You know when you are flying too much BMS when…
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1. You use brevity in business meetings
2. You look at airliners in the sky and think how you would run an SSO intercept
3. You wish your sat-nav in the car worked more like ICP/DED -
…You call your local tower “Kunsan approach”.
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When you tailgate on the freeway, you think you’re flying close trail.
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When you can’t stop…
PS: I regularly imagine I’m trying to meet the vehicle ahead’s boom while on the highway…
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You see an explosion on tv, and all you think is “splash”.
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You pull for unlimited climb, then realise the airplane you are in is headed for a departure stall…
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…you can no longer land a Navy trainer.
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You fly/frag sorties in your sleep.
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When you are on a conference call and reach for the transmit button to talk.
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1. You use brevity in business meetings
2. You look at airliners in the sky and think how you would run an SSO intercept
3. You wish your sat-nav in the car worked more like ICP/DEDDo you have some examples of the brevity use?
When I get the fuelwarning during driving and I’m instantly thinking about setting my Fuelwarninglevel from Joker to Bingo and checking Position relative to next Tanker/Homebase…
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For me it usually when my right shoulder really aches…
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I can’t see the DED well enough to read it because my eyes are shot. Oh, and when the wife is calling me from upstairs wondering when I’m coming to bed… I’m like, hey babe! wait a sec… Bullseye 247 for 6 8, angels 20, hot… What honey? Hold one… No not you… Hey babe! NO NOT YOU!
Multiplayer! BTW Where is Multiviper?? Inquiring minds want to know.
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When you choose to fly a diamond DA-20 rather than a cessna 152 because the da-20 has a stick rather than a yoke
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…when you make extensive use of checklists & procedures in your daily routines.
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When you are on a conference call and reach for the transmit button to talk.
When you talk to the kids and press transmit at the same time, applies to TS as well.
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Do you have some examples of the brevity use?
When I get the fuelwarning during driving and I’m instantly thinking about setting my Fuelwarninglevel from Joker to Bingo and checking Position relative to next Tanker/Homebase…
I kid you not I have mistakenly replied to customer emails or support tickets with “Wilco”, “stby” and “inbound rolex 5”
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When you
- request taxi clearance to an invisible tower when you drive your car of the drive way (My wife still thinks I’m nuts each time she’s driving along…)
- get horned & flashed at on the highway because your on the left lane and not overtaking the one on the right because I’m indeliberatly driving echelon left…
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When you do AAR to relax IRL? Does that count?
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I kid you not I have mistakenly replied to customer emails or support tickets with “Wilco”, “stby” and “inbound rolex 5”
Thats awesome!!!
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