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Gen Sam Cox had moved on just before this. GC should be able to ask him easily enough. Perfect example, I was one of the non special leads that punched in VSP1 at 12 years to the day. sounded like a bit of a hertz donut. "You should ask the SOLL II Commander in Charleston back in 2006 about when none of his 6 Left Seat, Evaluator pilots got school slots that year and they all took VSP because a barrage new "co-pilots" in the C-17 from KC-135 cross flows and AF Intern suddenly made them "average" on the Wing and OG Strat list. That was my first real eye opening experience where I saw that the AF had no real focus on actual pilot retention when the Wing lost what you could argue were 6 of its top pilots."

GC, if you know any history, Consider the Misty pilots of Vietnam. You chop up that group that numbered 157 in total, just like any other overage du jour. Feels fair, if feelings matter. This method gives you more mcpeaks and less of what you really want in the long run. But, the tradition of looking fair is more important than actually serving the taxpayers best. Great job, again.

Did AMC just cut the ANG down to one crew in their system at a time (per unit, edit) like they did to AFRC? Seems AD and contract lift are get all the work and we are back to token pine sitters.

AP's Robert Burns closed a Hagel-based nuke article with a quote of TC's blog in the Sunday papers.

Screen shots of balance sheets and 1.0 or it never happened.

New Belgium Trippel Tasty Ale.

WORDS THAT ARE DIFFICULT FOR A PILOT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. Innovative 2. Preliminary 3. Proliferation 4. Cinnamon WORDS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT FOR A PILOT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. Specificity 2. Anti-constitutionalistically 3. Passive-aggressive disorder 4. Transubstantiate WORDS THAT ARE DOWNRIGHT IMPOSSIBLE FOR A PILOT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. No thanks, I'm married. 2. Nope, no more booze for me! 3. Sorry, but you're not really my type. 4. No thanks, I'm not hungry. 5. I'm not interested in fighting you. 6. Thank you, but I won't make any attempt to dance. I have no coordination and would hate to look like a real fool! 7. Oh no, I must be going home now as I have to work in the morning.

The Military Could Use Your Help Looking for a Drone It Lost in Lake Ontario BetaBeat By Jordan Valinsky 11 hours ago A $4 million military drone plopped out of the sky into Lake Ontario and now nobody can find it. The National Guard reported that one of its flying robots plummeted into the eastern part of the lake around 1 p.m. yesterday, but had to give up searching for it because of bad weather. http://news.yahoo.com/military-could-help-looking-drone-lost-lake-ontario-144230402.html

Cessna strut braced wings don't normally EVER fail in flight. The taildragger flies on top of the nosedragger's left wing, with it's landing gear hitting the trailing edge and belly hitting the top of the left wing. (180 hits 182). 182's RIGHT wing fails upward, flops up and over its fuselage, into the prop of the taildragger, which sets one of the fuel tank alight, plus the rest of the 182. Well, now I know what can fail the wing of a strut-braced Cessna. Good thing there was no "Wee Too Loww" involved. Someone can add another verse to "Two's Blind".

GS-14s let O-6s think they, the GS14 work for them, the transient O-6. O-4 stands not a chance unless crimes are occuring. GS-14s "always" supervise, I believe. ymwv.

Is he the one that sat 8+ hours on the Aetna ash cloud that closed my bros' destination and alternate (genius!) No doubt lost in shift turnover. Gave them a 2 day Italian getaway.

Hop in the C17 sim some time and give A/R a whirl. You are at LTS with plenty of 'em, no? Follow the $ trail, not your service pilot instincts, for the thread.

Vertigo, You are NOT supposed to use a selfie as your avatar, really!

2300 vs 700nm Enjoy the easy ATP hours.

The ACA is a mandate. It is also a rediculously expensive step to socialized single payer. Soon docs will know what it's like to be an airline pilot! It will take your social security from you if you are say under about age 50, in my opinion, but you will keep paying FICA and pay for more expensive healthcare, of lesser quality and access, for those that have worked their life to have access to it. I was no fan of the inflated healthcare costs to give all access to at least the emergency room. I am no fan of the lack of tort reforms driving up an increment to healthcare. Since congress couldn't actually work the problems, just kick the can, it's a hollow loss and hollow victory. Unless you really travel the world, you don't know of the dollar's true decline in the last 10 years. You won't see it in your stock portfolio directly, but if you take your nice 10-20% gains and do not realize it is in part because the dollar is falling so you get more of them and are at the real average 7% gains- stay in school. The slick trick is dropping folks off full-time employment to avoid the ACA burden on employers; dropping the growth of private sector core businesses will hide in the shadows. You'll see the military shrink to a police force again, and stay there, in the next few years. Making a full time work week around 32 hours will be the final move to socializing the sheeple- of which the vocal four or so here might catch on at some point. If you lived the 32 hour work week under "this sequestration", you can only imagine what the more vocal sections of the work force will dredge up when it hits them. There won't be enough disposable income to grow the middle class or move around big business. Killing the true middle class will make us look like every other country. (edit you to "your" and expense to "expensive", plus a few cogency clean-ups. Getting lazy w/ a real keyboard and no autocorrect!)

That attitude defines all the bad stereotypes I could ever waste my breath or keystrokes by tossing toward your general direction. Congratulations, YOU are part of the problem.

All sent to the C-17?

2. IMAX 3d is well worth it.

2. We put that on our epubs study material section of the iPads along w/ the summary of C-141 mishaps. I do NOT want to see history repeat itself w/ the losses after years of combat and a drawdown that the C-141 suffered.

BQZip, I believe they ran the 2 steps of the four engine flameout boldface.

-1 is not written for compound EPs. 2 engine, slats and 8 degree flap is a lovely way to land. Watch the weights and speeds. Damaged radome, all engine, 2 basic options. Unsure if the erroneous speed or altitude readouts gave enough clues or indications. Radome damage, multiple thrust losses, test pilots.

Of the three times I've had to stop the flying crew chief from cycling an engine shutoff switch in flight when I was pointing out and writing up an EEC fault in flight- had he done so over Pakistan, the stalls "would" have cleared sooner with less damage incurred to the engines- in theory. And for the lurkers on the MDS- yes, I know "how" it "can" be done. On old fashioned multi engine jets we'd also just shut her down and maybe airstart an engine, if later desired. They have not fixed the 150 radar's software issues- it does over-present in Auto, and if you use manual you don't have the predictive windshear mode. I hope they'll figure out some "gain" settings magic in "Auto" that can be easily taught. It would be a start to fly a legacy radar next to the 150 radar in and around the type of weather at altitudes that pose the most issues. The checklists are better now, as a result of your experience, as is the training.

http://www.marvgolden.com/mg-16-military-to-g-a-headset-conversion-kit.html Assuming you have a boom mike on your hemet already, you are probably going to need a way to make your voice heard- If you have a paddle-shaped low impedance mike from a Herc, without something like the link- you are going to hear the laughter but not be able to transmit your quibbling. eta- if you can't handle a screwdriver or get some help at AFE- you can try this for a few bucks less- http://www.marvgolden.com/mg-14-military-to-g-a-headset-adapter.html

http://eaa.org/news/2013/2013-09-26_warbird-pilots-step-in-to-honor-fallen-airmen.asp

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/09/oktoberfest-2013/100596/