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    The new airline thread

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    On 10/7/2019 at 5:29 PM, Danger41 said:

    Do airliners give you the 1.3 Vs out of some computer and it varies each time or is it a consistent speed?

    The mighty MD-88 has speed cards in a holder on the dash.  Flip to the one with your gross weight listed, fly the printed speeds.  Like any true cave man.  😂

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    Best deployment location.....and why

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    7 hours ago, nsplayr said:

    Had a buddy "deploy" to Curacao flying the -135. I thought he was on vacation when I saw pics of him and his wife snorkeling haha. Not sure if that even counts but it seemed pretty damn sweet.

    Yup.  Best trips ever.  We’d work the schedule to have one crew fly the first week and the other fly the second, effectively giving you a week paid vacation.  The diving is the best I’ve ever done.

    Amazing how one good-deal trip like that made up for a lot of time in the sandbox.  Now almost all of the good deals are gone, including Curaçao.

    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

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    13 minutes ago, slackline said:


     DUI is a DUI. Those can be messed up, but it’s more rare that it is messed up than it is that the member is guilty of DUI.

    One mistake is a horrible way to lead. Allowing people to continue to progress in our AF at a time when getting a DUI is so clearly understood as to be wrong and dangerous... That’s not a mistake. That’s a crime. It doesn’t matter how stupid anyone things the BAC is, or how it’s unfairly low. Unsure how that is still questioned.

    There is a huge difference between “charged” and “convicted” of a DUI or anything else.  

     

    Are you saying if someone was pulled over for DUI, went to jail for the night but was later acquitted for lack of evidence, faulty equipment or improper procedure, that you still consider it a crime?

     

    What about a pilot who does a flyby at 800’ instead of 1000’?  He knowingly broke the “law”...so it’s a crime, not a mistake, right?

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    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

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    8 hours ago, slackline said:


    So for everyone saying there are ways to beat this, and how easy it is I’m curious. Are you saying a member should then be reinstated because they got off on a technicality? Maybe I’m misreading the trending comments, but I don’t want any idiot who will drive drunk in the AF. I don’t care if they beat it on a technicality. I would have zero mercy...blah blah a bunch of self-righteous words...

    You’re damn right they should be “reinstated”.  They are innocent until proven guilty.  That’s how it works around here.  A “technicality” may be blind ass luck or a poorly trained officer or whatever, but if the proof of guilt doesn’t meet the standard of law...that person is innocent.  Period.

    “For the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.”

     

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    B-2 Spirit info

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    10 hours ago, tx_flyer said:

    Any B-2 pilots on here that want to talk Pros/Cons of B-2 life? I'm a current MAF guy and am interested in applying when the next board comes out.

    Not a B-2 guy, but if You never deploy and fly T-38s as a side chick...how bad can it be?  Plus it’s fun to say you live in Knob Noster, MO.

    I imagine having B-2 time on your airline resume wouldn’t hurt either.

     

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    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

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    Posted · Edited by Bergman

    7 hours ago, 08Dawg said:

    Why now that’s he’s been nominated as VCJCS and not when he was put up for STRATCOM/CC?  Not saying it did or didn’t happen, but the timing is fishy. 

    Or better yet, when it happened!!  According to her statement, he got his special general sauce on her yoga pants somehow.  Guessing that would have been irrefutable evidence.

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    Promotion and PRF Information

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    On 7/11/2019 at 10:12 PM, Right Seat Driver said:

    Devil's advocate, not every non-flyer deserves to be promoted. With that being said, when the promotion rates for rated dudes are 6.9% less than the non-flyer's it sends a message to the rated force.

    The Air Force is in the business of projecting power and blowing shit up through airpower. I can't speak for promotion rates in the Army, but I am certain my few Army Infantry buddies would have the same complaints if the combat arms branches in the Army promoted at lower rates than the non-combat arms branches.

     

    On 7/11/2019 at 8:16 PM, chili said:

    What?

    See RSD’s reply above.

     

    i don’t believe everyone should get promoted just because they are a pilot, but it speaks volumes that pilots aren’t getting promoted at the highest rate if they so desperately need them, especially experienced pilots.

