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exactly what i did. yellow ribbon makes it much more valuable

That doesn't appear to be an isolated issue, get the same feel from 19AF/CC. Expecting the average stud to make the jump from 110-140kt instrument crosscheck to 300+ kt in the T-7 is not a winning gameplan. Particularly when you are assuming they can do instruments because they have already done it, and cut it from the syllabus.

oh and Leard wants to cut instrument approaches from the T-6 FUPT checkride because “sps have instrument ratings.” The waiver was signed and then pulled because the 14th didn’t have a real chance to non/concur on it. All the GOs in AETC decided to do it without SME input. Anyone from the MAF have personal experience with him? He seems to only want data that confirms his decisions. CBM isn’t doing SGTOs because this is going to scale with no way to fail and TexanWorld at CBM is sounding the alarm. Feedback from CBM is the students are being short changed.

they don’t. they are ESAs right now. the actual ipt scale contract hasn’t been awarded

Don't be a Chad. And remember, Big USN thought it a good idea to hire this guy as a JAG. https://redstate.com/jimthompson/2025/06/10/active-duty-navy-jag-outed-on-x-after-threats-against-ice-agents-n2190285 SECDEF fired THE Navy JAG soon after taking office. I doubt it'll take long to eliminate one LT, jg.

They should have called it FUPA.

LA (the city) mostly sucks. I live in Cypress CA. I'm about 30 seconds from LA county by car. Whenever I go to LA (city) I'm saddened by what a shithole it has become. It used to be a cool city 20 years ago. Now, it smells like piss and the whole city looks like that house down the street with 6 broken cars and 69 cats living in the front yard.

Someone else recommended this on another thread. Great series. Could get VERY sporty if Taiwan kicks off. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/to-catch-a-thief-chinas-rise-to-cyber-supremacy/id1798267956

Wonder if part of their resistance to the NG is they'd have to admit the peaceful protest is out of hand.

Epic troll of FSU...

Apparently, the city, country, and state authorizes are unable to control the situation and need help.

I’ll just point out the rubber bullets being fired, tear gas etc are LAPD and LASD, the wrecked cruisers on the 101 were CHP assets, I realize it is en vogue amongst the right to make it sound like the fedbois are totally isolated on an island amongst a city turned against them but that is not the case. City, county, state assets and personnel are doing their part, at the behest of state and local leadership.

FUPT… almost the right idea, good amount of hours in GA aircraft though Needs more cowbell… a bit more T-6 flight time, a new lead in fighter trainer now and a new multi engine trainer Old man rant complete Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Has the population of LA grown? Number of establishments and residences? Miles of roadways? I don't know the answers to those questions, but if they have increased, then an inflation-adjusted stable budget is effectively a cut.

Yup. But since not everything in the universe is correlated to everything else in the universe, I'll need you to expand a little bit more. There are also examples of countries that severely punish drug use, and as such have wildly lower usage rates. Again, that's not me endorsing the punishment, but to deny the reality that it *can* be controlled is silly. And there's a whole separate conversation about whether or not something becomes pointless just because it cannot be pursued to perfection. Just because you *can* get meth doesn't mean we should legalize it. Fewer meth heads is a societal good. But we can start another thread on the inanity of libertarian purism if we want to continue that discussion.

https://www.laughlin.af.mil/News/News/Display/Article/4206191/boosting-readiness-aetcs-plan-to-train-1500-pilots-annually/ TLDR; sounds pretty FUPT up to me.

Maybe maybe not, depending on the size and scale, an op like the ones the Ukrainians just did yes, a single attack like an assignation probably not Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We're not discussing this in the realm of follow on investigations. If this is used, the nation won't be worried about investigations. It will be very clear who and why.

Respectfully disagree The registration and other admin is to distinguish legitimate drones from nefarious ones, if a legitimately registered drone is used for ill, the transponder tied to a certificate is to give a starting point for the investigation. I could probably come up with more but eventually I’d start arguing for a Scorpion jet purchase to protect us against rogue drones so let’s just call it bygones Break Break Sabotage in Sweden https://www.newsweek.com/nato-ally-reveals-mass-act-unexplained-sabotage-2081784

Yes, however nobody was confused that you may or may not be holding cocaine legally. That’s the premise with highly regulating a commercial substance, same reason while criminals can get hand grenades or fertilizer, they can’t just walk into any old shop and go and acquire it, nor would an attempt to buy 1000lbs of certain precursor chemicals go unnoticed. If drones were turned into a highly regulated item, the guy trying to walk one to a sporting event would stick out pretty well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

War on drugs…pretty sure it was still relatively easy to get drugs

To be fair $1.17 billion in 2010 is the equivalent of $1.72 billion today. So it has increased, but relatively not that much. Not quibbling as even inflation adjusted the LAPD hasn’t lost money.

That's an oversimplification. If guns are 100% illegal in all circumstances, then anyone with a gun is by definition a criminal and can be engaged accordingly. That makes things vastly simpler from a defensive/law enforcement perspective. It would absolutely, positively reduce the number of mass murders, gang killings, and other firearms associated fatalities. Those numbers are very obviously shown in countries that have outright bans on firearms. I'm completely against that position, but trying to boil it down to "the bad guys will have it anyways" is excessively simplistic. This applies even more so to drones. It is simply easier to do something illegal with a tool that is legal than it is to do with an illegal tool. If we go so far as to say that civilian drone ownership is illegal, then the ROE for drones gets very simple very fast. See it, shoot it. I'm against making guns illegal because I believe in the core premise of the second amendment. The risk of government-induced tyranny is far worse than the loss of life associated with the legalization of firearms. I do not believe that premise extends to drones. I'm also not advocating for making drones illegal (haven't given it enough thought), but it's a hyper-libertarian argument to say that "bad guys will have it anyways" and almost every hyper-libertarian argument collapses upon contact with reality.