Aviation Degree & Night Of The Living Dead

[JW Scud]

Do you go home and worry about flights you did 20 years ago, that are
going to come back and haunt you?

I didn't think so.

Hey Chuck, don't you worry about some of your flights(the layover part of it) from 40 years ago coming back to haunt you.

[Liquid_Charlie]

If I were wanting to fly the heavy metal FedEx hands down - best contract in the world and best money in this part of the world as well. Party animals I might add -- haha

[Colonel]

This biplane driver thinks so:

[Chuck Ellsworth]

Hey Chuck, don't you worry about some of your flights(the layover part of it) from 40 years ago coming back to haunt you.

No, I had so much tail in those days I would never get to sleep just trying to remember them.

[JW Scud]

Hey Chuck, don't you worry about some of your flights(the layover part of it) from 40 years ago coming back to haunt you.

No, I had so much tail in those days I would never get to sleep just trying to remember them.

We did have one captain where I worked who had gotten a surprise 'Hi Daddy' many years later. We always wondered if he would get worried every father's day about another suprise. That is what comes bac to haunt a pilot. Software code is just a minor issue that can be quickly made to go away.

[Nark]

* Warrant Officers are still officers...


Carry on.

[Colonel]

Well, kinda. Sorta.

And now for some more flying from Fedex pilots:



Remember kids, low flying is dangerous. Unusual attitudes kill. When
you combine the two, it's more deadly than Coronavirus, ok? Worse
than Ebola. Everyone who flies low, dies. Everyone who watches anyone
fly low, dies too, like that stupid movie.

Everyone who watched Lincoln Beachey fly in 1911 at the LA airshow is
DEAD. You expect me to believe that's some kind of coincidence? Arlo
says NO, aerobatics down low is DANGEROUS and KILLS EVERYONE.

So, don't do that, ok?

[Nark]

The back of my ID card:



Reference this from the Geneva Convention:

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/i ... enDocument

[Colonel]

If memory serves, this has to do with the Army noticing in the 1960's
that a Sergeant could command a very expensive tank just fine, but
an officer and a gentleman with a degree was required to fly an O-1 (!)

Hence the creation of the Warrant Officer training program at Rucker,
IIRC. Take kids out of high school and enlisted guys with 8 years of
experience, and see if a degree was really required to learn to fly a
helicopter. Both groups did fine, of course.

And, Vietnam showed us what a crock the degree requirement for pilots
was. RAF had Sergeant pilots in WWII, too.

[JW Scud]

Well, kinda. Sorta.

And now for some more flying from Fedex pilots:



So, don't do that, ok?

OK, what's the deal with the sideslip thing. Does it have a name. Is it difficult. Can a Pitts do it. Have you tried it. Is it hard on the aircraft. Any other interesting or useful or even useless info about it.

We might as well get some answers.

Thanks