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"Mike Marron" wrote in message ... Ed Rasimus wrote: Mike Marron wrote: USAF Command Pilot wings are much larger in size (rightfully so!) than other aviation badges. I don't think it's no accident that I haven't lost Dad's Command Pilot wings but I did (regrettably) somehow manage to lose his medals back when I was a young kid. The silver wings have tarnished a bit over the years but that's OK since you can clearly see the imprint where he used his thumb to pin the wings onto his dress blues. Sorry, Mike, but, unless things have changed drastically, the wing size remains the same with the exception that Senior Pilot has the star affixed to the shield and Command Pilot adds the wreath around the star. Otherwise, the wings are the same size. I was simply comparing the size of USAF Command Pilot wings to the size of wings of other wings worn by various military personnel (paratrooper wings, for example). Sure. |
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"Phineas Pinkham" wrote in message ... "Ed Rasimus" wrote in message The first pilot time requirements reflect a recognition of the difference between small airplanes where an aviator is flying and multi-place airplanes where an aviator is observing. What a childish comment from an immature arschloch. Reflects the mentality of single seat numb-nuts versus the professionalism of multi-engine Pilots. Man in the loop, right side monitor. |
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Mike Marron wrote:
Ed Rasimus wrote: Mike Marron wrote: USAF Command Pilot wings are much larger in size (rightfully so!) than other aviation badges. Sorry, Mike, but, unless things have changed drastically, the wing size remains the same with the exception that Senior Pilot has the star affixed to the shield and Command Pilot adds the wreath around the star. Otherwise, the wings are the same size. I was simply comparing the size of USAF Command Pilot wings to the size of wings of other wings worn by various military personnel (paratrooper wings, for example). I could be wrong, but when I visually compare Command Pilot wings to any other wings -- Command Pilot wings soar above the rest WRT size, no? Size is often in the view of the beholder. If that matters.... Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (ret) ***"When Thunder Rolled: *** An F-105 Pilot Over N. Vietnam" *** from Smithsonian Books ISBN: 1588341038 |
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"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message ... Mike Marron wrote: Ed Rasimus wrote: Mike Marron wrote: USAF Command Pilot wings are much larger in size (rightfully so!) than other aviation badges. Sorry, Mike, but, unless things have changed drastically, the wing size remains the same with the exception that Senior Pilot has the star affixed to the shield and Command Pilot adds the wreath around the star. Otherwise, the wings are the same size. I was simply comparing the size of USAF Command Pilot wings to the size of wings of other wings worn by various military personnel (paratrooper wings, for example). I could be wrong, but when I visually compare Command Pilot wings to any other wings -- Command Pilot wings soar above the rest WRT size, no? Size is often in the view of the beholder. If that matters.... You two need to get a room. |
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"Phineas Pinkham" wrote:
"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message The first pilot time requirements reflect a recognition of the difference between small airplanes where an aviator is flying and multi-place airplanes where an aviator is observing. Ed Rasimus What a childish comment from an immature arschloch. Reflects the mentality of single seat numb-nuts versus the professionalism of multi-engine Pilots. I guess the difference in time requirement 2000 vs 1300 and 3000 vs 2300 was an adjustment for the delays built in waiting for the assistant pilot to respond to those checklist challenges. Here's an excerpt from book 2, in draft, regarding my time in droning airplanes with passengers in back--checking out in the T-29 at Randolph AFB while assigned to Hq.: "Check-out in the airplane was a disaster. It started with a local orientation flight. Half a dozen staff types loaded onto an airplane and over a four-hour flight we sat in the airline-style seats reading magazines and waiting for a chance to take the controls for a period ranging from fifteen minutes to an hour. I was eventually called to the cockpit where I was directed into the left seat. The view was pretty good, but the big steering wheel was clearly converting flying into an unnatural act. The throttle quadrant was between the seats, requiring power control with the wrong hand, and there were a profusion of knobs and levers on the quadrant that implied the airplane had a lot more than the two engines I knew were out there on the wing. Trim wasn't through an electrical thumb switch, but rather with a large wheel mounted vertically on the side of the throttle pedestal. My first attempt at a slight turn met with no result. It quickly became apparent that the fingertip flying of high performance jets wasn't the mode of operation for reciprocating engine trash haulers. It took considerable muscling to get the airplane to move out of straight and level. Control pressures weren't the solution, brute force manipulation of the wheel was. After the chuckles of the instructor pilot and flight mechanic over my control technique subsided, we entered the traffic pattern. "We're going to do a couple of visual touch-and-goes," the IP said. "Call for the before landing checklist." "OK" I responded. Nothing happened. "Call for the before landing checklist," he repeated. "Right. Give it to me," I tried again. Still nothing. "You have to say the words," he scolded. "You have to say, 'before landing checklist.'" "You're kidding aren't you? OK, before landing checklist," I intoned. "Props?" The flight mechanic opened his greasy yellow checklist and began reading. I looked quizzically at the IP. He pointed to two of the knobs at the top of the throttle quadrant. Then held them down for about eight seconds until the RPM of the engines magically, without moving the throttles, moved to 2400. "That sets the props to proper pitch," the mech explained. "You're supposed to do that and then say, '2400, set.'" "Flaps," the flight mechanic continued then looked expectantly at me again. I looked out the window on my side of the cockpit and determined that I couldn't see any flaps. Without a clue about what was needed, I said, "OK, set them." "No," the mech warned, "You're supposed to say fifteen degrees." I'm nothing if not a quick study. "That sounds right. OK, set the flaps." Nothing happened. The IP was now beginning to glare a bit impatiently. "You have to say, "fifteen degrees, then the copilot will set them while you fly the airplane." Determined to play the game, I say, "fifteen degrees." Now there's action from the IP who fiddles with a little lever and leans myopically forward to stare at the flap position indicator setting it to exactly fifteen, not fourteen, not sixteen, but precisely fifteen. He's gotten where he is today by being precise. The flight mech continues down the list. "Mixture?" I ask what the proper response is. The IP says to set the red levers to full forward or rich. I ask who is authorized to do that and the IP motions to the flight mechanic sitting between us and hovering over the throttles. I tell him to go ahead. "Sir, I can't do it unless you say 'full rich,' then I move the levers." The enlisted mechanic is frustrated by my manifest incompetence. I'm in an airplane that barely responds to control inputs, that requires some sort of Gilbert and Sullivan duet to get anything done and which apparently is dependent upon an exaggerated "simon says" game before anything happens. Frustrated, I ask the IP "why, if everyone here but me knows the answer, do we have to ask the questions? If I ask for the before landing checklist, and now you know that's what I want, why don't you just do it?" He shakes his head at the ignorance of this former single-seat, single-engine fighter pilot who is now adrift on his many-motored, trash-hauling turf. It begins to dawn on me that I'm dead meat in this game of aeronautical one-upmanship. I'm learning about something called crew coordination." Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (ret) ***"When Thunder Rolled: *** An F-105 Pilot Over N. Vietnam" *** from Smithsonian Books ISBN: 1588341038 |
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Ed Rasimus wrote:
Mike Marron wrote: I was simply comparing the size of USAF Command Pilot wings to the size of wings of other wings worn by various military personnel (paratrooper wings, for example). I could be wrong, but when I visually compare Command Pilot wings to any other wings -- Command Pilot wings soar above the rest WRT size, no? Size is often in the view of the beholder. If that matters.... OK, whose got the biggest ahh, WINGS of all? -Mike (pass me them calipers) Marron |
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Ed Rasimus wrote:
Size is often in the view of the beholder. If that matters.... Ed Rasimus I had a girlfriend like that at one time...great for the ego. -- -Gord. |
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"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message ... "Phineas Pinkham" wrote: "Ed Rasimus" wrote in message What a childish comment from an immature arschloch. Reflects the mentality of single seat numb-nuts versus the professionalism of multi-engine Pilots. You should get a ghost writer and collaborate on a book. |
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"Phineas Pinkham" wrote:
