Army guys/pilots/physicians Q..

[SemperFish]

He is lucky he got that, exceeding the recommended G's in a training sortie is a court martialable offence and he could have went to the glass house. It is reckless, costly and dangerous to exceed the recommended G's in peace time training because it puts 2 lives in danger plus a £30m jet if the pilot blacks out.

Got a couple of decent stories from my time in. My fave one is the navigator on a GR4 who put a work order in for his "chaff/flare pod non-operational in the O.F.F mode" as he wrote it.
Because it was written on official paperwok we had to test it, which meant attaching a testing rig and testing it for a couple of hours all to discover that the pod doesn't come on in the "OFF" position. And these guys are supposed to be highly educated.

Hilarious. I actually had an officer ask me what the OFF switch on a radio did once. in all fairness it was a vehicle mount with two power switches but come on! lol What made it worse was he was one of those officers with the aristocratic menatality. Plenty of good ones out there too though. A buddy of mine also got in trouble when his pilot did a roll and flew under a bridge in a A-6. he was a GIB but he got burned too.
Aviation safety is no joke. They try and keep well left of the human and structural limitations.

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

Anyone else impressed by the camerawork? Worked the zoom so well, the entire vid almost appears fake. Cameraman has as much skills as the guy controlling the chopper

 

[SemperFish]

I was wonderring how difficult filming mustve been. He's right up there too, not like he's back a ways filming from a distance. I assume that would be harder. I wonder if they had a routine he was familliar with?

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

I was wonderring how difficult filming mustve been. He's right up there too, not like he's back a ways filming from a distance. I assume that would be harder. I wonder if they had a routine he was familliar with?

it could be but that was alot of back and fourth action that he was on point with. i'm not calling it a fake, i'm impressed! it's hard to work the zoom up close and not lose an object.