NAS whiskey had a great air show in the past. Got to watch the Blue Angels with the flight crew and also got an up close and personal pictures next to #1 jet.
I came for the aviation content and stayed for the geography and the love of a special part of the world. I can tell that you’re the kind of person who always gets a window seat on a commercial flight and looks at the world below the entire time.
I'm a native Whidbey Islander (five generations born and/or died here). We used to get great sonic booms over our house (Partridge Point) once a week until all the weenies wrote too many letters. My Gpa flew PBYs into the Seaplane Base and lived at Strawberry Point. This was wonderful to listen to and watch. Thank you.
@@Tucum0 I live with an old California woman that still regularly bitches about the SR71 pilot that knocked all the fragile knick-knacks off the windowsill when I was a baby.. they don't seem to let things go well.
I’m a retired corporate pilot who just recently discovered your channel. First, thank you for serving our country. When I was young I dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot, but unfortunately my eyes were not good enough. So I went the civilian route, and had a wonderful 43 year career flying corporate jets and helicopters. My best friend in collage became a Navy pilot, flying the A-4, F-4, and F-14. I got to visit him during his training at Kingsville, as well as at Miramar and Norfolk. Having talked with him and other Navy pilots, I have the upmost respect for carrier operations, and videos such as yours add to that respect. BTW, he just retired from a second career at Delta. Second, your videos are awesome, and like everyone commenting here, love your voice overs. Really puts us in the cockpit with you! Thank you for doing them, and please keep them coming.
Your the coolest pilot I’ve ever. Thanks for your service and great videos. Can’t remember the source of these words, but in essence they say that I and my family can sleep in peace at night because of men like you who stand ready to rain down great harm on my enemies. God bless you for as long as you draw breath.
Pail, my hometown, Mount Vernon, WA. Thanks for the air tour of Skagit Valley and Whidbey Island. A-4 Skyhawk driver in the '70s. My father flew PBYs out of NAS Widbey and in the Aleutian Campaign in WWII. Needs of the Navy, I was stuck in Lemoore...
Yeah, Lemoore nice to visit, okay for a tour. Hanford and Lemoore were decent. Spent every weekend not on duty camping/climbing at Yosemite, Kings Canyon, Sequia, or diving in Monterey. VA-122 Framp, VFA-125 Framp, and VFA-161 Avionics. Lived in Mount Vernon While Stationed at Whidbey. Now in Marysville.
@@williamcody5271 Did pretty much the same when not on cruise. Lived in town before while in the VA-127 RAG and in base housing in between two cruises with VA-212 on the USS Hancock. Lot of scuba diving at Monastery Beach in Carmel and some camping ln Sequia. Now on the East Coast but miss the Skagit Valley!
I remember you told us in another video that you're an instructor now. I have to say your students are very fortunate to have you teaching them. You make it look so easy and explain everything so well.
Agree with another comment that the voiceover brings this to another level. Personally I’m loving the Fly Navy details, and learn something every time…this week it was fascinating to see how your break and approach mirrors that of trapping on the boat, just with velocity set to 0. Awesome stuff and thank you.
Thank you for your service. Our son flies a P-8 out of Whidbey Island. He's deployed elsewhere in the world quite often, but when he's home we absolutely treasure our visits to the area. God's country is an accurate description.
I grew up in Oak Harbor and Coupeville and often watched the planes practice over the fields SUPER close to the ground. I remember an exchange student freaked out because he thought we were under attack.
Love the voice overs. I’m all civilian aviation with 33000+ (yes that’s correct, Thirty Three Thousand hours plus. Retired airline pilot) I’ve flown with pilots from all branches of the military and never had the details of military flying explained in detail like you do. I did get to fly the F-18 simulator at naval air station Norfolk with my First officers help in getting in the door. He was an instructor there. I flew with him for 2 months. Great guy and a great pilot. Very well done. Keep up the good work.
You can never forget how beautiful Oak Harbor and Whidbey Island is. I would love to go back and see the base. Could have done whole tour there and been happy.
I can only watch air shows, fly simulators, collect and build Tamiya's plane models hahah but nothing can beat this channel ride alongs. Thank you for bringing us along.
In the early 1970s, I lived on the north side of Dugualla Bay. The A-6 community kept me awake many a night as they did touch and go landings. Thanks for the aerial tour.
I was born in Seattle but never lived up there much. However, I did live about 4-5 miles across I-15 from Miramar Naval Air Station, bettor known to some as "Fighter Town." Top Gun School was there when my family & I lived just across the freeway. Your memories of jets in the night are very familiar. We'd get "serenaded" by the jet engine repair facility where they worked on the F-4 Phantoms and F-14 Tomcats. I was in the Navy at the time and thought it was pretty cool... some of my friends & neighbors had differing opinions. 🤣 As you might imagine, the "Top Gun" movie was very popular with our crowd in San Diego!
I grew up in the okanogan valley watching the ea 18 growlers come screaming through at low levels but most often we would here them pealing around over head. Such a treat to watch and listen to. Cool to hear you mention my home area
From Seattle myself, you rattling off what's great about WA brought a tear to my eye 😁. As close as I get to aviation is flying original hornets in DCS, favorite line of modern military jets!
Ditto for my kiddo. She was at Whidbey many times and we visited her often. Now she's working for a defense contractor at Patuxent NAS near DC doing testing for another Navy plane. Hope your son is doing well with his retirement.
Cool memories! I used to take my older son out to watch the planes when he was little - loved watching planes come in for the break! My husband flew A-6 Intruders at Whidbey - which, as you know, you left off your list..... Now I listen to you guys fly overhead and occasionally get to see the break! Fun to see the break from inside the plane!
During the WW2 my father was a radar and radio tech working on PBYs on Whidbey island. He became an engineer working for Boeing and came up with the patent to use spun fiberglass thread to make radomes on Bomarc missiles.
There used to be a Navy Flying Club at Whidbey with two (possibly three) T-34Bs. I'd drive all the way from Ft Lewis (just south of Tacoma) to fly them. It was a long drive there and back, but totally worth it. Cruising up the Straight of Juan de Fuca past Olympic National Park, bopping about in the San Juan Islands, or exploring the greater Puget Sound never failed to amaze me. I knew it well enough to know every nook and cranny. The airplane was great to fly...best flying piston engine light airplane ever made. Too bad all of the clubs are gone now, so far as I know. The Monterey Navy Flying Club was the crown jewel, but Whidbey was a close second.
