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. If I had a dollar for every time I had to do an in-flight calculation down to the millisecond, then desperately needed a watch to do it... I'd have negative $69. Pilots are cool. Watches are cool. Pilots like watches. Done. Don't overthink it.

Don't worry about the odds. If you want a T-38, put that as your #1 choice and see what happens. While I agree with our bros here that realistic expectations are important, don't psyche yourself out at the fear of possibly not passing in a follow on trainer. If you aren't willing to challenge yourself, you'll never really improve and will end up as that copilot/wingman for life. Secondly, if it's been your dream to fly a fighter/tanker/helo/whatever, don't look back later on in life and wish you would've at least tried instead of taking the path of least resistance. My $.02

Never thought about it like that before...Thanks for the insight. Excuse me while I go throw all my watches away.

Funny you use the word wisdom here. Depending on what you're struggling with in T6's it may actually be wise to request a T-1. I'm not saying that one is better or more difficult than the other. Some people just do much better with a crew to lead and to support them. Also, there are many important missions for AF pilots that don't require 90 degrees of bank in fingertip. I've personally known a number of people that probably shouldn't have gotten a T-38, went anyway, and ended up without wings due to T-38 specific struggles. I'm not saying they would have gotten through the T-1 syllabus, but they never got a second chance to find out.

In the days before standardized coordinate format, I know a dude who got a silver star for gonking seconds to decimal minutes in the jet with a cheapo Casio wrist calculator

1) The troll made a sweeping generalization about analog vs digital, which is not the same as mechanical vs quartz. Analog watches can be quartz or mechanical. Breitling makes chronomtre certified watches based on quartz movement that will be more accurate over time than an everyday quartz based digital watch (barring radio update, the time keeping equivalent to GPS-updated INS guidance). 2) As Jarhead pointed out, chronometre is a specific category of accurate timepieces, which is why I was so specific with my example to counter the troll. 3) Omega and Rolex make analog chronometre certified watches that are self-winding mechanical. Accurate mechanical analog watches are out there, it's just that the trend is $$$ required, hence the rise of radio compensated watches with inexpensive quartz innards. 4) I don't know what other people do, but I use my watch for rough TLAR timing and as a backup... and the jet for the real thing. I think that about covers it.

It depends.

No, most of his stunts are done by a little known stunt double named Tom Crooze:

They will be if AD starts to mobilize them to teach the Afghans and other such wastes of time.

That's fine except Lt's aren't real people.

No sir, thank you for preventing that. Obviously everyone who has graduated under your tutelage is certified "tool free."

So now we'll finally get legislation through Congress...only to be vetoed and sent back where there won't be enough votes to override....and the cycle continues...

Is the stunt willingly getting aboard an Airbus?

Surprised an A400M got off the ground period.

False, an A400 couldn't get off the ground with Chuck Norris on board.

Pshhhh, Rambo did the same thing in First Blood Part 2. Over the top of Commie territory.

How many tanks do you have and where are they located?

This thread took entirely too long to devolve into dickmeasuring. You guys need to up your game. Chuck

You're trying really hard, dude. Why not get off the interweb and try doing something that's actually worthwhile?