Re: aviation (aircraft) freaks, gather here!
Alight, time to be insanely jealous.
I have a few good friends at an ARB, and they can pretty much, along with the MPs on that base, get me pretty much anywhere. I have, via a lot of form signing and strict guidance, been able to poke around everying from an F-18 to a C-5 and ridden in the ollowing:
C-16, C-5, Fa/18, L-188 (cargo...no clue why the hell it landed though), B-17 and a Catalina
I have, under strict supervision, managed to perform the takeoff roll of a C-5 on a sim, I have crewed up on a B-52 in a high end sim with serving personnelll and managed to do the radios while hthe other guys did their stuff, and for the best one, I got into a C-5 for a poke around and was asked, hey, you want to do thet takeoff roll, by a pilot, and the technical sarge patted me on thet shoulder and escorted me to th re right seat. So...yeah, I was somehow able to perform the takeoff of a Galaxy and this was, bear in mind, one of the ones they didn't quiet down so it sc reamed all the way. Just reaching down and shoving the throttles orward, yep wasn't ready for the fact that thing sounds like iit's gonna break apart.
The highlight of the flying though has to be this: The ARB near me has a yearly airshow. I got, via a few friends on the base, a call I figured was a joke, a 'hey, you wanna go ride with the Blue Angels', who are the USAF display team. Turned up expecting a joke. No, I got to go up in a two seaterr F-18, and II got offered the chance to fly it.
I'm five ten, 100 pounds. Don't ask me how the hell they thought I could withstand seven G, but I flew it for a few minutes and just about went through the seat when the aterburners kicked in and the plane just about went into a cobra, so...yeah, that's my interesting flying experiences, sadly the guy I knew retired from the air force so I can't easily get back on that base now....but I had fun while I could.
Oh I've also hung aroun d aircraft mechanics and gotten the chance to try the full motion simulaotors the professsional pilots use. Here's a thing I didn't realize. At least in the sim, full motion rig, you can learn what things are by feel, the gear handle is different from the flap handle, and so forth so once I knew where things were by feel I could go down through a checklist with the captain telling me what and looking to verify I'd done it right. I wouldn't ever wanna do that on a real plane but for the sim, rig it was insanely cool.
So yep, there's my flying experiences
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