Honestly, I just really loved the idea of serving my country. My parents came to the States in the late 80s with basically nothing but their education, and we never would’ve gotten the life we have now if they hadn’t come here and been accepted with open arms.
Uncle was Navy aviation, saw the blues and was hooked. Enlisted in 2010 and started flying on the E side of the house. After watching countless dumb pilots waste their opportunity I decided to give it a go. Here we are.
Hell yeah man, mad respect for the enlisted AW’s. An opportunity I wanted but was never afforded unfortunately. No regrets though I loved working the deck and ejection seats
Yep. This isn’t the 80’s either when the original movie came out. This might be a total boomer take but a lot of the generation that might’ve been attracted by the movie just don’t have the attention span
Wait what? I thought you just push the “go” lever forward and move the stick around :/
Planes are indeed cool. Mad props to your parents though
I've got a MEPS visit on the 24th so me making this board is probably dependent on that. Definitely sketchy
I shot an RNAV approach today with my instructor. I’m about to get my multi engine rating. On the approach he failed my PFD which was switched over to my MFD with reversionary mode. He then failed my primary altimeter, my heading indicator, and….shut off the right engine. I’ve never had such a crazy eye scan before in the cockpit from looking left at my standby instrument for heading, altitude, and airspeed, to looking all the way back to the far right at the MFD to make sure I’m on course and still on glide path. All this while dealing with a failed engine and having the system scream “CHECK GEAR, CHECK GEAR” because I left it up a while longer than usual due to the single engine performance today. Just one of those mentally and physically draining situations that comes with flying that most people don’t think about. It’s not always just a joy ride up there ?
Did you try turning it off and turning it back on again?
Come on now. Maverick once said…”if you think…you’re dead!”
Bet
I originally wanted to be a military physician. After learning about flight surgeons, I developed a real interest in aviation. Eventually, I came across some military pilots, heard their stories, and decided that I should purse becoming a pilot while I have the chance. Scheduled my LASIK surgery soon after.