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  • PurpleBaze
    PurpleBaze Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,320 Founders Club
    edited July 2019
    Swaye said:

    Until you have landed on 4 acres of US sovereign soil in the middle of the Persian Gulf, you really haven't landed anywhere.

    Flare to land, squat to pee. Fuck off Air Force.


    Pitch controls airspeed; power controls altitude. Eye-to-hook... keep playing with that power... eyeball the meatball.

    Cool shit, Swaye! I'd love to get an opportunity to try this in a sim some day. I should bug my Navy buddy who is based out of NAS Whidbey. He's on the C-40 though and doubtful he could get me into a Growler sim.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Mericuh bitches!

    Sea Tac
    Boeing Field
    BWI
    Denver
    Cincy
    O'Hare
    Tulsa
    OKC
    Memphis
    St Louis
    DFW
    ATL
    LAX
    Orlando
    Miami
    San Jose
    Charlotte
    GSP
    Greensboro

    More than I thought, quite honestly.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Swaye said:

    Swaye said:

    Swaye said:

    Until you have landed on 4 acres of US sovereign soil in the middle of the Persian Gulf, you really haven't landed anywhere.

    Flare to land, squat to pee. Fuck off Air Force.


    Pitch controls airspeed; power controls altitude. Eye-to-hook... keep playing with that power... eyeball the meatball.

    Cool shit, Swaye! I'd love to get an opportunity to try this in a sim some day. I should bug my Navy buddy who is based out of NAS Whidbey. He's on the C-40 though and doubtful he could get me into a Growler sim.
    You see him working the throttle? It really is like that. You are getting calls from the LSO like "Power" and "Easy" which is helping give you an idea of the rate of movement you have around the glideslope. The meatball is fairly instantaneous but the LSO's can see start to go high or low (they have a camera with a GS line on it) before your brain can process all the variables. So that helps. But yeah, especially the first several times you do it it is stem power and muscle memory that gets you through. Hard for people to fully grasp all that you are trying to process - angle of attack, power, airspeed, glideslope, lineup: and all on the backside of the power curve as you suggest, so everything is 180 out from how you would "normally" fly.

    It does get easier as you get experienced, but at night it is always a butthole clencher. I could squeeze coal into diamonds most nights. Good tims.
    What always blows my mind is how you fuckers line it up in stormy weather. All that shit is hard enough on a calm day but I have no fucking clue how pilots manage with swells exceeding 30ft. Same goes for coast guard pilots and rescue copters.


    Welp, the good news is the sheer size of the carrier prevents a good deal of bobbing, but yes, on really rough seas it is pitching about a bit which just brings the margin for error down to miniscule levels and tightens the window to about the size of a pin head. If it was easy, they would have little girls and Oregon Ducks do it. PUMP MY AVGAS DUCK!
    There's anecdote in the Perfect Storm (book, not silly movie) about a Coast Guard SAR helicopter. Well, for starters, crazy they were even out there. Crazier still, when the rescue swimmer gets out of the door, he immediately puts his hand into the top of a wave.
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,120 Founders Club
    Did not include Merica' bc that list would take me a long fucking minute to do(even longer than the poaster rankings) and sorry not sorry but not going to look up the individual codes of all these unless someone really cares which airports in Joburg I flew in and out of.

    Charles De Gualle
    Heathrow
    Madrid
    Amsterdam
    Rotterdam
    Black Rock City (I included this one bc it's cool as hell to land on open playa fuck off)
    Johanesburg x 2(or 3?) different ones. Joburg is fucking huge.
    Pretoria
    Cape Town
    Kalahari (Hotazel & Kathu)
    Vancouver
    Quebec
    Hong Kong
    Bengaluru
    New Delhi
    Puducherry
    Goa
    Mumbai
    Tokyo
    Osaka
    Cabo San Lucas
    Mexico City
    Villahermosa
    Cancun
    Santiago, Chile
  • YouKnowIt
    YouKnowIt Member Posts: 545
    CUN
    PVR

