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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Aaaaah.... Alpha Apaches... A beautiful thing!
Posted by Cobrahistorian on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:59 AM

I think I need to get a mirrored visor for my helmet....

 

"1-6 is in hot"
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    January 2003
Posted by Jeff Herne on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 1:04 PM
Now that Jon has mastered the intricate, complex, and highly erratic art of flying helos, maybe he'll figure out that whole female thing!!!

(Inside joke...love ya little brother!! Congrats!!)

Jeff
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  • From: Aaaaah.... Alpha Apaches... A beautiful thing!
Posted by Cobrahistorian on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 4:40 PM

Jeff,

Wedding isn't until October, I think I have a little time yet to pull the black and yellow handles!  (Its about time you poked your ugly mug into the helo forum!) Miss ya bro.  Any chance you'll make FDR?

"1-6 is in hot"
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    January 2003
Posted by Jeff Herne on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 1:25 PM
October eh? Am I still invited, even though I can't fit into my Class As anymore?? :-)

Doesn't look good for FDR, I'm all over the country the next few months.

Gimme a shout at home when you get the chance, I'll PM the number in case you lost it.

J
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  • From: Aaaaah.... Alpha Apaches... A beautiful thing!
Posted by Cobrahistorian on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:46 PM

Well guys, I'm a rated Army Aviator! 

Passed my checkride this morning.  Did pretty well and I NAILED that damn standard auto!

Now I get 2 free mornings to work on my AH-64 kit!

"1-6 is in hot"
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  • From: Valrico, FL
Posted by HeavyArty on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:09 PM

Congrads Jon.  Good deal.  I'll fly with you any day.  Propeller [8-] Thumbs Up [tup]Thumbs Up [tup]Yeah!! [yeah]

Now get to work on that AH-64 model.Wink [;)]

 

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    February 2004
  • From: Moooooon River!
Posted by Trigger on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:21 PM
Hey Gino, you sure you don't want him to build up just a little more time first? Big Smile [:D]

Congrats Jon!!!! Enjoy sleeping in the next couple of days!

------------------------------------------------------------------ - Grant "Can't let that nest in there..."
  • Member since
    November 2005
  • From: Newnan, GA
Posted by J.H. Primm on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:40 PM
 Cobrahistorian wrote:

Well guys, I'm a rated Army Aviator! 

Passed my checkride this morning.  Did pretty well and I NAILED that damn standard auto!

Now I get 2 free mornings to work on my AH-64 kit!

That is OUTSTANDING!

Now once you get assigned to a troop, squadron, company, or battalion, don't forget about the guys turning wrench's, chasing sparks and pumping gas. :)

Seriously though, congratulations.

 

Jonathan Primm

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    February 2003
  • From: phoenix
Posted by grandadjohn on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:16 PM
Congradulations Jon
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:53 PM
Congrats on getting the hang of it. I'm sure you'll find Army aviation to be "fun". Especially when you're in a field exercise sitting in a hasty foxhole at 4:00AM with a 9mm silently cursing the Battalion Sgt. Major out for having all flightcrews not on crew rest do stand-to. Heh, enjoy ;)

I'd like to draw you attention to some little-known heroes of flight training, the Chinook or Blackhawk crew chief and flight engineer. Nothing quite approaches the sheer pucker factor of hooking a slingload with a W-1 or O-1 on the controls fresh out of flight school.  The absolute terror of being in the hole and seeing a 10k concrete block rushing up at you as someone up front stirs the cyclic like a soup kettle is quickly followed up by the dawning realization that you have to fix whatever gets dented, lost, ripped, or otherwise broken. I still wake up sweating in the middle of the night screaming "CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB!"

Again, congrats on this phase of your flight training. Remember, even when you're up to your armpits in suck that it's all worth it and you'll do great things in the Army.

  • Member since
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Posted by koek3 on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:16 AM

See Ya on the Hill soon, Jon.Thumbs Up [tup]

 

Keith

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    February 2003
  • From: phoenix
Posted by grandadjohn on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:15 PM
By the way, Jon, I'd fly with you too and I only yelled at a pilot once and it wasn't his fault, (no fun running out of power while landing) and I didn't hit the mike button
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