It's so Cold in Manitoba.....
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WannaBeFlyer
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Weird - I can't tell you how many times I have sat on the bumper of my Toyota and watched CanForceX do circuits at YOW while thinking, "Man I would love to do that." That many slots eh? Oh well; it is still just a day dream at this point.
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SF2 said:
And I sit in the front of my Hawk and think : "Boy, I'm glad I'm flying faster than 20 knots!!"
I'm just kidding, you guys have a wicked jobs, and I'm serious. It's just not for me.
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benny88 said:
Check your PM... I don't want to hijack this thread more than it is now
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Especially at night, in sea state 6, 25NM ahead your ship, at 40 ft. Good Times!
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SeaKingTacco said:
Or in a 15ft "hover" over the deck with a 40+kt relative wind in sea state stupid watching the deck pitch 5 degrees and roll almost 20 while waiting patiently for the steady period to come every 5-6 min and then try to land before the 15 sec steady period ends. That gets the blood pumping!
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Meh- by then, I have my dark visor down, eyes shut and harness locked. They are all night landings for me!
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Good2Golf said:LOL
If I were a young kid in Moose Jaw, I wouldn't be breaking any knee caps to get a Challenger or CC150 posting...you might as well drive a Toyota Camry to work as well... *yawn*
You old fart!!
Get ready for it kids - pipes will be posted to EVERYTHING from now on.
The Air Mobility Group has finally taken the "old boys & dinsoaurs" out behind the wood shed and shot them.
The sacred cow of Air Mobility postings has now been put to bed.
Fresh new pilots can now pipe directely to the CC150 Airbus and the Challenger.
Pipes will be going onto the new C130J and also onto the C-17.
It's a good time to be a newbie coming out of YMJ and YPG.
As for G2G and me ...... well ..... we're just waiting out turn in the line to go out behind the wood shed.
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About friggin time. (about the pipes, not you and G2G behind the woodshed...wait...that didn't sound right, either)
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C1Dirty said:
AFAIK - "cones" is a semi-derogatory term for Navigators (i.e. Cone of Confusion).
If the rumour to which you are referring has the pipeliners remaining as Co-pilots for their entire first tour - I haven't heard of that one yet. Doesn't really make sense IMO - if we can train up a pipe to be a SAR/TAL/AAR/STRAT pilot - he can surely handle pushing buttons at FL350.
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C1Dirty said:
That is not determined yet.
The old paradigm required pipeliners to upgrade from First Officer to Aircraft Commander within 3 years (36 months in the Div Orders). After that they have even more time to then upgrade in their speciality such as a Tactical or SAR Aricraft Commander. However, with the upgrade in technology and the new "paradigm" we shall wait and see how the first batch of guys do on the various airframes. The C-17 and the Airbus do not have extra "categories" - they are all one and the same so it may take longer for a guy/gal to upgrade.
No rush though.
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