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re: How hard is it to be a fighter pilot?
Posted on 5/3/19 at 7:48 pm to Boo Krewe
Posted on 5/3/19 at 7:48 pm to Boo Krewe
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How hard is it to be a fighter pilot?
Very hard. You have to be in excellent physical shape and be very intelligent. Most US fighter pilots are not the hotshot types you see as portrayed in media. They are highly trained individuals who must perform their job with extreme accuracy and precision on a day-to-day basis with tons of protocol to follow and are very humble and fortunate to have been chosen to be a fighter pilot. You're lucky to get to fly when you can and when you do it can be an exhilarating but exhausting experience.
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Posted on 5/3/19 at 7:49 pm to Tunasntigers92
SX-70 was the camera used in the "5g inverted" scene in Top Gun, btw 
Posted on 5/3/19 at 7:51 pm to 777Tiger
So what’s your stance on the 737 MAX, pilot error or mechanical?
Posted on 5/3/19 at 7:54 pm to TheTexasTiger7
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Blue angels can reach up to 700 mph.
Ok, ok. 1.7 mach or 1190 mph.
Posted on 5/3/19 at 7:55 pm to Tunasntigers92
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So what’s your stance on the 737 MAX,
don't know a lot about the MAX, I do know that US carriers have ordered it with two MCAS systems and are trained on them, and they can be overridden, and most foreign carriers only order one, that's about all I know about it
Posted on 5/3/19 at 7:56 pm to 777Tiger
So what’s the funnest plane/jet you’ve flown?
Posted on 5/3/19 at 7:57 pm to rmnldr
I knew a medically retired fighter pilot.Something happened to him while in service causing brain damage.
Some type of unexplained viral illness put him in the hospital for months. He came out crippled and with limited communication abilities.
You would of thought he was autistic upon meeting him but he was like you and me at one time in life.
Some type of unexplained viral illness put him in the hospital for months. He came out crippled and with limited communication abilities.
You would of thought he was autistic upon meeting him but he was like you and me at one time in life.
Posted on 5/3/19 at 8:00 pm to habanos
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I knew a medically retired fighter pilot.Something happened to him while in service causing brain damage.
we had a guy eject in a vertical dive going something like 800 knots, was a veg for a while, don't know if he's even still with us
Posted on 5/3/19 at 8:00 pm to 777Tiger
Oxygen deprivation
Posted on 5/3/19 at 8:01 pm to Tunasntigers92
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Oxygen deprivation
no
Posted on 5/3/19 at 8:01 pm to 777Tiger
Pulling g’s tho
Posted on 5/3/19 at 8:15 pm to Rize
Do fighter pilots feel left out now that everybody's pretending to be a Navy SEAL? In the Top Gun heyday any imposter worth his salt wanted to be a fighter pilot.
Posted on 5/3/19 at 8:20 pm to Jim Rockford
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Do fighter pilots feel left out now that everybody's pretending to be a Navy SEAL?
hell yes we do!!! they snatched up all of the good book agents before we could get to them!!
Posted on 5/3/19 at 8:25 pm to rmnldr
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. You have to be in excellent physical shape and be very intelligent.
An OTer, in other words
Posted on 5/3/19 at 8:28 pm to Tunasntigers92
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Oxygen deprivation
More like "getting violently thrown into 800 knot oncoming air". Too much oxygen, actually.
Ejecting at supersonic velocities typically isn't healthy.
This post was edited on 5/3/19 at 8:33 pm
Posted on 5/3/19 at 8:43 pm to TheTexasTiger7
quote:. Uh they can actually go more that 1400 knots
Blue angels can reach up to 700 mph.
Posted on 5/3/19 at 8:51 pm to northshorebamaman
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you ain't never been around fighter pilots, baw
Those are the only pilots I have been around.
I'm not downing them. They just didn't fit the Hollywood image.
This.... even one of the few with an actual air to air kill
Posted on 5/3/19 at 9:01 pm to Boo Krewe
Xbox bro
Posted on 5/3/19 at 11:47 pm to 777Tiger
Sully
Posted on 5/3/19 at 11:47 pm to FlyinTiger
Didn’t a chicken fly into the engine?
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