Inflight refueling

[VNugget]

Really cool thread, thanks guys.

 

[freddriver]

As a current C-5 AR instructor, I have to say it's the funnest thing you can do in a heavy. Sure, if your proficiency is down, it can get a bit hairy, but taking a 150K offload carrying a tank to Balad gives you a warm fuzzy. As far as preferred tankers, I'm a West Coaster, so the KC-10 is my preference. The adverse yaw off the #2/wide body fuselage takes a few missions to get used to (you can fly the rudder to keep streamlined), but the envelope is huge and the lighting is great. We're so big, we push the -135 around a lot and its lighting absolutely sucks. However, the East coast C-5 guys seem to prefer the -135 since they see it a lot more during training sorties.

I remember the rumor floated around back when Flogelman was the AMC chief that he wanted to try AR in a C-5. After the flight, he said it was a lot tougher than he expected. Ya think??? BTW, Folgeman was the best AMC commander, ever.