Between a rock and a hard place.(Brief Article)

Approach | July 1, 2002| | Copyright

I've reflected on the various, though infrequent, errors I have made as a naval aviator. A four-letter expletive followed when my kneeboard card blew out the window. I also declared minimum fuel with a 3,000-pound-external load, rather than put down at a nearby military facility and return to base clean. None of my mistakes killed me, but many could have.

As the oncoming UH-3H SAR-alert crew at our Caribbean island base, we were scheduled for the weekly, night-SAR-proficiency flight. Thrown into the mix was a VNAV-orientation flight to a small island in the Puerto ...

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