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Write ups: "Rear ejection seat - Ops check good" "Canopy scratched and will not close properly."

In the F-15E, the ejection sequencing valve wasn't put into AFT INITIATE until the before takeoff checklist anyway.

(the watch is for a Martin Baker ejection)

Never in 19 years have I seen a fam/incentive/PA rider not get full seat/equip training/briefing. I’m sure this person got the full training/brief, they just fucked up.

Are they better? Yes. Does it take some getting used to/practice, also yes. Do what Busdriver suggested. Best practice suggestion I have is, in addition to finding the front sight first (then you also find the dot), make sure you are bringing the gun to your eyes and not your eyes to the gun (e.g. hunching or manipulating your neck/head to alighn your eyes to the sight). With some practice, you’ll not even notice the iron sights.

Get a Holosun with the ACSS Vulcan reticle. Hands down the best reticle for fast acquisition.

I'll never go back to irons on any weapon but you're 100% correct in that losing the dot is a very real thing and takes lots and lots of dry draw/fire to get the hang of it.

Usually. I've personally seen folks TDY show up to ops, get a flightsuit and equipment fitting then step to the aircraft. This was many moons ago also. In my personal experience, I didn't receive any training. Not saying it happens for every flight, just that it happens.

I have a G19 that I put Ameriglo sights on. Orange front sight comes on target pretty quick. I lay my surefire next to it on the nightstand and the glow in the dark rear sights tell where my light is. Shoots great for me. As for optics on a handgun I find it harder to conceal. SOCOM had used the G19 for years though with the M17/18 available I don't know if they still do.

nunya's comments are good. But would you like to know more?.... Red dot is target focused (your eyes) at all times. If you have trained your index correctly, it is much faster and more accurate. If you don't train your index, it's pretty easy to lose the dot. The larger windows are nicer to use, but it doesn't really make a performance difference assuming you don't lose the dot. If the back side of the reflex glass gets misted over, or a water drop in the wrong spot, it is possible that the dot will stop working (doesn't reflect correctly). That's where the various enclosed emitter dots come from. Actual suggestions: Setup your pistol with back up irons that co-witness in the lower 1/3 of the window. They're useful for finding the dot as you learn how to use the setup, and a backup if the glass gets foggy/misty. Practice the draw to presentation/index, A LOT.

Egress training is required and so is a pilot brief prior to step. This is a prime example why the seat sequencer is set the way that it is for fam flyers. Hopefully she didn't hurt anything more than her pride...

This is very easy for me to say from Retiredville but it may take several whistleblowers (IPs and recent grads) who contact media, sympathetic congressional leaders for top cover and inform the public, civilian leadership that what the GOs are selling is just bullshit. For whatever reason, the people who should be and should have been skeptical of all this nonsense have let them get away with it, like 60 Minutes and the F-22 guys telling their story, someone(s) is going to have to risk their career & give an unvarnished, plain language explanation of the problem. Public shaming of the AF at this point is probably the last thing that could be done. It could be what I listed above but also a public advertisement(s) in appropriate places (military news sites, aviation news, etc) comparing recent historical UPT/SUPT to the recent iterations and comparisons to what allies and enemies are doing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I know incentive riders can do wacky things and I have no idea what happened in this case... but you're fucking up if you don't put the fear of god in them regarding the ejection handles and the seat in general. I don't care how much egress training they got, every incentive rider I ever flew with got another cockpit fam brief from me and I personally helped them strap in.

In UPT I recall a story told by the IPs about a female cadet who getting an incentive ride in the T-37. As they got back to parking the IP said "Ok, let get out" - the cadet gave it the old - HANDGRIPS RAISED TRIGGERS SQUEEZED. Supposedly she survived because she landed on the elevator and it broke her fall with a partial chute.

They usually receive Cockpit Fam and Emergency Egress training utilizing a cockpit trainer prior to flying.

What was I not supposed to pull again?

I remembered this. It's a year old. From your beloved San Anantonio

I helped strap in many a incentive rider in the D model and was very surprised at the little amount of seat briefing that was given by the various pilots. I got a ride a few years in and dude just said hey you're a crew chief, you know the drill 🙂

Does he get a watch and scarf?

I think we need to stop kidding ourselves that anyone in senior leadership is concerned with actual skillsets or experience. What is happening is very simple: We can't maintain the jets we have and we can't acquire new ones in a reasonable timeframe. At the same time we must keep the slides green at all costs. The only answer left (short of offloading the entire operation to the civilian world) is to retcon what a UPT grad is. It costs AETC nothing to churn out crap and dump it into b-courses across the other MAJCOMs. B-course instructors will still wash out the weak swimmers, but at that point finding them a new home is an ACC/AMC/AFSOC/AFGSC problem. AETC's hands are clean (on paper) and the brass at Randolph have figured this out. They can even pitch the UPT cuts as #innovation and cost saving to keep the (even more out of touch) GOs in the Pentagon happy.

Now I'm hearing it was a recruiter...

Video without having to go to Facebook. Looks like the canopy landed on the back of the jet...still sitting there as he taxied back to parking. Rear seat still smoking...I guess he/she got the full ride! AQMaJyCMc_233nvxeiAODeOwwEuAiq9Vri1TK7WR2uG0yGiaLhNPl4cLUy5A8BhYrqls1nYnW_bw4UCOY0sbKPVLxkFKid3TAVVesf5PAr4FAg.mp4

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

Rumor is it was a PAO...

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