Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
Maybe I'm already planning around some weather. Maybe I'm practicing my airways navigation. Maybe I've already called FOE and made sure that lunch will be served.
I'll say that I don't think that checklists in the military are built for speed. I've watch some of the bizjets in the local airports start taxiing in an amazingly short period of time. I saw one that seem to be around 4 minutes from the time they closed the door until they were outbound. I was amazed. I don't even have both engines on line in that amount of time.
USMCFLYR
I think that just the fact that the GPS integration into our INS is an aftermarket afterthought slows us up pretty significantly. A T-45C can get out of the line MUCH faster than we can because the GPS aligns a lot faster IIRC.
Throw in getting a change to your filed route from clearance delivery, and you know a single seat guy is going to take a while opening charts and trying to enter new waypoints he didnt' plan on. Of course, that doesn't answer for a T-1.
If you really didn't like being behind a turbine on the ramp, it seems the best thing to do would be to ask the line guys not to park you behind jets on the line. Then you wouldn't have to worry about it. I don't think I've ever been parked where there was another aircraft directly behind my tail (except on the carrier).