...I was just curious why if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we call it a potato.
Because the orders are written by Hinges, who, as we know, are only capable of counting to potato.
...I was just curious why if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we call it a potato.
That's always true. If everything goes as planned, you aren't going OCF on any flight except the OCF demo...which oh, by the way is a separate IP qual anyway.
Meantime, the thread has taken a good turn, like what happens a lot in these threads...
Just for the record, I'm not arguing that SNA's should get one necessarily, I was just curious why if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we call it a potato.
(ie solo cross countries, weps dets, etc)
I always thought it was strange that hornet types seem to do their NATOPS qual very early in the hornet rag, whereas it's the last thing you do in the harrier rag.
I think that's pretty obvious don't you? We don't have to learn how to hover, we have 2 engines, we are more resilient to FOD, etc.
The fam stage is longer for Harriers, which makes sense. Why hornet students do a NATOPS check immediately after and harrier students don't doesn't have anything to do with FOD or the number of engines though.