    US:
    HSV
    IFP
    PHX
    BUR
    LAX
    OAK
    ONT
    SMF
    SAN
    SFO
    SJC
    DEN
    FLL
    MCO
    MIA
    SAV
    ATL
    OGG
    HNL
    BOI
    ORD
    MDW
    IND
    ICT
    DTW
    AZO
    GRR
    MSP
    MCI
    RNO
    LAS
    EWR
    LGA
    CLT
    RDU
    LUK
    CMH
    DAY
    CHS
    GSP
    BNA
    DAL
    DFW
    IAH
    SLC
    IAD
    SEA
    BLI
    YKM
    GEG
    PDX
    MFR


  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club
    We got some platinum travel members here I see. I'll be hitting Doha and Instanbul next month.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,305 Founders Club
    Ok, I will join the dick measuring, but I've only got 2 inches of thunder compared to some of you globe trotters!!

    For me outside of US n' A...

    London Heathrow
    Brussels
    Souel Incheon
    Phucket for the Tai Lady Bois
    Sydney
    Melbourne
    Ayer's Rock // Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park - Parks Australia
    Montreal

  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,072
    Amsterdam
    London Heathrow
    Frankfurt
    Munich
    Cairo
    Vienna
    Paris Orly
    Oslo
    Stockholm
    Berlin
    Kiev
    Zaporizhia
    Krasnodar
    Rome
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,941 Founders Club
    We've been to London and Paris. BFD

    I'm pretty sure I've been in every state
  • section8
    section8 Member Posts: 1,581
    International

    Vancouver
    Amsterdam
    Paris
    Frankfurt
    London (Heathrow and Gatwick)
    Stanstead
    Madrid
    Barcelona
    Bilbao
    Florence
    Rome
    Naples
    Beijing Capital
    Addis Ababa
    Sudan - refueling stop
    Jeddah - layover with no booze
    Abuja - Nigeria
    Delhi
    Mumbai
    Hydrabad
    Brisbane
    Cairns
    Sydney
    Melbourne
    Auckland
    Christchurch
    Cancun

    Domestic:

    Seattle
    Portland
    Sacramento
    Oakland
    San Francisco
    San Jose
    LAX
    San Diego
    Burbank
    Phoenix
    Tucson
    Dallas
    Houston
    Austin
    Kansas City
    Salt Lake City
    Minneapolis
    Denver
    Chicago (both)
    Charleston
    Raleigh
    Wilmington
    Atlanta
    DC - Reagan and Dulles
    Newark
    NY - La Guardia
    Boston
    Miami
    Fort Lauderdale
    Orlando
    Vegas
    Philadelphia
    Honolulu
    Maui
    Kauai
    Kona

  • StLouisDawg
    StLouisDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 551 Founders Club
    Not my pick. My bachelor party was east St. Louis. Lucked out and it fell on visible scar night at Roxy’s.
  • Meek
    Meek Member Posts: 7,031

    London Heathrow
    London Gatwick
    Manchester International
    Liverpool John Lennon
    Paris Charles DeGualle
    Rome Leonardo Da Vinci
    Berlin Tegel
    Berlin Schonefeld
    Frankfurt International
    Munich International
    Moscow Sheremetyevo
    Budapest Ferihegy
    Tokyo Narita
    Shanghai Pudong
    Beijing Capital International
    Xian Xianyang
    Chongquing Jiangbei
    Yichang Sanxia
    Hong Kong International
    Seoul Incheon
    Kuala Lumpur KLIA
    Bangkok Suvarnabhumi
    Bangkok Don Mueang
    Singapore Changi
    Taipei Songshan
    Delhi Indira Ghandi
    Kathmandu Tribhuvan

    how the fuck do have Songshan on your list and not TPE? Clearly just went to Taipei on a commuter flight.
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913
    Salem
    Redmond
    Medford

    and somehow Yakima when I supposed to be going to Palm Springs. It was an insanely cheap air/hotel package, so I should have been a little leery about it.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,305 Founders Club
    salemcoog said:

    Salem
    Redmond
    Medford

    and somehow Yakima when I supposed to be going to Palm Springs. It was an insanely cheap air/hotel package, so I should have been a little leery about it.

