You really don't add much value here. Even your Yeager quote is asinine. You have just enough knowledge of aviation to not know a damn thing about what 99% of the guys on here really do day to day.

For what its worth, a T-38 used to have an AOA indicator. It was a very nice visual backup to the tactile vibration the jet transmitted at various levels of AOA. The indicator in the F-15 was not used in tactical maneuvering, but was an invaluable tool in AHC and BFM instruction when I could show a pilot on tape review the energy state and AOA at various points in a maneuver or engagement.

Yeagher was made a saint by "The Right Stuff". Most who have worked with the guy will tell you he is an arrogant ass, and a good pilot. Bob Hoover is an outstanding pilot, and an ambassador for pilots everywhere. Be Bob Hoover. Wannabes worship Yeagher. Real professionals in the industry respect and emulate Hoover.

I don't know jack-**** about angioplasty, valve replacements, or other cardiac related matters. I would never attempt to substitute the books I've read, the aerospace physiology training I've done, or my experiences with friends or family for a consultation with an MD who was an expert in his field. As a pilot who has flown 36 years, including lots of time in GA, military fighter operations, and various airline types , I can tell you that the differences between the genres are deep, pronounced, and not subtle. When you start to make pronouncements and declarations about stuff you really don't understand, you reveal a brash overconfidence in your own experience and a condescending tone towards those who take their craft as seriously as you do.

If there was a nicer way to tell you ***, I'd try to do it. That's about as nicely as I can put it.

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I've got friends working at EDW. They refer to him as "Chuck Yeager Inc." and say his family is FUBAR because of his ego.
I met "the Nose" Hoover, and had him sign some stuff at Reno. Came across as a really great, modest guy. Hope he lives forever...

The last quote says it all about the FFDO "mentality."

Or does it say more about the "SCAB" mentality...?

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I flew him some years ago, said hello as he was deplaning, he didn't even look at me.

Or maybe they're just trying to be nice. Maybe they understand a lot of dudes are stuck. Maybe they're trying to make you feel like if they had anything to do with it they'd be glad to have you next to them up front. Sorry your butt hurts. Merry Christmas.


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Plus he has really great taste when it comes to airplanes :D

It was very much his business! Please explain how a non crew member, going through KCM with zero or a half assed bag check screening is not the business of ANY flight crew? If you saw a regular pax sneak thru security would that not be any of your business either? Plus as has been said it is idiots like that that screw it up for the rest of us.

Besides Hoover, another great pilot and real gentleman from the X-1 project was the test team chief, Bob Cardenas. He later was chief test pilot for the Northrop "flying wing".

LOL. U mad, bro? :)

Merry Christmas! Sorry for whatever is happening in your life, and hope it gets better soon.

Exactly. Criticism of this may come as across as chafing to the anti-authority crowd, or those who think you magically become a different pilot when you move from commercial to ATP? :confused:

FFDO establishment has little to do with flying a plane and more the bizarre fantasy that logical people recognize as fantasy.

Yes - a lot of stories like that. My fondness for Yeager was crushed when I started to read up about him and his life. I just keep the quote as it is amusing (and accurate.)

If sombody can't figure out what I was saying, then he or she lacks the reasoning ability needed to determine threats and what is likely to happen in the next ten years. Hint: it likely will not have anything with the plane that the "FFDO" himself is on.

I don't nominate any tools today, Merry Christmas y'all.