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Calling bullshit on this one. A candidate using a teleprompter *during interviews* is mind blowing. If a Republican candidate made even a fraction as many gaffes, you'd never hear the end of it. Oh wait, that's exactly what happened with W. Bush. Does anyone really think Bush was in worse mental shape then as Biden is now? The coverage sure indicates otherwise. He's always been a moron. Now he's a moron who can't think straight. If Trump had any brains, which he probably doesn't, he would just let Biden talk for the entire 90 minute debate. Instead he interrupted for the entire debate, protecting Joe from his greatest weakness: talking.

He also forgot he was running for president today. Not intending this to be a loaded question, but aren’t Biden supporters worried about his mental capability to hold this office for at least 4 years? Everyone misspeaks, but there’s a long line of clear evidence that Biden’s memory is failing and he gets confused pretty easily for someone who could be the leader of the U.S. Is this really not a problem in peoples’ minds?

wish in one hand... Perpetual War is not the bug silly wabbit, it's the feature. Besides, those tax-free apportionments, sTrEeT cReD discounts on Grunt Style apparel, and turkey-shoot BOGO AMs aren't gonna issue themselves you see... But since we're on the Xmas wish list this early, hell tack on EUCOM to that list afaic. 😄

It's mostly right wing pundits latching onto single liners without context. He's had a life long challenge with speech and its effects: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/joe-biden-stutter-profile/602401/ https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/accessibility/471707-how-joe-bidens-gaffes-have-affected-his-campaign-and If one doesn't want to vote for Biden, fine... but don't parrot talking points that have nothing to do with policy or positions.

Yeah... it’s nothing like the F-15, despite the “digital” portion of the DEEC. In the F-35, the throttle sensitivity/flight control logic changes based on the regime of flight you’re in... and also based on settings like putting the gear down, or opening the AR door. It’s very noticeable in the AR mode: the jet basically dampens out over corrections.. the throttle needs to be moved significantly to get a small movement forward out of the jet. Think of it kind of like the throttle on a modern sports car (electronic throttle maps... “sport mode”, etc). A “fun” side effect of an all digital jet.

Need to be able to refuel gear down around the boat. e.g. The boat is blue water ops (no land divert), you have an emergency or gear problem that forces you to put the gear down, and the deck won't be cleared for recovery before you flame out.

I realized I've been doing everything wrong! From soft skills to answering questions. They are very personal, and they teach you how to create a killer "tell me about yourself" answer (because that question is almost guaranteed). They teach you how to answer questions to make yourself look like a future asset to the squadron. They teach you methods on answering the questions, and you have 2 video mock interviews which they tell you on what you need to improve on. I was just like you, wondering dropping hundreds is worth it, because I was already broke from flight lessons. But it was my best investment ever. If you're not willing to give it your absolute everything to get a slot, especially during these extremely competitive times, you will regret it when it's too late.

Pk miss. The evidence is overwhelming, certainly enough to question his mental capability to hold such an office. Not saying he “for sure” doesn’t have it, but it certainly has crossed the threshold to ask the question.

They told me either is fine. I used email.

Have you ever talked to the guys who work for contractors? Especially the small boutique ones that have a monopolistic sole-source contract for 100% of some random base function? Like when CE tells you they can’t fix something without a specific company present because otherwise it’s a contract violation. All those companies are run by ex-SNCOs.

Why is Billy Corgan hosting SNL?!?

Helo only track is to satisfy the bean counters, not make the AF better. The AF already has troubles not understanding/forgetting about helicopters...this will only make it worse.

2:33 in the video. Doesn't look fun.

If only we hadn't already learned our lesson about building one airplane for all services, then having to phix all of its phucking deficiencies. Is it to late to name it the Phantom III?

HH60 Whiskey is a prime example of barely "good enough". Bringing USAF into the 20th century with PR capes.

I can attest that SoCal Approach will "assist" you by keeping you high prior to your turn to final even to this day. Flaps 40, medium brakes, exit at Taxiway E. "No problem, GI!" But there's something fun about putting a 300,000-pound fatty into 5700', then cocktails in Newport Beach in an hour.

