Archive for April, 2007
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Yesterday I helped play Red Air for Colt’s flight lead upgrade SEAD mission. Shep, Agent, and I had to try to defend a point target, we had theoretical SAM backup, so Blue Air had the tougher job.
Since we had to mimic other airplanes, that made life tougher for [...]
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Yesterday, Global Warming struck again. This time, it forced me to scrape frost off the windshield of the car.
I left my coat and an artic-capable sleeping bag in the car. I’ll probably stop carrying them in July, which I hope will not be too early!
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
It’s fairly early Sunday morning, the rain-mixed-with-snow is finally just rain only now, and seems to have washed away the slush that was forming on the road and patio.
Normally I’m told the cherry blossoms are blooming and the snow in the mountains should almost be gone. Instead, we’re [...]
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
Here’s a good read from Eject! Eject! Eject!
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Today’s flight was a quick hop up to the range to practice dry high-angle strafe (dry means we didn’t actually shoot anything, it was all simulated in our on-board computers). Afterward we cruised north along the ‘Hatchet,’ the northernmost part of Honshu; then across the Tsugaru Strait over to Hokkaido, where we flew around E-san [...]
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Saturday, April 7th, 2007
Thursday I completed my mission checkride that had begun on Tuesday. Tuesday was the standard emergency procedures simulator, and we covered a lot of stuff, so much that it took 20 minutes longer than normal. My flight examiner du jour was Trigger, a good friend, and like a good friend in this [...]
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