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Old 05-05-2015 | 02:09 PM
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From: FAA 'Flight Check'
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Originally Posted by BDGERJMN
This is precisely why we in the Navy send our students to the tanker (day/night) and to the ship (day/night) for their first time solo...
We had guest tanker help one time for day and night plugs. Went down to one aircraft, so I hot seated 4 students one after another through the day plugs.
I demo'ed one plug (amazing what a great sight picture it is sitting so far back) and then all four guys did outstanding with very few aborts or misses. Monkey see - monkey do was certainly a player that night.

I was wiped out after those 4 flights though and we canceled the night tanking since I was still the only IP around.
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