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“Station calling Djibouti???!!?”

I was being a bit tongue in cheek…y’all are thirsty for these car porn pics. Unfortunately no supercar lives under our roof. A meager LO206 kart is the best we can muster. Kid was in the seat, had to ‘shop her out.

I just flew a trip to Venice with a Captain born in Bologna, Italy. Obviously he speaks fluent Italian. He could not understand the heavily accented Italian controllers speaking English just like the other two of us in the cockpit. Kind of hilarious.

Ok they are running a trial / experiment, is that the environment where you are going to get data that you can use to make policy? A training program, run in a foreign country, in a jet that the USAF does / has not flown and flown I suspect primarily with non US military IPs… this is not going to be the process you will use, is it really a representative test? If it were a USA based USAF instructed in an aircraft the USAF operated and/or was ready to run a larger training program in if the SGTO batch worked out, that were truly representative of an average student pilot and not some ringers they hand pick I think you would have a better case to run with this idea. Edit: no offense intended to DirkDiggler, just posting my two cents on the experiment and it’s execution being conducted

A Chinese national was recently detained after entering Kadena AB via Gate 2. I'll add the link once it works.

Good afternoon, everyone. Has anyone heard from Tulsa yet? I’m guessing it’ll take a while to sift through apps, but the first rush is rapidly approaching. I hope to see y’all there!

One hard part imho will be mixing with manned aircraft at un-towered and minimal equipped ATC facilities at many 3rd world airports

Well if you've ever briefed/executed/debriefed with Italians you know exactly how it's gonna go.

This. Been part of the plan for at least a 1.5 years or more.

I had posted about this a couple pages back. These are trial groups. AF wants data on how students will do going from light singles/twins straight to a fast jet aka the eventual IFT model (light twins straight to T-7).

How does one merge AF acquisition shenanigans of/for pilots with a new level of Italian-Acquisition 'bravate o imbrogli'? And are the Italians contractors now?

Last photo tile should caveat *10-20 years ago*

They seem to have no idea how to run the enterprise anymore.

Every time I think the AF has hit rock bottom in screwing up its training enterprise it figures out something else to go that much further Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What in the actual fuck...

Somehow, they'll still manage to require a navigator and a loadmaster for operational missions.

Renewed my FAA medical two weeks ago. The AME reviewed my intake documents and said...."hair color brown....still sticking with that huh...." Ouch!

https://www.flightglobal.com/defence/usaf-pilots-to-train-at-italian-flight-school-in-historic-first/164331.article

If any other Air Force acquisition is an indicator, that number is fairly high.

Supposedly Ron Howard is in pre-production to film this. I wonder how true and accurate it will be given how bad the Navy will look and how liberal Howard is.

For both of us....what a great couple of games. Love watching you guy crush Bama...and the way their fans melted down... epic!

well one had a good outcome and the other most assuredly did not.

no physical injuries, noted. Dude should earn a callsign out of this, no?