Current A-Pool/API students? Pathetic...or The Great Mustin Beach O'Club Thread

[KBayDog]

...we hit the scupper (and cracked the rim of the left inboard mainmount). Headed back to P-Cola, replaced the tire, and 5 minutes after pulling pitch got the chip light.

You hit the scupper so hard that you not only busted a rim, but shook up the tranny enough to get chips? Sick.

I know you weren't at the controls for that one. Right?

 

[phrogpilot73]

You hit the scupper so hard that you not only busted a rim, but shook up the tranny enough to get chips? Sick.

I know you weren't at the controls for that one. Right?

Let's just put it this way - I was sitting right seat, and mere moments before we hit the scupper this went over the radio - "Abeam, left seat."

Oh, and truth be told - we got the debris screen flag before we left Norfolk. NATOPS and MIMs states that you only need to write a MAF...

 

[fc2spyguy]

I fail to see the relevance of the last few posts wrt current API studs . . . Speaking of which, in VA beach now, how's the O club around here?

 

[KBayDog]

NATOPS and MIMs states that you only need to write a MAF...

Thanks, Professor.

I fail to see the relevance of the last few posts wrt current API studs...

Based on your timeline, you're about as far removed from API as Phrog is. What do you do, complete one phase of flight school each decade?

 

[fc2spyguy]

Thanks, Professor.



Based on your timeline, you're about as far removed from API as Phrog is. What do you do, complete one phase of flight school each decade?

Career flight student, not a bad gig really

 

[KBayDog]

Career flight student, not a bad gig really

The only differences between you and MB are the pay and the quarters.

 

[statesman]

The only differences between you and MB are the pay and the quarters.

and % of said pay that goes to alimony

 

[jt71582]

In other news, I went to the chamber and got hypoxic as craaaaap today. I actually didn't like it. I got really paranoid.

For me, it felt like a nicotine buzz x10 craziness. Good training though.

 

[scoolbubba]

Go have a beer. It'll act like 7!

 

[jt71582]

Go have a beer. It'll act like 7!

Sweet. I'm on it.

 

[mh53eflyguy]

This is a loaded question, but is the curriculum for API the same "fire hose" effect that an enlisted member would have experienced in A school? I do realize that this is risking locking the thread in asking the question....and loving every second of thinking of that!

 

[scoolbubba]

Short answer: Yep.

Long answer: API was a lot, but it isn't overly complex, and it's dumbed down so a Poli Sci guy can still pull 100's if you put the effort in. There is a lot of extra stuff to do (swimming and whatnot), but you'll be fine if you study the enabling objectives. Other than that, API was a sweet deal.

 

[jt71582]

API -

Not difficult but time-consuming. It's a lot of memorization, but the concepts required aren't anything to worry about. I was a music major, and I did fine. API graduation on Wednesday.

 

[OUSOONER]

Maybe try to get a decent gathering at MBOC tonight? In the process of assembling a decent showing on my end. Throw back a couple before heading into town. Responsibly, of course.

I'll get there around 1900-ish. If all goes to plan, not all sausage and not all taken.

 

[burningfeathers]

H2O and myself will not be present tonight, his parents are in town, and a buddy of mine fresh from Iraq is in town as well, so its a massive pilgrimage to McGuires for us.