Stupid questions about Naval Aviation (Pt 2)

[NavAir42]

I guess the Blues are the only ones talented enough to break to the right

Never knew jet guys weren't ambi-turners.

 

[Pepe]

Why are Navy TAFs completely fucking ridiculous compared to civil TAFs? These are right damn next door to each other. One has marginal VFR and summer thunderstorms. The other has an apocalypse.

And what's the effing point of TEMPO lines if they're going to completely fill the time between the BECMG lines.

KPNS 052339Z 0600/0624 14007KT P6SM VCSH SCT025 SCT050 BKN150
FM060800 09006KT P6SM VCSH BKN025 BKN050 BKN150
FM061500 12012KT P6SM BKN025 OVC040
TEMPO 0615/0618 VRB15KT 4SM -TSRA BR OVC030CB
FM061800 14015KT P6SM VCTS BKN025CB OVC040 PROB30 0618/0624 VRB20KT 4SM -TSRA BR OVC030CB

KNPA 0603/0703 10008KT 9999 VCTS SCT010 SCT025CB BKN080 BKN250 QNH2987INS
TEMPO 0603/0609 VRB20G30KT 3200 TSRA BKN010 BKN025CB OVC060
TEMPO 0609/0613 VRB20G30KT 3200 TSRA BKN010 BKN025CB OVC060
BECMG 0613/0615 12012G20KT SCT010 BKN025CB BKN080 OVC150 QNH2989INS
TEMPO 0613/0619 VRB25G40KT 0800 +TSRA BKN005 BKN020CB OVC030
TEMPO 0619/0701 VRB25G40KT 0800 +TSRA BKN005 BKN020CB OVC030
BECMG 0701/0703 12009G15KT 9999 VCSH SCT030 SCT100 BKN250 QNH2990INS AUTOMATED SENSOR METWATCH 0603 TIL 0611 T25/0611Z T30/0620Z

One of those fields has a weather observer in NORFOLK, VA that is writing the forecast and the other field doesn't get paid unless pilots land there.

 

[MIDNJAC]

Naahhh! While fairly rare, some Military airfields have a right-hand pattern; i.e. NAS Lemoore is a right break on 32R or 14R when the normal landing runways 32L/14L are in other use (FMLP, Inst. Approach etc.).
BzB

Yep, and even lovely NAS Meridian had a right break for either of the right runways, in the unusual event that they were recovering (or bouncing) aircraft there instead of the left.

 

[HighDimension]

Go to their website and forums... Awesome.

 

[HMM265GS]

Do helos or jets get more flight hours?

 

[armada1651]

Yep, and even lovely NAS Meridian had a right break for either of the right runways, in the unusual event that they were recovering (or bouncing) aircraft there instead of the left.

We break right when FCLPs are in progress too. And flying into CRP for weekend ops and what-have-you, the right break is fairly common.

 

[MIDNJAC]

We break right when FCLPs are in progress too. And flying into CRP for weekend ops and what-have-you, the right break is fairly common.

Having done primary in Corpus, I'd imagine that taking a -45 into their pattern is a cluster. Props to you

 

[Ezekiel]

Recent post and article mentioned CVW-7 returning to Virginia from cruise. The article specifically mentioned the 4 VFAs returning with 44 aircraft and 56 aircrew. What does the rest of the squadron do without its planes and most of its officers?

 

[wlawr005]

pack shit and play X-box

 

[brownshoe]

pack shit and play X-box

What he said. But in my day we didn't have X-box. So.... we threw shit over the side. :icon_wink

Steve

 

[Uncle Fester]

Take a bunch of grown men - college-educated, close friends and comrades-in-arms - and get them haggling over those last few JOPA fly-off seats... turns into a slap-fight like none you've seen outside a Pensacola Wal-Mart on Black Friday.

 

[PropAddict]

we threw shit over the side. :icon_wink

Steve

Heh. I remember on mid cruise, out in blue water we threw whole bookshelves over the side (Chief: "Get this !@#$ing thing out of here! We don't have space for it!"). In port, we spilled one stupid bucket of hardware over the edge and it was an "ecological disaster". Had to send the divers in to recover them.

 

[brownshoe]

Heh. I remember on mid cruise, out in blue water we threw whole bookshelves over the side (Chief: "Get this !@#$ing thing out of here! We don't have space for it!"). In port, we spilled one stupid bucket of hardware over the edge and it was an "ecological disaster". Had to send the divers in to recover them.

How times have changed.:icon_wink I shudder to think what they'd find if they ever (really) dredged Mayport.

Steve

 

[alawson.223]

Does the Marine Corps utilize its pilots for missions consisting of intel gathering, reconnaissance? If so, would they fly? EA-6Bs?

 

[Recovering LSO]

Does the Marine Corps utilize its pilots for missions consisting of intel gathering, reconnaissance? If so, would they fly? EA-6Bs?

Marine pilots fly Marine aircraft. Seriously?