Me and Deep Eddy have an agreement that I’ll only drink him once a year for the entire week when I go TDY to Texas.
Beach, my friend. If we’re doing Texas Vodkas, you need some Titos in your life
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I see the Tito’s adverts in Outside Magazine all the time…wasn’t sure if it was legit or not. I’ll give it a whirl this July when I’m in Dallas…
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Seriously when did Texas become the Vodka distilling monster of the liquor world?
And on an unrelated note - 4 more days.
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Ugh. Did I tell you about the last time I was in NYC?
These short vids by Wags are heartwrenching!
You’re all focused and want to know everything there is to know about the subject, and then he goes «thanks for watching. See you next time»
And I’m all «NOOO! Wags! Don’t go…» 
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Vodka is swill with no rules guiding it’s ingredients or production. You can pee in a cup, add a little sugar and if it ferments clear, call it “Vodka”. Drink “1792” and you will know exactly what’s in that liquid gold that just warmed your needy throat.
I probably already drank too much vodka in my life, that’s why I drink mostly whisky now.
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Let’s get the naval aviation lingo correct. 
It is called the “Greenie Board”
…because OK passes are denoted in green…so you want a mostly “green board.”
You don’t want yellow and really don’t want red.
As @BeachAV8R has evidently discovered…
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Well…that would explain some of my less coherent college days…
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What does black mean? My marks are all black.
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I really hope ED will implement something like this.
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Hmmmm…not sure…at the time we uses a “state of the art” big wooden board (maybe 4’ x 4.5’) with little hooks in rows across the board. Each row had a pilot’s name. We had a big bunch of round wooden pucks about the size of a half dollar with a little hole drilled on top. Each puck had a landing grade marked on it OK (underlined), OK, FAIR, CUT…etc. After the LSO debrief (the LSOs that had been “waving” that event, would visit each ready room and do a face-to-face debrief), the pucks would be hung up on the Greenie Board. Not the hight of advanced technology…but it worked.
There were some special pucks…a night trap and a “Pinky Trap” (twilight trap- counts as a night trap but there is enough ambient light to make it easier).
But Black…don’t think I ever saw one…I’m pretty sure Black = Bad.
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Why is the ‘cut grade’ called that? I mean, in normal parlance the scales go from ok to fair to bad or ok to fair to awful or something. Does the word ‘cut’ denote that the pilot in question faces the risk of getting cut from the navy?
I’d like, no, I demand the same thing as vLSO for FSX to become a thing in DCSW.
I am really adamant about that. I would pay ten to twenty bucks for it.
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I agree. I’d pay good money for a grading, rating, and review system. It’d be awesome. I said earlier today that when the Hornet releases, I might just park myself in a Spectator spot, switch to the LSO view, and crack open a beer and enjoy…! 
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Or just fly as Canadians, Kuwaitis, and Swiss!
Note To Self: Remember to make the Carrier Invincible.
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Where was that Ka-50 tailhook mod?