Approach articles from January 2007

Approach archives from January 2007

A New Year's wish list from Capt. Ken Neubauer, director, Aviation Safety Programs, Naval Safety Center.
January 1, 2007... Dear Santa: Now that the holidays are over, I hope this finds you well and recovering from this latest grueling mission of winter happiness. Congratulations on another year of mishap-free airborne deliveries. It continues to amaze me...

Late-night swim: as I passed through the runway 29 overrun, my taxi light illuminated a cliff and the dark void of water just beyond.
January 1, 2007... The day almost was over. I already had my four day passes of two touch-and-goes and two traps, and I now was in the pinky event for night carrier qualification (CQ). After one bolter and one trap, I launched a last time with a fuel state of 500...

Batter up!(Crew Resource Management)
January 1, 2007... This article is not about baseball. In fact, nothing closely sembling baseball is in this article. But the best word to encapsulate what our crew experienced during a recent spring day in Southern California, is a baseball "strike." As you read...

The iceman cometh.(Crew Resource Management)(Cover story)
January 1, 2007... We had taken off from NAS Brunswick at 0300 for a typical late night, ASW-training flight over the Atlantic. Before takeoff, we had learned a snowstorm was approaching Maine from the west. We received our usual weather brief at the...

Bravo zulu.
January 1, 2007... HMLA-267 Capt. Ryan Welborn, USMC, a functional-check pilot and pilot-in-command, along with 1st Lt. Jonathan Chaiken, USMC, were scheduled for a full card, functional-check flight (FCF), following a periodic-maintenance-interval (PMI-2)...

Spatial D in to goo.
January 1, 2007... Fresh from the fleet-replacement squadron (FRS), I had arrived at HC-5, now HSC-25. I was eager to throw myself into a mix that included multiple USNS vertrep detachments, Gator SAR, and humanitarian-aid disaster-relief assets (HADR) in the...

You never forget your first ...
January 1, 2007... We were in the fourth day of an operation that later would be dubbed Unified Assistance, the largest humanitarian assistance and disaster-relief operation ever conducted in Southeast Asia, and the largest Navy operation in this theater since...

A good-deal flight.
January 1, 2007... As the new guy in your first fleet squadron, nothing is better than a good-deal, all-JO flight. Our four-man crew consisted of two new guys: our newest mission commander, with less than 600 Prowler hours, and me, with less than seven months of...

An Anymouse success.
January 1, 2007... At first glance, a C-9 flight line might not appear to be a hazardous place. How hazardous can it be to walk from the squadron hangar to a jet parked less than 50 yards away? Look out for that deicing truck! Beware of the luggage cart! Don't...