I grew up in Oak Harbor. My dad was Chief with VA 126 which no longer exists( A-6’s). I just want to say thank you for your noise! He lives right next to the OLF and we love watching the touch and goes. Thanks for keeping us Safe
I've flown GA out to the San Juans a few times and Whidbey has been kind enough to clear me overhead, and we've seen Growlers landing under us more than once. Great to see this from your perspective.
Sumas, Wa. native and 4 yrs in the Navy, (USS Ranger '84-'88). Whidbey Island is a beautiful place. We go there when we don't feel like going up in to the mountains. Really enjoy your videos. Stay safe out there.
My dad was almost stationed at Whidbey back around the late 1950's but settled on NAS Alameda. We lived right across the street from the base. We saw EVERY plane the name flew back then from 1960 to 1967 land at that base including sea planes. My brothers and I got so good a recognizing the planes that we could tell what it was just by hearing the engine sound. Fun times, and we always knew when a carrier came in as all the planes would fly off it just outside the Golden Gate and land at the base. Our house was the last one the plane flew over, so our view of the planes was excellent (imagine 20 A-1 skyraiders in the sky at once). I truly miss those days
Thanks for posting this video. My sister and her husband live on Whidbey Island. I’ve driven by the main gate where the static display of Prowlers show the ALQ-99 under the wings. I built 99s for a couple of years. It’s nice to see the island from a different perspective.
I fly my little 172 from Paine Field and see you guys zooming around all the time. Its so cool to see you fly around my home airspace! Thanks for the quality vids.
father was Operations officer NAS Whidbey 1956-57. I later as crew member of A-3 EM flew and landed on NAS . family lived on only residence on NAS. A log mansion , later the officers club. just on right after runway stops. We also lived on Seaplane base as we waited for qts.
Your video voice overs are the best, unique insight we don't get to see normally, I'm these days of USA military movement around the world it's good to know we have pilots like you who'll be ready to defend our great country. Thank you.🇺🇸🙏
Totally enjoy riding along on your excursions. I have a private pilot license, but haven’t flown in decades, mainly because of the expense. The perspective provided by your cockpit camera brings back some that great feeling that you can only get as PIC. Thanks for the ride and for your service.
Miss this place sooo much. Spent 10 years there in VAQ-134 and VAQ-129 working on the Prowler before I left in 2000. Tried my hardest to find a job out there so I could stay but it was not to be. I now fly my jets out of NASWI in MSFS through the valleys of the Cascades with the required fly through of Deception Pass Bridge. Thanks for this vid!
I can see my house on your left just before you get over the base. I grew up in New Hampshire near Pease AFB so now that I'm living near NAS Whidbey Island 69 years later is like coming home. I love it here.
My dad moved to Whidbey Island after he retired from the Navy. After he passed some of his things are displayed at the base. He served two tours to Vietnam aboard the USS Kitty Hawk.
Living in the Mira Mesa area of San Diego in the late 80's/early 90's I'd watch the F-14 and F-18 squadrons return from practice to NAS Miramar (now MCAS Miramar) performing the exact same approach and final maneuvers, over Kearney Mesa Rd and I-15 on the east side of the field. So stinking awesome to watch from the ground, and now for the first time from the air and the cockpit itself! It's very hard to explain how much I love this, since I lived in SW Washington (Vancouver WA) for 25 years and also know the Puget Sound and Whidbey Island areas very well. Thanks for the awesome video. ❤
At 4:30 you are flying over the fruit stand off the side of the road. I have been through there many times when you guys are up flying and landing. Its awesome having y'all fly over the highway when driving through there. Thank you for your service! I want to leave Washington myself but last time i did, i ended up coming back because their is truly no other place like the PNW!
Another great voiceover that shows another talent of Pail: not only is he a great aviator, but could also work as a tourist guide😁. Thanks for taking us with you and explaining all the details for a smooth approach and landing while showing us the great scenery👍. Must be quite the contrast to where you live + fly now😉.
Love your content man! In a previous life I was the flight doc for VP-1 and VAQ-136 out of Whidbey; I miss the flying adventures, the PNW lifestyle and beauty, but most of all the people. Fly Navy!!
My wife and I were on Whidbey Island about 5 years ago now, and just happened to witness F-18's doing touch and goes on that same runway. We were just driving around aimlessly on the island when I heard the unmistakable sound of fighter aircraft to my left, and saw an F-18 landing through the trees. I followed the road we were on to the end of the runway, and we sat and watched you guys for about 20 minutes. It was an awesome, and unexpected part of our trip!
I live in La Conner and the Whidbey aircraft are a daily presence. I have watched the Growlers making this approach to Whidbey many times and it is a pleasure to see it from the pilot's perspective.
Just saw the air show in seattle at seafair a couple weeks ago with you guys and the blue angels and stuff and the announcer was talking about local whidbey island growlers that were performing. So cool! I live in port townsend by the way so you are just a stones throw away. Thank you for your service!!
I was stationed at Whidbey NAS in the late 70's and early 80's and it's still as beautiful as ever. I worked on the A-6 Intruders there but the Growlers are certainly better looking/more capable than the old Skypigs. Love the vids and the VO rocks it!
Love your voiceovers! Living vicariously through you sir. Working on these birds in St Louis for 4 decades & wished i could get a ride b4 retirement. I would have more luck winning the powerball than getting a ride though! Lol
This is so interesting and fun to watch. You’ve worked really hard to be able to do this. Your so lucky. I’m really enjoying your videos. It gives us the opportunity to experience what you do. Fabulous. Thank you.
@jeffbeck8993 "Plenty freedom." Says the guy in the youtube comments. The time tested and proven metric that is never wrong 😂. You fall right in line. Right where they tell you, huh? Like a good media lap dog. I bet he's all you talk about at family functions. I bet he makes you so angry, and you get all upset and stomp around your little apartment, but quietly, because you don't want to upset your neighbors, because you're only a tough guy on the internet and truth be told, you're a little scared all the time. It's ok little buddy, I'm not going to hurt you.
At about 2:30 you're flying almost directly over my house, up the hill from Conway. Been here a little over a year and I love seeing you guys fly over.
Respect you guys! I worked for 9 months on NAS whibey island. The pilots for the most part were awesome I loved getting a wave from you all. It made the work bearable. God speed and may jesus protect you all!
