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Imagine that! You have to be an officer to progress. Someone I respect once told all of us: "Look at your LES and see how much you get paid to be an officer and compare that to how much you get paid to be a pilot." It is good advice. Be good at your primary duties: officership and flying. Be good at your secondary duties: office work. You will be just fine.

Talk about a step back!

You can fly any airplane around without trim. The C-17 has certain functions in its Flight control computer that reduce or remove the need for trim i.e. Roll Reference trim, roll automatic trim, pitch automatic trim, pitch reference trim, yaw normal mode, and EOCS. The -1 puts it better under trim systems: "1-1000. The trim systems provide conventional surface displacement, selection of an attitude (reference trim), or automatic trimming depending on the axis, the phase of flight, and the pilot inputs."

This guy has some of the best A2A photos I've seen. Some of you may have flown with him since he seems to be pretty popular in this field and has a wide variety of stuff. https://focalplaneima...d-Wing-aircraft

Watched it the other day. I can see it wadding up panties something fierce, but if the theatre scene isn't even the worst/best part! This is a great litmus test on where "gallow's humor" does and does not lie with an individual. If I have a daughter someday and she talks like Roxy, I couldn't help but to be proud.

I'll take some trim.

I used out/back to MOA as an example, but grabbing the map out and doing some LATN, or even better a tactical sortie planned low, is far more than that. I remember 3-4 months ago when I came back low VFR from the MOA because I had the gas and why not? I was asked by the WG, "how'd you find that lake without a steerpoint?" Uhhh, I looked at the map and out the window. Bottom line: there is a lot of VFR flying to be had that is far more than just flying VFR on the stereo back home. Dudes need to stop being so afraid of VFR flying and man up. Be a pilot...if you start sweating at the thought of having to fly/navigate without ATC holding your hand, get a new job.

That will happen.

We were not getting lost this day...

I think the boom might get suspicious when he refuels a 4 ship, tail numbers 6901, 6902, 6903, and 6969.

12-13 drop 3x F-15E 1 B-1 1 MC-130P Kedena AB, Japan 1 EC-130 Nav 1 EC-130 EWO 1 B-52 Nav 1 B-52 EWO 1 RC-135 Nav 2x RC-135 EWO 1 AC-130U Nav 1 AC-130U EWO 1 AWACS - Tinker AFB 1 C-130 - Pope 1 C-130 - Little Rock 1 C-130 - Minnosota Reserve 2x U-28 - Hurlburt