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Posted on 05/15/2010 6:46:48 PM PDT by EnjoyingLife
My squadron and air wing were detached to NAS Fallon, Nevada, for strike training. Most of us attended lectures all day, but I was tasked with giving the battle-group-air-warfare commander an orientation flight in the F-14D. As skipper of the cruiser in charge of the battle group's air defenses, he had been spending time with the air wing to better understand how we conduct our missions. He had observed a number of the strike events through the tactical-air-combat-training system (TACTS) replays, and he had flown with the E-2C and EA-6B squadrons. He was proud that the Prowler guys hadn't been able to make him sick.
My job was to demonstrate the Tomcat's performance and tactical capabilities. Though this flight was my first without a qualified radar-intercept officer (RIO) in the back seat, I had flown with a number of aviators who had very little Tomcat experience.
The captain arrived at the squadron a half-hour before the brief to receive his cockpit-orientation lecture and ejection-seat checkout. Once in the ready room, we briefed the flight with our wingman. I covered the administrative and tactical procedures in accordance with our squadron's standard-operating procedures (SOP).
I told the captain that after the G-awareness maneuver, we would do a quick inverted check to verify cockpit security. . . .
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that is a cool sight
I enjoy reading the Approach articles. Very honest way to look at accidents. Us shoes were never as good reviewing mistakes.
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Yeah, Approach and Mech are a great resource. The Naval Safety Center has some entertaining stories as well.
Irish Luck - Surviving Partial Ejection from A-6 Aircraft
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Welcome aboard! You can check out past pings by doing a keyword search on ‘navair’ or clicking the pic on pings. Not all of the pings are to articles this good. As a matter of fact, this is ,IMO, the best one to date.
Mark
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I though you might like this.
>>The Naval Safety Center has some entertaining stories as well.<<
Forget the name of the magaazine they published, but I’ll never forget the story about the rated airman working on a carrier plane. Seems that the hydraulic actuator for the wings to fold is supposed to go in only one way. Well, this genius found a way to put it in - backwards. Imagine the poor pilot who folded his wings - only to find them on the deck!
Always some knucklehead story :-)
An interesting article, thanks for the ping
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