It’s used in the Navy and Air Force as a way to get the aircraft over the field quickly and with as few radio calls as possible. A long slow straight in approach in a war time situation in the AOR is risky as it allows more time for the enemy to knock planes out of the sky. Keep the formation tight, low and fast, then break into the landing pattern over the safety of the airfield. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, please.
@@heythere135if you have enemy fighters penetrating that far into your territory, especially uncontested to the point they can undertake offensive action, you have way bigger problems than landing procedures. Problems like an ineffective air defence system. “The safety of the airfield” should be a several hundred mile bubble of layered ground and air based air defence around it.
I, like some here, did a bit of growing up in Oak Harbor. We weren’t under the approach, departure, or landing pattern so I rarely got to see the Prowlers come and go from there but it was awesome to see them arrive after a deployment somewhere. I’m sure it was a good homecoming for the crews seeing their families out on the flight line to welcome them home. My dad used to fly with a couple squadrons from there and occasionally flew us in a GA rental from the club there… and from some of those flights, I recall seeing a couple of EA-6As and often P-3s back then. Good times the late 70’s and early 80’s were!
A few years back, I was hunting in a remote area of the North Cascades. I was walking below the crest of a valley looking across the hills below, and mountains in the distance. It was totally silent except a light breeze, until suddenly I heard a rumbling echo off of the hills. Seconds later one of you guys came shooting right over the hill, and dropped down into the valley below. I waved but I was already in your rear view mirror, or whatever you guys have got going on there.. That must be one hell of an area to get to fly a jet through. It made my year to see it up close as a lone man on the ground! Cheers
When I was in the Corps., sitting in the middle of the desert, I would watch the fighters and helo's buzzing us. I would always tell my crew, "I should have gone to college". Now after being out for 24 years....I watch stuff like this now and say "I should have gone to college". Great video. NAS Whidbey was my first duty station of all places when I was in. Lots of memories there.
We live in Stanwood directly east of Whidbey Island. We watch you fly over all the time and hear you more. I agree that it’s the sound of freedom. We run out of the house to see you fly over all the time what an amazing sight. Thanks for your service and for this channel this is wonderful to see from the cockpit perspective.😊
God’s Country Indeed. Born and raised on the Olympic Peninsula and spent many summers working Ft Casey State Park while doing college. Love your voice overs. Missed a pair of your wingmen scooting through Snoqualmie Pass today. Friends said it was a sight to behold. You all stay safe out there and up there!
From Bellingham. As a senior in HS in 1983, we played Oak Harbor in a soccer match and one of our star players would point to the jets going over and said: “I’m gonna fly one of those one day!” Steve Pulse went on to fly the A-10 Warthog!
That was so cool! I live in Sno County, and am a frequent visitor to Whidbey, love it there. The fighter jet noise never bothers me. I enjoy watching the jets zoom by, and so wish I could be a passenger in one! Great job, guys, thank you for your service!
I hear you boys from time to time out here on San Juan Island. People forget freedom isn't free. I use to do the pattern like that only much slower, like 50 knots.
This was great to watch! A fun story, I was living in Okanogen County and getting ready to build a log cabin in the mountains. A growler popped over the ridge and ran what looked like a mock bomb run on my travel trailer. Very exciting! i was like a little kid, jumping and yelling! I'm sure that Alum skin is a great radar reflector. Thanks for letting us ride along. I love seeing all the familiar landmarks.
Thanks Pail! Love hearing your description of the sweet landing sequence including glide slope etc. and how your wingman adjusts to your double wave and how after landing you move in case of a go around by your wingman.
Pretty sweet!!! I got to meet the Blues at Whidbey in 1988 when I was in the DEP. Went to boot after I graduated in 1989. My dad was stationed at Whidbey in the 60's with a Phantom Squadron. I have always wanted to take a ride on VR-1355. I have seen many EA-18's in the wild in the cascades, some of those pilots are really low. So cool!!! Thanks for the video!!!
Thanks! Great video! I was Zapper Doc ‘78-’81 VAQ-130 (EA-6B), did a MED on the INDEPENDENCE, and lived in Coupeville… Truly God’s Country & I loved the “Sound of Our Freedom”…
@@g3pdhbelonis447 I missed Forrestal but caught Indy. Almost got two but my replacement met the Squadron in Norfolk and I got some time at NAVHOSP WHIDBEY, great time!!
Got to visit Whdby Island for the first time last year, you are so right about it. Your videos are amazing. Thank you for doing this so professionally it makes me proud to be an American.
As you rolled into your initial break I was leaning in.. I could feel it!!! Thanks for the ride!!! I lived in Mossyrock, Washington for almost 20 years, and one of our favorite things was the sound of Whidbey NAS doing bomb runs on Mayfield, Mossyrock, and Cowlitz Falls dams. Two occasions stand out... First was an A6 Intruder that overcooked his speed coming over Mayfield Dam and out over Mayfield Lake... he rolled and pulled hard enough he had vortice off of every single horizontal surface on that jet, but he still had to go UNDER the power lines right above Hwy 12!! I was standing on top of that hill directly under the power lines, and I remember thinking "if he piles it into this hill I'm DEAD!!!"... so I just stood there looking DOWN into his cockpit as he went by! His right seat looked up as they went by, flashed a hand at me and went back to work cleaning out his shorts probably, but it was pretty epic from my point of view. Second was one of those days on Riffe Lake, a notoriously rough mountain lake known for its abrupt changes in wave conditions due to a venturi effect two-thirds of the way up-lake. I was in a 16ft Sea Ray with an open bow, bucking into 3 or 4 foot waves and trying not to sink the darned thing. Plowing along bow-high, I suddenly saw an F-18 come around that very point I called "Venturi Point". I was following a pair of tugs towing a MASSIVE log boom of flood debris, so when it came time to watch this 18 go by I cut power and dropped the nose. I looked back just in time to see a foot of water coming over my bow, but I was much more fascinated by the fact that I still couldn't hear this guy coming. He went by at what I'm guessing was .8 or.9 Mach... I couldn't hear him until he was very nearly 90 degrees abeam me... and maybe 400 feet off the deck. Absolutely AWESOME!!! No shock-wave, but a definite sound compression going on. Made for one hell of a sight and sound!!! Another moment came to mind as I write this, but I'm thinking this one came from JBLM... Riffe was WAAAYYY down in water levels, like over 100 feet low, and as we were driving Hwy 12 towards Morton we saw a C-141 Starlifter BELOW the highway, TFing down-lake. What did those things weigh... 250,000 pounds? Yeah... a grunt goat down in the mud like it was a fighter!!! He was rolling 60 degrees easily when we saw him... pretty amazing those big planes could do that sort of stuff! Again... Thanks for the ride-along, and for stirring up those awesome memories!
