Well I owe to all to update the blog and tell you what has been going on since my beautiful wife left and I started really "working". Let me start off by saying flying is far from working! Okay, so "Green Platoon" here is a six week course that allows new aviators from flight school to progress to RL1 quickly to become an asset for the unit.
Before I get to far ahead of myself let me tell you this... As an aviator you are responsible for certain tasks that must be done in the aircraft. Such as: taking off, landing, starting the darn thing, talking on radios, and all things that encompass flying this wonderful "fling-wing". However unlike flight school, here you are responsible for much more. Kind of like qualifications to fly in a specific area. So other than the easy flight school tasks, let me tell you about some of the fun things I did while in GP.
Lets start off with the water bucket, I will try to keep the aviation terms to a minimum. This is a large bucket that hangs from the aircraft about 40 feet below and you use it to fight fires. his was a good training day. As we hovered over the lake to fill up the bucket, fisherman would drive a boat over and try to wave us away because I think he was scared we were taking his fish! But needless to say we didn't scoop up any Korean fisherman but we did almost blow a guy out of his boat! Fun stuff though...
The last thing I want to discuss with yall is terrain flight. Pretty much low enough that your wheels are dragging on top of the trees! Flying through valleys and landing on mountain tops is way more fun than I am making it sound!
After the six week course I came out RL1 and it was back to the company to start flying with the boys. Good times fo sho! If you have more questions or want to know more just post up a comment and I will answer you back as soon as I can:)
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