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    V-280 wins FLRAA competition

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    You guys are missing the most important win for the Army with this procurement….

    In picking an aircraft like the V-22 we game the system on how it’s hours count to getting an airline job, substantially solving the man power problem we are facing with the current loss of personnel to RTP.

    Winning….


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    I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not. Tilt rotor time counts toward ATP mins since 21 Oct 22.

    https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/21/2022-20328/recognition-of-pilot-in-command-experience-in-the-military-and-air-carrier-operations

    The new airline thread

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    With the airlines starting to pull out all the stops to hire retiring/separating military pilots, does anyone know if there’s talk of waiving or making a military competency exam (like they do for the commercial certificate) for an ATP certificate?


    I know a guy who put together a package to show MAF training was equivalent to doing the ATP-CTP. He was basically told by big AF to stop his efforts.


    Besides, you already don’t need an ATP to get hired. Lots of my friends were hired with just the written. All that said though, the cost of an ATP is a very tiny entrance fee to a good job.

    KC-46A Info

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Not a tanker guy so pardon my ignorance, but why the “tanker” in quotes? And is a 48 hour mission going to destroy a jet because that’s just absurdly long duration or what?


    Because that thing is barely a tanker unlike the 135 or 10. I assume that fatigue would play a part since that’s a lot longer than AMC bubbas are used to operating. But maybe the bunks are super comfy or something?

    KC-46A Info

    in General Discussion

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    Another thought/data point to consider in this discussion: 
    Years ago, there was great fanfare in the bizjet community as many manufacturers designed and certified some of their less complex aircraft for single pilot ops. Today, the number of these aircraft that are actually operated single pilot is exceedingly small. Why? It’s often impossible or prohibitively expensive to get insurance for such operations. Why is single pilot so hard to insure? Because the safety record is fukkking abysmal. And that’s for relatively simple aircraft that were expressly designed to be operated by a single pilot on relatively short A-B legs. Now, take an inexperienced kid who probably wasn’t at the top of his UPT class, put him in a 767, and ask him to do a complex mission that may last upwards of 10 hours and involve receiver refueling ops, a combat zone, coordination of dozens of receivers, bad weather, night, and systems degradation and/or emergencies. Sound smart to anyone here? This dumb idea has got to be somewhere in the top ten epically dumb ideas of all time. But hey, someone’s probably hoping for another star on this one, so what the hell, why the not? Not that guy’s ass on the line. In fact, I’ll bet a hundred bucks that the brass that’s pushing this garbage will be the first in line demanding heads on a platter when guys inevitably start bending metal. EPICALLY. STUPID. IDEA. 


    I don’t know how to fly without an FE to get the lights and speed brakes.
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    KC-46A Info

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    The part I struggle to understand is the -46 community is airframe limited.. not pilot limited. 
    This whole thing is a (bad) solution in search of a problem. We got generals concocting weird scenarios in their heads where the AF is somehow super flush on FMC Peggy's with no one to fly them. 


    I’ve heard 66.66666% (repeating of course) of Peggy pilots at one base are non-current for receiver AR.
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    DoD Realizes Paying TCNs .75/hr to do hard labor is probably human trafficking

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    Probably.
    along that line, it was interesting to see when KBR got the award for Djibouti many years ago and let go a few hundred locals that the locals effective blockaded any KBR vehicles from entering/exiting the base, forcing KBR to rehire them.  Local PD did nothing.
    Another anecdote, one month in Salem, a few TCNs spent a few weeks busting concrete using two pieces of rebar, one to hold against the concrete, the other to hammer with.  No formal tools, like a chain gang.


    They’re called OCNs now. Come on, man!
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