herkbier

A King Air would be a solid companion trainer for the C-130 community, and I’d imagine the rest of AMC. It would make an excellent Phase III trainer. You could have a program where guys from the MWSs fly with almost done with Phase III UPT students. Sort of like a top off thing. The UPT studs should be pros in the airplane at that point, and the MWS guys have the airmanship and basic competency to fly as the left seat in a relatively simple twin turbine. Everyone gets experience, everyone wins. All that said though, office jobs and additional duties, even for copilots and young ACs are such a time suck. I don’t know if this would be that great.

George Santos sentence commutation.. don’t understand the thought process on that one

Looks like one just crashed, cockpit looks ok. Hope the pilot made it out without serious injuries.

Kinda hard to have a good faith discussion, because as you point out, it’s just speculation on our parts. Good point, I don’t know what has changed to motivate leak(s). I can’t explain that. I also can’t explain the Trump Admin bragging they are going to expose everything and now seemingly doing their best to say it’s a nothing burger. All I can be certain of: there is corruption and rot.

I absolutely do. I believe Trump and many others were criminally involved. And I believe those on both sides of the aisle are connected and have enough dirt on each other.. mutually assured destruction I think it is called.

Cocaine budget.. you win the internet today.

If PAO, they’ll probably use a picture of a MiG-29 when they report the story.

Counting illegals is not really an error or mistake if you’re looking to get them on the voter rolls. Sounds like they did a bang up job.

Sounds like you probably made a good decision.

Standard liberal COA. Implement solution to non-existent or irrelevant problem, profit from said solution. Wait for follow-on issue to surface, create new solution, profit from new solution.

Uh, there were at least two on that flight deck.

Or… the Dems don’t want to expose their dirty laundry as well.

Sounds like it’s time to sell some more paintings

Honest take: I understand you omitted a fair amount of information to protect your identity (smart) which may change my take.. but from what you wrote, you sound selfish as hell. If you’re willing to quit on this, go ahead. It sounds like a future airline career is driving your decision making; my opinion, that shouldn’t even be in the equation. All I ever wanted to do, was fly AF fighters growing up, I can’t imagine throwing that chance away because of UPT reindeer games (I’ll obviously concede these aren’t minor games). I went through UPT when one or two guys got fighters and a large portion were sent to RPAs. It would’ve been easy to be down and depressed, but most guys and gals weren’t, they kept positive attitudes, ate the shit sandwiches, and pressed. It’s cliche, but I think there should be a little bit of Service Before Self.. I got lucky, although I didn’t get -38s, I still got to fly some incredible missions to interesting places that made differences in peoples lives—not all the time certainly, and often only at the tactical/operational level, but a handful of strategic impacts as well. I would not think of quitting over UPT syllabus and timeline shenanigans.

Gotta make sure that H model Herk gets out!

C-130s have four engines.. it’s made in the good ole USA. Easily modified. Lots of room. Can go almost anywhere. Cruises at a zippy 320T. I’m sure Lockheed could fit two VC-130Js in the que. Gen up a new comfort pallet.. easy peasey. Give POTUS his very own noise cancelling David Clark’s with sheepskin comfort liner.. luxury flying.

I’m definitely interested in how this pricing plan plays out.. it’s definitely an unusual approach. Hope it works out.

Omega?

I think sims have improved a bit where side by side isn’t as much of a necessity

Immature and amateur. Trump, Harris, Biden, Clinton.. our “choices” for the last couple election cycles have been awful. We live in the world of Southpark, a Giant Douche or a Turd Sandwich

Why don’t we let Omega buy the -10s in the boneyard and just contract out our Strat refueling capes. What could go wrong?

Gangnam style!

Much like gun laws that we have and just need to enforce appropriately.. the primes need to be held accountable. Financially and probably criminally. The primes may have a monopoly on the product, but the US government in many ways has a monopoly on consuming the product.. time to start exercising that monopolistic power.

I’m not superstitious.. but wow things come in 3s.. civ: DCA RJ, Philly Medevac, Alaska mil: DCA -60, Alaska F-35, San Diego Growler

It doesn’t really matter if the RJ had TCAS or ADS-B In or Foreflight.. the helo should have had that stuff. I have no first hand knowledge of their equipment.. but it sounds like the standard Army 60s don’t have it. These 12th AB/VIP 60s should, especially if they are flying in that airspace. And if they don’t have it, they shouldn’t fly in that airspace til they do have it. And.. even worse, maybe they do have the equipment, but fly with it disabled because of IMHO blown out of proportion OPSEC concerns.. which is what AMC is doing. Drives me nuts that I fly my Herk around busy Class B and C airspace with ADS-B off because.. China. It’s a crock of shit and we will have a mishap one of these days because we aren’t using equipment that could keep us safer in the non-tactical environment.