det= Fleetspeak for detachment. Leave your homebase, with aircraft, and hopefully some cool buds (friends, not the Spicoli kind) to go to another base/airfield/location for some kind of event (training, airshow, exercise...). Get payed a daily allowance for living expenses (hotel and food, or stay cheap and forego food, now you have booze allowance). Brief, fly, debrief, party, repeat.
back on topic:
1. Don't drink 12 Icehouse longnecks the night before the API Inspection just because they are only 1 dollar.
2. If you do, and vomit during inspection, hold it in your mouth and swallow it back down. Prepare to receive emails reliving this for years to come (7 and counting)
3. Read the checklist. Even if solo. Shut down checklist is not the time to remember Auto-ignition after a PA Solo (...ahem...)
4. If your ready room is a Stalag (27), and you are not permitted to be reading anything but "professional material", a NY Times crossword puzzle or the skin mag
of your choice is easily concealed in an open NATOPS (but face the door).
5. While enjoying South Padre Spring Break, hide the fact that you are a flight student. I recommend "A&R for a major record label".
6. Barbacoa is not tejano for BBQ as most people know it. It is cow face meat steamed from the skull. No sh!t.
7. If you truly feel cheated by a Sim Instructor and he is a known dick, tell your On-Wing, odds are he can and will help.
8. That said, if one of the crusty sim guys starts regaling you with tales of the old days, sit back and enjoy, it will always benefit you in grades or beers to act interested.
9. If you have the next day off, do something fun. If you have a family, chill out and hang with them. If your "family" consists of other single boozehound JOs, GO OUT. This rule applies throughout the Fleet experience.
10. Screwdrivers are not a valid replacement for NyQuil.
11. Foreign students will invariably try to kill you at least once, if not repeatedly if you have to "buddy-solo" with them.
12. Always confirm the age of any hot chicks at a winging.
back on topic:
1. Don't drink 12 Icehouse longnecks the night before the API Inspection just because they are only 1 dollar.
2. If you do, and vomit during inspection, hold it in your mouth and swallow it back down. Prepare to receive emails reliving this for years to come (7 and counting)
3. Read the checklist. Even if solo. Shut down checklist is not the time to remember Auto-ignition after a PA Solo (...ahem...)
4. If your ready room is a Stalag (27), and you are not permitted to be reading anything but "professional material", a NY Times crossword puzzle or the skin mag
of your choice is easily concealed in an open NATOPS (but face the door).
5. While enjoying South Padre Spring Break, hide the fact that you are a flight student. I recommend "A&R for a major record label".
6. Barbacoa is not tejano for BBQ as most people know it. It is cow face meat steamed from the skull. No sh!t.
7. If you truly feel cheated by a Sim Instructor and he is a known dick, tell your On-Wing, odds are he can and will help.
8. That said, if one of the crusty sim guys starts regaling you with tales of the old days, sit back and enjoy, it will always benefit you in grades or beers to act interested.
9. If you have the next day off, do something fun. If you have a family, chill out and hang with them. If your "family" consists of other single boozehound JOs, GO OUT. This rule applies throughout the Fleet experience.
10. Screwdrivers are not a valid replacement for NyQuil.
11. Foreign students will invariably try to kill you at least once, if not repeatedly if you have to "buddy-solo" with them.
12. Always confirm the age of any hot chicks at a winging.