I'm not sure why there is a negative opinion of going around in the fighter community, but it's there. A few months before the Eglin mishap I was going around the final turn and ended up too high. The F-35 does not like to slow down when descending, even at idle with full "virtual speedbrake." I was aiming short of the threshold to get on the wire but it still wouldn't slow down. I took it around approaching the overrun and am very happy I did considering that I would have been in the same low AOA landing situation that occurred at Eglin and another incident that happened around the same time. Nobody I know knew at that time about the different pitch response that occurs in that situation. When I landed the tower told me to call the SOF. I said what's up and he was like "everything okay dude, you hit some wake turbulence or something?" I said "no man, I just couldn't get the jet slowed down." Taxiing back it occurred to me again how uncommon it is for a dude to go around when he calls full stop. So much so that the SOF felt he needed to check up on me to make sure I was okay. Landing is definitely an emphasis item for all F-35 pilots now, and we now have to take it around if not on speed approaching the threshold. I also fly at the airlines and have never heard the term "stabilized approached criteria" briefed in an F-16 or F-35 squadron. I remember my first approach into SNA in the 757. During the approach brief I set autobrakes to either 4 or Max, can't remember now. The captain looked at me with a half grin and said "you sure?" I was like yeah, the runway is like 5,000 feet dude. He said okay and started strapping into his seat, making sure he was pretty secure. We touched down and I almost went through the window. Apparently there was a lot of bags, phones, and other items all over the place too, but hey, better safe than sorry.

Here's a crazy idea... What if, they were attached out to units and were a slightly useful addition to said squadron while being around operational stuff. A new and crazy idea, I know.

If I have no other legacy with my bros in the AF, I hope that my insistence on good instrument flying sticks around. I always get asked about various threat systems and capes/lims, but I always ask the questioner how many people they know that have been shot down in the last 20 years. You need to know your threats obviously, but don’t scoff the IFR environment and run into the ground with its pK of 1. If the vHUD isn’t IFR certified, why are guys being taught to fly approaches off of it? Why is it written into approved guidance (3-3) to use? This whole case has been really interesting to me. Thanks for bearing with the myriad of questions.

Oh lookie, it's children of the magenta "5th gen" style. "tHaT's jUsT tHe aDmIn bRuH". The irony of the intersectionality between 5th gen'er commentary and the PTN/UPTX.X shills does not escape me. Oh well, Uncle hindsight's gotta get back to "standing in the way of progress" and tend to my Luddite affairs now. Horse got loose from the ol' buggy in the final turn again....*shouts in the distance* "runway-airspeed-bank Stan, there ya go, watch your sink Stan...."

I'm going to utter some words. I don't post on here often. This liberal, "I'm a victim" crap that is running rampant on here is unbelievable. I am so glad I am out of the military. I worked with and was in command of the victim people. They all, without exception, sucked at their job. Because they were victims, they didn't have to meet standards. Every single one of them, didn't have to meet standards. And I couldn't do anything about it, because the victims always have a medical issue that took all of my time. Some of them were white, some were black, some were asian, some were probably eskimos or heaven forbid Canadians. But the victim people always sucked at doing their jobs. And they drained my time for ridiculous crap. Some clown in here posted their "racist" experience was when they were pulled over because they were driving the same car as a drug dealer. Not a car that I drove when I was paying my way through college, but a car with jacked up tires and a ridiculous paint job - same as the drug dealer. Dude, or dudette, if that's the best you got for racism, you are mildly retarded, how about do it my way and not drive the same make model and ridiculous paint job car as the drug dealer. Easy stuff, easy decision. Must be white privilege. There are about 2200 squadrons in the AF. Chances that you got a racist commander: don't take those odds to vegas.

