Zaibatsu wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 8:38 am
AuxBatOn wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:14 am
It would be entertaining seeing a PPL lead a multi-national mission of 30+ aircraft overseas employing tons of different weapons on targets with high collateral damage hazard safely.
It would be entertaining seeing a PPL lead a formation of Chinooks and Griffon approach a hot LZ in high density altitude while being shot at with a heavy load.
I’ll take quality over quantity anytime.
There are 2000 hour PPLs out there who are capable of things you never will be. One with decades of experience but low hours? You’d be surprised. A PPL-H with R-22 time would think he’d have died and gone to heaven with such ridiculously overpowered machines like the Chinook and Griffin.
The biggest risk of any of those activities are the pilots themselves. Come on, the RCAF hasn’t faced an equivalent adversary since WWII. When was the last time an RCAF plane was even hit by enemy fire? More pilots get the clap than are shot at.
And is there any sort of QC for military activities? I lived near Cold Lake for years and knew lots of people on base and the fuckups that were spoke of that would result in immediate firing in the civilian world were almost unbelievable. Who cares if the bombs miss. The USAF has made friendly fire a national pastime. We simply don’t drop enough bombs for it to matter.
You can’t train experience. You can’t simulate experience. And without experience you are rigidly clinging to SOPs until the ink runs dry and then you are panicking and overreacting. Your 20 year 2000 hour PPL will be like that and so will your 20 year 2000 hour military pilot. I was in Cold Lake in 2008 when that Hawk trainer crashed in MJ and got the inside scoop. Couldn’t do a real forced approach right over the airport when the instructor was supposed to be training the student for a forced approach. The accident investigation reads like I describe. Clinging to SOPs and then rushing out where angels fear to tread throwing all the rules out the window as he kept panicking and changing his mind rather than committing to an action and injuring his unprepared student in an low altitude ejection when he realized he screwed up.
You need quantity to have quality.
Korea wasn’t peer adversary? You sure? May want to read a book or two.
You should ask some Tac-hel guys about Afghanistan, Iraq, and Mali. Turns out there are lots of people living in those places with guns that don’t like helicopters. I’m sure they’re nice people though, so do the civilized thing and just file noise complaints. While you’re at it, compliment the Griffon pilots on their hideously overpowered machines. I’m sure they’ll agree.
So being near a military base gave you the “insider scoop” (Hint: there isn’t one. Report is public) to a crash at another base? Sounds legit. Yes, mistakes were made, but last I checked tens of thousands of hours doesn’t stop such things; SFO sea-wall, Air France into the drink, Air Canada in Halifax, and those were all flyable machines too, unlike that Hawk.
My sisters, brother in law’s, third-cousin’s, uncle’s, house-keeper told me the AC-Transat deal will go through, btw.
While 99% of your post was ignorant BS, I do agree that experience can not be trained nor simulated. Pilots are only as good as the mental toolbox they possess whether they have 200hrs, 2000hrs, or 20000hrs. Quality of hours is equally, if not more, important than quantity in developing those skills.