[simpits-tech] Weekend fun!!!!!

[Marv De Beque]

Great job!  You got to love it when you do that, eh?

Marv


On 12/15/03 9:00 PM, "Justin Messenger" <jjmessenger at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I had a fun weekend. I look a frind of mine and we drove 1.200 miles round
> trip to get some time on a C-17 sim at Altus AFB. This time I got to try a
> hook up with a KC-135. It was much harder than with desktop simulations. The
> engines have a several second lag after your throttle imput. For my first try
> the instructor took care of the throttles and let me concentrate on the stick.
> He said the best he had seen anyone do on their first try was 11 seconds
> (including his Air Force students) He said on his first try he stayed hooked
> up 10 seconds and that I shouldn't feel bad if I could only hook up a second
> or two. I managed 79 seconds on my frist try. He didnt take that too well :)
>  
> He said "all right hot shot, I'm not helping you anymore, you take care of the
> throttles yourself". Instead of letting my friend try next like he had planned
> he made me try again. That time my time was only 4 seconds but he said that
> was better than the average Air Force student that he gets out of flight
> school can do when they frist try. He said  I was smoother with the stick than
> he was and he sounded disgusted about it, he has 5000 hours in C-130's plus
> all of his simulator time. He told my friend that the way I was moving the
> stick while tanking is called "stiring the pot", ie contiuous tiny imputs. I
> was pretty happy. I made some great touch and go's too.
>  
>  
> He said the Air Force was paying one thousand dollars an hour to operate the
> sim so we got to use $2700 dollars worth of our tax money to hot dog around.
>  
> I have to say the C-17 is really cool. It amazes me how aggressively it can be
> flown. 
>  
> We also got to see the huge computers that drive the things. We went to the
> building where they have a full sized replica of the C-17 cargo hold to train
> cargo masters. A drive down the flight line  along  C-17's and C-5's ended the
> evening. What fun!
> Justin
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