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I don't think anyone knows, unless it's in the comm. More than likely it's just an accidental altitude deviation. Keep in mind, they're flying over a river at night (extremely limited visual reference for height), trying to shack an altitude with very little margin for error. And then being asked to look for traffic and visually separate from it. These procedures are no-step stupid.

Quoted for truth. From blues is the normal office uniform, to everyone is a warrior in BDUs, to blues Mondays. Masters, no master, masters, no masters. Uniform inspections, OREs/ORIs, etc. etc. etc. A wise man once said, "learn to notch" and focus on the actually important shit.

for anyone that is remotely competitive, go here: Practiscore Click on "matches" at the top. This is the website that almost every competition shooting sport in the US uses to schedule and advertise. Find a close IDPA or USPSA match and sign up. Bring whatever gun and holster you have (no shoulder holster though). Make sure you have at least 2, better 3 mag pouches. Just buy whatever uncle mikes crap at the local gun store, they suck but you'll figure out what you want later. Show up and tell them you're brand new. Enjoy trying to reload those magazine after your first stage.

CH, have you considered an AR in 9mm? When USPSA added a pistol caliber carbine division some years back, people were screwing around with all sorts of stuff. Basically everyone now shoots an AR feeding from Glock mags. JP rifles even makes a roller delayed version if you want.

Because people have their heads up their asses. There is no need for a conspiracy, this accident isn't hard to figure out.

100ft of discrepancy can get eaten up real quick with instrument error, location of static ports on airframes, and a sneeze. Keep in mind, it isn't just an NVGs limit peripheral vision thing. Airframe parts block lines of sight. In this case the "A pillars" and windscreen framing on both aircraft. The procedures around DC are stupid.

The procedures in that area are stupid.

This is back when MTV Unplugged was a big thing. This one always struck me. If you have a nice set of headphones or fancy speakers with a nice soundstage, the full length intro on streaming services is worth it over the youtube. The applause and microphone placement really makes it feel like you're on stage with the band.

Anyone who doesn't think China and Chinese companies did what was necessary to get their hands on the GPU horsepower required is naive to say the least. The top of the line GPUs in the fall of 2022 were fairly hard to get initially, as Nvidia prioritized getting as many chips to China as possible before the ban went into effect. I imagine many of those 4090s did not end up in gaming computers.

NBC is reporting the water temp is around 35 F. Very not good.

Your original words do not match your later point. QC problems in existing fabs is not the same thing as behind schedule with their new process node development. Neither is particularly good, but they're not the same thing. I was unsure if you knew something else that I didn't know.

Thanks, I did read that, forgot. There was some back and forth about what yield level represents production ready. Still, not production. More like "it turns out jumping past TSMC isn't as simple as buying the latest Dutch wonder printer.

5.7 is a stupid cartridge. The PR57 is stupid like a fox though.

I got that. Surely mentioned actual fab fails and quality control problems. What I know: In the early portion of 13th generation Core i production, a summer monsoon fucked up one of the Chandler fab's HVACs and seriously fucked up a bunch of stuff (corrosion, etc). Other than that, they have been having one problem after another with their designs. But I'm not aware of chronic QC problems in the fabs themselves.

I'm aware of the fab contamination thing in early Raptor Lake, beyond that what fab fails? Design fails abound though.

Point of order good sir! A 5" government model makes a fine club once it's empty. A 1911 shooter is never forced to resort to fisticuffs.

Understood. I thought your additional perspective would be useful for the rest of us. There's so much in maintaining big AF aircraft, that the giant gap between what is just normal or annoying to an C-130 maintainer turned CV-22 maintainer, might be stopping the rotation of the earth level to an Army 60 crew chief.

It requires a B-Stand to access some stuff. And its a lot taller than a 60. I'm not slinging hate at you, just observing the inherent perspective difference. Even with the guy that hangs out on an AF forum.

Like a stone. Technically Audioslave. Sue me.

Not entirely. It keeps them from developing nukes.

Meh. I think it's more likely that people are freaking out over nonsense. Lots of pictures/videos of lights and obvious helicopters set to stupid music. FAA compliant lighting on aircraft over Allentown, PA totally makes me think of a secret military project. Drones are legal to fly at night. Larger commercial drones are going to be a thing. I would guess this is just people noticing the emergence of a new industry.

I guess what I mean is going through the temp MOA seems to remove the asterick. It's still beyond slow. NEPA for a new activity in an existing MOA is 2-3 years or so. In that process (exercise EA) we got a temp turned permanent. DM has been working an expansion of a MOA since 2018 or so. I haven't heard anything about it in a long time, so may well be DOA.

Temp MOAs annoy the FAA for some reason. They'd prefer permanent. But those are harder to establish due to NEPA. And the hippies will always complain. So the trick is to make a temp MOA, use it alot until the FAA gets pissy and offers to make it permanent. Profit.

I saw that, I'm inclined to think we'll know they're really hurting when they drop the age again.

Are they still at 25 year old to get drafted?