There’s a whole separate track for drones pilots now. Some still come from pilot training with the ability to go heavies, but the majority go through RPA only training and aren’t qualified in anything besides RPAs

We have an MEL, a list of equipment that determines whether we can take off without it getting fixed based upon what type of base we’re at, and that’s the baseline for determining if we go or not. There are also few bases that a C-5 goes to, and fewer still that have the personnel and parts to fix one. So when the reg…

It’s an old stigma about the C-5s, the M model is a pretty good jet

And now with the M model, I’ve never seen a tanker and rarely break

Yeah but maintainence kept telling us that the jet was fixed so we took it flying each of those times!

Hey now, I do my best to be nice to the jets

The AMC museum at Dover still holds an annual Santa photo shoot in it’s C-5, which just got painted back in the original white paint scheme

That’s the current record load

You finally showed up!

I think Tyler wrote a piece a while back about the Iranian KC-747 and how it was part of a competition for the next tanker between the 747, C-5 and KC-10

AC condensation

Huh, swore that were guard last time I was up there

Sooo many

Hey, the loads do all the important work and if it’s not balanced or secured right we all die. And if they think something is wrong and request a reweigh, I’m right behind them. One of the commenters on C-5 articles here tends to be a C-5 load, so I’m sure he’ll show up eventually.

Thanks!

One ANG unit flies the C-5, the Patriot Wing out of Westover

You’re right!

I’m just a pilot and not a load, so I believe whatever my loadmasters tell me. See, learning all the time about how things load, we’re always told it’s double a C-17.

I’m no expert either, I wrote just what I remembered reading from a similar piece about the An-124

99.5% of the time, the C-5M does not need AR to accomplish the mission