I know you're being sarcastic, but out of curiosity how long are your average flights? I'm sure you have plenty of pre-flight work as well (donning the spacesuit), about how long does that normally take?
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Do Long Flights Make you Poo?
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I know you're being sarcastic, but out of curiosity how long are your average flights? I'm sure you have plenty of pre-flight work as well (donning the spacesuit), about how long does that normally take?
Since we're "measuring" ... 
Military ..... 10 hours chock-to-chock on the first day of day/night RAG CQ (one (2?) trip(s) through the Miramar hot-fuel pits and at least two hot-pumps on the BOAT).:sleep_125
Civilian ..... 14 1/2 hours -- New York to Tokyo. Greater than forecast headwinds .... which reaffirms my premise that little boys who tell lies grow up to be WX guessers.
Military ..... 10 hours chock-to-chock on the first day of day/night RAG CQ (one (2?) trip(s) through the Miramar hot-fuel pits and at least two hot-pumps on the BOAT).:sleep_125
Civilian ..... 14 1/2 hours -- New York to Tokyo. Greater than forecast headwinds .... which reaffirms my premise that little boys who tell lies grow up to be WX guessers.
You're not from around here, are you?
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Since we're "measuring" ...
Military ..... 10 hours chock-to-chock on the first day of day/night RAG CQ (one (2?) trip(s) through the Miramar hot-fuel pits and at least two hot-pumps on the BOAT).:sleep_125
Civilian ..... 14 1/2 hours -- New York to Tokyo. Greater than forecast headwinds .... which reaffirms my premise that little boys who tell lies grow up to be WX guessers.
I forget, crew duty was I think 18 hrs in 9's and 131's. Buck 18 days was something like 15 hrs between Gander and "George The Crook". Bet A4 and Flugelman is the only ones here who knows that reference.
We used to play that game in the COD on our long flights while in the Gulf. Fun times. Also, for some reason, the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk would give us a brown bag full of oranges, like 20 of them...So, we would take the ditching hatches out and throw the oranges out...That kept us entertained for a bit..
I think I might have a 9hr NAG run in my log book, and an 8hr vertrep. If I have to be in the helo for hours on end, I'd much rather do vertrep since that keeps the crew busier and more engaged. The NAG runs were always a battle with boredom. We'd do PQS signoffs, HAC scenarios, dirty jokes until you run out, trivia books, etc. Next time I plan on bringing trivial pursuit cards. On long flights I always try and remember to bring along some drinks and some snacks, since the boat donkeys can be counted on screwing up boxed lunches.
Top Five and Would You Rather went a long way towards getting through that second bag of SSC at about 0300. And then there was always "training videos" on the FLIR VCR.
My favorite game, though, was to find an MPA and ask them to "mark status of burritos". Which was always met with: "uhhhhhhhh....wait one." You could then almost hear the pages of the TACMAN start flipping.
...then again, maybe that's a lot funnier when you're so tired you laugh-cry at anything.
My favorite game, though, was to find an MPA and ask them to "mark status of burritos". Which was always met with: "uhhhhhhhh....wait one." You could then almost hear the pages of the TACMAN start flipping.
...then again, maybe that's a lot funnier when you're so tired you laugh-cry at anything.
haha, instead of egging a house, you should orange a boat?
and thanks for the title change whoever did it...
We had a big ole guy named Bubba that just couldn't manipulate the zipper on his drysuit when nature called so he just relieved himself in the suit. He said it warmed him up and he came to like it. He was always fumbling with his drysuit in the shower after a flight. We really didn't want to know about it and averted our eyes. He was a former New York City cab driver and gave us way too much information about his life and exploits in the Naked City and in the cockpit.
That HAD to have left a turd trail on something. I can't imagine anyone hanging their ass into the slipstream, taking a dump, and the turds just dropping away like MK-18's. Come to think of it, I'm not sure the gunner's belt was long enough to climb out on an aux tank. Putting more thought into this (which is just wrong, by the way), the gear must have been down so they weren't going all that fast (for an H-2). Maybe the dude at the controls was giving him a little right-rudder to shield him from the slipstream.
That HAD to have left a turd trail on something. I can't imagine anyone hanging their ass into the slipstream, taking a dump, and the turds just dropping away like MK-18's. Come to think of it, I'm not sure the gunner's belt was long enough to climb out on an aux tank. Putting more thought into this (which is just wrong, by the way), the gear must have been down so they weren't going all that fast (for an H-2). Maybe the dude at the controls was giving him a little right-rudder to shield him from the slipstream.
I never gave analyzed what the consistency or aerodynamics of his brown trout may have been but I'm sure there was some BDA done upon landing and I hope whoever as at the control was giving him some right rudder.
I started to describe one of the crazy aircrewman stories but to be perfectly honest, I don't think it's fit for publication in this forum and I didn't want to threadjack. Some of you bastards were absolutely nutz.