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Mil (Navy/Marine Corps) guidelines 6,000’ AGL. F-18 prohibited maneuvers include AB selected while dumping fuel.

I remember watching a Duke Cunningham interview where he’s talking about manually setting flaps while fighting... Hard to imagine/compare. NOW. Ask the old gunfighters to manage complex sensors and systems spread across hundreds of miles... Just... different.

SO. I’m an F-18 WSO in the Marines with over 2,000 hours of special crew time. I’ve long accepted that to be worth the paper it’s printed on, but today I heard from a similarly aged colleague that there’s been some folks who have made SOME use of it. I don’t expect to be able to use it for much...

Just found this, haven’t been on in a while... I’m currently in the USMC on year 20, most of them as an F-18 WSO... If you, like most, have some intangible interest in being a United States Marine, AND you love to fly, Marine Aviation is a fantastic way to go. IF you want some guarantees about...

Holy cow! I’m from NJ, Dad grew up in Ocean City. Spent every summer there from my birth in 77 until the late 80s... Hard to believe Dot’s is still there. You made my day with this one, beny!

Intent isn’t the only factor in being a “smart” supporting arm. Simply highlighting that such a “bad-ass” platform has a nasty habit of over-reacting when it comes to perceived threats... I’m being more than a little bit provocative- It’s a fine tool, but it’s not all there is and I like...

Wish I’d had the camera out on Friday when the NASA Canberra showed up at Miramar...

Smart= Threat reacting self defense ROE against French doctors

FALSE. Too timid to fly in daylight, too arrogant to work with suppression.

I understand that completely. But the interconnected piece is what rubs me the wrong way the most. Yes going way out over open water minimizes some risk to others, but minimizing it to a level that makes it other than selfish is next to impossible. We can get super relativistic on this but the...

The reason I’m so firmly against flat-hatting is because I generally don’t believe the folks doing so HAVE balanced the risks and other considerations. Hence I shoulda put quotes around “personal,” as they’re not well informed enough to develop minima for atypical envelopes like this... I’m...

Planning for swells means you’re far below any prudent personal minima. Low altitude training over water is prohibited in Marine Corps training rules specifically because of the hazards associated with lack of peripheral cues that makes speed/altitude distinction difficult. Suggestion if you...

Now imagine if you had continued making deliveries and telling your employees and customers, “Their programs over at Snuffy Farm-All are really top of the line...” That’s what’s most irritating in the posted article, the flimsy company line that the customer for some reason continues to stick...

Following quality assurance practices? This isn’t me expressing a preference for any manufacturer this is a real disappointment that the public response is that “The policies exist, it just appears inconvenient for the manufacturer to follow them.”

When you consider they had to concrete the K-Spans to make Wilson as livable as Anbar Province... I was at NAS Fallon a couple years later and everyone thought I’d lost it, raving about how lush and verdant it was in NEVADA...

https://www.defenseone.com/business/2019/06/boeing-tankers-still-have-debris-fix-months-maybe-longer-away/157786/?oref=d-river “They have good [quality assurance] practices, they’re just not following them,” Roper said. Quote. Of. The. Year.

AGSD was the av’n ground sup’t det in the 80’s...

Were you there during AGSD days or prior? Runway now all AM2, it’s on a 5 year cycle, so frequent ops to incrementally remove/repair matting when it comes due. The CDSA is funny when you consider it sits within a Restricted Area...

Both. The MWSS takes aviators so I had flown there, then OIC for a couple years before returning to cockpit. It’s scheduled daily by PPR, but operating most days of the year. Sees visiting units during most Integrated Training Exercises (ITX) and day to day traffic doing local training as well...

Was stationed there, have flown out of there for exercises as well though... It’s only “expeditionary” in the sense that it’s what it would look like IF we threw one down for real. This one (KNXP) has been installed for a couple decades now...