Great video! I was at NAS Whidbey from '75-'78 as an AE repairing and maintaining INS systems on the A6 and P3 Orions. CB radio was big at that time, and there was always a dead spot crossing the Dugualla Bay flats. 😃 My first off-base housing was a run down duplex on the corner of Henni and DeGraf roads a half mile east of the threshold of runway 14. That end of Henni is now Tidewater road. Talk about noisy, but it was off-base and after a month your brain just tuned it out. Good memories.
I live in Forks Wa, it’s so quiet here until the fighter jets practice overhead, and it’s so awesome because it’s the sound of freedom! Thanks for what you do.
My son is on the CARL in the Pacific and station there at Whydbey VAQ 136. Your videos bring me closer to him and the pride I feel for him and the choices he's made. Thank you, A Proud Dad FLY NAVY !
Wow…time flies! First time seeing your channel, brings back a lot of memories. I was an air traffic controller at Whidbey from 1982 to 86. Loved being stationed there. President Reagan had just fired all the civilian controllers, so the Navy offered us a wheelbarrow full of “casheesh” and our choice of duty station…Whidbey it was. Watching your approach reminded me of my most vivd Whidbey memory: imagine a 23 year old kid that had been an air traffic controller since he was 18, carrier qualified at 19, two WestPacs, helped integrate the first squadron of AV-8Bs onboard the USS Tarawa LHA-1 (first Harrier landed onboard while we were tied up at 32nd Street in San Diego. Carrier pier at North Island was “occupado”, so we’re tied up next to a bunch Spruance class destroyers. Imagine the faces on those boys as a Harrier in full vertical descent landed right next to them). I digress…I’m now at Whidbey, brimming with confidence. First evening of training on local control (I’m in charge of the active duty runway and the airspace) we’re doing short field FCLPs (field carrier landing practice) off the approach of 25. We’ve even got hot pit refueling in front of the tower. Those A-6s smack the approach end at the carrier deck outline and lift into an immediate left turn…I’m impressed. Now, throw in a bunch of training full stops combined with departure s that need to hit their training runs with a +- 5 minute window. It’s hectic…I can do this! Well, it’s at this precise moment of max chaos…I tell one of those departing A-6s to “taxi into position and hold, start your run ups.” I’m in the groove…I got rhythm! Well…actually…you don’t! It was at this precise moment, 3 seconds after the words departed my lips, that my trainer cancelled that approval on to the active duty because of…what you might ask…an A-6 at 3/4 mile on short final for a full stop. Once I realized my mistake, all the blood in my head “departed the pattern!” I unplugged and proceeded to thank God. That’s my story, I’m sticking to it. While TAD at North Island flight planning , I had the pleasure of working with a WWII B-17 pilot. He had a blonde ponytail to the middle of his back…he was an enigma. I’ll leave you with his wise words (not the “pay attention dumba$$ words)… Dubito ergo cogito Cogito ergo sum
Your videos have risen to a new level with VOICEOVER. Thank you so much!
completely agree. Awesome content before - now it's just plain awesomer
Agreed😊
@@miked5562 it feels like I'm a F/A-18 driver
Great stuff, thanks for the ride along. Sharpen up that bank angle; off a bit there..
Jus kidn. Peace!
NAS whiskey had a great air show in the past. Got to watch the Blue Angels with the flight crew and also got an up close and personal pictures next to #1 jet.
Thank you again Pail for having us as your’copilot’… it’s an honor to be with you. Bless our Vets, you guys ‘n girls really rock! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Cheers!
Thanks Growler Jam! Really appreciate it.
I came for the aviation content and stayed for the geography and the love of a special part of the world. I can tell that you’re the kind of person who always gets a window seat on a commercial flight and looks at the world below the entire time.
Sure am!
55 year Seattle/Washington native confirms everything he said was 100% accurate! Thanks for your service!
These voiceover videos are great. Love to hear the insight on what's going on during the flight and brief description of the surroundings
Yes. And yes. For us frustrated military pilots, yes!
I'm a native Whidbey Islander (five generations born and/or died here). We used to get great sonic booms over our house (Partridge Point) once a week until all the weenies wrote too many letters. My Gpa flew PBYs into the Seaplane Base and lived at Strawberry Point. This was wonderful to listen to and watch. Thank you.
Cheers!
I have seen an old Californian women complaining about the jet’s noise.
I live in Sequim and love hearing and watching this magic
@@Tucum0 I live with an old California woman that still regularly bitches about the SR71 pilot that knocked all the fragile knick-knacks off the windowsill when I was a baby.. they don't seem to let things go well.
Tell the old lady to turn her hearing aid down. I'm 78 and love the rumbling@@Tucum0
I’m a retired corporate pilot who just recently discovered your channel. First, thank you for serving our country. When I was young I dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot, but unfortunately my eyes were not good enough. So I went the civilian route, and had a wonderful 43 year career flying corporate jets and helicopters. My best friend in collage became a Navy pilot, flying the A-4, F-4, and F-14. I got to visit him during his training at Kingsville, as well as at Miramar and Norfolk. Having talked with him and other Navy pilots, I have the upmost respect for carrier operations, and videos such as yours add to that respect. BTW, he just retired from a second career at Delta.
Second, your videos are awesome, and like everyone commenting here, love your voice overs. Really puts us in the cockpit with you! Thank you for doing them, and please keep them coming.
Welcome aboard and thanks for watching. Cheers!
Your the coolest pilot I’ve ever. Thanks for your service and great videos. Can’t remember the source of these words, but in essence they say that I and my family can sleep in peace at night because of men like you who stand ready to rain down great harm on my enemies. God bless you for as long as you draw breath.
Hey that's cool I just talked to my uncle and he worked on f14s at Miramar back in the day. What a small world!
"Vitamin D supplements." Spoken like a true local.😂
Home sweet home. My dad was skipper of NAS Whidbey from '73 to '75. I lived in Oak Harbor for 12 years, and will always consider it home.
Pail, my hometown, Mount Vernon, WA. Thanks for the air tour of Skagit Valley and Whidbey Island. A-4 Skyhawk driver in the '70s. My father flew PBYs out of NAS Widbey and in the Aleutian Campaign in WWII. Needs of the Navy, I was stuck in Lemoore...
