Rustic23
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
First off it stands for No Shxt There I was Thought I Was Going to Die
It was suggested this tread be started over in the Pilots thread. NSTIWTIWGD comes from a book about sky diving, which I have no experience. In fact we always said only bird shxt and idiots fall from the sky.
My experience was in a twin engine turbo prop, OV-10. there were 5 aircraft going from Hawaii to Osan Korea. We got to Guam no problems. Well nothing serious. It took about 8 days to get to Guam. We left Guam for Iwo Jima. Clear and a million all the way, well that what the weather man said. Half way we contacted Iwo, and got the 'Come on in weather's fine' We had a C130 escorting us and when we were about 120 miles we picked up the nav aids and the 130 left us and push ahead to IWO.
After about 20 min he radios us and tells us weather is going down in a hurry and we need to push it up. The OV-10 has a max speed of 350, only problem is that is in a 45 to 60 degree dive!. Straight and level you are lucky to get 180 out of it and as it was a 6 plus hour flight we weren't sparing the fuel! So, no push it up!
When we got to IWO we put all five aircraft in holding. First down the shoot did not see the island. He was given a PAR (precission approach radar) but the minimum was 3,000 and 3 mile! To younon pilots that is VFR, visual flight rules! Second guy down the chute, no island, but his minimum on the PAR was 1,500 and 2! For you non pilots, minimums don't change!
I was the third down. PAR minimums 700 and 1. I saw the island! However, the only part of the runway that was visible was a couple of hundred feet of overrun. I said to my self, 'Well I know the runway is there, so I pushed the a/c to max landing speed to account for gust, and preceded to land! When I called the tower that I landed, there come back was 'Where are you' OOPS, I thought, but I bravely said, 'On the runway'. There come back 'We can't see the runway!' It was raining that hard. It took another hour or so before we got all five aircraft down.
Turns out the PAR had not been certified, and the controllers were winging it. I have to hand it to them they did an outstanding job getting all five a/c down. Also of the five a/c, three of the pilots had less than 100 hours in the bird, and one had about 150.
So there is one to start it out. I got to thinking it does not have to be a areal feat to qualify for NSTIWTIWGD.
It was suggested this tread be started over in the Pilots thread. NSTIWTIWGD comes from a book about sky diving, which I have no experience. In fact we always said only bird shxt and idiots fall from the sky.
My experience was in a twin engine turbo prop, OV-10. there were 5 aircraft going from Hawaii to Osan Korea. We got to Guam no problems. Well nothing serious. It took about 8 days to get to Guam. We left Guam for Iwo Jima. Clear and a million all the way, well that what the weather man said. Half way we contacted Iwo, and got the 'Come on in weather's fine' We had a C130 escorting us and when we were about 120 miles we picked up the nav aids and the 130 left us and push ahead to IWO.
After about 20 min he radios us and tells us weather is going down in a hurry and we need to push it up. The OV-10 has a max speed of 350, only problem is that is in a 45 to 60 degree dive!. Straight and level you are lucky to get 180 out of it and as it was a 6 plus hour flight we weren't sparing the fuel! So, no push it up!
When we got to IWO we put all five aircraft in holding. First down the shoot did not see the island. He was given a PAR (precission approach radar) but the minimum was 3,000 and 3 mile! To younon pilots that is VFR, visual flight rules! Second guy down the chute, no island, but his minimum on the PAR was 1,500 and 2! For you non pilots, minimums don't change!
I was the third down. PAR minimums 700 and 1. I saw the island! However, the only part of the runway that was visible was a couple of hundred feet of overrun. I said to my self, 'Well I know the runway is there, so I pushed the a/c to max landing speed to account for gust, and preceded to land! When I called the tower that I landed, there come back was 'Where are you' OOPS, I thought, but I bravely said, 'On the runway'. There come back 'We can't see the runway!' It was raining that hard. It took another hour or so before we got all five aircraft down.
Turns out the PAR had not been certified, and the controllers were winging it. I have to hand it to them they did an outstanding job getting all five a/c down. Also of the five a/c, three of the pilots had less than 100 hours in the bird, and one had about 150.
So there is one to start it out. I got to thinking it does not have to be a areal feat to qualify for NSTIWTIWGD.