Archive for March, 2007

Go Low, Go Fast

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
     Today I re-hacked my low altitude currency.  There’s nothing like flying 500 mph 500 feet above the terrain! After the low-level across northern Honshu, we buzzed over to the range and simulated dropping 500# laser guided bombs and designating the target with LANTIRN targeting pods.  Finally, we capped the relatively short 1.2 [...]

The Weather Here

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
     The weather was so cloudy today, we could have transported the entire fight one continent over to Europe and I couldn’t have felt more at home flying a training SEAD mission.  That said, this flight was replete with air-to-air action (I got two of the ‘bad guys’), and had plenty of air-to-ground [...]

Happy (Belated) Homecoming

Sunday, March 25th, 2007
     The Ready First Combat Team is back in Friedberg.       I wish I’d known Chely Wright was going to sing for them! That certainly would’ve taken the sting out of a 13-month deployment for me! Aside from Christina visiting me in Korea, Chely’s concert was practically the highlight of my tour [...]

Fox Three

Saturday, March 24th, 2007
     No, the title doesn’t refer to the third version of the reasonably successful 24-hour cable news channel.  Last week I had a few simulator flights, one 4vX tactical intercepts/air combat tactics, and a suppression of enemy air defense mission.  It was the first time I’d really had a chance to do a 4vX since 2003, and [...]

Life’s Been Good

Monday, March 19th, 2007
     This evening was one of those rare ones.  It was a long but decently productive day at a day of work after a long week of a lot of work.  I was a little tired, but not too tired.  It was nearly 9 PM and dark.  The traffic lights on the base [...]

Saddled

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
     I had to re-fly my local area orientation sortie today since I haven’t flown since December.  The plan was for Huck and I to fly out to the CHARLIE airspace, do a quick G-warmup, and take a look to see what we could see with our training mode of the HARM Targeting [...]

Carbon Roundup

Sunday, March 4th, 2007
Here are some entertaining takes on former Vice President Al Gore’s "Carbon Footprint": Iowahawk, Cox & Forkum, Day by Day