Primary selection joke gets taken too far . . .

[nittany03]

I bet the CRM would be tougher hell you're with another guy for a very long time. SA issues and all, but hell..if you have a blimp mid-air ...that would be an interesting FNAEB

What if they just bounced off each other?:icon_tong

 

[OUSOONER]

What if they just bounced off each other?:icon_tong

haha or they scramble to their P-3's that are attached to the underbelly for such an emergency...

 

[ArkhamAsylum]

There are only two problems I see with adding blimps to the selection list after primary:
1. The logistics of modifying API to include the aerodynamics of LTA aircraft.
2. The fact that CRM would be limited to traffic calls that were not a factor.
3. The ASO would spend more time deciding if "Land As Soon as Practical" was even a logical statement than he would examining the safest way to get to the runway when a taxiway was closed.

On the plus side, think of how few EPs the pilots would have to memorize.

 

[Tyler]

There are only two problems I see ...

1. ...
2. ...
3. ...

I'm no math teacher, but...

 

[navywareagle]

I could see the Navy/Coast Guard having a couple of these things. It makes sense to me. However, I don't see the Navy/Coast Guard training their own pilots for just 2 or 3 of these things. They'd probably hire contract pilots.

 

[CWJones411]

There are only two problems I see with adding blimps to the selection list after primary:
1. The logistics of modifying API to include the aerodynamics of LTA aircraft.
2. The fact that CRM would be limited to traffic calls that were not a factor.
3. The ASO would spend more time deciding if "Land As Soon as Practical" was even a logical statement than he would examining the safest way to get to the runway when a taxiway was closed.

On the plus side, think of how few EPs the pilots would have to memorize.

I'm no math teacher, but...

Technically, it could be like: 0 -1 -1 -1 +1 = -2

 

[Tyler]

Technically, it could be like: 0 -1 -1 -1 +1 = -2

Touche. Negative intergers get me every time.

 

[OUSOONER]

STUPID engineers...always starting with 0 when counting..

At the engineering building at OU...the first room is Room 0. Douchebags....

 

[Uncle Fester]

LTA makes sense for AEW, ISR/Surveillance and ASW, as long as it's an unopposed environment. Those jobs are all about loiter time. Think about what it would add to the fight if you could park a blimp with FLIR, MIDS and suchlike above Baghdad or Ramadi for a few days at a time.

Sandstorms would be interesting, though...

 

[Gatordev]

Sandstorms would be interesting, though...

Not much different than mean Caribbean storms, which may cause temporary interruptions in service, but still don't preclude lots of airspace being tracked for years now.

 

[ArkhamAsylum]

I'm no math teacher, but...

I'm glad someone caught it. I hate it when superb humor goes to waste.

 

[HooverPilot]

I'm glad someone caught it. I hate it when superb humor goes to waste.

-1 for public diddling of yourself...

 

[zippy]

I'm no math teacher, but...

What do you expect... he is a Marine.

 

[A4sForever]

"...propelled by two Porsche 930 engines..."

Hey!! Don't knock it!! This may be the closest many of you get to drivin' one of those ...

I think I read somewhere that blimp pilots refused to wear the half-wings, even though they were the "official" wings, and wore the same wings as everybody else.

My NROTC XO wore his "official" BLIMP Wings proudly on his dress blues each and every day of the week.

And he was disgruntled ... make that very disgruntled.

 

[phrogpilot73]

Later we heard that in every jet the conversation was "It'd be cool to fly one of those" about the blimp. I don't find it hard to believe that they were having a similar conversation on the ground by the blimp. Thinking about that always makes me laugh.

I don't know why it'd make you laugh - makes perfect sense to me. Yes, I love the Phrog - but there's a SLEW of aircraft (a.k.a. anything that leaves the ground) that I'd love to fly. I'd be willing to bet most pilots are the same way.