Jump to content

FourFans

Supreme User
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,325

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    50

 Content Type 

Posts posted by FourFans

    World War III Updates

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Interesting thought experiment I came across: What do we do if Putin tries to launch nuclear weapons, and they don't work?  We now know that a large section of China's rocket forces are inop due to corruption.  It stands to reason that Russia's might be suffering the same fate.  How do you think we'd respond to that?

    Today in hypocrisy...

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    @nsplayr You should run for press secretary.  You literally reworded and reinterpreted every question and statement I asserted.  This is the hypocrisy thread after all, so...par for the course. 

    To respond to your specific questions and assertions.

    6 hours ago, nsplayr said:

    Would you feel the same way about other things? What about professed and vocal Christians? Or atheists? Or vegans? Or Crossfitters?

    No, because the US military does not directly work for the a church, a dietary persuasion, or a fitness group.  We work for politicians, which means that our political opinions are subject to a unique level of scrutiny, as they should be.  Specifically, we don't get to disobey orders based on political opinion...though I've seen some try.  To clarify my statement about "hard over": That's implying that someone ISN'T capable of keeping an open mind and is no way willing to change their opinions based on a line of reasoned logic.

    6 hours ago, nsplayr said:

     You have has specifically stated that you agree with every policy that Biden has put into place.

    6 hours ago, nsplayr said:

    The first sentence isn't accurate.

    Not debatable.  You literally said those exact words in previous threads.  Go re-read you own posts.  

    6 hours ago, nsplayr said:

    If it's a political discussion primarily

    The green transition being physically unsustainable with current technology is ALSO not debatable and it's certainly not a political discussion.  It's a fact.  There isn't enough lithium ON THE PLANET to sustain only the USA's intended EV transition.  Again.  That's a fact, not a political debate.

    6 hours ago, nsplayr said:

    I think my unit handles any DEI issues well

    Not the question I asked.  I asked how it impacted your unit, not how your unit deals with DEI issues.  Has going to mandatory training about 'you are white and you have prejudice that needs fixing' (a direct quote from DEI training at my southern, mostly white AFRC unit) hurt or helped your unit moral or unit capability?  Is the unit better able to accomplish it's mission because of this training?  

    I'm glad to hear your unit is able to remain focused on the mission.  I'm curious if you can tell if the current senior leadership is focusing on social issues instead of mission ones.  It was clear to me and many of my in my cohort.  It wasn't good.

    Today in hypocrisy...

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by FourFans

    9 hours ago, nsplayr said:

    I am in charge of both, thanks 😃

    Do you seriously think that Democrats are not in the military or in other positions of authority? New flash, people of all political stripes serve and do so well. My politics has little to do with my service in uniform.

    A fellow pilot on my team is a HUGE Trump fan and we joke about it all the time, but we work great together. He gives me shit, I give him shit, we fly the mission, etc. We'll be checking different boxes on election day 2024, but pretty much every other day we're fully aligned on killing our nation's enemies and protecting it's friends & interests with airpower.

    If that seems weird or foreign to you, I in turn hope that you are retired. TYFYS.

    In my opinion if someone is hard over "I'm a democrat" or "I'm a Trump supporter" or "I only vote ...insert party or single topic here..."  should be exempt from any form of command.  That sort of mental ossification proves the lack of dynamic thinking that should be mandatory for leading people.  It kills credibility and approachability.  It proves that said individual is willing to become beholden to an ideology, no matter how unrooted it is from social impact or scientific fact.  

    It's not that you can't have strong opinions.  But when those opinions are so publicly displayed that your subordinates are made keenly aware of their importance in your life, you become unapproachable to at least 50 percent of your people.

    To paraphrase Heinlein: The hammer should have strong opinions in the how it's used, so long as it's lawful.

    @nsplayr you have has specifically stated that you agree with every policy that Biden has put into place.  So you are in command of people.  How has DEI impacted your command?  

    Beyond that, do you still adhere to the idea that a green transition is a good idea, even though it's been proven impossible by the simple math of lithium required (we don't have enough on the planet) or the fact that Germany (the country farthest along in the 'green transition') has so failed in it's transition that it has de-transitioned back to using lignite coal and having it's residents burn wood which are the absolute worst carbon producers?

    You lead people: your words.  You are a hard over democrat: your words.

    Do you recognize how declaring a hard over political line (regardless of party) undercuts your credibility as an approachable leader?  

    Logging Training Sim Time (C-130J)

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by FourFans

    32 minutes ago, LookieRookie said:

    The military determines is own qualifications for currency.


    That has nothing to do with valid FAA hours for an ATP.

