He bumped the trim button to the end of the catstroke instead of playing rotating at 8.1 degrees alpha, it dove for the water, seeking zero degrees alpha.

He immediately went to burn, started pulling back on the stick, he disappeared below the vile, airboss yelling, you jacked.

He says he got down about 10 feet.

Hello and welcome to the Fighter Pilot Podcast. I'm your host Vincent Iolo Callsign Jello and on this episode we are repurposing yet another happy hour discussion from Patreon.

Now if you are a regular listener you already know that happy hour discussions are just Zoom calls that I have with an entertaining guest who has amazing experiences and this week is no different.

It's with Jerry Schubert, Callsign Lefty who used to fly the A4, the A7 and the F-18 in the Navy and he's got some really great stories on grit, on naval aviation and on fatherhood.

So enjoy this and we'll see you again next week. Here we go.

Oh look at you, you got quite the, I love me wall back there.

This is our bonus room above the garage, my wife let up here and I love me room.

Oh, very good. Some people get the garage, you get the room above the garage, hopefully as well. So excellent.

Well, welcome to happy hour. Let's see. What did you bring yourself? Did you get anything?

A diet doctor pepper with a straw.

Diet doctor pepper with a straw. I have a IBC root beer.

Cheers. Cheers.

And it's California compatible. It's reusable.

All right. Well, hey, it's good to see you and meet you and chat a little bit here.

I wanted to just kind of get some background from you, but let's get to know you.

All right. I was born and raised in St. Louis.

I've always wanted to fly, built model airplanes.

I wanted to go to the Air Force Academy because they taught you to fly and they had, and I was interested in architecture.

They have that chapel there.

I got a nomination naval academy, which is good.

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