More on bush Deserter....

[readmylips]

WASHINGTON (AP) - After routinely piloting a fighter jet solo for most of his career, George W. Bush began flying a two-seat jet designed for training in the weeks just before the Texas Air National Guard stripped him of his pilot's privileges in 1972, flight logs show.

(So bush had gained experience in flying solo for most of his career?, he went back to flight training in 2seat jet? ground simulator?...and he was stripped...fired...condemn...booted out).

The logs indicate Bush did half of his final 21 flights in a training jet or simulator, and on four occasions he sat in the co-pilot's position after more than a year of commanding a single-seat F-102A fighter by himself...

(This does not make sense. After a year of experience flying solo, went back to doing half of 21 flights, equals 10-1/2 flights on simulator...and on 4 of these 10-1/2 simulator flights, the experienced pilot bush sat as a passenger... Here's bush the experienced solo pilot (yeah right) and even on simulator flights, needs someone to hold his hand). Fighter Pilot my Ass.

...The White House said it cannot explain why Bush was using a training plane when he had risen to the rank of first lieutenant as a solo flier of a fighter jet...

(Training Plane? It's called Ground Simulator...Hollywood Style..you little bastard...Rich boy bush's poppy could buy him anything, rank of lieutenant...Texas governorship...US Presidency.)

[City Lights]

1. Gotta link? eom

[Philostopher]

2. The Air Force does have trainer jets.

The T-38 is a trainer (the T-designation means trainer). They also had a flight sim for it. Pilots who were intended to fly the F-15 fighter trained on the T-38 first, at least back in the early 1980s.

That being said, it's still funky that he flew latter hours in a trainer jet. I wouldn't think that would happen unless a pilot's skills in the fighter jet had degraded to a degree and it was felt that he should go back to the trainer for a while.