Thanks for watching, Pete. Cheers!
Yeah, Lemoore nice to visit, okay for a tour. Hanford and Lemoore were decent. Spent every weekend not on duty camping/climbing at Yosemite, Kings Canyon, Sequia, or diving in Monterey. VA-122 Framp, VFA-125 Framp, and VFA-161 Avionics. Lived in Mount Vernon While Stationed at Whidbey. Now in Marysville.
@@williamcody5271 Did pretty much the same when not on cruise. Lived in town before while in the VA-127 RAG and in base housing in between two cruises with VA-212 on the USS Hancock. Lot of scuba diving at Monastery Beach in Carmel and some camping ln Sequia. Now on the East Coast but miss the Skagit Valley!
these voiceover vids are insanely underrated, you deserve a bigger audience
I remember you told us in another video that you're an instructor now. I have to say your students are very fortunate to have you teaching them. You make it look so easy and explain everything so well.
"Humanely raised coffee"? Lololol!!!!!! Absolutely brilliant narration !!! Lol!!
Yeah...Another term used by the virtue signaling left
Absolutely accurate depiction of Seattle. L.L
Free range coffee.
Live in Snohomish County and frequently camp at Deception Pass - partly because of the free airshows! Thanks for sharing your world with us!
Deception pass was a favorite of ours go to when we got time off!
Agree with another comment that the voiceover brings this to another level. Personally I’m loving the Fly Navy details, and learn something every time…this week it was fascinating to see how your break and approach mirrors that of trapping on the boat, just with velocity set to 0.
Awesome stuff and thank you.
Thank you for your service. Our son flies a P-8 out of Whidbey Island. He's deployed elsewhere in the world quite often, but when he's home we absolutely treasure our visits to the area. God's country is an accurate description.
This is the best VO so far, beautiful day, great explanations fun to see my old stomping grounds! Thank you again Pail!
You got it!
As an ex-VP40 pilot, that approach brought back some memories. I loved flying in the Pacific Northwest. You're right...God's Country!
VP-40 shout out. This is Doc Miller - I was the flight surgeon when you arrived. Fantastic area, fantastic squadron! Best wishes!
Also a Marlin, and notice the 4 fans of freedom on the rollout when he starts the break!
I thought that was Yorkshire
You could say the same thing about flying out of NAS Brunswick in Maine.
Laging Handa!
Thanks for your service sir. As a Frenchman, I rely too , On you for my safety and my freedom.
Cheers from France america.
I grew up in Oak Harbor and Coupeville and often watched the planes practice over the fields SUPER close to the ground. I remember an exchange student freaked out because he thought we were under attack.
Love the voice overs. I’m all civilian aviation with 33000+ (yes that’s correct, Thirty Three Thousand hours plus. Retired airline pilot) I’ve flown with pilots from all branches of the military and never had the details of military flying explained in detail like you do. I did get to fly the F-18 simulator at naval air station Norfolk with my First officers help in getting in the door. He was an instructor there. I flew with him for 2 months. Great guy and a great pilot. Very well done. Keep up the good work.
You can never forget how beautiful Oak Harbor and Whidbey Island is. I would love to go back and see the base. Could have done whole tour there and been happy.
I can only watch air shows, fly simulators, collect and build Tamiya's plane models hahah but nothing can beat this channel ride alongs. Thank you for bringing us along.
Nice approach and landing. Really appreaciate your videos. It's because of guys like yourself that I sleep well at night. Thanks.
In the early 1970s, I lived on the north side of Dugualla Bay. The A-6 community kept me awake many a night as they did touch and go landings. Thanks for the aerial tour.
I lived in North Deception Circle in 1994. Lots of touch-n-gos.
I was born in Seattle but never lived up there much. However, I did live about 4-5 miles across I-15 from Miramar Naval Air Station, bettor known to some as "Fighter Town." Top Gun School was there when my family & I lived just across the freeway. Your memories of jets in the night are very familiar. We'd get "serenaded" by the jet engine repair facility where they worked on the F-4 Phantoms and F-14 Tomcats. I was in the Navy at the time and thought it was pretty cool... some of my friends & neighbors had differing opinions. 🤣 As you might imagine, the "Top Gun" movie was very popular with our crowd in San Diego!
My dad was the 145th sailor stationed at Whidbey NAS during WWII. He was an Aerographers Mate 2/C. 😊
Hello from Victoria BC Canada .Thank you for the work you all do in keeping North America safe .Enjoyed this episode .
I grew up in the okanogan valley watching the ea 18 growlers come screaming through at low levels but most often we would here them pealing around over head. Such a treat to watch and listen to. Cool to hear you mention my home area
From Seattle myself, you rattling off what's great about WA brought a tear to my eye 😁. As close as I get to aviation is flying original hornets in DCS, favorite line of modern military jets!
Glad you enjoyed it.
My son just retired from USN. His last assignment was as a CPO in Whidbey. His rate was aviation mech. He was on the P3 squadron.
Ditto for my kiddo. She was at Whidbey many times and we visited her often. Now she's working for a defense contractor at Patuxent NAS near DC doing testing for another Navy plane. Hope your son is doing well with his retirement.
We spend time at Deception Pass every year and love viewing the Aircraft. Much respect to the people serving.
Cool memories! I used to take my older son out to watch the planes when he was little - loved watching planes come in for the break! My husband flew A-6 Intruders at Whidbey - which, as you know, you left off your list..... Now I listen to you guys fly overhead and occasionally get to see the break! Fun to see the break from inside the plane!
During the WW2 my father was a radar and radio tech working on PBYs on Whidbey island.
He became an engineer working for Boeing and came up with the patent to use spun fiberglass thread to make radomes on Bomarc missiles.
I love so incredibly much when you whisper at the end "Welcome home." I'm so week in the knees.😍
There used to be a Navy Flying Club at Whidbey with two (possibly three) T-34Bs. I'd drive all the way from Ft Lewis (just south of Tacoma) to fly them. It was a long drive there and back, but totally worth it. Cruising up the Straight of Juan de Fuca past Olympic National Park, bopping about in the San Juan Islands, or exploring the greater Puget Sound never failed to amaze me. I knew it well enough to know every nook and cranny. The airplane was great to fly...best flying piston engine light airplane ever made. Too bad all of the clubs are gone now, so far as I know. The Monterey Navy Flying Club was the crown jewel, but Whidbey was a close second.