If all this is true, you’re right, it’s a disgusting abuse and she should be punished. However, did you read the rest of your own post? Do any of you Trump fans read the stuff you write when you talk about how different it would be if it had happened under a Republican watch? Have you guys just been living under a rock because it is literally 24/7 anytime any of these bozos do anything, and the other side immediately makes the same ridiculous claim you just did: the other side wouldn’t put up with it, and they would cry foul! Does it ever get tiring ignoring the faults of your own party? That goes for both Ds and Rs. That crap is why we’re going to be hard pressed to heal the divide in this country. No one ever does anything wrong in their own eyes even when they’re doing the same crap as the other team. They just call it by a different name and then it’s ok... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Here’s my informed viewpoint: - There are no excuses about corona, family stuff, etc...AIB/SIBs love to list everything, including which brand of knock-off cheerios he ate at breakfast, so don’t read too much into things of that nature. The AIB overemphasized these things/people are reading too much into them. - The RC is a breakdown in crosscheck from ~FAF and in. It is standard to use speedhold, it is not standard to keep speedhold on for landing. Normally you discontinue use of speedhold at some point prior to landing, but he was distracted by his fucked up HMD (e.g. “HUD”) and he lost crosscheck of his airspeed/fact speedhold was still engaged. He did in fact transfer to a visual approach (i.e. “no HUD”), just as many of you have lamented him for “not doing,” but the downfall was dropping AOA out of his crosscheck. Had he cross checked, he would have realized he was fast and made the appropriate correction. There is some negative transfer from the Strike Eagle that contributed to the above problem; but might be SE Priv...don’t know. - The “HUD” issue: It sometimes gets fucked and displays invalid attitude information...so yeah, think about the main attitude reference you look at being out of whack at night, flying an approach over the black hole of the bay. It’s pretty disorienting. There are other options and you can ignore it, so not an excuse, but it is not just a “millennial” thing. Trust me, I grew up on no datalink/helmet/9M only/visual formation (including takeoff/landings...yay!); also still use a 1:50 map in CAS and am more efficient/accurate than all those young guys trying to keep everything digital on their displays. So I get it. But, the first time I saw this shit in the TX, coupled with LM’s flippant attitude towards it, sent me ballistic. I honestly can’t believe we haven’t crashed more jets due to this problem. It’s a massive safety of flight issue, yet who knows when/if ever it’ll be fixed. If someone dies with one of these things as a CF, I hope LM gets sued for billions. - Nobody knew about the portion of control laws he got into, except a few folks at LM holding their cards close...literally not written in T.O.s, etc. Another “go fuck yourself LM” thing. When he landed and immediately realized what was going on, the jet did not act like he thought it would; his control inputs were normal/as any of us would have done in the same situation. He was unable to go around due to the jet essentially ignoring what he wanted. So, while he could have avoided this situation by the earlier cross check discussion above, its ludicrous the jet would not react properly to your control inputs at such a critical phase of flight. Checks in the mail how this might be changed in future S/W drops. For now, at least the community knows this can happen, and frankly it was only a matter of time before some guy in the CAF unintentionally played test pilot and lost. Huge foul on this not being a warning in the T.O.s or something to that effect. Bottom line that every pilot can take away: This was not so much an over reliance on technology as it was a distraction that led to fixation, and a break down of basic instrument crosscheck (at night, with no peripheral vision). Establish solid habit patterns that will keep your instrument crosscheck from breaking down, while actively ensuring you do not fixate on a problem and drop the rest of the crosscheck. Remember the guys who were trying to change a light bulb and crashed in the Everglades, or just about every pilot who has CFIT’d? This loss of SA due to basic speed/altitude/position crosscheck breakdown is the the type of thing that has caused tens of thousands of aviation accidents at this point. It is agnostic to airframe and every single one of us is capable of distraction leading to bad/no crosscheck. God knows I’ve been in countless situations where I “broke the chain” in my own cockpit far too late for comfort, but here I am, wiser and alive. So many times it could have been the other way around in a matter of seconds. So, I took something from this mishap, and it wasn’t “fucking SNAPs and their reliance on Gucci shit!”

