Archive for the 'F-16 Operations' Category
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Tonight was the first time in my F-16 career that I got to fly back-to-back night sorties. It was also the first time since about April 2002 that I got to fly night SEAD with NVGs. To say I was rusty would be putting it mildly.
Huck, Prosac, Disco and I [...]
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
I flew three times this past week, but always as Red Air. Oh, well, it’s better than not flying at all.
On one of the Red Air sorties, we got to use the practice jamming pod. That made life pretty interesting for our opponents du jour. They managed to deal with [...]
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Today’s exercise was a simulated Destruction of Enemy Air Defense mission in the good ‘ol DMT (Distributed Mission Trainer, the current fancy name for "simulator"). Huck, Beast, Nash, and I went up against a plethora of SAMs, ZSU-23-4s, AAA, and MiGs. It was a pretty good ‘Piccolo Drill’ workout with HOTAS, every couple seconds it seemed [...]
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Someone once told me what WOKSOF (or was it WOCSOF?) stood for. I can’t actually remember the acronym, but it basically means the weather could charitably be described as fecal. It wasn’t quite that bad today, but the training airspace was most definitely socked in.
Hoser and I went out to [...]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Today was a pair of SEAD/Force Protection sorties. Four of us jumped out in front of a four-ship of strikers and practiced weaving in and out of SAM rings and knocked a couple Red Air fighters back a peg or two.
Two sorties in one day! I’ve almost made [...]
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
The 13 FS arrived back at home station today. They flew 13 jets home. Go figure!
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Let’s see, what did I do today to top off last night’s divert to Hachinohe?
I had the brakes fail on taxi. Then after "New jet, new day" I had the engine fail shortly after takeoff, followed quickly by a successful flame-out approach and landing. Then I took off again [...]
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Tonight’s mission was the long-awaited NVG re-hack. It was the first time I’ve flown at night since June. June of 2006, that is.
The briefing and step were all routine, with the exception that both FNG F and I were out of NVG currency, so I got to be the lucky [...]
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
I haven’t been flying recently, and I won’t until about 1 Oct. Between the end of the fiscal year and the minor surgery I just had, I’m just not going to be on the flying schedule at all for two weeks.
I wish I could say I’ll have some [...]
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Today was my instrument/qual checkride. The tactical portion was pretty simple; our task would be to play two of a three-ship of Red Air for Quattro’s IPUG Force Protection ride. He was dragging an MQT student, and so was his IP of record. They didn’t want anything crazy anyway. We got up really [...]
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