Originally Posted By: SkateZilla
Originally Posted By: Weasel_Keeper
Originally Posted By: SkateZilla
Originally Posted By: PanzerMeyer
Originally Posted By: Jedi Master
Maybe no more flyovers during sporting events?

At least when they're used in movies they have to pay for the fuel and such used.



The Jedi Master


Maybe the owner/owners of the sports stadium or the league involved pay a fee for the fly over?


Fly Over's Are paid for.

Its not just planes, pilots, but you have a spotter/controller at the stadium guiding inbound planes.

there was video about the "Behind the scenes of a Fly Over" or something for a College sports show..


The spotter/controller for the flyover is a full time ANG pilot and doesn't make any more money for doing this, he's on the clock. He makes his day to day salary, but gets to go to a college football game. He wouldn't even need a rental car because we have "Blue Steel" which is a base owned vehicle to drive to South Bend. That video you can hear the inbound pilots mention something about "12 Mile" which is a BFM range where they took off and practiced at before doing the flyby.

Before everyone goes crazy about just the USAF, it's the entire military being looked at to cut costs. There's talk of seriously cutting back Army ground units, mothballing a lot of our Naval fleet, and cutting USAF units and projects.

What's really sucking personally, my ANG base hasn't had an airshow since 1999. We finally scheduled one for Sept 2012 and are already planning for it...and now this. Ugh. I guess it'll mostly just be A-10C flyovers...from our own planes.


The Pilots dont get paid, but the School/League has to pay the Military, whether it be direct or some form of "meterial offering".

This is when we start importing Airshow Performers from China.


The only material offering we get from schools and events are usually some extra tickets to the event (but not always). We do flyovers to promote our base/unit for pride and have some possible future recruits from the fans that say "wow, those jets looked cool!". smile

It's the same if we park some jets at an airshow for static displays. Nobody gets anything extra, just your normal day's pay but you get to sit at an airshow and answer questions about the jet or your base...and get treated like a rockstar. biggrin
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