     

    As well, to have the legal ability to count as hours for an ATP, the device needs an FAA ID, which C-130 sims dont

    Alrighty then.  I must have been wrong.

    Logging Training Sim Time (C-130J)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:

    Are you military? Are you breathing? You're hired. I made a single cover sheet with a summary of hours, and handed that over with my Air Force records. I let them do the rest.

    Exactly.  In none of my interviews were there any serious questions about logged time. 

    The only real sim question were the interviewer asking about how we taught in the J, as students did a full IFR qual in the sim.  Not sure if that's the still the case.  He was an old school herk driver and was curious.

    Logging Training Sim Time (C-130J)

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by FourFans

    4 hours ago, LookieRookie said:

    This is completely wrong.

    I work SIMCERT stuff on staff.

    AMC self-certifies its sims to level C+/D “equivalency” (AMC has its dets go to the FAA course) but none of it is FAA certified.

    The time counts for nothing and do not put it on your apps.

    Interesting.  No offense to you personally, but I have never, and will never trust a single word concerning real world level details I I hear from any staff...because I worked on multiple staffs.  As of 2020, the line guys doing sim cert for the C-130J sims at both LRF and BIX disagree with your assessment, seeing it's was possible to gain and maintain currency in the sim.  Granted, that USAF checking USAF and the FAA doesn't care.  However that was backed up by the FSDO at both Little Rock and Birmingham as I asked them that exact question in person.  However, I don't doubt that that they could have been wrong.  I've met more than one federal staff expert who knew nothing about C-130J stuff while being responsible for C-130J stuff.  Is your work AMC wide or specific to an airframe?

    Beyond that, I completed and passed eight airline interviews from 2019 to 2021.  Sims and sim training came up in three of them and I asked the exact question about sim time counting, and one guy told me that if he saw nothing about sim time in a logbook he saw it as a sign the applicant was either fibbing or lazy.  The other guy in that interview agreed and acted as though the other guy had just given away a secret.  That's where I come up with my 'log your sim time' advice.  It ain't total time, but it is training.

    It is what it is, but C-130J sims are currently still the best I've ever flow, and I got a different type rating in one FAR worst while training at MIA.

    I reserve the right to be  corrected.  What exactly do you do on staff concerning simcert?

    World War III Updates

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by FourFans

    Dude I’ve got a CONUS-Dubai leg coming up in a week.  I’m kinda hoping I get to see the OCA push from WAY far away.

    Better yet, make me divert.  That always leads to some nice bonus money.  Especially in that particular cornhole of the world.

    Logging Training Sim Time (C-130J)

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by FourFans

    2 hours ago, Dapper Dan Man said:

    Do you have an alternate reference that says they count as Cat C or D? Would be interested to see it.

    I’d have to defer to the sim cert team at LRF.  My knowledge dates to 2020.  That’s the last time I was in the know with those guys.  They’ve since PCS’d on.

    2 hours ago, Dapper Dan Man said:

    The Mil version of the C-130J no longer qualifies you for the L-382J type.

    Well ain’t that about a bitch!  I got it put on my ticket in 2019.  Seems dumb not to have the equivalence.   Anyone here tried to get a 382J type recently? It felt like every all C-130E/H was utterly unique, while every J is exactly the same still.  Can’t see how a 382J would be any different than a C-130J.  I’ll bet it’s the block upgrades.  6.0 and 8.x are treated as different quals by the USAF.

    Logging Training Sim Time (C-130J)

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by FourFans

    C-130H and C-130J sims are certified Cat C or D (Full Flight Sims) sims and count for sim hours in the civilian world for maintaining currency.  Yes there is a civilian type for the C-130J (L-382J type rating is different than the L-382 type).  Yes, there are civil carriers that operate the C-130J.  They exist, the end.  If you doubt the certification of all the C-130 sims, go look up the Sim Cert folks at Little Rock.  Certifying our sims to an FAA standard is literally their entire job.

    It's sim time.  Log it and keep track.  It doesn't count toward total time for civilian companies (though there may be a few exceptions).  Don't expect to get anything for it though RIGHT NOW.  Realize that at the drop of a hat the FAA or some airline you might fly for in the future may want to see that sim training, or even count it towards some time counter they track.  The civil aviation career field is known to be ossified and immovable...right up until it changes over night.  Be ready.

    Long view: It's professional training you've accomplished.  Keep track of it in your own logbook.  If you don't have a personal consolidated logbook (all civil, UPT, mil flying) start one.  You're a professional and that is your professional resume and professional journal.  I've met more than enough airline pilots who stopped logging their own hours when they got hired at their "forever" airline, only to be shocked years later when they needed to find a new flying job and had to scramble to make sense of the 'flight log' that their company kept.

