Originally Posted by
Bozo the pilot
Id def bring the 140 ga hours- itll show that youve dealt with airspace and radios- Ive instructed military guys who were a train wreck on the mic and had no idea how to enter a traffic pattern. Good luck bro.
Mike - sure - any time is good time. Even starting out in civil aviation shows an early interest and can provide common ground.
Congrats on hitting 3,000. That is a feat that only your pointy-nosed fellows might appreciate
Is that F-16 time only or total military including any white jet IP time and such?
XC requirements for the ATP is any flight covering a distance further than 50nm from home base (does NOT require a landing).
This of it as a way for those B-52 crew who are flying intra-continental missions yet taking off and landing at the same base getting credit for those *X/Cs*. If you took off from your base and flew to a working area more than 50nm away then you could count it towards your XC total. I'm also assuming that if you didn't have your commercial certificate prior to the military flight training that you got the equivalency done sometime during your military career.
Bozo -
a train wreck on the mic
I'd be interested to hear more about this.
Can you give some examples?
It might depend on the community one comes from, but some spend A LOT of time briefing/debriefing communications and I've not seen any that I would say can not communicate. Now I've seen some mumble like they had cotton balls in their mouths - but what they were TRYING to say was correct at least.
Now if they are not saying something in the AIM format then I can understand that if they never flew civilian, but then I'd say most can adapt fairly well. Most at least have proven to be somewhat trainable.
no idea how to enter a traffic pattern.
800' at 500+kts right