     

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    PSAB

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    Must be getting just run-down enough the Saudis need us to come in and fix it up again. 🙄

     

    If we hadn’t bailed from PSAB, we wouldn’t have wasted another couple billion on infrastructure at Al Udeid.

    Promotion and PRF Information

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    5 hours ago, billy pilgrim said:

    For me, ever since TAMI-21 I stopped listening to anything Big Air Force SAYS and started only paying attention to what Big Air Force DOES.  For all those looking at a bonus or extending their ADSC past their UPT commitment I would fence in appropriately and do so only with very high SA.  Get your ATP and be ready with options as you get close to your commitment.

    Best of luck to everyone!

    Exactly correct.  Big Blue can talk about their efforts to solve the retention crisis all they want, but those percentages show they don’t really care.  If they did, the pilot numbers would be much higher.

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    Fighting a commander directed Q3

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    1 hour ago, FLEA said:

    Ahhhh the ol' "How many aileron rolls can you do across the MOA" challenge. What the happened to this generation. Now they just eat tide pods and put water filled condoms over our head.

    I think I got to 7 or 8 in the T-37 before realizing I was 20 degrees nose low and sailing thru 300 knots (275 was the limit I believe).  Idle, boards and max G pull saved the day.  Soooo dumb. Hahah

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    FY 18 ACP take rate?

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    33 minutes ago, MechGov said:

    Thread bump. I’ll repost somewhere else if there’s a better thread to drop this.

    Air Force still struggling with pilot retention
    https://warontherocks.com/2019/05/the-role-of-the-personnel-system-in-the-air-force-leadership-and-retention-crisis/

    Also cites the RAND study saying $100k/year is cheaper:
    https://federalnewsnetwork.com/dod-personnel-notebook/2019/04/new-study-shows-grim-outlook-for-future-of-air-force-pilot-shortage/

    My question to the masses: has anyone seen any appreciable change in climate as a result of ACTF, CSAF initiatives, bonuses, or funding?


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    This about covers it:

    “Job dissatisfaction, career dissatisfaction, frequent and long deployments, poor quality of life, non-competitive pay and lack of personal and professional development are among the reasons cited for why many experienced military pilots separate from military service,” the DoD study states.

    Pilots aren’t happy in the military and the packages the Air Force has to offer aren’t cutting it.”

    Pretty simple yet not much is being done.

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    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

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    Posted · Edited by Bergman

    On 6/10/2019 at 9:45 PM, waveshaper said:

    Ellen M. Lord = Senate confirmed position. I'm not sure if the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment is one of them SES positions? The weasel(s) that ratted out this Distinguished General probably are some of them SESes (Turds/Idiots) that are worthy of being yelled at and kicked to the curb for these minor league - BS  accusations.

    https://dod.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography-View/Article/1281505/ellen-m-lord/

    So weird that she was CEO of Textron prior to being appointed.  I’m sure there is no conflict of interest there.

    The new airline thread

    in Squadron Bar

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    30 minutes ago, Duck said:

    I guess if you could somehow take leave that last week or try to drop one week of orders you would be good?


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    Correct.  A call to the chief Pilot’s office to amend your mil duty to end early.  At DAL at least, once mil leave is on your schedule, the system locks you out of doing anything with it.

    The new airline thread

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    17 minutes ago, Danny Noonin said:

     


    Delta cares. That’s why they’re being sued for USERRA violations.


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    While the policy is for no concurrent duty, that is going to be changed (per the military liaison/manager).  Implementation is pending the outcome of said USERRA lawsuit, which has more to do with a few pilots covering their asses for gaming the system than anything Delta has done IMHO.  My understanding is that policy was put in place many years ago and was meant to prohibit concurrent flying duty specifically, back in the day when ARC pilots just flew airplanes.

    I know several CC types who routinely go to their ANG bases on 30hr layovers to do admin and the company doesn’t go after them (aka enforce the current policy).

    Having said that, Delta was definitely putting the squeeze on military members in the 2014-2016 time frame.  The manager and CPO guys doing it have been removed.  My experience with the new guys has been as good as possible.

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