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It's pretty hard to screw up wearing a wedge. How many bad berets have you seen worn? There are a number of people that cannot figure out how to form one and end up looking like Chef Tony. I much prefer the wedge, it fits in my flight suit nicely and looks better than pizza head berets.

That's because you're not a CWO or above, only then are you issued one. All your officer coworkers would have been issued one, I know I was and I even exchanged it for one with the gold band when I got my Commission and promoted to 2Lt, if they no longer have it that's their own fault.

Ah, good call. Everytime they come to Shearwater they pimp it about being the first, maybe something to do with FAA certification.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't in our statement of requirements, but as far as I can remember, this has been in the works for at least a couple years. There isn't a -60M flying yet, but there are plenty of H-60's out there to try it out on.

My source is the multiple briefings we've had here at 12 Wing from Sikorsky as well as one of the test pilots currently in West Palm Beach. If the X-2 and UH-60M are the only two programs, why is it being tested on an H-92? Does that make any sense?

Huh? The Cyclone was always going to have it, what do you think an H-92 is? H-92 = CH148 Cyclone

As Hippie stated, that's a big negatron good buddy. The S-92 has conventional rods and cables connecting the servos to the flight controls, the H-92 will be a stand alone FBW system with no mechanical linkage or backup. It's never been done before, sure there are FBW helos out there, but they...

It can't be that complicated, the Sea King folds and it was designed in the 50's. The new SH60R/S Seahawks have a working fold system, I don't see why it would be that complicated to engineer one for the Cyclone when Sikorsky has been building shipborne helos for 50+ years. I would suspect it...

Wow, you really know nothing of Sea King ops do you? Without getting into details... OTHT is something we do all the time, what's one of the purposes of a helo again? That's right, extending the range of the ship's sensors (aka over the horizon). We routinely fly 50+ miles from mom in order to...

First of all, I don't know of any instances where a watch was found during a walk around or B Check. Secondly if you punish someone for making an honest mistake, they're less likely to tell you when they notice their watch/wrench/rag is missing. It has happened on a few occasions where a rag...

Neglect and being human are two very different beasts. It wasn't neglect. Does me breaking the landing gear by smacking it on the bear trap constitute neglect or the price of doing business? It wasn't the first time landing gear was damaged during deck landing training and it certainly won't be...

Thanks, but it's already in the FMLD's (fixy & maintainy directions for aircraft) to add methanol when the ambient temperature is below 4 degrees and as I already stated, it's not something we do often so it was forgotten. In fact, in my 800+ hrs of flying the Sea King, I've only had to have the...

I think she's baffled by the fact that 3 different dets forgot to add the methanol, all on the same day, and 3 helos had to be craned off because of it.

That may be, but how about this...the techs forgot? Since we usually operate in weather above 4 degrees, ie we rarely operate off the coast of Halifax, more like Virginia where it's usually considerably warmer. It's actually quite neat to see the methanol mixture hosed into the engines...

'bout time this hit the press. I love this one, "inexplicably"! HAHAHA! It's quite simple really, salt builds up on the compressors while flying 150ft or lower over salt water, and during the shutdown we wash the engines by spraying fresh water into the intakes for 1 min. Why is that so...

I'll echo what Cobra-6 said, design has a lot more to do with grip size than calibre alone. 1911 grips are extremely close size wise to a Browning HP and are considerably smaller than Glock grips. Just because it's a 9mm doesn't mean the grip is smaller. I have taken many people to the range...

You forgot to add, at night, without NVG's, with a brand new copilot and two low fuel lights.

As a Sea King guy that gets saddled with primary SAR standby over more weekends than we should IMO, I have no love for the Cormorant. It's pretty sad that the newest helo in the fleet is being backed up and covered for by the oldest (and most ineffective if you believe the media) helo the CF has...

PFT bypass didn't hurt me, 2 low standards and a fail on flight tests hurt me. I too had a Commercial MIFR from an Aviation Technology program, two more guys from my year also joined at the same time. 2 guys from the year ahead of us joined and between the 5 of us, 1 got jets, 1 got multi and 3...

Always have a come-back eh? It's been a few years since I was blasting around MJ but I seem to remember the terrain rising at least 1000ft to the south of MJ. I found it easy enough to get lost, especially when your turn point is a town that doesn't exist anymore and the world is moving at 4...