Stupid Questions about Naval Aviation (Part 3)

[UInavy]

Too many years of pussies who spent careers burning flight hours over the boat doing "DCA" and "CAP" are telling guys who've been to war they aren't needed anymore.

I'd love to hear an expansion on this.

 

[Brett327]

I’m blanking on this. On the Carrier, what’s the tower on the forward quarter starboard side called? Usually had the wind measurement on it?

More commonly referred to as the NAV Pole.

 

[sickboy]

I've always heard it called "the weather pole" Or the thing that fooling the system into thinking the CVN is a sub.

 

[papacarter]

How often do you take the flight physical once you're active duty?

 

[Pags]

How often do you take the flight physical once you're active duty?

Once a year

 

[Jim123]

How often do you take the flight physical once you're active duty?

Once a year, usually in your birth month or the month right before that.

There are a couple circumstances when you might do more than one in a year-

If it's going to be due while you're deployed and you won't be able to get it done on deployment, then they'll work around that (might mean you see the flight doc right before you deploy and then again right after you get back).

When you first join, everybody going to flight school gets one when they first get to Pensacola. After that, you always do it in your regular month, even if the flight school flight physical was a few months before your birthday (unless the flight school one was the month prior to your birth month, then it also counts as your regular annual flight physical).

The EKG and the moon river surprise aren't every year, they work a little different.

 

[Duc'-guy25]

I’m blanking on this. On the Carrier, what’s the tower on the forward quarter starboard side called? Usually had the wind measurement on it?

"Belknap Pole" thats interesting, haven't heard that one. The rest of the world just calls it a forward mast since it's literally just there to mount the forward mast head light ICW The Rules. Also useful for having the Cadet/Midshipman climb it and wave a metal yard stick back and forth to help you "calibrate" the X/S band radars...

've always heard it called "the weather pole"

You were always a hard in the briefs when it came to technical terms

 

[Austin-Powers]

Do Harrier pilots do the T-45 syllabus?

 

[Griz882]

Do Harrier pilots do the T-45 syllabus?

Only the take off and landing parts.

 

[Python]

Do Harrier pilots do the T-45 syllabus?

Yes. They don’t they’re Harrier pilots until they finish the syllabus.

 

[Maxillarious]

https://pilotonline.com/news/military/local/article_d14df790-a53c-50af-85b1-d90555db9c42.html

Named after the USS Belknap which collided with the JFK in 1975.

Thanks for posting that! I never knew why it was called the "Belknap pole." Googled some of the photos from the accident...holy yikes. ?

 

[Austin-Powers]

What is that box I see the yellow shirts see point at the aircraft?

 

[hlg6016]

Cold beer.

 

[Brett327]

What is that box I see the yellow shirts see point at the aircraft?

That's the weight board. This enables the aircrew to confirm that the catapult crew have the correct gross weight of the aircraft prior to launch. Gross weight is used to determine the correct catapult settings.

 

[Gatordev]

Gross weight is used to determine the correct catapult settings.

It's also part of separating a 1 from a 0.