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DEBRIEF
A pilot's perspective
BROCKETT flew 727s for
Pan Am and TWA.
WHO: Bill Brockett
OCCUPATION: NASA
pilot
HOURS: Around 18,000
EXTRA: Brockett has
owned a Grumman
Yankee in which he
would commute 90
miles to Moffett Naval
Air Station.
STARTED IN AVIATION… My dad was a
World War II pilot. I went to the U.S.
Air Force Academy, then active duty in
the Air Force for five years. I joined the
NASA research program and I’ve stayed
in for 23 years.
EARLY CHALLENGES…Early in the Viet-
nam War I had to wear glasses. They
told me, “Find something else to do in
the Air Force—you’re not going to fly.”
Then Vietnam escalated. I would have
had to make a case to not go to pilot
training, so I got lucky there. When I
graduated from pilot training the most
exciting airplane I could fly was an
AC-47 gunship, and while en route to
Vietnam all those airplanes were trans-
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BILL BROCKETT
SAMPLING THE ATMOSPHERE
The lead pilot for NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science
Laboratory, Bill Brockett has logged tons of hours on
Operation Ice Bridge, flying low over the polar ice caps
and Greenland and Iceland to measure changes in their
ice levels.
ferred from the U.S. to Vietnam. I was
reassigned to C-141s in Travis, California. By the early ’70s I was in the C-130,
but I got to see the world and learned a
lot about international flying.
FAVORITE ACTIVITY…I love flying low
and sightseeing. The most spectacular
is Antarctica. We take our DC-8 down
to Antarctica, a two-and-a-half-hour to
four-hour flight from the southern tip
of Chile, with no place to land along the
way. You go up to altitude to cruise, and
over the continent you descend to 1,500
feet for five to six hours, flying through
mountain ranges, glaciers, and canyons
and across the sea ice measuring ice
caps. I’m totally absorbed.
ADVICE FOR STUDENTS… Flying is
something that most of us who do it
would pay to do it. You have to know
why you want to do it: pleasure,
relaxation, recreation. You need to do
it enough to stay safe and understand
when you need to go get more training.
I got a seaplane rating a couple of years
ago. It was the hardest thing I’d done in
the last 30 years, forcing myself to do
what the instructor told me to do rather
than what my instincts told me to do.
Flying seaplanes, I would get a refresher
from an instructor who has a good track
record. If you’re not up to speed in an
airplane you could hurt yourself.
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Flight Training - September 2013
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Flight Training - September 2013
Flight Training - September 2013
Contents
Member Benefits
Right Seat
Centerline
Letters
Dropping In
After the Checkride
How it Works
Success Story Tech Tip
News
Flight Training Excellence Award Winner
ASI News
AOPA Action
Summit Preview Training Products
Final Exam
Flying Carpet
Upside Down, Inside Out
No More Monkey Business
Technique
Weather
Checkride
Flight Lesson
Cause and Effect
Career Advisor
Tech Talk
Nothing to Fear
Reveal the Hidden Value
Advertiser Index
Debrief
Flight Training - September 2013 - Flight Training - September 2013
Flight Training - September 2013 - Cover2
Flight Training - September 2013 - 1
Flight Training - September 2013 - Contents
Flight Training - September 2013 - 3
Flight Training - September 2013 - Member Benefits
Flight Training - September 2013 - 5
Flight Training - September 2013 - Right Seat
Flight Training - September 2013 - 7
Flight Training - September 2013 - Centerline
Flight Training - September 2013 - 9
Flight Training - September 2013 - Letters
Flight Training - September 2013 - 11
Flight Training - September 2013 - Dropping In
Flight Training - September 2013 - 13
Flight Training - September 2013 - After the Checkride
Flight Training - September 2013 - How it Works
Flight Training - September 2013 - 16
Flight Training - September 2013 - Success Story Tech Tip
Flight Training - September 2013 - News
Flight Training - September 2013 - Flight Training Excellence Award Winner
Flight Training - September 2013 - ASI News
Flight Training - September 2013 - AOPA Action
Flight Training - September 2013 - Summit Preview Training Products
Flight Training - September 2013 - Final Exam
Flight Training - September 2013 - Flying Carpet
Flight Training - September 2013 - 25
Flight Training - September 2013 - Upside Down, Inside Out
Flight Training - September 2013 - 27
Flight Training - September 2013 - 28
Flight Training - September 2013 - 29
Flight Training - September 2013 - 30
Flight Training - September 2013 - 31
Flight Training - September 2013 - No More Monkey Business
Flight Training - September 2013 - 33
Flight Training - September 2013 - 34
Flight Training - September 2013 - 35
Flight Training - September 2013 - Technique
Flight Training - September 2013 - 37
Flight Training - September 2013 - Weather
Flight Training - September 2013 - 39
Flight Training - September 2013 - 40
Flight Training - September 2013 - Checkride
Flight Training - September 2013 - Flight Lesson
Flight Training - September 2013 - 43
Flight Training - September 2013 - 44
Flight Training - September 2013 - Cause and Effect
Flight Training - September 2013 - Career Advisor
Flight Training - September 2013 - 47
Flight Training - September 2013 - Tech Talk
Flight Training - September 2013 - Nothing to Fear
Flight Training - September 2013 - 50
Flight Training - September 2013 - Reveal the Hidden Value
Flight Training - September 2013 - Advertiser Index
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Flight Training - September 2013 - 54
Flight Training - September 2013 - 55
Flight Training - September 2013 - Debrief
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