    Sad that, Salem, a bustling metropolis of over 140,000 souls can't get any commercial flights. Doomed to be half way between Quooks and PDX I suppose.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    salemcoog said:

    Salem
    Redmond
    Medford

    and somehow Yakima when I supposed to be going to Palm Springs. It was an insanely cheap air/hotel package, so I should have been a little leery about it.

    Sad that, Salem, a bustling metropolis of over 140,000 souls can't get any commercial flights. Doomed to be half way between Quooks and PDX I suppose.
    We(!) try to encourage Salemites to stay home.
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913

    salemcoog said:

    Salem
    Redmond
    Medford

    and somehow Yakima when I supposed to be going to Palm Springs. It was an insanely cheap air/hotel package, so I should have been a little leery about it.

    Sad that, Salem, a bustling metropolis of over 140,000 souls can't get any commercial flights. Doomed to be half way between Quooks and PDX I suppose.
    Actually it's fappening. Not yet a done deal but definitely better than an 81% chance of service to Seattle, SF and Denver.

    https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2019/05/02/salem-air-service-bakers-raise-money-flights-mcnary-field-2020/3658978002/
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913

    Did not include Merica' bc that list would take me a long fucking minute to do(even longer than the poaster rankings) and sorry not sorry but not going to look up the individual codes of all these unless someone really cares which airports in Joburg I flew in and out of.

    Charles De Gualle
    Heathrow
    Madrid
    Amsterdam
    Rotterdam
    Black Rock City (I included this one bc it's cool as hell to land on open playa fuck off)
    Johanesburg x 2(or 3?) different ones. Joburg is fucking huge.
    Pretoria
    Cape Town
    Kalahari (Hotazel & Kathu)
    Vancouver
    Quebec
    Hong Kong
    Bengaluru
    New Delhi
    Puducherry
    Goa
    Mumbai
    Tokyo
    Osaka
    Cabo San Lucas
    Mexico City
    Villahermosa
    Cancun
    Santiago, Chile

    Tell me more about Puducherry. Or should I PM @puppylove_sugarsteel
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,120 Founders Club
    salemcoog said:

    Did not include Merica' bc that list would take me a long fucking minute to do(even longer than the poaster rankings) and sorry not sorry but not going to look up the individual codes of all these unless someone really cares which airports in Joburg I flew in and out of.

    Charles De Gualle
    Heathrow
    Madrid
    Amsterdam
    Rotterdam
    Black Rock City (I included this one bc it's cool as hell to land on open playa fuck off)
    Johanesburg x 2(or 3?) different ones. Joburg is fucking huge.
    Pretoria
    Cape Town
    Kalahari (Hotazel & Kathu)
    Vancouver
    Quebec
    Hong Kong
    Bengaluru
    New Delhi
    Puducherry
    Goa
    Mumbai
    Tokyo
    Osaka
    Cabo San Lucas
    Mexico City
    Villahermosa
    Cancun
    Santiago, Chile

    Tell me more about Puducherry. Or should I PM @puppylove_sugarsteel
    Dirty, smelly, and the type of place you definitely want to spend some time with a rag and soap in the sink afterwards.
  • oregonblitzkrieg
    oregonblitzkrieg Member Posts: 15,288
    The plan is to add Sydney, Auckland, maybe Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Bangkok again next spring.
  • oregonblitzkrieg
    oregonblitzkrieg Member Posts: 15,288
    Meek said:

    London Heathrow
    London Gatwick
    Manchester International
    Liverpool John Lennon
    Paris Charles DeGualle
    Rome Leonardo Da Vinci
    Berlin Tegel
    Berlin Schonefeld
    Frankfurt International
    Munich International
    Moscow Sheremetyevo
    Budapest Ferihegy
    Tokyo Narita
    Shanghai Pudong
    Beijing Capital International
    Xian Xianyang
    Chongquing Jiangbei
    Yichang Sanxia
    Hong Kong International
    Seoul Incheon
    Kuala Lumpur KLIA
    Bangkok Suvarnabhumi
    Bangkok Don Mueang
    Singapore Changi
    Taipei Songshan
    Delhi Indira Ghandi
    Kathmandu Tribhuvan

    how the fuck do have Songshan on your list and not TPE? Clearly just went to Taipei on a commuter flight.
    There are flights in and out of Songshan to mainland China and to/from other Asian nations.