Alan C. Mack
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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So he's flying this thing.
And the reason we weren't allowed to use this at the time for real in training was because your iPhone ever bricked up on you?
Like just sort of locked up and you had to do a hard reset?
Yeah.
Or maybe a laptop.
Yeah.
The radar would do that.
Just out of the blue.
Oh, my.
So here you are in the clouds, in the mountains, at 300 feet.
And so all you can do, and we trained for this, but once again, not for real.
And the pilot slows back to what we call the best climb airspeed, pulls in all the power you got, and you climb like your life depends on it because it does.
Wow.
And because remember I told you about the PK, the probable kill?
So a missile may have 10, 20% with countermeasures.
The ground has a PK of 100%.
So you run into the mountain, you'd never even got to know.
And the mission has failed.
And our goal is to succeed.
He's climbing.