Meeting with F16 pilot anyone wanna ask questions

[Mini D]

I was gonna say "ask him if he knows what kind of dip**** his daughter is dating" but I didn't want to take all the good material for myself... hardly any FDBs had posted here yet.

MiniD

[Ike 2K#]

Originally posted by GScholz

Mig-29A or C has a soft limit at 9 G's, but can be overridden up to 12 G's (by pulling harder on the stick). Mig-29 is made of mostly aluminum and some composites (10-20%?).

Pulling 12Gs with MiG-29s A/B/C/UB/SMT can shorten the MiG-29's structural lifespan. MiGs are also cheap, you can buy 2 Refurbished MiG-29 SMTs for the cost of 1 F/A-18 E/F Hornet. MiG-29 posseses great performance (but MiG-29 aerial victories were dampen by  poorly-trained Iraqi pilots) for a cheap MSRP price and many South-East Asian countries and South American coutries are attracted to MiG-29.

[gofaster]

Since most of their action was A2G, you might ask him about how the tasking assignments were determined and how much ground support was provided in taking out enemy troop positions vs. hard targets like comm centers and gov't buildings.

On a lighter note, you might also ask him what the most commonly sought-after item was back at the base (I'm guessing DVDs and magazines) and what recreational opportunities were available.

You might also ask him about sortie rates (twice a day?) and flight time per sortie (2 hours, I think?) and what the biggest threat was to the aircraft (I'm guessing radar-guided artillery rather than SAM systems).