so do NFO's get any stick time in the newer F-18G or is the stick only for weapon selection etc
Stick time isn't that big of a deal. During FCLPs we were in FTs, so I'd fly from Oceana to the NALF and then back, which was kinda cool... but blah, if you're ever doing anything tactical, I could care less about flying the jet...
Why were they giving you FTs?
To save the FS's for tactical flights...
I mean, if you were an IP... would you really want to be doing AIC, trying to nail the notch with some dude in the back grabbing the stick to run short range radar?
Yeah, you forgot the E-6B Mercury (TACAMO) (out of Tinker AFB (and NAS Patuxent River too, I think) as well..
Fly, can you make his account wait 5 minutes between posts? It may help him self-moderate a tad.
LOL!!!
I've never seen your name before yet you have 1000+ posts... holy Private Spouses Corner Batman!