Why USAF C17 Drivers love their job!

[CougarKing]

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1012235

Click on the link to watch the Letterman segment that explains the top 10 reasons why USAF C17 crews love their job.  ;D

 

[dapaterson]

I thought you'd have a link to this thread:

http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/70081.0.html

 

[CougarKing]

Well she should be the 11th reason. Hehehe.  ;D

 

[Rayman]

"The cockpit is full of shiny buttons and lights"

Something tells me gaining altitude isnt the only way these guys get high....

Either that or the USAF now accepts people with ADD.

 

[Haletown]

"The cockpit is full of shiny buttons and lights"

All of which work.  Even the one that puts the gear down.  :

http://tinyurl.com/bepxo2

 

[SupersonicMax]

"The cockpit is full of shiny buttons and lights"

Something tells me gaining altitude isnt the only way these guys get high....

Either that or the USAF now accepts people with ADD.

I don't know any pilot in my squadron that is NOT ADD!

 

[Haletown]

further to the Bagram incident

http://worldwidewarpigs.blogspot.com/2009/02/afghanistan-c-17-mishap-update.html


"There's one major problem with the thought that the crew forgot to drop the gear. In the cockpit there would have been three different and distinct aural warnings as the crew approached the airport. The first would have been 'Too low, gear' repeated at least twice. Then as the plane continued to descend with the gear up it would have switched to 'Terrain ahead' again repeated at least twice. Finally, closer to the ground, it would have switched to 'WHOOP, WHOOP, PULL UP, PULL UP'. None of these warnings can be disengaged or silenced without pulling circuit breakers. Now I'm not a C-17 guy, I'm a tanker guy, but we have enough crossed-ed over guys from C-17s and they say the crew would have to be pretty incapacitated to forget to put the gear down. Does this absolutely mean they still couldn't forget? Of course not. Desert rotations are draining, and fatigue affects us all. It will be an interesting investigation."

what say the experts here ??

 

[aesop081]

what say the experts here ??

It happens.

Personaly i get a warm and fuzzy when the tower controller says " Winds XXX at XX clear to land runway XX check gear"

 

[Haletown]

I was wondering if that sequence of auditory alarms is what actually happens in our 17's ?