Salute!
Besides the actual flights versus the sims, the non-flying factors can also be a factor as a previous contributor points out.
I can tell ya that I am in worse shape mentally now with all the COVID restrictions and rules and being a prisoner except for very serious excursions, that it is worse than when getting shot at and having the Vee fire rockets at us back in the barracks. It has to work on ya, and worse than combat, where some innate human gene kicks in and you can go to sleep in a minute, anywhere. You can sleep thru the night with a friendly howitzer 200 yards away firing into the jungle for harrassment, but you come instantly awake when a 122mm rocket hits within a quarter mile, heh heh.
So i ageee with the post about external forces being a factor.
That being said, there is no substitute for actually flying the plane, and our commercial folks here should take every oppo to handfly in order to face that one day down the road when TSHTF. Think Sully.
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RIP to another of our brotherhood, and I have almost run outta nickels last three weeks.
Gums sends...
Last edited by gums; 14th Dec 2020 at 21:56.