To: Jet Jaguar
2 posted on
04/20/2010 9:11:09 PM PDT by
freedumb2003
(Craven spirits wear their master's collars but real men would rather feed the battlefield's vultures)
To: sonofstrangelove
How interesting — I am sure the transition is difficult but rewarding.
God, I envy these guys.
Sadly, I had 2 problems that kept me out of the cockpit:
1) Bad vision
2) Acrophobia
Other than that, I was good to go!
4 posted on
04/20/2010 9:17:12 PM PDT by
freedumb2003
(Craven spirits wear their master's collars but real men would rather feed the battlefield's vultures)
To: sonofstrangelove
to hit what should have been a radio switch only to find yourself in a sudden deceleration... would be unnerving all right. you’d think there would be something like a standard configuration for all fighter cockpits.
12 posted on
04/20/2010 9:37:01 PM PDT by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: sonofstrangelove
“These guys were at the top of their game. They’d just come back from a combat deployment in Iraq, and now they’ve been asked to be beginners again,” said Lt. Col. Jim McComas, director of operations for the fighter pilots.
They should stop whining. They're lucky they're flying at all.
15 posted on
04/21/2010 7:05:00 AM PDT by
paddles
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