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Random Griz Aviation Musings

RHINOWSO said:
Reminder kids, fly / drive it all the way through the crash.
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The full recreation of incident is up now here. She did a great job. My only debrief point would have been to declare the emergency earlier, but Tower was looking out for her anyway.

And as always, the comments continue to give us gold. "Well done! She's so lucky she didn't have the sun in her eyes!"
 
Gatordev said:
The full recreation of incident is up now here. She did a great job. My only debrief point would have been to declare the emergency earlier, but Tower was looking out for her anyway.

And as always, the comments continue to give us gold. "Well done! She's so lucky she didn't have the sun in her eyes!"
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Thanks for sharing - calm, cool, aviate, navigate, communicate right there.

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hlg6016 said:
Is it like going on all the cool rides at 6 Flags?
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Reminds me of an aeromedical study I was "voluntold" for when I was in the pool at NASC back in '06. I was in a control group for a larger airsickness study. I was put in a spinny chair, blindfolded, and spun while I held my head in various positions to see if I would get nauseous (never did). It was a little weird, but pretty easy duty. The best part was it only took about an hour, and I was cleared off for the day after.

I did not get a bullet in my FITREP... maybe that's why I never made skipper. :eek: ;)
 
sevenhelmet said:
Reminds me of an aeromedical study I was "voluntold" for when I was in the pool at NASC back in '06. I was in a control group for a larger airsickness study. I was put in a spinny chair, blindfolded, and spun while I held my head in various positions to see if I would get nauseous (never did). It was a little weird, but pretty easy duty. The best part was it only took about an hour, and I was cleared off for the day after.
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When I was a senior in high school they filmed scenes for the movie Rollercoaster at the local Ocean View Amusement Park in Norfolk. It was night scenes, so they filmed from sunset to sunrise each day. Friend of mine and I got jobs as extras in the movie.

They needed a shot with the tilt-a-whirl in the background, and I volunteered to ride. Was not thinking that it would take multiple takes, they'd have to keep it running the entire time, and they'd drop it down and raise for each shot. Whoo boy...

 
sevenhelmet said:
I was put in a spinny chair, blindfolded, and spun while I held my head in various positions to see if I would get nauseous (never did).
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Were they still doing the Spin and Puke in API when you went through? I know they were sending students from Primary to use it for adaptation during that time, but I wasn't sure if they were still using it during API.
 
Aircraft wash day in the transient line hangar at WPAFB. My newly promoted O-6 boss, in a fine display of deck-plate leadership is manning the foam cannon!


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Gatordev said:
Were they still doing the Spin and Puke in API when you went through? I know they were sending students from Primary to use it for adaptation during that time, but I wasn't sure if they were still using it during API.
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It was still going when I went through in 2010.
ChuckMK23 said:
No smoke. Beat feet back to WPAFB getting chased by a fairly large convective cell. Land without incident and the Transient Alert folks helped me push the plane in the base ops hangar. Just as the storm hit.

Walking into base ops the duty Sgt asks "Sir, base instruction xxx requires you to have base commander pre- approval to land when there is lightning within 5 sm of field. Where is your authorization?"

He was serious of course. 😭😁
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Gotta love the Air Force.

"Okay, well then I'll take back off and land somewhere else."
 
ChuckMK23 said:
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I did some pre-API testing, it wasn't spin / puke type stuff but staring at shapes, what does it make you think / feel type weirdness.

It was only a single day and started after being called out along with another 7-10 other pre-API students from morning muster in khakis with the rising heat at 0800AM at NAS Pensacola - at the time there were at least 100-150 pool students, maybe more. I think we were done before lunch and were able to bail out after that.

Oh the days of driving 25-30 min for 5 min muster before driving home to then go hit the Perdido Key beaches for a day of swimming, grilling, drinking, and relaxing before starting class.

18 months in Pensacola doing NFO training was pretty sweet duty outside of making sure you didn't get drafted for P-3s, E-2s, or S-3/EA-6. I seemed to finish a phase the day they classed up for intermediate / advanced / S-F, etc. 2-weeks off to yourself with maybe a day or two of SDO.
 
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