Originally posted by xImpRoVx: your IP address might as well be your social security number if you know how to look it up the right way---> Which is why I am careful with what I say online.
Very few of the Mods on this website know how to do that. I know how to do it and in most cases the IP is worthless. It's usually a past PERSEC violation by the poster that reveals who they are. So pretty much when I know who someone is on this website, any of the other posters could figure it out if they tried.
Nobody on this website abuses that IP trace feature to get a poster in trouble with the Military or their employer or whatever. It's useless in that respect. The only use it is, is to tell the Mod if the poster is in country or deployed. If their American, North Korean, Chineese or whatever.....helps there as well. Very limited in utility.
You other airframes just kill me. It's not like we've tried to keep it a secret; if you ask us we'll tell you. It's the mission!
I understand how confusing that is when there isn't a lot of ammo or power available. What could we possibly see in the little helicopter that could? There's no compensating required. I don't have to talk about your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, or claim that they're all the same person to feel better about myself as a pilot or a person.
You take your engines. I just need a grid, a callsign, and a frequency. In fact, I'd do this job on a bicycle if it could hover.
Originally posted by Crazyhorse30: You take your engines. I just need a grid, a callsign, and a frequency. In fact, I'd do this job on a bicycle if it could hover.
Back when KW.com started, it was intended to be a network resource for KW pilots. Other communities tried similar things with mixed results. Except for the AH-64 community. Apparently, this was because God.com was already taken.
Now, I don't post on the site any longer, but I still feel that it isn't howtobeakiowapilot.com, and it isn't doyouthinkmyscoresaregoodenough.com. They (not we, since I no longer partake) don't visit the site to teach some kid how to become a pilot, they visit to keep contact and share conversation with people they know. When the umpteenth person interrupts on an unrelated thread because nobody will answer his/her question in his/her unanswered thread, it straight up annoys even the most patient soul.
So, if someone wants to join the site, then they need to be ready for joining a community for the community's sake. If they want to use it as an information resource, they should search the site using Google Advanced Search. Someone can't blame the community for being what it is, simply because it won't give them what they want, or won't behave the way they want it to.
Here at work recently, I watched one of our “repeat customer groups” perform their annual helicopter gunnery tables. The two crews I watched….Well the safest place was right in front of the target. The best “Shootin” by one OH-58D crew was the co-pilot engaging a quad troop target with his M-4.. Otherwise I was not so impressed…
Let's put the aviation gunnery program in perspective.
First, We fire once a year, and when we do, we get a "practice" table and a qualification table for day and night firing. Compared to an infantry unit which goes out several times a month to practice, it is like never allowing a Soldier to run PT and still expect them to pass an APFT once each year.
Second, you saw two crews out of at least 30. Perhaps even more when you consider any assessment tables that had to be accomplished beforehand. So, you don't know what you saw. You just expected to see Hollywood-type laser-direct hits, when you may have been watching pilots shooting for what might be the third or fourth time in their careers. Stick around for the whole two to three weeks of gunnery, I'm sure someone will come along that can mildly impress you, perhaps just a little bit.
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Third, experience shooting weapons mounted on an aircraft is just like gaining experience shooting any weapon. # of Rounds expended=experience. It is estimated that it takes 10,000 rounds to truly make an expert. In peacetime, it can take us a good part of a career to reach those numbers of rounds downrange. If you want to try and critique Army aviators, but have never flown an armed aircraft, well, that's just assinine, but it is like trying to fire a rifle while riding a bike, only the rifle is mounted 2-6 feet off to your side. In the meantime, feel free to test your theory that the safest place is in front of the target.
