Malaysia Airlines MH370

[real chili 83]

One hand on the helm, one hand on a cocktail, and bury the rail.

Man, is that comment wide open for interpretation. 

[mu03eng]

If you can fly an aircraft you can sail a boat. My father was a fighter pilot who loved sailing so I grew up earning my water hours by scraping barnacles. I have owned two 36' in my time - a Morgan and a Yamaha. Very different vessels but both superb sailers.

I have taken out cats but they are not sailboats. I'm with chili - throwing out a spinnaker and burying the needle is more fun than 20+ kts.

On don't get me wrong I enjoy the heck out of my buddies Newport 31, but nothing quite like living on the knife edge of disaster as you have to balance a hundred different variables at the same time.  It takes a lot of instinct and feel that seems relaxing to me.

[keefe]

On don't get me wrong I enjoy the heck out of my buddies Newport 31, but nothing quite like living on the knife edge of disaster as you have to balance a hundred different variables at the same time.  It takes a lot of instinct and feel that seems relaxing to me.

I'm sure your dad knows the USAF Fighter Pilot's Rules for Life. Rule #3 is the "3 F Rule." If it Floats, Flies, or ...uh...Fornicates it's cheaper to rent.

I have broken two of the three in my life.

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I'm sure your dad knows the USAF Fighter Pilot's Rules for Life. Rule #3 is the "3 F Rule." If it Floats, Flies, or ...uh...Fornicates it's cheaper to rent.

I have broken two of the three in my life.

You bought yourself a Lund?

[mu03eng]

I'm sure your dad knows the USAF Fighter Pilot's Rules for Life. Rule #3 is the "3 F Rule." If it Floats, Flies, or ...uh...Fornicates it's cheaper to rent.

I have broken two of the three in my life.

Sure he did, as a guy that came out of MAC he also shared the MAC corollary to those rules, "anything that comes out of a USAF fighter pilot's should be modified by a scientific fudge factor of 1.672 in whatever direction brings it more inline with reality."

 

[keefe]

Sure he did, as a guy that came out of MAC he also shared the MAC corollary to those rules, "anything that comes out of a USAF fighter pilot's should be modified by a scientific fudge factor of 1.672 in whatever direction brings it more inline with reality."

 

Only 1.672??

The sad reality is that the AMC Trash Haulers actually get the better deals. Fast Movers deploy to Al Asad or Prince Sultan Air Base. BUFs and BONEs deploy to Diego Garcia. Trash Haulers get put up in nice hotels in Germany, UK, Spain, Italy, and Singapore. I mean, WTFO?

[mu03eng]

Only 1.672??

The sad reality is that the AMC Trash Haulers actually get the better deals. Fast Movers deploy to Al Asad or Prince Sultan Air Base. BUFs and BONEs deploy to Diego Garcia. Trash Haulers get put up in nice hotels in Germany, UK, Spain, Italy, and Singapore. I mean, WTFO?

Benefit of the doubt I guess.

I do remember as a kid they had to stage up to Anchorage, AK for some low level training and came back with something like 50 pounds of king crab jammed in the wheel wells where it stayed cold on the way back to Hurlburt.  There was an impromptu squadron party for the families on the tarmac, it was awesome.

[keefe]

Benefit of the doubt I guess.

I do remember as a kid they had to stage up to Anchorage, AK for some low level training and came back with something like 50 pounds of king crab jammed in the wheel wells where it stayed cold on the way back to Hurlburt.  There was an impromptu squadron party for the families on the tarmac, it was awesome.

Used to do cross country's to NAS Brunswick in Maine. You could actually order live lobster when you filed and they would bring them out to your aircraft right on the ramp while pre-flighting. We stored them in the blivet so when we got up to altitude the air temp was -70 and they would freeze up solid as a rock. After landing they would thaw out and just as they began crawling around we would throw them into a pot of boiling water. Talk about a sh1tty day...