I especially like using high thrust when the sky cops are parked and asleep in their truck behind the airplane.

Grease in the ear cups and mouthpiece of the crew chief's headset......

The EPU pin gets pulled in the chocks for an F-16 C/D model (you have two generators). In the old A/B models, you would wait until EOR to pull the EPU pin--you only had a single main generator, so you were only a single failure away from firing the EPU on hydrazine on the ground. I'm such a geek....

Yes you are a geek Bernie.

I remember them pulling it at EOR at MacDill in the C model. But, they had just transitioned from A's so maybe this was holdover.

If I remember, you went through RTU in A's...

And in UPT you flew the stearman, huh old man! :D ;)

Crewdawg, not old enough to fly stearmans, but close!

1 Seat, I went through the last B course in the A model. And I'm still flying them!! You?

I wish, unfortunately i'm still in the mighty tweet scaring the heck out of my IP's. I have a long road until I ever see a Viper.

Good info on the two generators. I had to go asked a bud (another former guard crewchief here at UPT with me) about that as he crewed Block 15 ADF's. I was on 42's so I never dealt with the A models.

The greased headsets is also another great one. That's why you will see them wipe the cups on off before they put them on, at least I always did. It only takes one time!

You and I were in the same ROTC detachment if I'm not mistaken. PM me.

hmmm...I might be too much of an FNG to have access to PMs. Det 020, Dec '87 grad. Try [email protected]