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Rotary Wing Roundup (Helos at work in Maritime Environment)
- Thread starter HeyJoe
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At sea or homeguard?
At HG. They got to bounce on the outboard.
I was AOPS for 10 months, and was consistently near / at the top of the hog pile the whole time. I wouldn't say that any of my guys were far behind either. I did have all of our available quals, though, and that was a major contributing factor.
Reread your Wing SOP ... under the current revision (which has been in place for at least the past 6-8 months), this is a no-no.
As per usual, this could easily have been your first and only bullet :icon_tong
2P-2P ground turns are a thing of the past? Boo.
They officially got rid of wifferdills, too! Sad ...
phrogpilot73
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Why do they still call it the outboard? There is no inboard anymore!!! (and hasn't been as long as I've been with the Geese)
1. Well, that's probably a function of you being a qualled up guy, more than being in Ops. The guys who fly the most here are of course the LVL III Jedi master golden boys, ops or otherwise.
2. Maybe I'm missing something, and if I am please point it out, because I'm about to go to my HAC board but what I'm reading in Wing SOP says:
"Engaged turns. One H2P and an observer to read the checklist and guard the collective is the minimum crew requirement in order to engage the rotor system. A pilot shall always occupy the right seat, and the left seat observer shall have operable ICS."
In my mind, that's an H2P in the right seat, and a PQM/crewman in the left. Squadron SOP corroborates the previous assumptions as well, assuming no FCF procedures involved.
3. Yeah, that joke is still funny, and STILL fresh. *yawn*
BTW, green side Ops also has this highly delusional attitude. Ops may create a daily flight schedule (which always mirrors the weekly/monthly schedules...haha...) and hook themselves up with quals, good-deal flights, frags, etc., but there is NOTHING Ops does that anyone else can't do. In fact, in the Corps, we all have collateral duties, but somehow we also all work for Ops (usually when there's nobody left in Ops, because they're all out flying).
Flight/mission planning? ODO? Reports? Training? Are these the functions that cannot be done without Ops? Sounds like basic aviator stuff that we all do, if you ask me. *yawn*
You want to know who gets things done? Who enables Ops to pad their logbooks and fatten their NATOPS jackets?
There are exactly two people who make it happen:
1. Worker
2. CDI
(If you don't believe me, watch what happens when you try to fly your next Ops Flying Club VFR-direct out-and-in to (insert FBO here) for lunch (and hook each other up with all sorts of Xs and quals) and you don't have a worker and CDI on hand to troubleshoot and fix your seventh Fetzer valve or bypass line...)
What is the Cross-country you speak of? (completely ignoring the rest of the content of your post
)What is the Cross-country you speak of? (completely ignoring the rest of the content of your post
Andersen to Apra.
Only real other place to land would be Agana, and I'm pretty confident that all of Guam fits into the "local flying area" category. Pretty jealous of the good-deal trips to vegas/tahoe/insert cool place that the seawall guys get, rare as they may be.
The only cross countries I got at my sea tour were to repo the birds for various dets.
The flights down to AUTEC were a real hassle... You have to fly about 4 hours to then spend a week in the Bahamas doing a bunch of flying...
For the pointy-nose guys, think of it like a Key West Det but without all the bars and the freaks.
Did one as a 2P at sea as did most of my contemporaries. As an OIC I fought for the opportunity to get my 2Ps a flight at sea but was shot down by the front office. Pretty sure our syllabus at the time required a 2P/2P flight and they generally got done at HG. Personally I think there is a lot of value added to it.