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Captain to pax: "We're sorry for the delay, but the machine they use to rip the handles off your luggage is broken and they are having to do it by hand".

Another acronym that might follow after you guys visited them " establishment's" mentioned here is DNIF, but only until the penicillin kicked in. Ha-Ha. I'm not making fun of you VN guys, 10 years later on the other side of the world in Germany down town Frankfurt had a place named Kaiser Strasse. that place put a new meaning to the phrase window shopping. K street was the start of a lot of fun stories. As you guys say, or so I'v heard.

DNIF: Drunk, Not Interested in Flying.

ASH receiver: ash tray. Got a lot of new copilots with that one.

God bless them all.

Yup. Found a few myself. Neat stuff.

I was just talking about this with my co-captain the other day. Neat stuff.

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It was an E model and had a FE. The crew day was involuntarily extended for "presidential support" after Clinton vacationed there and there was some equipment to be piceked up. One or two secret service agents were on the plane. After take off ATC directed them to fly towards the mountain they hit. It was a young crew that had been on the road for several days and then that day was extended because no one says no to "presidential support". The AF reaction was to use a climb gradient for take off and use TERPS. Sometimes the climb gradient wouldn't allow you to takeoff when the performance charts said you would miss the obstacle on two engines. A sad mishap caused by a simple mistake and then an over reaction to it. A better standard for a crew briefing and flight planning would have been a far better fix.

I was referring to the C-17, but you are correct about KJAC. They have had a lot of runway overruns there as well. It's getting to be an FAA hotspot. My company even made takeoff there part of my last sim ride.

I remember going TDY up to Charlie West out of Pope and working with the WV guard. Fun flyin!

Shoulda had an FE!

I fly into JAC on a regular basis. Not a good place to be without a plan.

FL330 in an E out of Pope. If I remember right we were in Alaska on the way to Team Spirit. Loadmaster went to take a pic of the panel while we were there and noticed a yellow light in the viewfinder. Seems one of the engines decided to dump it's oil. The folks in charge didn't seem to appreciate that we set a personal record.

Not C-130 humor but when I was active duty AF I worked transient alert. When we got a new guy we would show them how the boundry layer control on F-4s worked. After a F-4 sat in the rain the BLC ducts in the wing leading edge would fill with water. When the pilot dropped the flaps after cranking up the bleed air would blow the water out. We would have a new guy stand behind the wing and get soaked. You really did get to see how it workd.:eek:

Ha! I loved that one when I was a Phantom Phixer! Helped to cool you off on a hot day, too.

I always kept a spare pin with me and used it to hang my helmet bag on the copilots seat. That way I could always say "it's right here" and then once on the ground I could retrieve the real pin. A good plan that fortunately never got put to use!