Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
One time I showed a VFR chart to a Delta Airlines DC-10 captain. To my shock he didn't know what it was. In his entire career he had never had to work with anything that was VFR. I had another guy who was a check airman at Horizon Air who had never filed his own flight plan or called a fight service station. Both of these guys were ex-military. They didn't need those skills at all. ...
SkyHigh
i dont buy that for one second. military guys are for the most part their own dispatchers and flight followers. its part of the agony of military flying. its why they show 3 hours prior to takeoff, they have to do EVERYTHING