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A Few Good Nav\'s


Skip Davenport
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Borrowed from the 7SOS web site

A Few Good Navs! (Think Jack Nicholson in \"A Few Good Men.\"

You want the truth, pilot? You can\'t handle the truth! Son, we live in a

world that has mountains, and those mountains have to be found by Navs

with APN-59s. Who\'s gonna do it? You? You, Major Stick Monkey? We

have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for

a color copied chart and a decent box lunch, and you curse the Navs. You

have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what we know—that

a modified contour, while tragic, probably suppresses detection; and my

existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, dominates the

electromagnetic spectrum. You don\'t want the truth because deep down in

places you don\'t talk about at parties, you want me in that radar—you

need me in that radar. We use words like \"peanut,\" \"cut,\" “ banana leftâ€

and \"painting black.\" We use these words as the backbone of a life spent

frustrating the enemy. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the

time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who flies and fights

under the blanket of recommended altitudes that I provide and then

questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather that you just

said \"thank you\" and fly SCNS centerline. Otherwise, I suggest you take

the next J-model assignment that comes around. Either way, I don\'t give

a damn what you think you’re entitled to fly.

Kind of brings a tear to your eye!

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True Story.

Back in the early \'90s, we were flying back from McChord to Little Rock after an O-dark-thirty takeoff. Somewhere about a half hour into our flight, after we\'d gotten out of SEA-TAC airspace, the controller asked us if we\'d like \'direct to Little Rock\'?

Much to my surprise, my AC replied that we\'d perfer to fly our flight-planned route.

The controller responded with, \'It says you\'re RNAV equipped on your flight plan.\'

The AC, without missing a beat, said, \"Yes, sir, we are. But our nav\'s asleep.\'

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Lots of good Nav storys out there but I have a sweet \"bad Nav\" story.

We were leaving Incurlik for the states via Germany and they were planning on some really silly flight time, I asked them why.

I was told well we have to go all the way around....

Then I pointed out they needed to file an eastern bloc Dip clearance since there are quite a few slots every day for them but they hardly ever get used except for MedEvacs and that \"its all airways for Gods sake and even I could fly that!!!\"

Well somewhere over Romania (it wasn\'t a very friendly country back in the day) we have Commie ATC screaming at us \"Vere do you tink you going\"? About that time out Nav is standing in the window and says \"hey look at that airbase down there, it looks like a lot of Migs and Hinds...\"

Pilot asks the Nav \"whats up, are we off course?\"

Nav finally looks over at the SCNS and says \"yeah were just a bit off\"

Pilot asks \"define \"just a bit\"\"

Nav says (very calmly like it was a small thing) \"oh about 40 miles\"

(that nav is now a commercial pilot!)

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Dan

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