Good day of flying
This was my view at 0630 this morning, and we weren’t done flying till about 1530. It started with a ride in the back of a 46 down to New River so the CO and director of OAPCI could ride in an Osprey on the way back. (thats Office of Advanced Planning Capabilities Integration – y’all heard we were getting V-22’s right?)
After we flew the phrog back, we took a couple pilots and aircrew to Pax River so they could fly an H-60 back to Quantico. All of this was combined with giving some refresher X’s to the new guy and dropping off some parts at our secondary facility in DC. All told, we logged 4 approaches as well as some actual instrument time while flying through some dense smoke in North Carolina.
Good times were had by all! It was only my copilot’s 3rd flight in the squadron. Pretty standard day actually, flying phrogs at HMX… But it never gets old flying inbeteeen the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial at 200 feet!
Peace,
Adam
PS: I’m not done with the system theme, just wanted to take a day to post an update with some flying details… I’ll finish the systematic posts with a 3 part systematic approach to something sensational.
Just A Man’s - Friend update web-log 
Woah! Really? Marine One??? I did a quick google and I guess there’s a lot of speculation out there already that a V-22 is gonna be the new Marine One.
August 13, 2011 at 1:05 AM
Well, we’ve got different missions for the different aircraft, the Osprey wouldn’t take the presidential mission yet, but it would do the support role flying around the press, etc – that is, if there aren’t any huge problems in the next 2 years… It all remains to be seen, but that’s what’s in the news…
August 13, 2011 at 5:56 AM
Wonderful, keep it up thanks.
August 13, 2011 at 2:45 PM