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AN MI-8 GUNSHIP HELICOPTER LANDS ON A HIGHWAY IN KAZAKHSTAN TO ASK FOR DIRECTIONS (video)
The Aviationist ^
Posted on 02/15/2017 6:27:19 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat
“Do you know the way to San Jose?”
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posted on
02/15/2017 6:29:49 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: ameribbean expat
They should have taken a left turn at Albuquerque.
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posted on
02/15/2017 6:30:24 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
("I'm a believer that you don't need a title, and you don't need an office to make a difference"~S.P.)
To: ameribbean expat
Have they tried Customer Service with Peggy?
Yes!......Yes!......
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posted on
02/15/2017 6:30:24 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
To: ameribbean expat
It was an IFR flight. (I Follow Roads).
"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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posted on
02/15/2017 6:31:58 PM PST
by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
To: ameribbean expat
Just fly around the town water tower and read the name off of it. Then find that name on the map. That always worked for me.
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posted on
02/15/2017 6:32:31 PM PST
by
jim_trent
To: ameribbean expat
According to the statement, cited by the local media, the exercise was a success.
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posted on
02/15/2017 6:32:52 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
(Reset Underway!)
To: ameribbean expat
According to the artle date, this is recent.
Couldn’t he just whip out his obamaphone and open up google maps?
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posted on
02/15/2017 6:32:59 PM PST
by
jr3000
To: ameribbean expat
Kazak spelled backwards is kazak.
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posted on
02/15/2017 6:33:21 PM PST
by
bunkerhill7
((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
To: ameribbean expat
"How you knowing my name is Mac?"
"I am guessing!"
"Well then you can guessing your way to next city."
To: ameribbean expat
“By the way, if some guys in a HumVee come along asking for Grey Poupon, they’re with us.”
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posted on
02/15/2017 6:43:04 PM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: ameribbean expat
Had a similar experience at Ft. McCoy, WS. My unit had established a site just down slope from a sandy hilltop. All but that hilltop was heavily wooded. It was nearly dusk, when a Huey landed on that hilltop. It was not one of the choppers organic to our ASA unit. Our MP's swarmed him, including a jeep with mounted M-60.
After a short interrogation by one of our CI warrants it was determined the pilot was lost, and didn't want to call his unit for help. He claimed that we'd camouflaged so well that he knew there had to be a unit there. One of the warrants took a map up the hill to show the pilot where he was, and sent him on his way.
His comment about over camouflaging was brought up in our after mission report.
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posted on
02/15/2017 6:55:16 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(Jus soli + Jus sanguinis = NBC)
To: ameribbean expat
Easy to see why they got lost, like a white-out. They still should have GLONASS and GPS unless the rules said they could not use that.
To: ameribbean expat
My wife said that if I were piloting that craft, never would I stop to ask for directions. She’s probably right. I hate to ask for directions.
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posted on
02/15/2017 7:27:30 PM PST
by
Parmy
(II don't know how to past the images.)
To: ameribbean expat
Costco sells a fairly decent little GPS unit for $89
just saying....
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posted on
02/15/2017 7:33:06 PM PST
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
To: ameribbean expat
That’s what happens when you don’t keep your Garmin data base up to date.
To: ASA Vet
Me too! I had a jammer setup on a hilltop. Helicopter lands and the pilot walks over and asks me if “we” (me and my partner sitting in a jeep) were the Air TOC.
Um, no :)
To: VeniVidiVici
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posted on
02/15/2017 10:26:25 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(Make US Intelligence great again!)
To: mosaicwolf
what happens when you don’t keep your Garmin data base up to date You buy a Samsung phone and use Google directions.
That way, you get an advanced smart phone with very superior GPS thrown in for free.
Last I checked, Garmin is getting into fitness devices. Good luck to them! Isn't capitalism great?
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posted on
02/15/2017 10:45:23 PM PST
by
cynwoody
To: ASA Vet
Sorry.
Even better for the story - an AN/ULQ-19 Racal Jammer. Can’t get much more nondescript :)
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