CIA Aviation

[Pistlpetet]

It's doubtful an Army helicopter pilot knows anything about what the CIA is doing with their jets anyway. Poser.

Thanks for your advice Tool. I was an Army pilot in my past life. FYI the PMC flying contracting world is mostly Former Army heavy.

Have fun flying for your chump change.

 

[NorthShore]

Old saying.

Those who talk don't know.
Those who know don't talk.

BTW. I don't know.

 

[pilotyip]

NJAFrac pilot again shows the ignorance of fixed wing pilots understanding of the true talent our brother rotor wing flyers. Having hired many ex military helo drivers, about 25% of pilot force, some with a little as 100 hrs of fixed wing time, non-who has ever flown at jet, I can speak first hand their talent. I have never had an ex military helo driver fail initial or upgrade training moving into the DA-20. Where they really blown their fixed wing contemporaries away is in the simulator, they have a very light control touch, and fly very smoothly. Unlike the heavier handed King air and Baron drivers. Employers who do not value military multi-crew IFR rotor wing time are missing out on a lot of very talented pilots. BTW I flew the C1A off of the CVAN-65, it had two 1820’s rated at 1525 HP for takeoff, Grossed at 26,000#’s

 

[pilotyip]

whoops that is the Charlie One Alpha C1A

 

[NJAFracPilot]

Have fun flying for your chump change.

I guarantee you I have a better QOL, have more time off and make more money than anyone at GRI, CSC / Dyncorp or Blackwater... and nobody shoots at me.

 

[pilotyip]

Blackwater pays well

Fracpilot I doubt you make more than a Blackwater pilot flying overseas right now, I understand it is in excess of $200K per year, first 85K tax free. QOL well maybe you got one there

 

[NJAFracPilot]

NJAFrac pilot again shows the ignorance of fixed wing pilots understanding of the true talent our brother rotor wing flyers. Having hired many ex military helo drivers, about 25% of pilot force, some with a little as 100 hrs of fixed wing time, non-who has ever flown at jet, I can speak first hand their talent. I have never had an ex military helo driver fail initial or upgrade training moving into the DA-20. Where they really blown their fixed wing contemporaries away is in the simulator, they have a very light control touch, and fly very smoothly. Unlike the heavier handed King air and Baron drivers. Employers who do not value military multi-crew IFR rotor wing time are missing out on a lot of very talented pilots. BTW I flew the C1A off of the CVAN-65, it had two 1820’s rated at 1525 HP for takeoff, Grossed at 26,000#’s

Right, I should have realized that the CIA reads the Army helicopter pilots on to all their operations before pulling the trigger.

You gotta learn to actually read a post before responding to it, Yip. I never questioned Army helicopter pilot competence, they're great. We have a bunch of them here.

I was questioning James Bond, Jr's claim that he was some kind of major spook.

The guys I've met that do that kind of work (not PMC's) are all professional liars that have a rehearsed line about why they're where they are, who they work for and what they're doing. The last thing they'd ever do is own up to who they really work for.

BTW, the COD is the ugliest airplane I've ever seen.

 

[pilotyip]

COD may be ugly, but when she is the only girl at the dance, she looks pretty good. Plus landing on the ship was fun.

 

[aussiefly]

COD may be ugly, but when she is the only girl at the dance, she looks pretty good. Plus landing on the ship was fun.

hahahahha spoken like a true aviator YIP

Cheers Mate

 

[GVFlyer]

COD may be ugly, but when she is the only girl at the dance, she looks pretty good. Plus landing on the ship was fun.

You have to be careful what you say about a man's aircraft. I once told a Coastie at Bates Field that I thought the HU-16 Albatross was the ugliest airplane that I had ever seen. He about knocked me off my bar stool (you kinda have to consider the environ and hour in which the comment was made).

Seems he and the old girl had been through quite a lot together because people in the Mobile area aren't smart enough to park their boat when the storm comes.

I tried to land a helicopter on a carrier once...almost missed it. The darned runway was moving away from me at 30 knots and at an angle to boot!

I used to frequently fly into NS Rota, Spain in a C-21A. I would always try to follow the [SIZE=-1]"Meatball" (Fresnel Lens) to the carrier deck marked on Runway 28. Mostly missed that, too.

I loved those Lingerie Fashion Show Charity Sales events that the Officer's Wives Club used to model for at the Rota O Club. Uh-oh, my thread drift detector just swung into the red arc.

I decided that I was pretty happy that I didn't have an aviation job where the most difficult thing I was going to do all day was to just come home at night.

Hats off to you and all other carrier pilots.


GV
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[FL420]

COD may be ugly, but when she is the only girl at the dance, she looks pretty good. Plus landing on the ship was fun.

Ship?..........Ship?

C'mon Yip. We can't be caught calling it the ship! You don't want to be mistaken for a blackshoe, do you?

 

[pilotyip]

I'm sorry, my mistake, 420 is right that should be boat just to irritate by black shoe brethren. However I was ship's company and qualified OOD (U) so ship does drift into my conversation at times. I am trying to get over it by drinking with pilots as often as I can.

 

[GVFlyer]

I'm sorry, my mistake, 420 is right that should be boat just to irritate by black shoe brethren. However I was ship's company and qualified OOD (U) so ship does drift into my conversation at times. I am trying to get over it by drinking with pilots as often as I can.

I had that conversation one night at NAS Norfolk's Breezy Point Officer's club. Some guy in a white uniform (they were all over the place) kept trying to explain to me that a boat was something you lowered from a ship. I said, "Aren't subs boats?" and the conversation went downhill from there.

However, there are three Naval Aviators at Gulfstream and I've never heard them call a carrier anything but a boat.

GV

 

[Pistlpetet]

I guarantee you I have a better QOL, have more time off and make more money than anyone at GRI, CSC / Dyncorp or Blackwater... and nobody shoots at me.

With so much money, and such a great QOL I would think you could get a better signature line then BAD ATTITUDE

Don't make any Guarantees!

 

[JimNtexas]

Hi all -

I figured that this forum would be the most appropriate place to pose my question. I was wondering what kind of backgrounds CIA pilots have, as I am assuming that they have their own aviation assets (in fact, it came to light in the press several months ago). Does anyone have any gouge? Are they pipelining folks straight from active duty?

Just curious... thanks!
J.

Just apply for the job:

http://cia.gov/employment/faq.html

Note that if you are millitary you can apply in your last year of service.

 

[GEXDriver]

I once told a Coastie at Bates Field that I thought the HU-16 Albatross was the ugliest airplane that I had ever seen. He about knocked me off my bar stool (you kinda have to consider the environ and hour in which the comment was made).

I had that conversation one night at NAS Norfolk's Breezy Point Officer's club. Some guy in a white uniform (they were all over the place) kept trying to explain to me that a boat was something you lowered from a ship. I said, "Aren't subs boats?" and the conversation went downhill from there.

GV, it sounds like your military career consisted mainly of you using military airplanes to fly from bar to bar to start fights with guys from other services.

 

[pilotyip]

Fly else would you fly in the military other than go from club to club and start heated discussions . It makes for great career.

 

[sky37d]

Old saying.

Those who talk don't know.
Those who know don't talk.

BTW. I don't know.

True. Very True.

 

[NorthShore]

Where they really blown their fixed wing contemporaries away is in the simulator, they have a very light control touch, and fly very smoothly. Unlike the heavier handed King air and Baron drivers.

Hey, I resemble that remark

 

[Prop2Jet]

I could tell you but its TS-SCI A/B/D/C/Z!
hahahhah