The evidence is available to everyone. I'm not going to summarize climate change for you. And for two specific reasons: First, I don't know what group you're in. Group 1, you want me to demonstrate that the earth is warming? No thanks. Group 2, you want me to provide evidence that global warming is anthropogenic? Again, ....read. There are countless books, peer-reviewed scientific journals, articles, videos, periodicals, etc. that are available to everyone. It's 2020. Google it. Type "Climate Change" in to Amazon and order a few books. Start with this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1612198023?pf_rd_r=9M7GK2BS4CGF80WE05JP&pf_rd_p=edaba0ee-c2fe-4124-9f5d-b31d6b1bfbee. Also search for references and literature within the DoD. There's tons available. The Navy, Marines, and the Joint Staff are full up on this while the AF in particular is lagging. Some might say that me not laying out the evidence is a cop-out. That's fine. Teach me how algebra works. Teach me meteorology. Or chemistry. On an internet forum. Present evidence, or else it's just "religion." If a flat-earther asks you to present evidence that the earth is in-fact spherical, where do you even begin? Second, I don't have any confidence that it would matter. You've made up your mind, ...and you know it. You think the models are based on 'assumption.' Specifically, you don't think ice core samples are valid, and therefore the main way we derive data dating back to 800,000 yrs is all invalid. That's fine. But you can see why if that's your starting place, it would be a waste of my time to engage and try to prove otherwise. What I will do is to again reiterate that time will serve as the vindicator. (*Although I don't know how old you are. If you're in your 60's or 70's, you'll go to your grave never knowing you were wrong. If you're under 40, and live to US expectancy, my point stands.) See, in you're mind, AGW is wrong, faulty, etc. And under that logic, surely, there will be a time in the not-so-distant future where mankind will discover that all the science and evidence was mistaken. "Oopps! I guess it's just cyclical and 'the earth is gonna earth.'" <sigh> Or better yet, it will be reveled that it was a lie perpetuated by nefarious actors in order to tax people. Well, again, I've got news for you. It's neither. And I encourage you, every 5-10 years, to ask if your ideas on AGW have been shown to be true, or whether AGW is still at the forefront of our discussions on energy, national security, food/water scarcity, migration, etc. Spoiler alert......it's real. 1) I never said we were capable of the "impossible." As far as claiming to be a superpower with global influence, I don't think it's a claim, I think that's a fact, no? As for how long will it last? No idea. .....A very short time if we decide "fvck it," and give up. 2) Don't know. I assume significant changes to the US electrical power grid would be gradual. Phased in? With redundancies and back-ups? To mitigate risk? I'm truly not sure what you're getting at. 3) We don't. We can cede the leadership role. And if the current course continues, we will, in our lifetime. To China. I admit I was raised with a post-war American mindset......I harbor ideas about American exceptionalism and the idea that America "is not just one more indistinguishable entity on the world stage, but that the United States has been essential to the preservation and progress of freedom" and that we have a special role to play in that regard. Increasingly, we hear themes of isolationism these days. I get it. People are tired of endless wars and entanglement abroad. Heavy lies the crown. We can take the crown off, stretch our necks and enjoy the temporary relief, but I'm not so sure we'll like how it feels when another country picks it up and dons it. 4) It won't be the end of life or humanity. Granted, some book titles, news headlines, and politicians speak with that level of sensationalism to grab attention. But few scientists think climate change will 'end humanity.' Also, very few people talk about 'reversing' climate change. The discussion centers around slowing and/or mitigating. But what will it look like? I don't know. Take for example India. The Ganges river is glacial fed, and the glaciers in the Himalayas are melting at an unprecedented rate, giving the 500 million people in the basin below a false impression of the health of the river. Meanwhile, all indications are that it's going to be monsoon-fed only by the turn of the century. And they're already depleting the underground aquifers. Where will those 500 million people go when there's no water? People don't just sit around and wait to die of dehydration. There will be mass migration across ethnic, tribal, religious, and state lines. ....I'm betting there will be some fighting involved. It won't be the end of humanity, but it'll be a mess. Similarly, what happens when the Colorado river dries up? Or when huge portions of Miami are under water? It won't be the end of humanity. It'll just suck. For some more than others.

Well I’m not saying the 7 days a week of boozing and mountain biking was not fun at SOS...

One of the best parties I ever attended was at PME. That was worthwhile.

Nice to see who are the racists on this forum.

The fly is Pence’s one black friend.

Please tell me why? You want officers that believe everything they see simply because it supports their narrative? I genuinely do not. If he's being sarcastic, it didn't shine through. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk