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Gatornation is melting down...

Just let Napier stay through the season please.

The Air Force is trying to divest whole airframes. There wont be another trainer. The best to be hoped for is congress stops the t-6 divestment, forces a full ARP, and we go back to GUPT.

Just my two cents but joke is kinda a strong term for the T-1, concur with breadth and experience / MC-12 program AMC could fill that gap sts with a Project Liberty like new MDS, a super liaison aircraft program. All new graduates of FUPT would go there first before reporting to their FTU for their assignment awarded out of FUPT. Finishing school for Mobility pilots. Lotta reps while executing valid mission requests. Small regional airliner for routine air land support, all civilian training before their tour begins. Buy the jet with the capability to operate in low threat environments if required. Liaison, medevac, ROBE, stand off launch platform, etc.. hard points for pods for those missions, nothing deeply integrated into the existing systems, try to keep it low risk, expense to develop. E-175 E2 Freighter be an example, probably 40-60 tails. Get each pilot 75 sorties then on your way. 0.001% chance

Is it a provocative tweet...absolutely, and intentionally so. It forces the Democrats to continue defending the wrong side of an 80-20 issue to most people on the streets in big cities run by Democrats over the last century. It's curious how the last 2x times the Trump 2.0 sent in troops, in Los Angeles and D.C., Karen Bass and the LA City Council, Gavin Newsom and the CA Congress, and Muriel Bowser and the D.C. City Council, all remained in power and continue to this day in D.C. to exercise their rights and responsibilities as the duly and freely elected civilian government. I mean, if Trump wanted a takeover, he would physically remove the government and install a puppet local government, ala Iraq in 2004 under G. W. Bush in the immediate post-OIF op. I think Johnson and the fat billionaire Pritzker will be physically ok as their lie of "what else could we do?" is exposed against crime. Emotionally, they'll be slaughtered, but physically, they and their families will be fine. This experiment in freedom didn't turn to shit just because G. H. W. Bush, Lyndon Johnson, JFK, Eisenhower, Woodrow Wilson, Grover Cleveland, Hayes, Grant, Lincoln, or Jackson sent in federal troops to local municipalities since 1807...lots of precedence in support of it. Until there's a direct and actual threat against elected governments, I'm less than concerned about troops moving in.

The one positive is if a T-6 only FAIP fails PIT it’s an automatic FEB waiver and they get send to the MAF

The T-1 was a joke to fly, but it still gave you breadth and additional stick-and-rudder experience. And I was further improved as a FAIP by my time in the MC-12. You already have to overcome the myopia of being a FAIP to excel in the job, and this just seems like it'll make it nearly impossible. If there's no T-1 replacement then either all FAIPs should come from T38 training or send them off to get a couple civilian type ratings. I remember some pretty disheartening decisions when I was in AETC, but I truly feel bad for the students and instructors who will have to dig us out of this mess.

Only MAF allocated T-6 FAIPs are T-6 only. CAF T-6 FAIPs are still T-38 trained. (Read better pilots) The last AETC/A3/6 signed a memo authorizing it countersigned by the HAF/A3T.

I hope Trump added Ride of the Valkyries to that as background music.

Just wanted to point out something everyone seems to gloss over with the reduced T-6 syllabi/IPT nonsense -> FTU T-6 FAIPs are now T-6 only and instructing at every base besides KSPS. Good luck everybody else!

I like the Huey five ship.

All the pilots forced to be in this video were the last to say NOT IT. The ghost of Rainman lingers...never talk to the media!

Still doesn't know how to act in public...shocking.

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They certainly do. I saw a snippet somewhere that there was a $2.1 billion contract to upgrade our T-6s over the next 10 years. Maybe we'll have T-7s showing up by then? I am obviously not read into what the contracts with the various 141 schools are, but using their locations per diem, average cost for PPL/Instrument/Multi as they have listed, the overall program cost could be north of $130 million per year. This isn't reallocated money from T-6s. It is my understanding that the truncation of the T-6 syllabus was done to reallocate hours to getting more students through. The planes are still expected to be used at the same rate, which ebbs and flows, but isn't going great.

