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Is that a more acceptable list, Cap?
You wanna go fishing, I’ll bite.Originally Posted by fr8doggiestyle
CAT III Autoland, FAR duty limits, NADP departures, International Ops, Metering at a Class B airport, approaches to an untowered field, ACARS, dispatch, operational control, Exemption 3585, bidding, jumpseating, and landing an aircraft without tower checking to make sure the gear is down. Is that a more acceptable list, Cap?
Autoland, really?
Mil has duty limits too, only there are frequently boots on the ground needing your support, not taking the Joneses to Disney.
NADP departure? Flap scheduling and power reductions are hard...
Metering? Seriously? You’re sitting there not moving waiting for your turn or copying a reroute
Untowered fields. Wow, remember to cancel and click the mic to turn the lights on.
ACARS and dispatch, two things the mil aviator doesn’t have, and must do on their own. You ever tried to plan and file in Europe on your own? That’s a third circle of hell I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
Bidding? Commuting? Really? How about spending ten months at sea and flying off 4 acres.
Take those “challenges,” multiply them by 100, execute them all on every flight and you might have some semblance of the normal operating routine of most mil aviators on an average combat deployment.
Hard 121 day... Deicing with no APU in DEN and ACARS inop and flying to ASE after the tower has closed.
Hard mil day.... 12+ hour close air support mission off the boat, hit 7 tankers, expend all ordnance trying to defend guys on the ground being over run while coordinating with other air assets, C3, CAOC, wingman, while executing within the legal rules of engagement that are changing daily, not killing your own guys or innocent people on the ground managing multiple sensor packages and weapons systems. Then return to said boat (or other crap hole) where there’s no beer to be had to decompress from said day. Get ready to do it again tomorrow. For months on end.
Better yet, imagine someone taking away all those tools you listed above. Then imagine the company gives you an airplane and a cellphone and says go around the globe, making stops along the way, do all your own load planning, weather, billeting, dispatch, performance, weather forecasting, fuel planning, flight planning, dip clearances, etc, and just call us when you land and tell us all those things above. Your average heavy AMC guys do this as normal ops.