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https://www.vansaircraft.com/2023/10/business-announcement-from-vans-founder-dick-vangrunsven/ Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

When you guys max out the 22.5k limit on TSP, where do look to put the money next? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I’ve had FTU students from traditional UPT, 2.0, the experimental UPT next and they all honestly end up about the same in the end. I’d much prefer a UPT that weeds out the weak and poor attitudes than teach irrelevant form landings and pie in the sky. Competition matters and performance under stress is needed to sort the chaff at UPT so tough flying should be a discriminator. Case in point, 90% of weak swimmers are direct to fighter guard/reserve hires who didn’t compete. Had they, they’d be no chance in hell they would show up here. The story I could/probably will eventually tell of the DEI unit hire that know they are an entitled and protected class. Cannot at the moment due to lawyers and stuff. At old school UPT I doubt this student would have made it thru T-37 solo phase. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I had to check out that crash area. America’s best go to Fitzgerald Georgia. Zillow has a house nearby sold for $30k if that indicates to you the socio economic demographic. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

https://www.faa.gov/other_visit/aviation_industry/designees_delegations/individual_designees/dpe/become Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Hahahaha…c’mon Huggy, haven’t you been around long enough to know even fake accusations = guilty? Saw a guy acquitted of false charges and he still lost his jet/career while the female kept her civilian job. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Org box?!! They have a large office and full staff. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Anyone know where I can get my favorite communist Cuban or Venezuelan colors to fly on base today? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

There are pretty strict rules defining “aerial demonstrations”, “flybys” and airshows with demo teams. No surprise someone got canned over this. Not saying it’s not cool or that it’s dangerous, just blatantly prohibited. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Motion/g’s wouldn’t be where I’d spend any effort. We have the sim tech already, we’d just rather spend it on flying hours than invest because that’s how we’ve always done it. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Sims are superior for training in many ways but you can’t replicate the “skin in the game”for deconfliction, maneuvering in IMC etc. I take many risks in the sim I wouldn’t while in the MOA. A companion trainer could bridge the gap. No its not 100%, but if I could get even 50% value at 5% of the cost, it’s still a win. I’ve flown trainers with built in simulation and was very impressed. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Heard it was nothing mission related but possibly turning a blind eye to inappropriate relations before his command that are now just coming out. Rumor though Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

It’s interesting to me that somewhere a T-6 sq is pinching pennies and in 5th gen land the waste is just incredible. 18 hrs in a T-6 = 1 hr in an F-35. Give me a T-6 with some displays that simulate F-35 systems and I could save the USAF millions per year guaranteed. But the dinosaurs in charge measure effectiveness by hours flown and FHP close out. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I don’t think you’ll need to wait that long. I think in 5 years maybe less we’ll do 50% of training (tactical stuff) in sims and 50% part task training in the jet. They are building JSE at Edwards, Nellis and Alaska and it will improve massively in the short term. Biggest obstacle is dinosaur leadership that focuses on quantity over of flying vs quality. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I hear the b model in hover mode can be very disorienting in imc. No idea the details or phase of flight but with an auto recovery switch and auto gcas, I think if this person punched for spatial d in a panicky moment there might get a training deficit. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Don’t forget fix to fixes Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/capabilities/hypersonics.html Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

You can read unclass plenty of sources in the future Im referencing if you have an open mind to change. I’d start with Army long range hypersonics, check out open source space capes, read up on adversary capes. Sone interesting naval stuff as well. Brabus is right on this probably reaching the end of conversation on some levels but lots of open source out there to get you thinking. Reminds me of when my PAS in ROTC who was a F-4 pilot got upset that I wrote a paper on computers replacing the need for WSO’s. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Meh, Russian weapons shot down an airliner in 2014 with zero European response….I have little faith that Europeans have any stomach for war or escalation. Even the Brits. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Other than hogs, does any fighter community even train to those skills anymore? I get it and I knew my post would rile people up. Try telling an ex viper pilot that their BFM foundation was for nothing or a hog guy that they’ll never get close enough to use their 30MM or better, call the F-22 a legacy platform for some good responses. Not debating fighters will be around a long time. Just that their role will diminish as better/cheaper/safer options are fielded. And they are being fielded.

Haha, I knew I’d get a few riled up here. Brabus is correct, the last fighter pilot hasn’t been born. That doesn’t mean that last fighter pilot will be as relevant and necessary as they once were. There is a reason raptors are retiring in 10 yrs, NGAD will be procured small in numbers and the F-35 but will be cut drastically from original #’s and it has to do with things like hypersonic artillary and new tech that does the job of the fighter cheaper/better/with less risk. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

In actuality, the usaf probably doesn’t need as many pilots as it thinks it does. We are stuck in an outdated model. Fighters especially just aren’t probably as necessary today as a few years back. We have better, cheaper options. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Oh this stuff is still alive and well and going on currently with an off the street direct to Fighters (go guard) hire. Poor flying performance and poor attitude to boot? Solution is to preemptively become the victim of the system. Basically untouchable at that point. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Don’t worry about not having the flying credentials of your peers….the USAF doesn’t care much about your actual flying resume. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Go check her out at church Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app