Let’s be honest, democrats don’t care about Chicago and other once great cities that have become shitteholes because it’s mostly black Americans killing other black Americans. If the murder rate significantly increases in white and areas where politicians live, it’ll be more important. They’ll still y’all “racism”, but they’ll start to care when their lives are in imminent danger.

That’s fine by me, quality and quantity are always in a tango with each other, I’m blazing away at the AF for trying to phone it in on UPT and ultimately pinch pennies while being pound foolish but some innovation / taking some risk by using new technology, methods, platforms is ok, but ultimately you have to want a product better than what you typically get produced by other systems We can take some risk by teaching / exposing SPs to the basics in cheaper GA training aircraft but you can never escape the fact you need a newly minted pilot trained to a higher level because of the risk, responsibility and missions demand it. The day after these guys are winged, excrement could hit the fan and they could be rushed thru to God knows what The innovation I’d pursue if king for a day (in addition to a lot of new jets) would be to accept that for a lot of reasons, the need is actually for fewer but higher quality graduates as the FTUs of the MAJCOMs are under their own pressures and having to intake fewer but more highly trained and ultimately easier to train graduates better unfornicates things getting ready for WW3.

They made it seem like the T-6 was getting old and having maintenance issues to the point of making IPT a thing when I was at Columbus. Not sure if that's accurate but maintenance was always the focal point of why we had a class sitting for weeks.

The T-6s have a lot of life in the airframes. AETC just needs to do the ARP to the entire fleet.

It's less gross than what Pritzker is doing. And that's not a joke. So far this year, nearly 300 people have been killed in Chicago. And while that number is "down," I find it deeply cynical for people like him who prefer to survey the mayhem and rule in hell while attempting to deflect attention from their utter and total failure as the responsible parties, instead pointing to a cartoon depiction of Trump as the "real problem." I'm sure when your average south Chicagoan heads out of their hooch tonight to grab whatever they need for dinner, or the family, or whatever, that person will be far more worried about the likely criminal who isn't in jail vs. some made up concern about a meme. And that points at the real, underlying dynamic at work - not a tasteless meme. That's (one of) Trump's secret weapons he uses against the Left. The point of memes like this is that Trump can point at something true - that Chicago is a wasteland - and the dems will expose their galling lack of empathy for the people who are actually suffering by scapegoating him. He is their ultimate totem. Their panacea to every ill. That's the root of TDS. A less cynical question you might consider is what crime has the national guard committed? If you can't think of one, I submit, you too, are suffering from TDS...because it's not Trump patrolling the streets of Chicago, himself. Right? But getting upset at cartoons is one of those things that the left has an absolute lock on. So posts like this are right on brand. It's identical in form to January 6th. Call it an insurrection. Call it WAR on Chicago. Cook your narrative soup at any temperature you like. I won't have any. The bottom line is that NONE of what the national guard has been called in to do has been illegal, or could even be considered problematic. Imagine living in a crime-ridden city and your governor is more concerned about this than about your public safety...ehh, I digress. Whatever.

PC-21 to PC-24 for heavy studs. PC-21 to T-7 for CAF studs. Makes the most sense and would be relatively easy to procure both. But the Air Force wants an "innovative" solution, not an actual solution that will produce favorable results equivalent to legacy UPT syllabus.

Do you have a problem with his policies or just his dumb tweets?

A ENJJPT IPT CONOP was briefed/being briefed to the latest steering committee meeting. I haven’t asked the guy what the outcome was. I know there has been some “talk” about how the T-6s are all owned by the USAF, so if we get rid of them, tough shit NATO has no choice. They are also the last base to get the T-7 so they would keep their T-6s last too. To your final point, this came up in 2020-2021 at the HQ AETC level. Air Staff stated FTU/Ops is a separate issue, pilot production’s job is just to produce 1500 pilots, it doesn’t matter how long follow-on takes. Or AETC cuts the syllabi to produce more wingman/copilots.

-An American city in flames. -Trump depicting himself as LTC “Kilgore,” a fictional character defined by sadism and lunacy. -A name change from the Department of Defense to the Department of War, and a threat that Chicago…. Chicago, Illinois, USA, …..is about to find out why. But let me guess, …..you guys still think this is fine. Totally normal behavior, no? People that find this unconscionable and sickening just have TDS. “Mean tweets” is all, right? And after all, come on, whatabout Hunter’s laptop???