ORIGINAL: yeahbaby
great vid by the way and a perfect example of a time when you need to ask yourself.....''why am I below 1/2 throttle??''
in the dirty configuration.
Now Buck, as we all know, in aviation, there's always more to the story.
Being that I had just dumped a F-15 with the exact same engine about 30 minutes before that flight, ironically trying to avoid landing and having a collision with a fellow pilot and friend who was back taxiing his big F-18 on the runway. I was a bit ground shy due to the slow spool time and loss of a jet I had just experienced, thus I was flying a little high on the approach with the SuperHornet, juusst in case I found myself in that situation again, (things were going a bit out of order that day.) I learned some lessons with those experiences, and from that point on, I tend to fly a bit lower and with power, no matter what the configuration.
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