Oh Navy

[NovemberEcho]

P-8 took a swim in Hawaii. No injuries.

 

[BobDDuck]

Apparently managed to dump a lot of gas all over the reef though.

 

[MikeD]

Ironically, the second 737 to end up in the water close to the island in the past couple of years.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

 

[BobDDuck]

That's a fair point. Naming a guppy a Poseidon is pretty much begging for the plane to end up in the water at some point in time.

 

[trafficinsight]

To fight the submarine you must be the submarine.

 

[///AMG]

There is a lot of irony in this. Let's all hope there weren't any submarines that were harmed

 

[ASpilot2be]

There is a lot of irony in this. Let's all hope there weren't any submarines that were harmed

Still more airplanes in the sea than submarines in the sky.

 

[BobDDuck]

Still more airplanes in the sea than submarines in the sky.

ORLY?

Captain Tunafish would like a word with you.

 

[///AMG]

Still more airplanes in the sea than submarines in the sky.

haha

Somehow this reminds me of being on deployment, and working with some Strike Eagle dudes who were shore based in the Middle East, while we were afloat on the big boat a couple hundred miles away. We'd been emailing with their Weapons Officer for a few days, and it was basically a run of the mill trade of assets. It normally goes like "we will put up 8 jets to be red air/bad guys" during some date/time, and then you do the same for us at a different date/time. But instead, they asked for something absurd like 130 small boats, because I guess we are the navy. We're like, "dood, we can give you a 4 ship of red air, we don't have 130 boats you morons".

 

[ASpilot2be]

ORLY?

Captain Tunafish would like a word with you. View attachment 75045

Damn. I was wrong again.

 

[Boris Badenov]

The P-8A and the Airbus A320 that Sullenberger piloted are roughly the same size.

Keep this in mind when consuming "News".

 

[CFI A&P]

Oops.

 

[DeltaAlphaNovember]

I've seen a fair amount of them at TYS doing approaches.

 

[Wardogg]

Overrun on a wet, 7500ft runway. KBay isn't exactly HNL. From the early pics I thought they put it on the sandbar in the bay. 22 is the easier approach as well. Hardly land on it though, due to the prevailing winds....makes me wonder.

 

[Inverted]

Not exactly a short runway though, even wet. Shouldn't have been that heavy either.

 

[Screaming_Emu]

I've seen a fair amount of them at TYS doing approaches.

AVL too

 

[derg]

ORLY?

Captain Tunafish would like a word with you. View attachment 75045

POINTS!

 

[BobDDuck]

Not exactly a short runway though, even wet. Shouldn't have been that heavy either.

We can put a 330 down there, wet runway or not so a lightweight 737 shouldn't be an issue. 22 is a much simpler approach, but the trade winds (which were pretty gusty yesterday) make it a less than desirable option most of the time.

 

[Screaming_Emu]

We can put a 330 down there, wet runway or not so a lightweight 737 shouldn't be an issue. 22 is a much simpler approach, but the trade winds (which were pretty gusty yesterday) make it a less than desirable option most of the time.

I was in the 3rd seat, but we took a 747 in there. Was a new guy on OE. I was jealous

Then after min rest on the way out the captain told me that I wasn’t allowed to be sarcastic anymore as it was distracting. I was pretty quiet after that as apparently I can’t not be sarcastic.