Just finished reading, “How to Fly and Fight in the F/A-18 Hornet” by David C. Isby.
I can think of all sorts of scenarios where the information gained in this book could be useful in my everyday life.
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“Help, help! My baby has just been kidnapped by Islamofascistcommienazies can nobody fly this strangely convenient and heavily armed American fighter and rescue him?”
DH’s ruggedly handsome and chisled jawline steps forward from the crowd with the rest of his godlike physique following shortly, “Why yes Ma’am, yes I can”
I hate you guys! When you wreck your iconic American muscle car in the chase scenes, what do you do? Knock some innocent motorcyclist off his sport bike and resume the pursuit, leaving us to yell those contractually obligated words: “Hey! That guy took my bike!”
I used to play a lot of online combat flight-simulation (IL2 mainly) and had this <Amazon link> on my desk at work to read through during my lunch break.
Not to rain on your Walter Mitty’ish dreams, but were you to try flying one of those based on a few hours of reading a book at Starbucks, your user name might become uncomfortably appropriate.
We all have our parts to play Sir/Madam/Citizen of indeterminate gender tips non-existant cap
I have that book actually, its in my living-room bookshelf (where only the best books are blessed to reside) but I haven’t got around to reading it yet.
Post WW2 military aircraft have always been my thing, as I argue with my WW1 loving friend, if you can see your opponent you aren’t doing it right.
Falcon 4: Allied Force is by far the best combat flight simulator I’ve ever played but unfortunately I no longer have 1 to 2 free hours in to spare in order to fly a mission.
Whew, good job you pointed that out, and there was me thinking a casual read of a somewhat outdated and poorly spell-checked popularist book about fighter aircraft really could replace several years of intensive real-world training.
Strange how the other contributors took the OP in the light-hearted spirit in which it was intended.
How to Fly and Fight in the F/A-18 Hornet is pretty useful, but How To Avoid Huge Ships changed my life. It was the best $372.38 paperback I’ve ever bought. Just the other day I was walking my girlfriend’s dog and managed to get the task done without once being rammed by an oil tanker. It’s a hell of a timesaver.
Dang, I shoulda read that book years ago. Came extremely close to being run down by a large freighter in the Mobile Bay Ship Channel while running hydro survey lines after midnight in a regular peasouper.
Lessons learned: Don’t rely on a crappy 70’s vintage digital radar in a converted shrimp trawler. When it’s so foggy you can hardly see 50’ it’s time to knock it in the head - the heck with production schedules.:smack:
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