    Pro Tips: DO NOT TRUST USAF HARMS RECORDS TO KEEP TRACK OF YOUR FLYING  Keep your own logbook.  Also, yes it will be years before your log PIC time.  That's normal.  Don't fudge those numbers to make it look like you've got turbine PIC before you should.  Airline hiring shops see right through those tricks.

    • Upvote 2

    Today in hypocrisy...

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    58 minutes ago, Day Man said:

    care to cite some? the only one I can think of is Mattis who basically resigned in protest 

    Off the top of my head: Mattis, Pence, Pompeo, Carson, Ross and I'll even throw Nikki Haley in there.  They are professionals who had gone and actually done shit to an expert level outside of the Beltway.  Were they perfect?  Not by a long shot.  But they sure as hell weren't DEI hires or 'yes' men.  Again comparing apples to apples.  That admin to this one.  There are a few absolutely excellent players in the Biden Cabinet.  A very few.  In fact, I'd only willingly call Jake Sullivan the ONLY rockstar on the cabinet or in senior functions/advisory capacities right now.  Blinken isn't horrible.  However the talent they bring is by far overshadowed by the fact that most senior individuals in this admin were selected based on skin color, sexual orientation, or political/narrative reliability instead of professional merit.

    Point in case was this nomination for the FAA who ended up being withdrawn.  https://www.c-span.org/video/?526360-1/confirmation-hearing-faa-administrator-nominee  That's the level of competence this admin WANTS in place.  

    That's par for the course, while it was not in the prior administration.  Again, not that it didn't happen, but it was the exception not the rule.

    WTF? (**NSFW**)

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    Frankly, I'm glad to see it.  The USAF and USSF need to think joint from day one. Attending other service tactical and leadership schools is a great way to ingrain that joint understanding.  Hell, I wish we sent a good slice of USAF JAIs and all AMLOs to Pathfinder, even if they fail out.

    Today in hypocrisy...

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by FourFans

    21 hours ago, Negatory said:

    We're addressing the argument that evangelicals voted for Trump, right? You're saying that it's made up.

    No.  Not what I'm arguing. I am identifying the false argument that just because someone votes republican does not mean they have their:

    On 4/9/2024 at 6:36 PM, 08Dawg said:

    head shoved completely up the ass of a man who is both a wanton misogynist and an adulterer…but you could say the same for the majority of the evangelical right. 

    Just because someone is an evangelical who voted for Trump does not mean they actually support Trump.  I would argue that many of those votes were votes against Biden, not for Trump.  Every evangelical I've spoken too, hell most everyone I've spoken to doesn't support either Biden or Trump.   So equating a trump vote to having your head shoved up is has as 08Dawg asserted is completely asinine.  By that yard stick, everyone who voted for Biden supports letting your kids get addicted to hookers and blow and then covering it up.  Nope, not a valid argument. 

    My personal opinion is that voting 'against' something is a stupid way to vote.  You Vote FOR something, not against it.  But I've found many democrat voters who dislike Biden but will vote for him again because they personally don't like trump.  They compare their personal dislike for Trump against the political narrative that they like about Biden.  Completely irrational.  We're supposed to compare Pros to Pros and Cons to Cons.  Policy to policy, personal dislike to personal dislike, admin performance to admin performance.  How they can ignore the train wreck that's been the past three years because they have an emotional aversion to a man who is emotionally repellent yet brought in admin folks who were actually competent and focused on job performance instead of DEI, I don't know...but it is what it is, not what I want it to be.

    As for your statistical analysis: near miss.  Compare apples to apples, and read the footnotes in your own posting. You misunderstood the argument: That binary voting patterns do not tell the nuanced story that many Republican votes hate trump and that most democrats only verbally support BLM while recognizing the racist organization for what it is. Cherry picking stats from two completely different voting blocks (one set is from 2023, the other 2020), and then raging that this is a RATIONAL argument while trying to make it completely black or white is telling.  It's a nuanced subject...which is my point.  Calling all Republican voters trump butt snorkelers and all democrats BLM rioters is hideously out of touch.  Yes, I'm aware you didn't say that.  You did, however, leap to a violent and binary defense.  It's telling.

    Before you repost anything Pew, NIH, CDC, GAO or any other government agency puts out (yes they publish good stats, but context and analysis are more important than the numbers), go read these books:

    Paperback How to Lie with Statistics Book     The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

×
×
  • Create New...