Dan wrote:

You could try telling Art that all war is local and those who are there have
only the vaguest idea what is going on much further than the eye can see.

I tried that. I even fessed up that I was so busy flying and planning during
OIF that I have no idea what happened in that conflict. He ignored the post,
which is Kramer's SOP.

Even today most aircrews have no idea how many people put them in the air
besides the base ops, crew chiefs, weather guessers and the like. I can't
tell

If by most you mean 51%, I'll agree, but if you mean more than that, I
disagree.

Just as a matter of curiosity are pilots ever taught what drives the
indicators
they rely on?

There is absolutely, no instruction on Forms, except reading them at any
training level that I've experienced. In fact, the idea of "just telling the
crew chief" is bred into pilots from (S)UPT. There is no maintenance debrief
during pilot training. If there is something wrong with the jet, the IP writes
it up (or the student if solo) and then hands the forms to the civilian
contractor crew chief on landing.The IP *may* provide a brief explanation, but
not always.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"