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I am NOT and have never been an airline pilot. I am NOT the father-in-law of the OP. What of that do you idiot morons not understand!? Never mind. The people on this site just don't meet my standards. I have wasted my time here but that is easy to fix.

The USAF started cracking down on some of the fun stuff in 1986. The reason was it was costing too much to replace planes and pilots. I got spanked at one of--if not THE--the first joint USAF/USN/USA exercises after Goldwater-Nichols. The VOQ at Roosey Roads is just a little off runway...

?????????????????? My last flight was in a T-1 in 2004. A couple months ago I got my special issuance Class III, and will soon be getting back into flying. That is why I joined this site.

Concerning the father-in-law of the OP, he does seem over the top. I too am a FIL and my son-in-law is a now baby airline pilot flying for Skywest. He actually had a shot at getting into the F-15 unit at PDX. On his first interview he was ranked 10 out of 300 applicants. If he had stayed...

Your description of USAF thinking is pure BS. The USAF today is THE most dominant fighting force that has ever existed on this planet. I was an USAF pilot from 1984 to 2007. We were expected to know the rules--which we grumbled about--AND develop the judgement and situational awareness to...

BS as well.........

This is complete BS...........

In all my time as a USAF instructor pilot I never had to "light in" to a student. If one has to be a screamer to get a students attention, then the instructor skills need more development. I found creative ways to make the required points, and each student was different. One T-38 student of...

If you don't like your CFI you don't have to keep your CFI. Even in the USAF a student could request an instructor change. In the civilian world, you are paying the CFI so he/she is working for YOU. If a CFI gave me attitude I would immediately call it out and if it persisted I'd fire...

Recently got a Special Issuance Class III and and am preparing to start flying again. I am going with an electronic logbook and will summarize all my USAF flight time and SEL time. Should I bother to apply the .2 or .3 hours to each sortie? The USAF counts only flight time plus .1. I do not...

Yep! Gyrocopter Girl is THE best thing to happen to gyroplanes................

I grew up in Southern Oregon, graduated college in Tacoma, WA; have lived in MS, AR, TX, AZ and Japan; and have traveled to and been deployed to many places on the planet. I have done the majority of my flying in the Southern US. When people talk about the weather in the PNW, they are really...

Forgive me my new guy rusty old-pilot questions. The vast majority of my flight time is in USAF planes and I don't remember no stinkin' yellow arc. C-130 had a max speed of 326 IAS. I could never get that in flight in an old E model but I hear the Hs and Js can. I don't even remember a max...

I'll bet the prince could afford a plane that doesn't even have a golden arc...................... :)

BTW, I did not mean to take this thread from the best way to recover a large plane from a severe unusual attitude to the best way to gain energy in a military jet. However, it IS good to knock the cobwebs out. My last logged flight was Dec of 2004 in a T-1 and a couple months ago I got a...

Probably, but airframe buffet was a better indicator. Light symmetrical buffet happened at .6 AOA (green donut) and that was a comfortable range for maneuvering. Max practical lift was around .8 AOA (red) and the buffet was moderate and symmetrical. Stall was around 1.0 AOA and the buffet...

I did several boom rides as a T-38 IP in As. We'd climb to 390 and once in the area would go to AB and descend to go supersonic. We didn't unload for that demo. Where we would unload was when trying to gain energy. We'd do a straight ahead wifferdill, pulling the nose up and climbing then...

I'll bet monemtum has something to do with all this as well. Oh well, I was taught "pilot aerodynamics" by the USAF and they admitted their course would make aeronautical engineers go nuts. The end of all this is I know unloading can fix a lot of issues, often in flight envelopes where it's...

Though I wasn't thinking in terms of mass, I get it that mass hasn't changed. However, I also know an aircraft accelerates the fastest at zero g, and you don't have to be pointed at the ground to see this work. Are you the saying that the increased acceleration at zero g is due to reducing...

Something I didn't hear in the video is not only does unloading make the ailerons more effective and lower stall speed, it makes the engines more effective too. At 1/2 G you have cut the weight of the airplane in half, dramatically improving the thrust to weight ratio which makes recovery form...