trained pilot, but it seems to me that if the FAA made the exam even more regulated there would be less confusion on expectation. If the FAA said "You shall divert (non-emergency), to include...

Yes! By far the most enjoyable flight I have ever had was on of my last flights before getting my navy pilot wings: the Airnav "brolo." Me and another student in a C-12 for a couple hours each way just to get lunch. There was nothing particularly hard about this flight, just a simple exercise in...

One of the problems with replacing the C-2 with the MV-22 is the extreme amount of heat you blast the deck with when those engines/rotors are in the vertical position. I seem to remember they were having a problem with the deck life on amphibs when the MV-22 first showed up to the party. That...

I stand corrected. I guess I was figuring from the standpoint of a pilot authorizing someone to shine a laser at them, a opposed to authorized laser operations with accidental aircraft illumination. Learn something new every day.

"Unauthorized laser illumination" as if anyone has ever "authorized" a laser illumination event.

Jeeze... Hard to use the "I was pointing at stars... It was an accident" line when it's a bullet.

Ken, was that the guy in the doctors lake area? I remember hearing about that when I was in jax a few months ago.

I've been wondering for a little while what my first posts would end up being, and as I was flying tonight I had an incident that I felt the need to share. I was flying an approach into PHTO (Hilo, HI), when my cockpit was illuminated by a green laser (for anyone not aware this is highly...