SNIP:Reflects the mentality of single seat numb-nuts versus the professionalism of multi-engine Pilots. SNIP: You write from ignorance, old man. It takes a lot of sorties to rack up 1300 and 3000 hours in single-seat single-engine jets at 1:30 per sortie. A lot of my classmates had to go TDY to the AEW 121s to get enough time to qualify. I was lucky; I made it the hard way. As for professionalism, a single-seat pilot has to do everything a multi crew does - by himself. When I was picking up tired aging fighters from the ANG for the Boneyard and taking the ANG new ones from North American (LAX) I was operating in high density IFR areas - LAX, of course, and then up in the New England area. No one changed my radio channels for me, no one copied clearances for me, no one navigated for me or figured out new ETAs for me when my route was changed by ATC. No one backed me up on an IFR approach to a strange field. Oh, by the way our minimums for these flights were USAF minimums. And nope, I didn't have an autopilot. Professionalism? Try night dive bombing or a night low level. By yourself. Try a 5-minute scramble to a night low altitude intercept a hundred miles out over the ocean on an unknown bogie running blacked-out. Fly 250 miles north of Thule on a single engine. And how often have multi-engine crews ever flown their airplane to its design operational limits? How many times have they ever fought vertigo? One 'hood' ride to show proficiency in the 'unusual attitude' instrument recoveries would turn most (not all) multi pilots' hair stark white. (I knew a few who went from B52s to F4s and loved it.) Quite a bit different from a canned computerized flight plan, a nice leisurely takeoff and an autopilot cruise at a fixed altitude to a destination with never a bank over 30 degrees, if that. Coffee at hand, you can get up and walk around, doze while the other guy 'flies' the autopilot, and even have a meal! And most multi crews have basically only one mission - in the F4 we had air defense, air superiority, nuke strike, close air support and interdiction. Oh, yes, refueling day and night, not to mention side lines like formation flying in night and weather (flying wing at night in the weather is one long battle with vertigo!), missile/gunnery target tow, and for a few lucky ones test hops. Now and then a nice long deployment where you could log lots of hours between takeoff and landing. Professionalism is easy to profess - the proof is in how well you do a complex job. Now, which job is more complex? Walt BJ |
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You win!
"Walt BJ" wrote in message om... "Phineas Pinkham" wrote: SNIP:Reflects the mentality of single seat numb-nuts versus the professionalism of multi-engine Pilots. SNIP: You write from ignorance, old man. It takes a lot of sorties to rack up 1300 and 3000 hours in single-seat single-engine jets at 1:30 per sortie. A lot of my classmates had to go TDY to the AEW 121s to get enough time to qualify. I was lucky; I made it the hard way. As for professionalism, a single-seat pilot has to do everything a multi crew does - by himself. When I was picking up tired aging fighters from the ANG for the Boneyard and taking the ANG new ones from North American (LAX) I was operating in high density IFR areas - LAX, of course, and then up in the New England area. No one changed my radio channels for me, no one copied clearances for me, no one navigated for me or figured out new ETAs for me when my route was changed by ATC. No one backed me up on an IFR approach to a strange field. Oh, by the way our minimums for these flights were USAF minimums. And nope, I didn't have an autopilot. Professionalism? Try night dive bombing or a night low level. By yourself. Try a 5-minute scramble to a night low altitude intercept a hundred miles out over the ocean on an unknown bogie running blacked-out. Fly 250 miles north of Thule on a single engine. And how often have multi-engine crews ever flown their airplane to its design operational limits? How many times have they ever fought vertigo? One 'hood' ride to show proficiency in the 'unusual attitude' instrument recoveries would turn most (not all) multi pilots' hair stark white. (I knew a few who went from B52s to F4s and loved it.) Quite a bit different from a canned computerized flight plan, a nice leisurely takeoff and an autopilot cruise at a fixed altitude to a destination with never a bank over 30 degrees, if that. Coffee at hand, you can get up and walk around, doze while the other guy 'flies' the autopilot, and even have a meal! And most multi crews have basically only one mission - in the F4 we had air defense, air superiority, nuke strike, close air support and interdiction. Oh, yes, refueling day and night, not to mention side lines like formation flying in night and weather (flying wing at night in the weather is one long battle with vertigo!), missile/gunnery target tow, and for a few lucky ones test hops. Now and then a nice long deployment where you could log lots of hours between takeoff and landing. Professionalism is easy to profess - the proof is in how well you do a complex job. Now, which job is more complex? Walt BJ |
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