Charlotte flyover costs AF pilots

[Austin-Powers]

I think it was addressed in the original thread on his flyover that he got his next set of flying orders after a little while.

Just curious, what would his next set of flying orders will be? Any speculation that it won't be glamorous?

 

[SynixMan]

Just curious, what would his next set of flying orders will be? Any speculation that it won't be glamorous?

There's no "flying a dump truck full of rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong" bad deal flying anymore in the Navy anymore. If he got to continue on to anything with wings, he's probably fine.

You get punished by being sent to a boat (CVN Fuels Officer comes to mind) or random staff to run out the clock on your contract as a 1300 warm body, lat transfer to a different community, or separate.

 

[Short]

Dude, the Navy will solve a lot of morale issues when they offer a disassociated tour flying dog shit out of Hong Kong.

 

[insanebikerboy]

A good example of why it's great to be a helo doing a flyover. The direct quote from the FAA guy when I did a flyover of an Eagles game in 2011, "I don't care how low you go, just don't hit anything". Needless to say, we were looking up at the top of the stadium when we were at the 50 yard line.

 

[Brett327]

A good example of why it's great to be a helo doing a flyover. The direct quote from the FAA guy when I did a flyover of an Eagles game in 2011, "I don't care how low you go, just don't hit anything". Needless to say, we were looking up at the top of the stadium when we were at the 50 yard line.

I'm curious how/if the CNAF guidance for helo flyovers differs from fixed wing, because it's pretty specific for us, regardless of whatever the local FAA rep "authorizes."

 

[xj220]

The flyovers I did had very specific guidance from higher up so there was no deviation or misinterpretation.

 

[zippy]

The flyovers I did had very specific guidance from higher up so there was no deviation or misinterpretation.

Most non standard flying in VP does...

 

[HokiePilot]

A good example of why it's great to be a helo doing a flyover. The direct quote from the FAA guy when I did a flyover of an Eagles game in 2011, "I don't care how low you go, just don't hit anything". Needless to say, we were looking up at the top of the stadium when we were at the 50 yard line.

That sounds like a kick ass fly over! Do you have any cool picture or video to show us? I wish I could have been there!

 

[Gatordev]

I'm curious how/if the CNAF guidance for helo flyovers differs from fixed wing, because it's pretty specific for us, regardless of whatever the local FAA rep "authorizes."

The flyovers I did had very specific guidance from higher up so there was no deviation or misinterpretation.

Concur with xj. In 2008, I did a flyover of a Jags game and it was very specific (and very lame). The crowd still enjoyed it, but as an aviator (and a helo guy), you'd notice it was pretty vanilla.

My favorite part was the speed restriction. Kind of makes it hard to make up time at "...land of the freeeeeeee..." timing point and still stay within CNAF's regs.