Where's our active duty brethren? They may be veterans in waiting but they're already part of the family. 👍
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience -- Mark Twain How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
I was in the Corps from '59 to '65. Three years at LeJeune, one year in HMX-1 at Quantico, three years at a reserve air training command in Willow Grove, Pa., now closed. My first ever flight was in a DC-3 from Jacksonville to Orlando, Fl. A Navy pal and I were hitch-hiking down US 1 and was given a ride by a Canadian racehorse owner in his private Limo then to his DC-3. He was just making the rounds of tracks in Florida where he had horses. One other highlight while at Willow Grove. I got to ride along in co-pilot seat of a C-45 on a flight to Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn. Pilot let me take the wheel for awhile, I really got a thrill out of that!
Ned I "flew" a C-141 once. From the jump seat the pilot had me turn the INS knob till we turned about 15 deg and let it go. The plane returned itself on course. I did fly the simulator a few times and managed to crash on landing each time. The flying part is easy, landing not so much.
"He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and politician
Ned I "flew" a C-141 once. From the jump seat the pilot had me turn the INS knob till we turned about 15 deg and let it go. The plane returned itself on course. I did fly the simulator a few times and managed to crash on landing each time. The flying part is easy, landing not so much.
Awesome------yeah the landing and maybe the T/O are the tricky part as long as air combat maneuvers are not part of the game.
I have, also, flown a C-54 and a T-34; nothing with a jet engine.
The only simulator I have done some time in was for an A-6. Wasn't very real except it had the same rader as the early EA-6B and did help in learning to turn it on and use the controls. As for navigation training not so much; but, by that time I already knew how to radar nav from using RF-4B & F-4B radars.
When I repaired S-3 simulators, flying them for testing and periodic maintenance was part of the job. They are mounted on hydraulics and make for a really wild ride.
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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and politician
I have, also, flown a C-54 and a T-34; nothing with a jet engine.
The only simulator I have done some time in was for an A-6. Wasn't very real except it had the same rader as the early EA-6B and did help in learning to turn it on and use the controls. As for navigation training not so much; but, by that time I already knew how to radar nav from using RF-4B & F-4B radars.