I grew up in Oak Harbor. My dad was Chief with VA 126 which no longer exists( A-6’s). I just want to say thank you for your noise! He lives right next to the OLF and we love watching the touch and goes. Thanks for keeping us Safe
Cheers!
@@GrowlerJams VA-128 was the A6 RAG.
Not sure if its just me, but your voiceovers are very relaxing.
I've flown GA out to the San Juans a few times and Whidbey has been kind enough to clear me overhead, and we've seen Growlers landing under us more than once. Great to see this from your perspective.
I watch you multiple times, Growler Jams. Thanks for posting jet pilot naval stuff.
Sumas, Wa. native and 4 yrs in the Navy, (USS Ranger '84-'88). Whidbey Island is a beautiful place. We go there when we don't feel like going up in to the mountains. Really enjoy your videos. Stay safe out there.
My dad was almost stationed at Whidbey back around the late 1950's but settled on NAS Alameda. We lived right across the street from the base. We saw EVERY plane the name flew back then from 1960 to 1967 land at that base including sea planes. My brothers and I got so good a recognizing the planes that we could tell what it was just by hearing the engine sound. Fun times, and we always knew when a carrier came in as all the planes would fly off it just outside the Golden Gate and land at the base. Our house was the last one the plane flew over, so our view of the planes was excellent (imagine 20 A-1 skyraiders in the sky at once). I truly miss those days
Thanks for posting this video. My sister and her husband live on Whidbey Island. I’ve driven by the main gate where the static display of Prowlers show the ALQ-99 under the wings. I built 99s for a couple of years. It’s nice to see the island from a different perspective.
I fly my little 172 from Paine Field and see you guys zooming around all the time. Its so cool to see you fly around my home airspace! Thanks for the quality vids.
Spent 17 years on Whidbey. Love watching your videos.
Always Intruders and Prowlers.
Keep them coming. AE1 (AW) Starreveld Ret.
TYFYS
Thank you for taking us into your cockpit.
You guy have a job, the rest of us can only dream about.
And thank you for your service to the country.
Dear Pail:
You make it look so easy! Amazing flying. Be safe!🎉
I worked near NAS Whidbey for a while. Always got a chuckle when I walked up to my car and my key fob wouldn’t work. Gotta love that Whidbey jam.
Ya, but think of all the free extra electrons now pulsing through your body courtesy of the USN!
@@Borzoi86its its not ionizing radation and the avarage person gets more ionization radation on a long flight then most people would expect.
@@1038994 RF heating may occur if one was to walk very close to one; if it’s energized. Safety rules prevent that from happening.
Is the plane jamming the signals or is it the base? I’m ignorant 😂
@@The_Red_Off_Road it's the equipment the plane use. I was never sure if they were ground checking or in the air.
father was Operations officer NAS Whidbey 1956-57. I later as crew member of A-3 EM flew and landed on NAS .
family lived on only residence on NAS. A log mansion , later the officers club. just on right after runway stops. We also lived on Seaplane base as we waited for qts.
Love the voiceover! As an ABH on Enterprise back in the 80’s, I LOVED watching our birds come back and go into the break. Still do. Fly Navy!
Your video voice overs are the best, unique insight we don't get to see normally, I'm these days of USA military movement around the world it's good to know we have pilots like you who'll be ready to defend our great country. Thank you.🇺🇸🙏
Totally enjoy riding along on your excursions. I have a private pilot license, but haven’t flown in decades, mainly because of the expense. The perspective provided by your cockpit camera brings back some that great feeling that you can only get as PIC. Thanks for the ride and for your service.
Another great video Pail. As we say in Bawston…”smooth as buttah.”
Miss this place sooo much. Spent 10 years there in VAQ-134 and VAQ-129 working on the Prowler before I left in 2000. Tried my hardest to find a job out there so I could stay but it was not to be. I now fly my jets out of NASWI in MSFS through the valleys of the Cascades with the required fly through of Deception Pass Bridge. Thanks for this vid!
Cheers!
Best videos with the voiceovers! Totally makes the channel unique, inspiring, informative and exciting! Keep it going! 👍
I can see my house on your left just before you get over the base. I grew up in New Hampshire near Pease AFB so now that I'm living near NAS Whidbey Island 69 years later is like coming home. I love it here.
My dad moved to Whidbey Island after he retired from the Navy. After he passed some of his things are displayed at the base. He served two tours to Vietnam aboard the USS Kitty Hawk.
Living in the Mira Mesa area of San Diego in the late 80's/early 90's I'd watch the F-14 and F-18 squadrons return from practice to NAS Miramar (now MCAS Miramar) performing the exact same approach and final maneuvers, over Kearney Mesa Rd and I-15 on the east side of the field.
So stinking awesome to watch from the ground, and now for the first time from the air and the cockpit itself!
It's very hard to explain how much I love this, since I lived in SW Washington (Vancouver WA) for 25 years and also know the Puget Sound and Whidbey Island areas very well.
Thanks for the awesome video. ❤
Enjoy learning from your videos! My son is a pilot stationed at Whidbey Island😊
At 4:30 you are flying over the fruit stand off the side of the road. I have been through there many times when you guys are up flying and landing. Its awesome having y'all fly over the highway when driving through there. Thank you for your service! I want to leave Washington myself but last time i did, i ended up coming back because their is truly no other place like the PNW!
Another great voiceover that shows another talent of Pail: not only is he a great aviator, but could also work as a tourist guide😁. Thanks for taking us with you and explaining all the details for a smooth approach and landing while showing us the great scenery👍. Must be quite the contrast to where you live + fly now😉.
Sure is.
Love your content man! In a previous life I was the flight doc for VP-1 and VAQ-136 out of Whidbey; I miss the flying adventures, the PNW lifestyle and beauty, but most of all the people. Fly Navy!!
TYFYS!
My wife and I were on Whidbey Island about 5 years ago now, and just happened to witness F-18's doing touch and goes on that same runway. We were just driving around aimlessly on the island when I heard the unmistakable sound of fighter aircraft to my left, and saw an F-18 landing through the trees. I followed the road we were on to the end of the runway, and we sat and watched you guys for about 20 minutes. It was an awesome, and unexpected part of our trip!
I live in La Conner and the Whidbey aircraft are a daily presence. I have watched the Growlers making this approach to Whidbey many times and it is a pleasure to see it from the pilot's perspective.
