Post by seria17hri11er on Feb 2, 2008 19:16:24 GMT -6
Hello all, I am new here. My name is Nick Mathews. First of I'd like to say that this is an excellent site. I'm glad to see a site that commemorates our fellow service members who have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
Just to give a brief background about me;
I have served five years and six months active duty in the USAF, and I have 4 months left active duty. I am currently E-5 and am an Aircraft Hydraulic Systems Technician. I recently learned that I could go into the army as a warrant officer and become a pilot and not have to do four years of college, so that is what I am working on doing. Just took a flight physical today. I received my PPL Certificate the fifteenth of January 2008 and I have forty nine flight hours.
So when I went to the briefing for this program and started filling out the paperwork I seen that you could put an aircraft preference on the paper. At the time I just thought, "any twin engine." Then later on I thought, "Hmm, pilot the UH-60, drop soldiers off in hot LZ's and get shot at, or, pilot the AH-64 and do the shooting?" So I thought the AH-64 was the way to go. Well tonight I've been trying to find crash/accident statistics for both aircraft (because I know you army pilots are straight up lunatics flying like there is no tomorrow ;D). I came across these two wikipedia sites;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coalition_aircraft_crashes_in_Iraq
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coalition_aircraft_losses_in_Afghanistan
Well, seems as though the AH-64 has a significantly higher number of crashes than the UH-60. I was hoping you all might be able to provide me with some insight regarding this. I was also hoping to find non-combat related crashes regarding both aircraft but have not been able to find anything specifying non-combat vs combat crashes and details.
Thanks
Nick
Just to give a brief background about me;
I have served five years and six months active duty in the USAF, and I have 4 months left active duty. I am currently E-5 and am an Aircraft Hydraulic Systems Technician. I recently learned that I could go into the army as a warrant officer and become a pilot and not have to do four years of college, so that is what I am working on doing. Just took a flight physical today. I received my PPL Certificate the fifteenth of January 2008 and I have forty nine flight hours.
So when I went to the briefing for this program and started filling out the paperwork I seen that you could put an aircraft preference on the paper. At the time I just thought, "any twin engine." Then later on I thought, "Hmm, pilot the UH-60, drop soldiers off in hot LZ's and get shot at, or, pilot the AH-64 and do the shooting?" So I thought the AH-64 was the way to go. Well tonight I've been trying to find crash/accident statistics for both aircraft (because I know you army pilots are straight up lunatics flying like there is no tomorrow ;D). I came across these two wikipedia sites;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coalition_aircraft_crashes_in_Iraq
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coalition_aircraft_losses_in_Afghanistan
Well, seems as though the AH-64 has a significantly higher number of crashes than the UH-60. I was hoping you all might be able to provide me with some insight regarding this. I was also hoping to find non-combat related crashes regarding both aircraft but have not been able to find anything specifying non-combat vs combat crashes and details.
Thanks
Nick