Originally Posted by
captjns
Besides being a line trainer, some of my happiest days in aviation were delivering crop dusters to S.A. Oh wait... There were Stearmans, Wacos, Pitts's, Beech 18s, Christain Eagles, Cubs, Swifts, with nothing more than a Rand McNally map in my lap. How many remember wearing battery heated gloves and socks during the winters? I would never trade a Tomcat for a real plane like an open cockpit Stearman.
Prefer cockpits requiring battery heated gloves and socks over a Tomcat? That was referred to as "bad head work" and likely would have taken you out of the running for anything the Navy flew, so probably wasn't a choice you would have had to make.