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Off to a good start! BTW, to the OP, I hope you have a good sense of humor otherwise you may have chosen the wrong business.

I If you happen upon the reference, I’d be interested in reading it. As a former Navy pilot, it wasn’t one of the factors we were taught reduced that largely affected accident rates. We were taught that angled decks and NATOPS had the most significant impact. But I’m sure there were lots of...

Cruise is .74 to .78, but most often .74 for fuel efficiency and for crossings.

I discovered this button early on and it saved me a lot of grief.

Motive flow.

Is that prior or coincident to the angled decks? I’ve heard the latter cited as responsible for a significant decrease in accident rate but not AOA specifically. With LSOs monitoring, getting slow should have been preventable.

The ones I’ve been in are quiet, DC’s aren’t necessary.

Gross.

Border Collie, Heeler mix?

Does anyone know when he lost control? Did he execute the climb out? I didn’t hear a response, it sounds like he lost control on the approach, not because he was given a vector. If I was as in over my head as he seemed to be, I would have been landing regardless of what ATC was telling me to do.

It sounds to me like he started reducing power 90° through the turn. He also seemed to come in relatively slow. That looked like something less than 350kts but it’s hard to tell. If you come in slow and go straight to idle, it messes up the habit patterns and the abeam distance. You’ll be at...

The Navy definitely looks better doing it but the AF actually does it as well. Easy mistake to make.

I hear that occasionally at a local Class C. I have taken it to mean fly direct to intercept a safe landing path, not fly a straight line to the numbers.

Just do what everyone else is doing and leave the military procedures out of it. I wish the 45° entry would go away and everyone would learn the overhead, but it’s not going to happen.

I’ve had multiple Ford and Massey tractors. The Fords all had idle forward, I think my Massey’s had the opposite . I’ve been around tractors and airplanes my whole life and it never occurred to me that those might be confused. I did have an older farmer student pull the throttle to idle at a...

That kind of ignores what would lead to an unusual attitude. Seat of the pants is likely the problem, not the solution.

I think there’s slightly more at play here. ;)

The NFL continues to defiantly flip the middle finger to those who fund it, and those comments sounded like they were being read badly straight off of a script. Sad. But to the point, everyone with a voice on social media thinks they’re an expert and since they pay taxes they should have...

Well that discussion fell apart. I’ll read it later for entertainment.:)

I can see the thinking but in the military I did it both ways, and simply adapted to the SOP. I didn’t see either way as more/less safe. The only two gear up landings I was aware of were both on initial arrival with unusual circumstances. I prefer to leave it down and if I had my own retract...