Question About A Real Rhino

[DaveGriffin]

Let me rebuke what Dave has said...

There is nothing magical about getting aboard. It takes a touch and feel that not every aviator has, but there is no sense of "urgency"... especially during the day. Ya axial winds or a haneous burble can make it interesting but bagging traps during the day is fun.

Night is another story. I don't like landing on the boat at night, period. There's nothing fun about it but it comes with the job.

There are Navy guys that can't land on the boat, there are Air Force guys that can (and have). I personally know dudes from both categories. Dave just stop talking.

SIG600,

OK, you don’t like my use of the term “sense of urgency”.

Granted, they could both crash and burn. But would you disagree with the statement that an AF pilot preparing to land using an arresting cable has a few less critical issues to deal with, and the prospect of a ramp strike or crashing into a mile deep ocean creates a higher degree of difficulty for a Navy pilot at on a carrier approach?

 

[Mongoose69]

Sheesh

Last I checked, water was just as hard (so to speak) as dirt when you hit it going 100+ knots. The PK of both is dang near 1.0

Why hasn't someone banned this guy yet? I just read through 3 pages of good information interspersed with dodging the occasional DaveGriffin dog poo post. Dave, do you add anything to this board?

Cheers,
Mongoose

 

[ExAF]

Ignore

Just put him on your ignore list like most of us and you won't have to suffer through it any more. Thanks for not quoting him.

 

[DaveGriffin]

Last I checked, water was just as hard (so to speak) as dirt when you hit it going 100+ knots. The PK of both is dang near 1.0

Why hasn't someone banned this guy yet? I just read through 3 pages of good information interspersed with dodging the occasional DaveGriffin dog poo post. Dave, do you add anything to this board?

Cheers,
Mongoose

It's always the same.....AF pukes say: Landing on a boat is no more difficult or dangerous than landing on a 12K ft runway.

That's why you guys have no credibility, even civilians consider you second class to Navy pilots. Landing on the boat is a big deal, regardless of your dismissive attitude.

 

[HarryShadow]

Dave,

Did you sniff glue as a child???

 

[stonewall]

It's always the same.....AF pukes say: Landing on a boat is no more difficult or dangerous than landing on a 12K ft runway.

That's why you guys have no credibility, even civilians consider you second class to Navy pilots. Landing on the boat is a big deal, regardless of your dismissive attitude.

For someone who doesn't EITHER of those things, you sure speak with authority.

And, Dave, no AF guy on here has said that. You keep setting up straw men and we'll keep knocking them down. We have "no credibility" because we flip Navy pilots sh**? I was starting to give you the benefit of the doubt since you're a USNA grad, but looks like I was wrong in my assessment. I have never in all my life seen someone who knows so little about aviation say so much.

Remember, it's better to keep your mouth shut and have us think you're an idiot than to open it and remove all doubt.

 

[bssthound]

Magnum said:

Remember, it's better to keep your mouth shut and have us think you're an idiot than to open it and remove all doubt.

What doubt ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

 

[SIG600]

What doubt ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

In the words of "That 70's Show"... OH BURN!

 

[Kaman]

To put it simply, using a drag chute is a matter of procedure, the same as selecting reverse or ensuring that your spoilers deploy. Not always required by the airlines to use either, but they do because it's a procedure. Not only that it saves a lot of wear and tear on the brakesand, prevents inadvertantly taxiing into the ramp with hot brakes.

Regards,

ex-Navy Rotorhead

 

[guppygoshawk]

It's always the same.....AF pukes say: Landing on a boat is no more difficult or dangerous than landing on a 12K ft runway.

That's why you guys have no credibility, even civilians consider you second class to Navy pilots. Landing on the boat is a big deal, regardless of your dismissive attitude.

Please tell me you're joking about actually being in the Navy. Shut up about CV landings. You haven't earned the right to talk about how hard it is/isn't. You sound like some Middie out for a freaking tour. Seriously, log off now, before you spill your juicebox all over your skirt.