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Good Prowler Porn: Around the Boat
- Thread starter FlyinSpy
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It's a fairly roomy cockpit compared to some other TACAIR platfortms. There's probably about 10 inches of room on the outboard side and about 12-14 between the two seats.
Brett
Random pilot trivia: one of the things you have to get used to as a Prowler Cat I is that there is nowhere to rest your hand when moving the throttles . . . the T-45 has a floodlight next to the throttle where you can rest your hand and use fingertips to move the throttle as opposed to arm motions. In the Prowler you have to "walk" the throttles for fine corrections, referencing one off the other. Your throttle hand is floating there in space. It's kind of a zen thing . . .
Also, I find it odd that there is so much room sideways and none vertically. I don't know who Grumman's model was when designing the glareshield, but even 6 foot plus dudes have to run their seat up all the way to see over the darn thing to fly the ball. And ECMO1's seat makes you feel like the 98-year-old lady who can't see over the dash!
As much as I appreciate the Prowler love when it occurs . . . "beautiful" isn't really among the apropos list of adjectives.
I wonder what it does in that game. Irradiate the other jets and make their pilots grow cancerous tumors in midflight? Shoot HARM for an air-to-air kill against an Su-35? Chop them to pieces with the RAT blades? Fry them with the directed energy weapon hidden in the refueling probe?
I wonder what it does in that game. Irradiate the other jets and make their pilots grow cancerous tumors in midflight? Shoot HARM for an air-to-air kill against an Su-35? Chop them to pieces with the RAT blades? Fry them with the directed energy weapon hidden in the refueling probe?
Fry them with the directed energy weapon hidden in the refueling probe?
OPSEC!!
I think the Prowler just flies around normally. The enemy in the air, in stunned disbelief that the Prowler still exists, is distracted just enough (probably because he's taking pictures of the nifty Prowler paint schemes) that he doesn't notice the division of Phrogs TERFing far beneath him. The enemy on the ground, in stunned disbelief that the Phrog still exists (and oblivious to the Snake escorts), is distracted just enough that he doesn't notice the platoon of Marines that the Phrog just dropped off. The enemy dies.
Classic maneuver warfare.
"Technically" they're required at all times. I only wear mine when I'm cold. I'd say that about 50% of folks wear them.
Brett
phrogpilot73
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I've got a buddy that bought into the whole "Technically" they're required at all times line of thinking and wasn't wearing his gloves when his Phrog was shot down. As fire started to consume the aircraft (and they were in the process of landing), his hands got severly burned. He wears gloves all the time now.
MasterBates
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I never wore them at the boat. For egress and "stick feel" reasons.
Very few HSL guys did when I was there.
Very few HSL guys did when I was there.
Very interesting videos.. I watched this one LIVE in FDC; can't believe it was somehow released?? THE INTERNET...
The S-3 pilot (our XO at the time) was not wearing gloves (if I remember correctly) and got some bad burns on his hands.. I wore them back in the day but fingerless...
The S-3 pilot (our XO at the time) was not wearing gloves (if I remember correctly) and got some bad burns on his hands.. I wore them back in the day but fingerless...