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Just notified, received an ENJJPT slot. 4th times a charm. Hopefully everyone will get good news today. Sorry I didnt get anymore details, the room was kinda spinning...

UPT select! Good luck everyone!

I would love it if they were no-kidding fired, and walked off of the base with cardboard boxes in-hand. Previous experience has shown me that SES folks are never exactly "fired." They're just given new, less visible jobs elsewhere on the base.

Got UPT!!

Just found out. ENJJPT. Wish you all the best!

Private companies should be able to do what they want, I don't harbor ill will towards them. That doesn't mean I will shop there. Still better than Hillary.

This is all effing stupid. The AF would save millions by doing a few simple things to retain people. 1. $100k/yr bonus 2. No 365s 3. 4-5 year assignments 4. Hire civilians to manage 95% of queep in each squadron These “solutions” the AF are pursuing are terribly expensive, and will cost much more than retaining your experienced and trained pilots. Plus, what could go wrong with an AF full of inexperienced pilots with nobody there to mentor them?

Thread revival......because well....I’m still bitter and what’s going on now makes part of me smile.

And ridiculing those nations who flew only 10-15 hours a month.

I worked one day this month and averaged $2000/flight hour*. *Results Not Typical. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited.

True, but includes both downrange sorties and RPA flying. Not joking.

Tell the story...

Hire civilians for queep: I think we have all seen a plethora of examples where a GS is hired... is absolutely incompetent at the job... and can't be gotten rid of. No, simply get rid of the majority of the queep.

I spent a lot more than that on hotels and booze rushing. Plus you can resell it for $400 when you’re done and it will have been free. Hell put an ad up on a cork/white board in W100 next time you go to WP.

Two out of last three AFSOC Commanders were NOT pilots.

Agreed, he says all kinds of crazy shit. Which he might believe at the moment he is saying it, but who can know? Still better than Hillary!

06 W11H. Palace chase has been approved all the way up through AFPC. Front office thinks I should get official notification without issue in a couple of weeks. I’m very surprised it has gone this well so far. Best of luck to others trying. Luckily our functional is shit hot.

We received a briefing this morning on this, and I think it did a lot to dispel some of the complaints voiced in this thread. For the last month, an OT&E team has been flying sorties breathing ambient air and undergoing endless medical analysis before and after each flight, NASA has been involved sampling cockpit and mask air quality, and maintenance has been tearing down OBOGS to try and find a source of the issue. Below are some of the highlights from that briefing. 1) Only TCTO compliant aircraft will be flown with OBOGS operational as normal. Breathing cockpit air was not approved by AETC nor recommended by the OT&E team. To answer those who wondered why this was such a big deal when other aircraft fly unpressurized without oxygen, it is an FAA airworthiness certificate issue. Without the OBOGS, the T-6 would not be considered airworthy by the FAA without an amendment. 2) The TCTOs are a "millimeter by millimeter" (their words) inspection of the OBOGS from the engine air inlet all the way to the mask. It replaces parts to make the system as close to factory new as possible. 3) This is not the end. No causal factor was found, but the OT&E unanimously agreed that returning the OBOGS to a factory new state made them comfortable flying the jet. Flying is still volunteer only at PIT. 4) The top six of the T-6 SPO were fired due to mismanagement of the program and a fly-to-fail mentality. The zeolite bed maintenance interval has been aggressively reduced from 4,500 to 700 hours, and the new SPO is re-evaluating other fly-to-fail parts on the T-6 to possibly set replacement intervals. 19 AF is also using this debacle to highlight the ISS and EFIS issues. 5) The future: The team considers this only the beginning and are still trying to drill down to a single cause. From what the briefer said though, the OBOGS on all of the jets inspected were absolutely horrendous (kinked lines, valves stuck in the open position, evidence of water in the lines, general dirt and gunk, etc), and 79% failed the inspection, so there might not be one silver bullet. The incident T-6s are all still impounded, but an Edwards AFB test team will begin inspecting those independently and in parallel so the two teams can compare notes. Honestly, I was pretty impressed with what the team has been doing this last month. There were a lot of really smart people helping with this, to include a NASA test engineer who has made a career out of OBOGS issues. It also received visibility all the way up to the VPOTUS. My biggest misgiving is that they never found a single causal factor, but I am not surprised given the fact that the entire system was basically never inspected since the plane left the factory. I think the 19 AF initially fumbled at the beginning of this grounding a month ago, but since then a lot of good things have happened to make up for it.

In other news, AFSOC adds 40 GS positions to headquarters staff.

22k is the average I'm seeing. Anything less than 20k still has that new plane smell.

This is 100% accurate. Worth the read. https://www.aviationbull.com/2018/feb/26/airline-pilot-second-year-review

I hear there is a lot of open airspace, and a big runway near Lubbock, Texas...

You know I just came across this thread today and it's interesting to see those poll results given the current issues that the AF is having with retaining experienced pilots today (2-3 years after that poll and thread). It would be interesting to poll all the pilots leaving and ask how much TAMI-21 had to do with it. Also sorry for the folks here with TAMI-21 PTSD, I don't mean to induce flash backs of flesh peddling trauma.