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Maintaining aircraft control with Weasel Pilot Dave Mason
Maintaining aircraft control with Weasel Pilot Dave Mason
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102 minutes
Released:
Apr 15, 2022
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Podcast episode
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Welcome to episode 21 of the Lessons from the Cockpit Show! My good friend Dave Mason and I walked and talked moving around the displayed aircraft at Hill Aerospace Museum in Ogden Utah earlier this month. Dave relates how fliers learn in extreme situations to quickly compartmentalize problems and put fears in their place. The number one priority in the air always is maintaining aircraft control, including your emotions and voice! The Reagan 80's was a great time to be a military pilot. Aircrews got to hop in a jet anytime and go out and just do it. One of the greatest tools aviators have is the post-flight debrief, a learning opportunity not many of us use in our daily lives. Walking around the museum Dave shared some of his experiences flying one of the most dangerous missions in the Air Force... the Wild Weasel mission hunting enemy surface-to-air missiles or SAM sites in the F-105G and F-4G Wild Weasel aircraft. Special thanks to Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit for sponsoring this episode. Custom graphics of the F-105F, F-4G, and F-16CJ Wild Weasel aircraft are available at www.wallpilot.com for the walls of your home, office, or hangar. Please share this and previous episodes of the Lessons from the Cockpit show at www.markhasara.com Thanks for listening and look forward to talking to you next week.
Released:
Apr 15, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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