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I was A FAIP and instructed in the T-38 from 85-88 at Columbus. Most losses in a UPT class occurred in the T-37 with a wash out rate around 30%, IIRC. We would usually lose 2 or 3 students in the T-38 in the contact or instrument phase. I don't remember anyone washed out in the formation phase. There was a change in the syllabus after a mid-air during a 4 ship rejoin. Those going to heavies got more nav and instrument rides and the guys going to fighters did more 4 ship. Worst class I saw in the 38 was when the AF decided to push more students through and limited wash outs. We had a class come to us in the T-38 that lost students in the T-37 for medical or SIE but not much else. It was a blood bath and we washed out half the class.

When the radar is all yellow and red (and magenta if you have turbulence detection), which way do you turn for weather avoidance?....Kermit apparently doesn't give a shit and extends the middle finger (prop?) to Melissa.

Good a place as any for this.... Time to cut down on uniform flair? https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/overdue-for-de-norkification-of-our

Can't recall exactly. Go on the U.S. website for Glock. Search for Blue Label or you can go to their map for Glock dealers and look for the dealers with a blue circle with a B in it. Call them, ask what guns they have in stock under the Blue Label program and they can tell you the price. (Program is called Blue Label because the label attached to the box containing the gun is a blue label instead of the normal white.). You can also submit information to Glock and they will email you a complete list of guns and prices including modification costs if you want them to upgrade the weapon.

For those that don't know, the Glock Blue Label program is a really good deal for active and retired military.

I think Trump was going to allow the IDF to invoke the Gen. Lemay theory of "You kill enough of them, they will stop fighting." After the Israelies put a missile into a building in Qatar probably with U.S. blessing, supporters of Hamas had to take the theory seriously.

The New York Times..... Now there is an unbiased source of information.

I'm headed back next month for a re-attack. I'm take that under advisement.

How many 1 Liter beers is "a few?"

i just had a Frankfurt layover in Mainz and NONE of the chicks looked like that. I'm obviously doing something wrong.

I hope Trump added Ride of the Valkyries to that as background music.

Carry insurance, what's everyone using?

I just flew a trip to Venice with a Captain born in Bologna, Italy. Obviously he speaks fluent Italian. He could not understand the heavily accented Italian controllers speaking English just like the other two of us in the cockpit. Kind of hilarious.

Years ago, ended up at Shaw to build an A/OA-10 squadron with 17-ish Lt.s converting from the OV-10. These guys are fired up, fangs out, and ready to learn. Friday night at the club and Lt. Gen Horner, 9AF/CC, shows up with his entourage of flunkies and hangers-on and they sit at a giant round table in the corner of the bar. I noticed Horner had his hat hanging dangerously halfway out of his leg pocket. I grabbed one of the young lieutenants by the collar, pointed at Horners hat, and told him his mission was to put that hat on the bar. He throws himself on the floor and commences to low crawl towards the 3 star and remains unobserved as he picks the hat from the pocket. He successfully egresses with the hat then heads to bar depositing the hat and ringing the bell. An announcement is made asking "Is there any 3 star missing their hat? Please see the bartender.". Horner sends a minion thus scoring negative points with those in attendance. I'll add the Gen. Fogleman had his hat polyurethaned in the A-10 squadron bar at Osan and would show up on Friday night to buy a round.

It's been a few years since I instructed in the T-38 but the guys with flying experience, including WSOs (usually #1 in their class) but not Navs, did better than those with no flying experience. More flying hours in anything is better than no hours. No matter whatever you end up doing, once you get to UPT, how you did things that one time in band camp is irrelevant and annoying. Listen more, talk less.

Write ups: "Rear ejection seat - Ops check good" "Canopy scratched and will not close properly."

You are going to have spell out SRO and RMRcc. I'm not a gun collector. I've only done military handgun qual far too many years ago, the school in Artesia and requal shoots for the FFDO program.

Currently got open sights (set up like the FFDO weapon) but contemplating a red dot on a Glock 19 and I've never shot optics on a hand gun. Opinions for and against red dot sights.....and..... Go.

So there is a correlation between operating multi-million dollar high tech war machines and a weed trimmer or lawn mower? My John Deere mower and Stihl trimmer are both over 25 years old. How sophisticated is lawn maintenance these days?

They copied the uniform from Star Wars, the group name from Guardians of the Galaxy, anyone want to make a prognostication on the new badge? I'm going with the widget looking thing from Star Trek.

Are you suggesting the beer, the gun, or both would be required to engage in such behavior with the aforementioned educator? Admittedly, a lot of coercion would be required.

Bitchin' Betty's voice probably went up a few octaves on that one.

If you do international, layovers are long enough to still comply with your double bottle-to-throttle standard. I've stuck with 12 hours and the only problem I've had was when I was reassigned domestically after hitting an Irish Pub in NY and I told the scheduler I wouldn't accept the trip because it is inside my 12 hour rule. Scheduler goes nuts screaming its legal so a Chief pilot calls. He asks if my 12 hour apples to sign in or push. I tell him I'll accept push time and the flight gets slipped. You are right, money is too good to be stupid.

No idea where this jet was in the movement process such as arrival or departure but let's assume it just pushed back. The crew is listening to the ground push crew (it does not appear anyone was on a headset with the crew but there are Bluetooth set ups now) and ramp or ground control. Unless one of those two entities told the crew that a lunatic was approaching the aircraft with the intent to throw himself into an intake, the crew had 0 visibility under the wing or close to the fuselage and had no idea this guy was there. Hard to react to a threat you never saw.

Haven't watched Capt Steve.