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di1630

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  1. UPT 2.5 seems like growing pains in a transition that I think needs to happen. People need to get used to training different than we have. These kids will get to FTU in a few years and find much of the training is sim based and BETTER than flying the mission because we don’t have any 300 mile long airspace to relocate reality. They’ll be the generation that makes it better, as right now the IPs have baggage from thinking flying must be better. I appreciate the updates from you guys firsthand. My UPT 2.5 grads do just fine in the FTU very little difference noted between them and traditional.
  2. State income tax question: When I separate from Active duty and I’m working airlines and reserves, what are my options? I have a home/business in WA which has no income tax, will commute for airlines but also own a home in AZ where my wife works and I’ll do my reserve job.
  3. Was on Hollywood blvd this morning and almost every neighboring side street has tarps and tents with garbage and filth everywhere. I thought the homeless problem was being overblown by right wing media until I saw it in person.
  4. I saw that Horizon air starting FO pay us now as high as legacies…how long til legacy carriers bump up?
  5. My 9 yr old called me a racist when I told her to eat her asparagus. Teaching moment, I asked her if she knew what racism was. “Dad, that’s just what my generation says when we don’t like something” Thanks leftists for making racism a joke.
  6. Trust me…I volunteer my time on the support side of base to make sure they actually support ops. I walk into offices daily and wonder why we pay 5 people to do the job that one ops capt could do. I actually told the base commander he should cut 30%….he laughed. It’s pretty much welfare disguised as govt employment
  7. My estimate….You can cut 30% of the people with zero mission detriment. Most of the people complaining are lucky they aren’t rotating tires at Walmart.
  8. Im leaving AD for the reserves, how long do I have for my moving allowance to HOR?
  9. What’s your airline seniority have to be to get that type of deal?
  10. I’m not so sure. If I were doing MCO CAS in a hog/viper, I’d want F-35’s helping let me know if anything was out there so I could avoid or egress the AO. The ALR-69 is about 35 yrs past it’s prime.
  11. I’d tell the army to just write off the F-35 and use arty based on what I see. There is so much USAF pro F-35 fanboy bad info out there such as “well in a high threat environment only an F-35 would be able to do CAS” spread by inept generals. That’s crap. If it’s a high threat environment the F-35 will be doing SEAD until it’s low threat enough to do CAS…at which the F-35 sucks balls with wall to wall beast mode GBU-12s. I’d much rather have block 30 vipers and A-10Cs doing the CAS with F-35s in support doing what it was designed to do well…SEAD. I don’t want to be anywhere close to the passive AAA/Manpad CAS threat in the F-35. I’d rather stand-off and use sensors and help other survivable platforms hit targets.
  12. Yeah, I’ll need to disagree with you here. IMO the F-35 is sh-t at CAS. Is it the poor CAS weapons choices? Is it the pilot vehicle interface? Is it the community not having a good understanding of CAS? It’s all of the above. I can’t think of really any CAS scenario I’d rather be in an F-35 vs an A-10 unless the CAS was specifically taking out air defenses which would make it more SEAD.
  13. The article says 98% of cases are admitted dude on dude contact.
  14. Would be horrid but for those of you who didn’t know, they don’t count a non-taker as: -Anyone who separated in ‘22 -Anyone who set a separation date So basically it no longer accounts for a bunch of people who might have otherwise stayed meaning these stats are complete sh-t.
  15. Careful on listening too closely to “experts”. They do things like put B-1s in CAS stacks and say F-35s are just fantastic at CAS. I can saying having flown 3 types of A/G fighters, the A-10 is hands down the most suitable to support ground forces. That’s only if the pilots are well trained. Ukraine probably needs artillery more than anything else.
  16. I haven’t heard how well the Ukrainian AF is doing but there is no better platform for doing all of the above than the hog which can survive the low alt man pad/aaa threat and go low to mask (ie what it was designed to do) 500+ knots is rarely any more survivable than 325 knots (that’s the real level A/S when loaded down) vs a Mach 3+ missile. And at sone point to deliver weapons, the jet needs to unmask again, speed and hot exhaust is not helpful here
  17. Yeah sure, outdated mig 29s slinging dumb bombs would be much better. Hogs would probably be better than anything they have but like 99% of air forces out there, they want fast/loud jets vs the MQ-9s and light attack they truly need.
  18. I was at Nellis last week at a ceremony. Mask nazis out in full force including a fat shoe clerk that went out of her way to complain to management at the class six that I wasn’t masked when I walked in not knowing I needed one. Just insane. No mandates at Luke except in med group. If I need to wear a mask to work, I’ll work from home when not flying = pool day like all the shoe clerks during the pandemic.
  19. I bought 5k in crypto when it went down in Feb…watched it go to 8.5, now it’s at 3.2. Just play money but I’m not sure it’ll ever reach predicted peaks. It’s funny the people at the sq bar who lived talking about all their gains when they bought at 30 and it shot up to 60 are silent.
  20. SOS is where pilots learn how inept *most* of the AF really is and why everything outside a flying sq is a dysfunctional sh-tshow.
  21. Don’t you have TSA pre check?
  22. Anyone ever fly vr-1355 the top gun low level? Specifically looking for where the steep mountain climb was filmed on it.
  23. di1630

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    Anyone here have usaa funds with Schwab and now can’t access the non-usaa account summary on their website?
  24. If the USAF can train a pilot out of a person they had to CONVINCE at the USAFA to go to UPT because they met min quals, then the USAF can train up someone motivated to be there. People all up in arms because it’s not how it “always was”
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