In crew rest

For the past 3 generations, the USAF has had the Crew Rest system to have alert aviators flying airplanes. You go in Crew Rest 12 hours before your mission briefing time (or reporting time if you report to an ALCC).

During Crew Rest there is no drinking ("12 hours bottle to throttle"), and you are supposed to get 8 hours sleep.

So, I started crew rest for the Boomershoot trip at 1600 for a 0400 departure which should put me there before noon tomorrow. time for me to hit the rack for my 8 hours.

Crew rest started strenuously, with the rest of the load-out I didn't do over the past few days. Old Blue is almost ready to hit the highway, only needs the computer put in and some small duffel.

If I had any thoughts of ignoring the time-tested Crew Rest procedure and boogeying this evening, they went away an hour ago with a snow-pellet shower we just had at only 340 feet elevation! That weather will be in Central Idaho tomorrow, and I damn sure didn't want to be crossing any high terrain at night in THAT shit. There is a new coat of white above 3,000 feet in the Oregon Cascades, and the coldest air of this northerly trough hasn't gotten here yet. fortunately, there's not a lot of moisture for the cold air to work with, so it should just be cold, and not cold and snowy-miserable.

The next post will be from Boomershoot, hopefully.

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[D.W. Drang]

Sometime shortly before my retirement in 2000 army Aviation started calling it "Crew Endurance", because it resulted less harassment from The Grunts for Those Weenie Flyboys.

ED. NOTE: From a rotary pilot? Who never flew a Chrome-Dome airborne alert mission of 25 hours?

Fie!

[GUYK]

"12 hours bottle to throttle" BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHA Yeah right! Having been an 'O' club bartender as well as working the flight line I had to laugh at this one...