Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[bindian]

A Pilot

I don't think I'd ever tire of this view! However, if you were on this flight, would you want the best pilot that money could buy, or would you want a monkey there working for peanuts?

Hope y'all enjoy this as much as I did!

..........and the finest aircraft mechanics that certified all those systems the week before. I sat through a Flight Ops HUD (head up display) class one day in SWA's program..........Walk a mile in my shoes. It is really a hoot to fly the simulator into the clouds, then into fog, drop the gear and break out 200 feet AGL and flare.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Thanks, that was thrilling. When the ceiling is low and you are in mountain valleys, you better know your approach and use your GPWS no matter who you are. I would not want anything but an experienced pilot who has flown that approach many times. No thanks to first-timers. The problem with flying that in a simulator is that it may not be an airport in the database. If the ceiling were any lower than in your video, or a night-time approach. I think I'll just go somewhere else.

BTW: Charlie and Brandi, didn't they call the F4 Ol' Smokey in Vietnam? It seems I was always told to look towards the front of the smoke trail to locate the airplane.

Jim,
F4s had a few choice nicknames. I never heard, old Smokey, but it fits. The smoke they put out could be seen for miles and miles. I prefer, "Lead Sled". Old man Douglass proved with the F4, that if you put enough power on something....................it will fly.

I worked with a mechanic of color that was a F-18 mechanic in the Navy. Every time we tested the GPWS on our DC-9, with it's woop woop............he would start repeating..........white folk, pull up....white folk, pull up. We went TDY a lot with our DC-9s. Ahh........good times.
hugs, Brandi

 

[NativeSon]

Jim,
F4s had a few choice nicknames. I never heard, old Smokey, but it fits. The smoke they put out could be seen for miles and miles. I prefer, "Lead Sled". Old man Douglass proved with the F4, that if you put enough power on something....................it will fly.

I worked with a mechanic of color that was a F-18 mechanic in the Navy. Every time we tested the GPWS on our DC-9, with it's woop woop............he would start repeating..........white folk, pull up....white folk, pull up. We went TDY a lot with our DC-9s. Ahh........good times.
hugs, Brandi

bindian- I think I remember our pilots refering to the Phantom as the "flying brick". And yes jinman it did leave a huge trail of smoke across the sky and were very easy to pick up. Every year when we were back in the states we would go to MCAS Yuma for gunnery practice. Yuma was a strange place to fly because of the heat. We would start sorties at 0400 and quit at about 1600. I always worked night check and we would start at 1600. We never had problems with hot brakes except at Yuma, then we had lots.

Our pilots loved Yuma because we also did a lot of dogfighting with the F-4 Squadrons that were there out of Miramar also. They would always come back after tangling with the Phantoms with a smile & a swagger and a "Sea Story" about kicking the Phantoms butt. For non-Fleet Sailors in the group the difference between a Fairy Tale and a Sea Story is, a Fair Tale begins "Once upon a time......" and a Sea Story begins "This is no s***......". Anyway the Crusader for it's age and all its faults could fly circles around the Phantom.

FYI- MCAS Yuma had the best mid-rats that I ever had the priviledge to enjoy. I use to come back from the Acey-Ducey Club and change into dungeress and go hit mid-rats. I guess the Marines figured they had to fees the troops good out there in the desert to keep them a little bit sane.

Charlie

 

[farmgirl19]

FG
Be careful about replying to emails like that.
It may not even be from TBN and you could get a sick computer.
Lots of gimmic email scams out there.

See if when you right click on the email header if you get properties then "sources"
You can find out where it came from that way if you read the lines slowly and carefully.

Thanks for the warning, pacerron! It looked legit, but I didn't click to reply, just deleted it instead. I figure, whoever was responsible for it being sent to me, can eat cow pies!

The rest of you, have a safe and warm Thanksgiving! Enjoy family, friends, and food, and don't forget to share a smile or two, as well!

 

[farmgirl19]

..........and the finest aircraft mechanics that certified all those systems the week before. I sat through a Flight Ops HUD (head up display) class one day in SWA's program..........Walk a mile in my shoes. It is really a hoot to fly the simulator into the clouds, then into fog, drop the gear and break out 200 feet AGL and flare.
hugs, Brandi

Definitely!! :thumbsup:

 

[pacerron]

Thanks for the warning, pacerron! It looked legit, but I didn't click to reply, just deleted it instead. I figure, whoever was responsible for it being sent to me, can eat cow pies!

The rest of you, have a safe and warm Thanksgiving! Enjoy family, friends, and food, and don't forget to share a smile or two, as well!

That's good. If it were from TBN you would think they would identify the thread by name.

There is another one floating around now about "Notification of your Order from AMAZON"
If you didn't order from Amazon recently, don't even open it, just delete it or look at the source code without opening it.

 

[Bird]

Thanks for the warning, pacerron! It looked legit, but I didn't click to reply, just deleted it instead. I figure, whoever was responsible for it being sent to me, can eat cow pies!

The rest of you, have a safe and warm Thanksgiving! Enjoy family, friends, and food, and don't forget to share a smile or two, as well!

I've not been able to find any such post of yours that's been removed, so maybe pacerron is right. But if so, I haven't heard of that happening before either, unless someone else got such an e-mail, copied it, and sent it to you just to see if he could "stir the pot".

I suppose if you wanted to really be sure, you could sent a private message to Muhammad and ask him to check it.

 

[dave1949]

I've not been able to find any such post of yours that's been removed, so maybe pacerron is right. But if so, I haven't heard of that happening before either, unless someone else got such an e-mail, copied it, and sent it to you just to see if he could "stir the pot".

I suppose if you wanted to really be sure, you could sent a private message to Muhammad and ask him to check it.

Happened to me several months back. Brandi looked and couldn't find any post deleted, and I couldn't think of anything I had recently (ahem) posted that was delete worthy, or even find/remember the supposedly deleted post.

I did have all of my posts deleted from a thread about beginning farming. They just disappeared and the subject was in no way controversial. I just assumed it was some sort of database corruption.

 

[txdon]

It was freezing cold last night but not as cold as predicted, at least not on top of the sand hill. I did get concerned when we were heading home from the store last night around 6:30 and the car's outside temp dropped to 32˚. I put all the plants on the warm south porch and it only go to 34˚ there. Our Gray2 was enjoying the warm wood burning stove and was doing a little bit of rocking and rolling in front of it.

Lou, do't even think of chili while looking at the world champion mouse and gopher killer.

Happy Thanksgiving all!

 

[Bird]

22 degrees for a low this morning in the Denton area, lots of pretty white frost. And my wife forgot one of her potted plants last night, so that pot will get a new plant sometime in the future.:laughing: