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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???

Absolutely agree, no way 350 tails can support the FHP requirement for 1650 USAF students, plus 100-ish international students, CT requirements, FBF, and PIT. I doubt FUPT was even a consideration back in 2017/2018 when this buy was being decided. Anyone know if ENJJPT is just going to keep chugging along with T-6s and T-38/T-7s till the end of time? Or are we somehow going to convince that conglomeration of allies that FUPT is the way? Final question...at what point are we going to fix the FTUs and OPS units ability to absorb in-experienced pilots that they already cannot absorb? 1500 pilots is great an all....but what are we gonna do with them?

Ha - nope but I get it, another consequence of letting our aerospace base consolidate too much, not enough domestic suppliers with heft to adequately compete with each other so for smaller fleets, it’s the same companies or a foreign supplier I pushed a KA solution there as the Navy has already done the groundwork of getting the T-54, would not be a stretch methinks for the USAF to acquire it then I’d prefer a jet like a PC-24 or CJ3 but every now and then I try to keep my BO posted suggestions relatively close to feasible Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Do you work at Textron/own a bunch of stock there? Just curious because you make it a point to recommend the USAF buy their aircraft a lot.

Yup Still the heavy track getting some T-7 hours is better than none and 40+ was more than I expected. This IPT + T-7 track only is odd to me given Leard’s background, a multi engine follow on would be probably good enough to then go on to the MAF, I’ll hold hope it or something similar will come along. Type course plus some extra sims in a King Air 260 / T-54, then about 40 sorties / 50-60 hours. Night, x-country, formation etc.. experience building then on your way. Get it done quick, 2 sorties out n backs, 1 week night, 1 week form, etc… You can afford this Air Force.

There will be a second buy. Boeing is going to no lube us on the prices. As of now the total syllabus (including employment) is just under 90 hours. Non-CAF tracked studs will get around 40-45 hours.

I wonder if NK shellfish divers are like the cuban construction workers we encountered on Grenada

But Epstein!! It's the only thing that matters now, yet another conspiracy with no witnesses. I thought it had potential, but once Gloria Allred shows up you know it's a hoax.

Sounds fictional. In what peace time situation (or even war time) does the ROE allow them to blatantly murder unarmed civilians? That's either made up or there is WAY more to the story.

Who cares? It's still cheaper to just blow them up.

When I was researching the different options it looked like a very small number of cases where the "insurance" didn't want to pay were overwhelmed by hundreds of examples of people getting their monies worth from the insurance if they had to use their firearm. It's not very expensive, and even if you have to sue them after the fact to cover you, that's still going to save you a shitload of money potentially. I wasn't very fond of USCCA because of how much they spend on advertising and swag. CCWSafe is pretty good. It's like $200. I feel like a few guntubers going absolutely crazy over some specific cases where the insurance companies didn't want to pay have made it seem like the whole thing is just one giant scam. That's kind of like thinking we live in a totalitarian police state just because the YouTube algorithm will bombard you with bad-cop encounters if you let it. But most cops are good, just like most insurance claims are painless.

IDK about that (20 hours). Just my 2 cents the order of priority for training is quality of events, number of events then length of each event. Just from thin air, 60+ flying sorties sounds (X sims also) right if… the T-7 is the only mil trainer SPs will see as their introduction to military flying, each of those sorties being a 1.something but well planned with focused training objectives Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Seems like something NK would have jumped on and made a stink about.

im sure one of our "quiet navy professionals" will write a book about it.