LogBOOK:  training

This page addresses the first years of flying, from the days in the training command in Pensacola and Glynco, GA, through the training squadron, and into combat with Reconnaissance Attack Squadron TWELVE, aboard USS Constellation in the Gulf of Tonkin.

They say that aviation is "hours of boredom punctuated by moments of extreme terror." To avoid boredom, I am not including routine and uninteresting  flights and events.  

Entries in the Flight Log

• • Pensacola- where it all starts

  • Basic Jet Navigation

  • 1966-05: Welcome to the Vigilante Introduction to the most beautiful but deadly aircraft in the Navy inventory.

  • SERE School: Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape

• • 1967-03: The longest flight  A lesson in navigating in the mountains

  • 1967-04: FCLP practicing landing aboard a carrier

  • 1967-05: Hitting the boat First carrier landing, catapult shot, bingo, and (almost) ejection