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  1. Please tell me 02-14 had some kind of epic friday patch that offset the kool-aid drinking nerdiness of that patch.
  2. creatine is on flight med's no-no list, will it show up on blood work, unknown, but probably better to err on the side of caution.
  3. You do not want to go active duty then. The majority of active UPT students will NOT fly fighters, it's as simple as that. In classes of 24-26 students, 5-7 at most will go -38s and most classes have at least a couple guard/reserve students who must track -38s. Your odds are marginal, even if you're an above average student.
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    Pro Cycling

    @ClearedHot Emerald Coast area? I'm headed to staff at hurbie in a few months, looking for info on riding groups/good routes, etc
  5. This isn't new. When Dream On and I were baby FPs the story was the same. I cannot tell you how many senior folks told me, "### threat? We won't even take off if it is active." It is on you to develop yourself into someone who understands the bigger fight and how the 130 will be involved. From the AFSOC side of the house, I promise you it will be and AFSOC doesn't have the MCs to go it alone without the slicks. Be the FP who is in the vault, reading and prepping. Its not glamorous, hell, many days it won't be fun, but you'll start to set yourself apart and you may find yourself flying a bit more because you make yourself stand out as the dude who is trying to challenge themselves and those around them. Ask your ACs and IPs to incorporate more difficult threat scenarios, find your local patch and see if they can help, or at least point you in the right direction. If you are uninspired, then find or make your inspiration, if you are waiting for someone else to do it, you have a lifetime of disappointment ahead of you.
  6. In 50 sorties you flew with 120-140 IPs? How many AT, 88, 89 sorties did you have?
  7. Perhaps I should have further elaborated. There is absolutely value in training via a simulator, and it *could* aid in significant performance improvement in UPT. The caveat is exactly what Pooter is discussing above, it must be used in a focused, methodical manner involving some sort of curriculum. Simply playing around and doing barrel rolls and loops in a VR sim is useless, I watch students do it constantly each day in the squadron. I see students screw around for an hour in the VR sims supposedly rehearing a formation sortie only to royally bomb the sortie the next morning. However when another IP or I sits next to them and talks them through training goals, forces them to set up properly and rehearse, and hold them to performance goals, there is noticed improvement in their performance in the aircraft.
  8. Generally, a waste of money from a training standpoint. Prior to UPT it would have limited value. You may be able to practice maneuvers, but without knowledge of standards and techniques you'll be expected to perform under during UPT, the training is negligible at best, negative at worst. Once you begin UPT you will have nearly unlimited access to exactly this type of set up. At Vance there is a lab in each squadron with multiple VR simulators and each flight room has one of their own. You will be encouraged to use it as much a possible. As far as having one a home, you will be better off just reading the pubs, working out, and getting a good nights sleep.
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    Pro Cycling

    hope so, I'd love to see an American GC contender at the grand tours, but a 5 stage Oman win is a far cry from 3 weeks of pain in the tour/vuelta/giro. Hopefully Movistar will give him support, the only other name on their squad this year is Enric Mas.
  10. They are both internet blowhards attempting to make a name for themselves by throwing shit on the wall and seeing what sticks, over the bodies of people's friends and loved ones. Jumping the gun, bad guesses, they cover all the bases of poor incident investigation.
  11. If you’re headed to Vance, msg me and I’ll be happy to chat Everyone teaches form.
  12. I've seen a lot of follow-on promises in 13 years...take guesses as to how many actually came true, I'll wait.
  13. Vance still does a Friday winging/grad ceremony. The dinner/banquet has been dead due to covid, there were rumors of it coming back, those have died again.
  14. ~100 hours in T-6s, around an additional 40 in the T-1.
  15. at least for fighters, the syllabus is longer, 96 hours in the T-6 versus the 60ish they got in the legacy syllabus plus a full T-38 syllabus
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