Skip Davenport Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 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 left†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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongo Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 OMG thats good. I had some simular conversations. CC to FE\'s with the 7th back at Rhein Main. Just for the fun of it........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airnav Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 Hiya\' Skip, What did the 7th. nav\'s have printed on the pencil\'s that they used to hand out? Kurt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skip Davenport Posted August 29, 2008 Author Share Posted August 29, 2008 Kurt I think you already know -- \"Nav\'s tell pilots were to go and they do it!\" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EClark Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 nav\'s are real handy when you are flying a corridor in to the Congo that\'s not very wide been there and are Nav. kept us on course in and out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
US Herk Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 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.\' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Wilson Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWoods Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 More than once a Nav saved the day when a GCI site in Viet Nam put us on as heading and forgot about us, and we were heading for the mountains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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