Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
http://c74.net/xplane/_a_beech_t6b.html
Pictures of the T-6B….there is discussion of incorporating this variant into primary and intermediate training for both pilots and NFOs…there were all kinds of posters and pictures of the upgraded cockpit with the HUD and multiple glass MFD’s in the Commodore’s Chalet this weekend at the airshow. Pretty badass primary trainer if you ask me.
~Ens Tim
Lex, you’re going to have to learn to flare before you get in that Kachina if that’s the way naval aviators are taught!
Stupid question time.
Actually, I am hoping I might be able to get a two-for special today.
1. What’s with the ‘glass cockpit’ reference?
2. What’s the point of those markings on the front of the canopy? Besides to look purty, I mean. Actually, I think I would just find them annoying…
Thanks in advance to all those who participate in my continuing educumation…
A glass cockpit is one that uses advanced avionics displays – CRT screens – rather than the old round dial alitimeters, airspeed indicators, attitude gyros, etc. What we collectively lable “steam gauges” both descriptively and somewhat pejoratively.
Those markings on the canopy are detonation cord. One of the disadvantages of side-hinged canopies are that they don’t separate gracefully in flight. On initiation of crew ejection, the det cord shatters the canopy prior to the seat catapult/rocket motor firing.
Okay, thanks.
Funny, the markings reminded me of ‘cracked glass’, present or future. Either that or stacked houses.
It is cool to see them proud of what they are doing. Good video!
More questions,
The name on the side of the canopy, is it the pilot´s? do they fly one aircraft only?
While in training are all normal landings done on the simulated carrier?
The names are motivational, Diego – we fly whatever airplane is issued to us in an “up” status. They usually are the names of permanent instructor staff at a training squadron, or the squadron pilots and flight officers in a line squadron.
All landings in jet aircraft are done in what we call a ‘carrier box’, basically a touchdown zone (usually on the left hand side of the runway) painted to resemble a carrier landing area. During carrier landing practice at night, only the carrier box itself is illuminated – the rest of the runway and taxi lights are extinguished. This simulates the look of landing on the carrier to a degree. We just haven’t found a way to make that part of the runway move around.
Full stop landings at night are done on centerline, and the tower turns the full runway lights on for those.
OK, I know they are goin modern with new trainer jets, but do you think it is really such a hot idea for them to be listening to music like that on a training sortie?
Great song for the moment though.
Tim – funny all the guys here in meridian that came from vance like the t-6 a lot better than the t-45. i like landing on boats though – something neither the t-6 nor the air force have going for them. ha.
Yeah, they need to give that sucker a hook…it’s a fun plane to fly, very corvette-esque.
Michelle:
Re. your question on glass cockpits, this is the antithesis of a glass cockpit (from this week’s Flightdeck Friday)
- SJS