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Rumor is that the F/O popped in Sweden doesn’t drink. https://www.chicagocriminallawyer.pro/blog/the-impact-of-keto-diets-on-dui-breath-test-accuracy/

My first FC1-related appt was lab work back in April, a few days ago i got the approved FC1 with "pending MFS" like you mentioned. I don't know all so now im questioning if that means i have to go back to Wright Pat? Anyone know? As for the blank box like Parsons mentioned, i can see it being additional space to write things but i opted not to based on last years 215 where the blank box was actually where we put our name like box 19 states. Seems like a clerical error and i dont want to portray to AFPC that i didnt have enough room to fit everything so i found extra space to include a bit more. Apples to apples i guess. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

From start to finish, mine took 7 weeks (with a waiver required) Luckily leadership at my SQ helped make things happen. If able, sit down with leadership and probe the possibility of expediting things. SQ CCs have connections and the ability to call people most others cannot. I made the mistake of calling HQ and it almost ended badly so do not follow directly in my foot steps... that said, the squeaky wheel often gets greased. As for your personal statement on the AF215... there is a high probability that your wing commander has not seen your package yet. If I were in your position I would ask my SQ execs to call over to the DCO/GP/WG execs to see if there is an option to modify your form. It is my assumption that the Pilot Board takes everything into consideration; a blank white box that gives you the freedom to express your intent or display your acumen may come off as you not caring or a lack of SA on the paperwork.

Yeah, I ended up leaving it blank. Everything is turned into the Wing, so we'll see how it plays out! How long did it take you to get your IFC1 certified (pending MFS, I'm assuming)? I'm also currently deployed and got the run around from the deployed EMDS, which was super frustrating seeing as I'm currently medical, but I digress. I ended up going to Ramstein a few weeks ago and getting it knocked out. Hoping it comes back quickly since I shouldn't require any waivers. It sounds like the board is a little more flexible with deployed members in terms of expecting their IFC1 to be certified prior to the board suspense, but I don't want to push it too much.

What happened to "nose high goes high"

SIG came in WAY under what the other test submissions offered. It also offered the modular functionality that the others didn't.

If that's the case, I am at a loss to understand why we didn't just buy the G17 and G19 and be done with it. It's a 9mm pistol that 99% of the time will never be used.

The added manual safety doesn't have any effect on the M18 over the 320. The 320 was/is having issues without the manual safety. You aren't wrong that the safety is a dumb govt requirement though.

Quality control is a plausible explanation why others arent able to duplicate in significant numbers. Maybe a part in the safety mechanism is prone to excessive wear leading to failure. Either way, if this is a failure of Sig they need to be held accountable.

From what I've been able to read, all the FBI testing was essentially inconclusive due to the testing requirment modifications that needed to be done to the guns. Couldn't entirely rule out that the modifications didn't exacerbate the problem. Where there is smoke, there is fire. Zero reason to field/employ this system because of that. The AF got 125,000 M18s for about $150 a pop.

Sounds to me like the military took a high quality product, demanded it be changed to suit the idiocy of some of our members who should never touch a gun in the first place, then were surprised that the product doesn't function like the OTS product. SiG makes excellent firearms. So does Glock. We should have just picked an OTS product and bought it outright instead demanding it have an extra safety, which is what I understood happened. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Everyone call/email your reps. Unlikely to pass with GOP control, but still a huge threat to constitutional rights. The Dems yet again show their desires to completely unravel the constitution and turn us into a one party-rule, socialist shithole.

In other news from the Communist...I mean Democratic Party. Democrats have put forth an amendment to the Appropriations Bill to raise the NFA tax to $4709.

Done. I'm currently on long-haul international and do the round the world in a week trips routinely. 9+30 with only two guys in a pax carrier wearing a uniform the whole time and not able to use the restroom without an assist is brutal no matter how you skin it.

I know, which is why my inclination is to be suspicious of the P320. But there's a difference between a couple of maintainers spending 20 minutes on a maintenance issue and hundreds of gun enthusiasts, YouTubers, Federal officials, military officials, and gun industry engineers trying to unravel a mystery and coming up with nothing. I'd say it's 50/50 whether there's actually something wrong with it, which is to say, who knows 🤷🏻‍♂️?

So recently a buddy (Captain on my shop) was accused of being drunk by one his FAs. He found out when an ops guy stepped in the cockpit and asked him to step in the jet bridge. After a quick discussion, all of the 4 or 5 ops people were like clearly this dude isn't drunk. So much so that they said it was unfounded and were going to let him fly. Wanting to prove he wasn't drunk, he wanted a breathalyzer. However, after a call to the union, they said do NOT take a breathalyzer if they're calling you good. Reason being that if he hit a false positive, it would open up a can of worms he didn't want to deal with. Hadn't thought of it from that angle. Either way, he said fuck that, I'm not flying with this FA so remove him or me. He got to go home with pay from 4 day.

Sig is about the get their ass eaten (prison style) in the PR domain. A holstered weapon needs to be 100% inert, too many credible reports of this not being the case. Already some shooting courses are denying entry for participants using the 320 on a liability basis. I’d expect that to cascade and spill over into agency rejection. Not sure how Sig is holding onto their mil contracts at this point. G19 remains undefeated.

The ol' "could not duplicate". Nothing more comforting than taking a previous code 3 jet with CND in the forms..

Is the seagull going to be okay?

It's only insane because the training is minimal, but carrying a holstered weapon with a round in the chamber is the standard if you actually worry about having to use it. That's nearly universal. I'm not entirely sure what the huge threat in a pressurized aircraft is, but one more 9 mm hole in the kc-135 would have been very little to change the performance. Maybe if everyone on the plane unloaded every magazine into the same structural spar something would happen, but planes don't explode when you poke a hole in the skin, at least not the big ones. You know there are a lot of people flying around in airliners everyday with rounds in the chamber, right? Suicidal? Do you conceal carry with no round in the chamber? I don't bump into many people who follow that philosophy anymore. Of course a big part of it I suspect is because all the gun manufacturers have been creating guns that won't go off on their own no matter how hard you shake, hit, throw, or beat them. I absolutely love my sigs, and the fire like a dream. They also just look good. But it seems like they really shit the bed here with the 320. It is curious however that everyone seems to have such a difficult time recreating the problem when they're actually looking for it.

Breathalyzers are notoriously prone to false positives. The reason the US uses the .08 standard isn't because we're okay with people driving around buzzed, it's because if you arrest everyone you test who has a .02 you're going to be arresting a ton of people who are stone cold sober. Blood tests are what have actual evidentiary value.

The Charlie just looks better.

Try 4 ocean crossings in 6 days, 2 pilots + FE. Then add a 1200 mile commute home.

He was on my (and others) No Fly list BEFORE the incident but for other reasons.

Real airline pilot talk! This pilot is junior to me so no gain for this guy. 🤣