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Man, that’s some bold risk taking there.....

22 Aug it will be awarded, fuck the Seals. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-award-medal-honor-4/

For fvcks sake, quit with the melodramatic bullshit. You act like the end of modern aviation is at hand because an experiment in training modernization is ongoing. Have some faith in the FTU IPs to keep these dudes safe and provide them the instruction they need.

And not by choice...

They had to have flown more than 30 hrs in 6 months, that'd be about 3 sorties per month if true. Please tell me that's a typo. Going from barely being able to find your own ass in a T-6 straight to a $90M jet with 40K thrust where a brand new wingman is expected to have the SA/decision making ability of a 4th gen flight lead...yep this is going to work well.

No breathless, dominant the news cycle, CNN/NBC/WaPo/NYT, porn star lawyer trumpeting "This will bring him down?" Gross domestic product grew at a solid 4.1 percent pace in the second quarter, its best pace since 2014, boosting hopes that the economy is ready to break out of its decade-long slumber. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/27/us-gdp-q2-2018.html

Pilot Training Next (PTN) Drop CAF- 2 x F-35 4 x F-16 MAF- 3 x C-17 2 x KC-10 1 x MC-130J 1 x C-146 1 x U-28

Here's about as specific data as I can get you: 50/50. As of this morning, my logbook has my Purple flying time with 732.2 hours, 365.9 is day and 366.3 is night. This is the context: I have been at FX for just over 2 years, so still quite new in the grand scheme, but at 80-ish% seniority at the company already due to the constant hiring in the last two years and the steady retirement flow. I'm on the A300, which is nearly all domestic flying, with a little international that goes very senior. I am at about 69% (NS-TFS!) seniority in the right seat, and for some perspective the Bus is a relatively senior airplane because of the domestic-only widebody flying: the top half of the A300 FO list is very heavy with senior FOs who have been parked there for years and are not moving. The bidpack for the A300 is about evenly split between day flying and night flying, with a lot of variations of it (out-and-backs, multi-day trips, hub-turn overnights etc) of both day and night flavor. My seniority progression (in terms of schedule bidding) has been rapid, to say the least. - After completing training, 3 months of reserve, most of which was A Reserve (night flying). - Could hold secondary lines at month 4 out of training (secondaries are flying lines made up of scheduled trips and sometimes reserve days. Some months had nights, some months had days) - Held commutable night flying lines at 12 months at the company (9 months out of training) - Can hold commutable day flying lines at less than 2 years at the company. The interesting thing is that night flying doesn't necessarily always go junior. Over the last two years, my day/night balance has pushed over into 60/40 days and 60/40 nights, depending on what I bid and what I can hold, but up to this point it always trends back toward the center of 50/50. We shall see what it brings in the future now that I can consistently hold commutable day-flying lines, and that's what I intend to keep bidding. For some further context, I had originally intended to bid over to the 777 as soon as I could, due to a bunch of factors that @JeremiahWeed has posted about in these threads before. However, the last two system bids at FX have seen a lot of A300 FOs leaving for greener pastures (either 777/MD FO, or 75 Captain, or even A300 Captain) and very few FOs coming *to* the Bus. This is mostly because the guys coming off the 757 have a much easier transition training difficulty & footprint going to the 76 than to the Bus. What this means is that my seniority continues to rapidly advance in the right seat of the Bus -- in fact, scheduled to go up 30+% in just this next 12-18 months. So...I kicked back the plans to leave, and am instead going to enjoy a little taste of seniority (rather than "juniority") here this early on in my career at Purple.

Your CC is a tool and one of the reasons we have a retention problem.

A small part of why I love the Viper...

pilot flying pilot talking. it's the way god intended.

I love Bendy pearls of wisdom. I'm keeping this one.

Thrust deficient one would assume, max power blasting on the other side...tough decisions when there isn't runway in front of you. Prop on the left looks to be spinning fine, but what does that even mean...nothing. Nice to hear everyone walked away, especially seeing how toasted the airframe ended up. Seems like it's always vmca and/or stall...some very troubling issues with maintenance sprinkled on top. We're crushing it all (literally) from both sides. Stall characteristic awareness and a better handing of normalized deviance and we might stand a chance of mitigating the tail spin we're in...it's going to take big blue a long time to work out the other side, maintainers and pilots need to double down on these things so we can get our people out the back end of this. Hard to watch...try hard to teach those coming in/learn from others how to protect yourselves from stalling airplanes. It was only within this decade this highlighted itself, and we have clearly not done a good enough job mitigating it. Maintaining airplanes is completely separate, but synergies often...you get what you pay for. Ask a lot of a little and you'll get less than what you need. They're going to keep racking up...do what you can to make sure it isn't you. Sometimes it's just already written into the cards (so recent history proves). If there is anything you can do about it (more focus on boldface, more attention to stall training, do it). Be humble, seek out knowledge...you don't know it all and any of these could easily be you with very little variation. Be safe out there, ~Bendy

All nine made it home today...