Originally Posted by
AZFlyer
USMCFLYER/Crewdawg, thanks for the clarification. Are flights (excluding ferry/x-ctry) in the fighter world short due to the nature of the mission you practice for? i.e. it doesn't take too long to fly to the range and drop a few bombs and RTB; practice air-air fighting?
It isn't that the mission doesn't take long - it is that fighter/attack uses A LOT of gas!
It would not be unusual to burn 10,000#s of gas in 0+45!
Lots of sorties in the F/A world - few hours compared to other communities on average.
USMCFLYR