All the videos are killer, love the voice over. Keep up the good work 👍
Just saw the air show in seattle at seafair a couple weeks ago with you guys and the blue angels and stuff and the announcer was talking about local whidbey island growlers that were performing. So cool! I live in port townsend by the way so you are just a stones throw away. Thank you for your service!!
I was stationed at Whidbey NAS in the late 70's and early 80's and it's still as beautiful as ever. I worked on the A-6 Intruders there but the Growlers are certainly better looking/more capable than the old Skypigs. Love the vids and the VO rocks it!
NAS Whidby also has one of the most beautiful MWR campgrounds there is.
Love your voiceovers! Living vicariously through you sir. Working on these birds in St Louis for 4 decades & wished i could get a ride b4 retirement. I would have more luck winning the powerball than getting a ride though! Lol
Oak Harbor, here. Love hearing and seeing y’all about every day.
This is so interesting and fun to watch. You’ve worked really hard to be able to do this. Your so lucky. I’m really enjoying your videos. It gives us the opportunity to experience what you do. Fabulous. Thank you.
What a voice, I could watch and listen to this all day.
Hi From Whidbey Island Sound of freedom 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Not much freedom left here, but love knowing you're up there! Thanks
Spare us your tears, you don’t know what “no freedom” really is.
WTF are you talking about?
Plenty freedom, just you have no idea what the alternative is. Go back to binging Fox News with the whiners and exaggerators in MAGA hats.
@@stevencramsie9172 enchroma glasses are a proven scam you dolt. There's no tears here, old man. I have a pretty good idea of what I'm talking about.
@jeffbeck8993 "Plenty freedom." Says the guy in the youtube comments. The time tested and proven metric that is never wrong 😂. You fall right in line. Right where they tell you, huh? Like a good media lap dog. I bet he's all you talk about at family functions. I bet he makes you so angry, and you get all upset and stomp around your little apartment, but quietly, because you don't want to upset your neighbors, because you're only a tough guy on the internet and truth be told, you're a little scared all the time.
It's ok little buddy, I'm not going to hurt you.
always love to see a new view of my beautiful state
You flew over my house at 5:47. Anyone wanting to experience the sound of freedom can come on by.
At about 2:30 you're flying almost directly over my house, up the hill from Conway. Been here a little over a year and I love seeing you guys fly over.
Respect you guys! I worked for 9 months on NAS whibey island. The pilots for the most part were awesome I loved getting a wave from you all. It made the work bearable. God speed and may jesus protect you all!
You never explained "Why Fighter Pilots DON’T LIKE Straight-In Landings"
2:50
No that only explains why you like the fan break
It’s used in the Navy and Air Force as a way to get the aircraft over the field quickly and with as few radio calls as possible. A long slow straight in approach in a war time situation in the AOR is risky as it allows more time for the enemy to knock planes out of the sky. Keep the formation tight, low and fast, then break into the landing pattern over the safety of the airfield. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, please.
Thank you, finally an answer lol
@@heythere135if you have enemy fighters penetrating that far into your territory, especially uncontested to the point they can undertake offensive action, you have way bigger problems than landing procedures. Problems like an ineffective air defence system. “The safety of the airfield” should be a several hundred mile bubble of layered ground and air based air defence around it.
I, like some here, did a bit of growing up in Oak Harbor. We weren’t under the approach, departure, or landing pattern so I rarely got to see the Prowlers come and go from there but it was awesome to see them arrive after a deployment somewhere. I’m sure it was a good homecoming for the crews seeing their families out on the flight line to welcome them home. My dad used to fly with a couple squadrons from there and occasionally flew us in a GA rental from the club there… and from some of those flights, I recall seeing a couple of EA-6As and often P-3s back then. Good times the late 70’s and early 80’s were!
A few years back, I was hunting in a remote area of the North Cascades. I was walking below the crest of a valley looking across the hills below, and mountains in the distance. It was totally silent except a light breeze, until suddenly I heard a rumbling echo off of the hills. Seconds later one of you guys came shooting right over the hill, and dropped down into the valley below. I waved but I was already in your rear view mirror, or whatever you guys have got going on there.. That must be one hell of an area to get to fly a jet through. It made my year to see it up close as a lone man on the ground! Cheers
When I was in the Corps., sitting in the middle of the desert, I would watch the fighters and helo's buzzing us. I would always tell my crew, "I should have gone to college". Now after being out for 24 years....I watch stuff like this now and say "I should have gone to college". Great video. NAS Whidbey was my first duty station of all places when I was in. Lots of memories there.
We live in Stanwood directly east of Whidbey Island. We watch you fly over all the time and hear you more. I agree that it’s the sound of freedom. We run out of the house to see you fly over all the time what an amazing sight. Thanks for your service and for this channel this is wonderful to see from the cockpit perspective.😊
God’s Country Indeed. Born and raised on the Olympic Peninsula and spent many summers working Ft Casey State Park while doing college. Love your voice overs. Missed a pair of your wingmen scooting through Snoqualmie Pass today. Friends said it was a sight to behold. You all stay safe out there and up there!
I camp frequently at Deception Pass and we always swing into Oak Harbor for grub. I love seeing those beautiful EA-18s flying out of NAS Whidbey!
From Bellingham. As a senior in HS in 1983, we played Oak Harbor in a soccer match and one of our star players would point to the jets going over and said: “I’m gonna fly one of those one day!”
Steve Pulse went on to fly the A-10 Warthog!
That was so cool! I live in Sno County, and am a frequent visitor to Whidbey, love it there. The fighter jet noise never bothers me. I enjoy watching the jets zoom by, and so wish I could be a passenger in one! Great job, guys, thank you for your service!
l lived near NAS on Heller road and now I'm in Anacortes. So fun to see what you all see! Thanks for sharing! Thank you for your service!
I hear you boys from time to time out here on San Juan Island. People forget freedom isn't free.
I use to do the pattern like that only much slower, like 50 knots.
This was great to watch! A fun story, I was living in Okanogen County and getting ready to build a log cabin in the mountains. A growler popped over the ridge and ran what looked like a mock bomb run on my travel trailer. Very exciting! i was like a little kid, jumping and yelling!
I'm sure that Alum skin is a great radar reflector.
Thanks for letting us ride along. I love seeing all the familiar landmarks.
Thanks Pail! Love hearing your description of the sweet landing sequence including glide slope etc. and how your wingman adjusts to your double wave and how after landing you move in case of a go around by your wingman.
