All that was lackng was "I was just hoping be able to get down to taste a slice of Mom's good ol' Apple Pie".

Nobody believes this is real, do they?!!

...............and the American national anthem playing at the end.:p

If you look at some of the authors other posts, I think an extra large portion of Sodium Chloride is required to be digested whilst viewing such entries!!

If the salt doesnt do it the subject content will!!



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I thought I saw this played out on the last episode of JAG!:p

Does anyone reckon that any child would freak out their parents this much? Practical jokes aside of course.

If any of us have as bad a day as this, we learn from it, remember every second of it and make damn sure that we do it better next time. We only go into detail with ourselves, and our C.O.'S if they care enough about the details not to just say "don't let it happen again..."

I personally couldn't be stuffed giving that much detail to my parents, because I know they can't understand it, but as has been previously stated, if Flower's father is an ex nugget then he just might.

But wouldn't the daughter then know better than to tell her mother about such an incident? I know from the point of view of being second generaton military that my mother didn't want to know about my father having a bad day, so I don't divulge to her any details. If she asks, I say the minimum to placate her fears.

Aaargh, much ado about nothing...

I thought the expression was:

Power
Drag
Trim

Not a whole paragraph on 'it seemed like an eternity' and s'o I remembered to raise the gear' or words to that effect.

Agree with Beagle, if it happened then well done but those words are not those of an Aircrew mate, let alone from one aircrew mate to another.

Really you guys - - reading someone else's mail!
 

I'd hate to think of the comments that people would make about some of the letters I have written to Mom & Dad.

I wonder how Flower's Mom & Dad have communicated to her as she grew up? Did that shape how she now writes to them? Bet the story would look different written to us. What she said to the deck crew was different from what she was saying to Mom & Dad.

So, her Dad takes this letter and sends it to some old buddy - howcome?

So buddy shares the letter with us.

Is it real, is it fake? Don't know. I just know the flying part can still get me going, just re-living the adrenalin rush of my own stories of "I learned about flying from that . . ."

Here's a true carrier story:

I flew an approach and landing onto a carrier. The wrinkle? The plane I flew was a C130 - yikes!

They warned me I would have to be quick on the binders. So when I hit the deck I jumped on the brakes and tossed the throttles into reverse.

I had to swerve to the edge of the boat (sailors hate that when you call their ship a "boat" - gets them riled every time) to miss hitting the superstructure with my wingtip.

The end of the boat came up pretty fast - too fast! That was it - I had had my chance - over the end and into the drink!!

Of course, this is a God story too - I thanked God this was only in the C130 simulator and not in the real thing! I still got wet but it was because I was sweating buckets - trainees tend to to that.
Do what - go off the end of the carrier, or sweat buckets? Both!!

You should have seen how I screwed up when I had a double engine out on the same wing! I thought I was doing pretty good until I landed and then the real fun began! That was another "thank God for simulators" story!

So pick out the nuts and leave the shells - unless you can figure out a good use for the shells too insteading of just tossing them out.

Still smiling . . .!

Hmmm.

Erm.

I flew 50ft LL through Scotland in a C130.
At 3 times groundspeed.
In the sim.
Then went in close with a Tristar at 3000ft. Separation? About 30 feet.
Oh yeah, and we were canopy to canopy as I flipped him the bird.

And God? Yeah, he was there. I assume so because the instructor said "For God's sake, stop arsing around..."

I don't write to my parents.

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This smacks of 'Flower, CAG wants you to write an account of the incident for the Navy Safety Magazine. Write it and submit it to him for onward transmission'. Said girly writes acount, it gets passed to the editorial team, who decide to 'personalize' it as a 'letter home'. Typical American way of handling PR - the 'folks back home' syndrome...

FJJP

Odds on you are right.

What "hair on fire" selfrespecting F/A-18 pilot would call herself "Flower"!? :p

"Thank You, God! I'll take over now" is a cartoon from "There I was..."

"Approach" features used to be in a different class - higher in my opinion. :cool:

Best regards

Here is an F/A-18 pilot that might have had problems turning:

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.co.../story0011.htm

Best regards

Top Link NormallyLB!

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Looks like the Yanks actually practise various friendly-fire tactics!

Spugford,

Ssssh - it's the new top secret Fox 4 (ramming) technique we are trialling for BFM. Great for when you are out of missiles, angles or nrg.

"Ramming speed Mr Scott"

MT