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

It depends on the cargo and load plan: the 5 C-17 thing is a specific example of a container that fits really well in a C-5, whereas it has to be loaded in a perpendicular manner for a C-17 and takes up more pallet positions in space and chain locations

I loved Laughlin!

I had no idea what I was getting into when I came to C-5s and moved to Delaware, but it’s beat expectations!

I enjoyed writing it. Took a few months to do, but I think Tyler and I made a good effort

Hey now, I love flying heavies and I love flying Freddy, didn’t want no fighters

Hey, I, Lt Brown, wrote this! Hopefully I covered everything, but I can clarify some if anyone needs

I think it was doing 1/4 of a cloverleaf, which looks like a loop or a bomb toss maneuver, but actually has the jet end up going 90* off of the original heading

Next time I see my uncle, I’ll ask him, he planned the operation

It's a tight fit. And where's the tail mattress?

PAPIs actually have different kinds of categories they apply to, mainly the height of the cockpit of the aircraft. So for a C-5 or 747 at a normal airport, we land with 3 white and one red, unless when we look up the airport information something along the line of "Visual glideslope is coincident with category 4…

It's still called kneeling, people were just calling it bowing. It hasn't really been a problem in the M, apparently in the past it used to get stuck.

We'll see where the mission takes me

Speaking as a C-5 pilot, yes, we have local training sorties that stay in the local area of Travis. All of the Air Force jets do it, it gets us a lot of practice on the critical phases of flight, being approach, landing and takeoffs

All 4 have to caster when they come down out of the gear pods, but all the current ones, including the ones that went A to M rather than the B to Ms, just have steering control on the rear ones and no way to actually control the castering of the front ones, the front caster system is either full forward or full…

We made a special stop at ya'lls special church to take some pictures, but most of the time we went and hung out in Lawrence

Only the aft main gear can be castered or steered though, not the front main, so that would jack up the gear trying to land that way

Fun fact: we can, and I believe the -17s can also, use reverse thrust on the inboard engines in flight. But would never do it for an approach.

I don't think I've flown 0017 yet.

If we wanted to we can land and stop real quick