Pretty sweet!!! I got to meet the Blues at Whidbey in 1988 when I was in the DEP. Went to boot after I graduated in 1989. My dad was stationed at Whidbey in the 60's with a Phantom Squadron. I have always wanted to take a ride on VR-1355. I have seen many EA-18's in the wild in the cascades, some of those pilots are really low. So cool!!! Thanks for the video!!!
Thanks! Great video! I was Zapper Doc ‘78-’81 VAQ-130 (EA-6B), did a MED on the INDEPENDENCE, and lived in Coupeville… Truly God’s Country & I loved the “Sound of Our Freedom”…
I was a zapper tweet during the same time. I made the two Forrestal cruises, 78 and 81, and the Indy cruise.
@@g3pdhbelonis447 I missed Forrestal but caught Indy. Almost got two but my replacement met the Squadron in Norfolk and I got some time at NAVHOSP WHIDBEY, great time!!
Got to visit Whdby Island for the first time last year, you are so right about it. Your videos are amazing. Thank you for doing this so professionally it makes me proud to be an American.
Glad you like them!
As you rolled into your initial break I was leaning in.. I could feel it!!! Thanks for the ride!!!
I lived in Mossyrock, Washington for almost 20 years, and one of our favorite things was the sound of Whidbey NAS doing bomb runs on Mayfield, Mossyrock, and Cowlitz Falls dams. Two occasions stand out...
First was an A6 Intruder that overcooked his speed coming over Mayfield Dam and out over Mayfield Lake... he rolled and pulled hard enough he had vortice off of every single horizontal surface on that jet, but he still had to go UNDER the power lines right above Hwy 12!! I was standing on top of that hill directly under the power lines, and I remember thinking "if he piles it into this hill I'm DEAD!!!"... so I just stood there looking DOWN into his cockpit as he went by! His right seat looked up as they went by, flashed a hand at me and went back to work cleaning out his shorts probably, but it was pretty epic from my point of view.
Second was one of those days on Riffe Lake, a notoriously rough mountain lake known for its abrupt changes in wave conditions due to a venturi effect two-thirds of the way up-lake. I was in a 16ft Sea Ray with an open bow, bucking into 3 or 4 foot waves and trying not to sink the darned thing. Plowing along bow-high, I suddenly saw an F-18 come around that very point I called "Venturi Point". I was following a pair of tugs towing a MASSIVE log boom of flood debris, so when it came time to watch this 18 go by I cut power and dropped the nose. I looked back just in time to see a foot of water coming over my bow, but I was much more fascinated by the fact that I still couldn't hear this guy coming. He went by at what I'm guessing was .8 or.9 Mach... I couldn't hear him until he was very nearly 90 degrees abeam me... and maybe 400 feet off the deck. Absolutely AWESOME!!! No shock-wave, but a definite sound compression going on. Made for one hell of a sight and sound!!!
Another moment came to mind as I write this, but I'm thinking this one came from JBLM... Riffe was WAAAYYY down in water levels, like over 100 feet low, and as we were driving Hwy 12 towards Morton we saw a C-141 Starlifter BELOW the highway, TFing down-lake. What did those things weigh... 250,000 pounds? Yeah... a grunt goat down in the mud like it was a fighter!!! He was rolling 60 degrees easily when we saw him... pretty amazing those big planes could do that sort of stuff!
Again... Thanks for the ride-along, and for stirring up those awesome memories!
Cheers!
Great video!
I was at NAS Whidbey from '75-'78 as an AE repairing and maintaining INS systems on the A6 and P3 Orions. CB radio was big at that time, and there was always a dead spot crossing the Dugualla Bay flats. 😃 My first off-base housing was a run down duplex on the corner of Henni and DeGraf roads a half mile east of the threshold of runway 14. That end of Henni is now Tidewater road. Talk about noisy, but it was off-base and after a month your brain just tuned it out. Good memories.
TYFYS.
I live in Forks Wa, it’s so quiet here until the fighter jets practice overhead, and it’s so awesome because it’s the sound of freedom! Thanks for what you do.
Cheers!
My son is on the CARL in the Pacific and station there at Whydbey VAQ 136. Your videos bring me closer to him and the pride I feel for him and the choices he's made.
Thank you,
A Proud Dad
FLY NAVY !
Cheers!
We have had property at Camp Grande for 48 years. It is really cool to see what the pilots I have been watching see.
Wow…time flies! First time seeing your channel, brings back a lot of memories. I was an air traffic controller at Whidbey from 1982 to 86. Loved being stationed there. President Reagan had just fired all the civilian controllers, so the Navy offered us a wheelbarrow full of “casheesh” and our choice of duty station…Whidbey it was. Watching your approach reminded me of my most vivd Whidbey memory: imagine a 23 year old kid that had been an air traffic controller since he was 18, carrier qualified at 19, two WestPacs, helped integrate the first squadron of AV-8Bs onboard the USS Tarawa LHA-1 (first Harrier landed onboard while we were tied up at 32nd Street in San Diego. Carrier pier at North Island was “occupado”, so we’re tied up next to a bunch Spruance class destroyers. Imagine the faces on those boys as a Harrier in full vertical descent landed right next to them). I digress…I’m now at Whidbey, brimming with confidence. First evening of training on local control (I’m in charge of the active duty runway and the airspace) we’re doing short field FCLPs (field carrier landing practice) off the approach of 25. We’ve even got hot pit refueling in front of the tower. Those A-6s smack the approach end at the carrier deck outline and lift into an immediate left turn…I’m impressed. Now, throw in a bunch of training full stops combined with departure s that need to hit their training runs with a +- 5 minute window. It’s hectic…I can do this! Well, it’s at this precise moment of max chaos…I tell one of those departing A-6s to “taxi into position and hold, start your run ups.” I’m in the groove…I got rhythm! Well…actually…you don’t! It was at this precise moment, 3 seconds after the words departed my lips, that my trainer cancelled that approval on to the active duty because of…what you might ask…an A-6 at 3/4 mile on short final for a full stop. Once I realized my mistake, all the blood in my head “departed the pattern!” I unplugged and proceeded to thank God. That’s my story, I’m sticking to it.
While TAD at North Island flight planning , I had the pleasure of working with a WWII B-17 pilot. He had a blonde ponytail to the middle of his back…he was an enigma. I’ll leave you with his wise words (not the “pay attention dumba$$ words)…
Dubito ergo cogito
Cogito ergo sum
😂
I drive from Miles Sand and Gravel and I've been watching you Monday through Friday for 10 years nice to see that from different perspective thx