Probe it and drogue it.

Here’s one thing that I had experienced for the first time in my job. Probe and drogue.

Do you remember the time when you were a kid and played the NES game “Top Gun”. Do you remember how frustating how you cannot get that damn tanker to refuel your plane and you end up losing one life? Well, from what I heard in real life, shits not that much easier. They call this the iron maiden. Why? Imagine a 70 lb iron with a little frilly skirt to stabilize it dangling from a hose doing 260 knots in mid air. You miss and you end up banging either your canopy or the side of the jet.

Imagine all the hell you go through with your nintendo game and the frustration of this pilot on getting his gas…

Now imagine us, on the other end, laughing. No, just kidding. We would never do that. But really, all we do is observe, to make sure everything goes safe in both the receiver and most importantly in our jet.

[YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Zl1nYodSc]

– Real talk from my iphone.