Hack
Hack
Hack is a word used for it's clarity and shortness to define a point in time. It's most commonly used in flight, when you are monitoring something and somebody else is wielding the stopwatch.
In a briefing, it's done at the timecheck, the "Hack" is said at a particular point in time - usually exactly a given minute ("the time now is "0832 Zulu, 5,4,3,2,1 Hack"). So that everybody can check that their watches are set correctly and the same.
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In a briefing, it's done at the timecheck, the "Hack" is said at a particular point in time - usually exactly a given minute ("the time now is "0832 Zulu, 5,4,3,2,1 Hack"). So that everybody can check that their watches are set correctly and the same.
G
Actually it's a token of the RAF's exaggerated respect for the media, and a reminder that everyone should consider the PR implications of even the smallest action.......
Or perhaps it isn't?
Or perhaps it isn't?
Other options:
1. Digital wall display slaved to the international time broadcast.
2. Use p-code GPS from the aircraft FMS display.
3. Put the speaking clock on through a loudspeaker - it'll embarrass anyone late for the brief!!
4. What is a 'morning brief' anyway? Something for Learning Command or the 8-to-5ers, but hardly appropriate for the 24/7 world? (BEagle writes this knowing that he has to be in at 0640 in case the fog miraculously clears...the best the TAF is giving is 'becoming broken at 200ft, tempo scattered at 600 ft, becoming 13-20 broken at 100ft....oh good!!)
[ 11 December 2001: Message edited by: BEagle ]
1. Digital wall display slaved to the international time broadcast.
2. Use p-code GPS from the aircraft FMS display.
3. Put the speaking clock on through a loudspeaker - it'll embarrass anyone late for the brief!!
4. What is a 'morning brief' anyway? Something for Learning Command or the 8-to-5ers, but hardly appropriate for the 24/7 world? (BEagle writes this knowing that he has to be in at 0640 in case the fog miraculously clears...the best the TAF is giving is 'becoming broken at 200ft, tempo scattered at 600 ft, becoming 13-20 broken at 100ft....oh good!!)
[ 11 December 2001: Message edited by: BEagle ]
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But at which point during the statement "Hack" do you actually Hack? Is it at the "H" or the "K", or indeed for "Hack Now", even more complicated on a monday morning. This could be an A2 question on your next Staneval you know.
