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03-06-2011, 09:37 AM | #23 |
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Lieutenant pokeybritches's Avatar Drives: 06 MR, 03 3.0i Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Fresno, CA Posts: 580 iTrader: (1) Apex ARC-8 in satin black. I'll put up some pics once mine arrive. I'm a stingy government worker that doesn't buy anything I haven't thoroughly researched... although since I flew F-18's, I will never buy anything that say "F14"... the Forgestars DO look good. My money is on Apex because they cater only to BMW and their business depends on us, I appreciate their honesty in regards to strength testing, and their price for spun-forged wheels is unbeatable. It's a business-only suit look. Those that know, appreciate it. Those that don't - F 'em. __________________ You flew "Hornets".... nice. Kind of off topic, but were you based in Lemoore? If you were, did you know a Dean Coester? Thanks for the input on wheels. Cheers Joe
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Yeah, I flew single seat legacies out in Lemoore. It was a blast! Some of the Bravos I trained on are pushing 30+ years old. I don't believe I've had the honor of meeting Dean Coester, unless he was one of the sim instructors whose real name I didn't know. Circumstances have forced me to redesignate (medical, downsizing, grades, etc.), so I'm headed over to the Seabee side now. I figured it was the only other place I could carry a gun and blow things up. I miss flying, and especially miss buzzing the nudist colony out in R-2508 at about 200 ft and 550 kts. No exhaust will ever make the Z4 as obnoxious as a Hornet.
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I envy you for having the opportunity to fly F-18's. Yea! you would know Dean if he was anywhere near your time frame awesome crazy Character (my Cousin). He flew Hornets out of Lemoore and then went to United Airlines. I'm flying for Fedex, but came up through the civilian route. Nice to meet you. Cheers
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If you're wanting to fly military jets, you will need to jump through a bunch of hoops. You're age, college degree, and an officer candidate school. I'm not sure what the age cutoff is or the commitment requirement is, but I'm sure one of the other guys do. Just guessing I would say the max age before starting an OCS would be around 27 with a 4 year accredited degree already completed and yes an eye sight requirement. There are other options like applying to a guard unit, but you need connections and still have the above requirements. I'm civilian background, so I'm sure one of the other guys will have some better info for you. Good luck!
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One thing to consider re: wheels is will a BBK fit with them? With the all that power (s/c), and if you track the car (or plan to), the stock brakes are going to be easily overpowered. Just something to consider....
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I have Custom advan's RS-D in Piano Black and it gives a real ricer look, the weight is really good 17lbs for 9.5" and 19lbs for 10". They look Good but not everyone like how much contrast you get with them. If was today I would go with the platinum black that was what I had before what makes the car much more sophisticated.
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It's not easy to convince the government to hand over a $40 million supersonic strike fighter loaded with ordinance to a guy in his mid-twenties and have him land it on an aircraft carrier. The other way of looking at it is this: the high value unit of a carrier strike group is the carrier; the purpose of the carrier is the aircraft; tens of thousands of people bring the ordinance halfway across the world, but one pilot is trusted to bring it through the final and most dangerous few hundred miles to support the guys risking their lives on the ground. It's a lot of pressure. I never had to drop in combat and won't take credit away from those that have, or pretend to be a war hero when I'm not. But, all through training it's constantly in every pilot's mind, especially when we are dropping real bombs on real targets during CAS flights. Hell, it's even intense from a financial standpoint- one LGTR (laser-guided training round) costs about $12k, and each flight hour probably costs about $15k. With that math a division of four jets for two hours with two LGTRs each is over 200 grand for the flight. These days jets are extremely complex, a vast number of safety procedures have been added, and PRK (a type of laser eye surgery) has been approved. So, with a greater number of people physically qualified to fly and less aircraft (and money) available, the Navy is able to pick and choose who it wants. Like anything in the military, the demand for jet pilots goes in waves. I didn't originally get a pilot slot out of the Academy. The Navy kicked out too many pilots in training and had ten more slots open up; I got one of those ten. There were guys with much higher grades than I had through Primary that didn't get jets, simply because they graduated from training a month earlier or later. To be honest I didn't even know if I would graduate from Primary because my grades started out so low, but I was able to rock the later stages and eventually met the jet minimums. That month they needed jet pilots, so I got a slot. It took three years to get my wings after four years of the Academy. After that I had an eight year commitment. Air Force pilots get their wings a little more quickly- I believe after "intermediate" whereas the Navy does it after completion of "advanced" training, but the Air Force commitment is ten years instead of eight. After that you're so far into your career that it's extremely difficult to transition to any other community and restart the pipeline. If you decide to be a pilot, that's pretty much what you're going to be doing for your career. Jets are loud. Because of this, once you get to a squadron you will probably be stationed in the middle of nowhere (Lemoore) or in an area where the Navy had to compensate each resident $30k because of the jet noise even though the base was there long before the houses were built (Oceana). You'll work extremely intense 15 hour days and be away from your home base 8+ months out of the year. It's hard on families, and you'll see the best and worst in relationships. There are a lot of days when your only motivation to continue is the fact that you're flying military jets, and you took someone else's dream slot. Then there are other days where you see and do things so cool you're unable to articulate its coolness to anyone you know... except to someone equally as cool as you are, another jet pilot I guess my point is this: don't join expecting to fly jets. The best you can do is work hard and pray the chips fall where you want. There's a lot of luck involved. Anyone who says they got it solely because they are good is full of shit. No matter how good you are, there's always someone better who can take away your spot. At the same time, there's a reason most Navy recruiting commercials have a loaded F/A-18 screaming around on the screen. It's the closest a man can get to playing God. The civilian route is a different kind of hard, and a different kind of sacrifice, as fr8tdog could probably tell you. Captains live the good life, but they went through a lot of study and expense to get there... and had a career of "not screwing up." Quote:
Anyway, back to wheels: If you don't spring for the Apex wheels, check out the Advan RS. The RS-D have the dish, and the RS have concavity. They break from the 7- or 8-spoke norm, and look a little larger than they actually are.
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I agree....very well put Pockeybritches and thanks for the input on wheels
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OZ Ultraleggeras in black on my 07 Z4M Imola Red Roadster....
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I would have thought that after flying a fighter jet a fast car wouldn't do much for a pilot... My uncle used to be a Captain in the Italian Airforce Acrobatic scuadron and I went to a couple of his airshows and saw some of the planes up close and personal, I can't imagine how cool it's got to be to fly a fighter jet... some day I'll rent a few minutes of flight time in a Mig or something.
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I would say if you are looking for performance over looks, stick with an 18" wheel. BBS RGR and Volk TE37SL are my favourites. APEX Arc8 is a quality wheel as well. |
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performance and lower cost and Japanese look= volk racing
performance with "wow" and higher costs and higher end german look = BBS 2 pc wheels BMW's look better with deep lip BBS's my 2 cents Matt black is getting boring
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I wouldn't consider volk or work lower cost... I'd put them up there with BBS. Just my personal preference though. I love the BBS wheels I've had so far (LM, CH (custom offset) and RS-GT)... But I also love Volk TE-37... G2, Work Meisters... Brombacher. But then again, it's my personal opinion and I'm a wheel whore .
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