Flying the heavy iron pics

[C5Engineer 1170]

Figured it was about time to upload a few more pics from the big jet. Also if you are curious what it is we are doing over here.... 60 mins got some pretty good footage that is rare the other day.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/inside-the-air-war-against-isis-60-minutes/

Fighter is an F-15E Strike Eagle from the 391st Bold Tigers out of Mountain Home Idaho.

In the pic of the Flight Management System its showing 565 kts Groundspeed. First time we've had a 50kt tailwind coming home.

The graph pic is my FE job security....no computers do the CG.... we chase the charts.

 

 

 

Edited 9 Nov 2015 by C5Engineer

[Knuckledragger 135]

I took some pic like this from my Avid today [NOT]

Joey, you have a great job - be sure to enjoy every minute of it!

[Av8r_Sed 82]

Beauty pics, Joey.  Hard to imagine flying at 565 Kts coming from the KF background.  I hope you used your #2 pencil on that SAT test sitting under your  W&B chart.

[dholly 718]

Wowie, what a view! The brass could use some of your pics for new recruit posters. 

[EDMO 1078]

Nothing like a free fillup to get the guys back home.   Great Photos Joey!

EDMO

[marksires 484]

Great photos Joey!  Jealous of course, and again, thanks for your service!

Mark

 

[C5Engineer 1170]

Beauty pics, Joey.  Hard to imagine flying at 565 Kts coming from the KF background.  I hope you used your #2 pencil on that SAT test sitting under your  W&B chart.

haha that's the structural analysis form. Fill in airspeed weight cg and altitude for various segments of the flight including what type of receivers and how long they were back there. More FE job security I guess. 

[wypaul 448]

Got to love that ground speed when you are headed home.  The only time I saw anything like that was in my Q2 one day over the Granet mountains and the GPS 296 started showing the speed increasing up to 999KTS and this is not anywhere near Devils Tower!  Glad to hear you are headed home.

[Fly-n-Low 181]

Very cool!!! Great pic of the F-15!!!

[allonsye 85]

Figured it was about time to upload a few more pics from the big jet.

 

Not unlike the panel of the  B727 I put 5k hrs in.  Thanks for the memories.  Thanks for sharing.  Nothing like flying w/a full compliment of complimentary (at least most of the time) crew working together, accomplishing a mission, solving the inevitable ops and maint probs not to mention good times - Capt, F/0 and FE like a well-oiled machine.  Those were the days.  You're fortunate in these very automated times Joey to be experiencing them.  Best-:)

ps. indeed; is that a SAT test lurking below that "job-security" chart?

Edited 5 Nov 2015 by allonsye