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New member here. Started in a PA-28 for PPL, switched schools and finished in a C-172N. Currently own a PA-32-300 with my brother and dad. We're looking to upgrade to a twin eventually but just dropped some coin on autopilot, Garmin glass panel, and some other upgrades so it might be a while. She's not as fast as a Mooney or high-profile as a Cirrus but she can definitely haul some weight.

All of the leftist arguments for “common sense Gun control” are disproved by their selective enforcement of current laws. They love talking universal background checks, but can’t endorse legally pursuing a guy who committed a felony by lying on his background check.

I spit my rum out watching this one. Biden.mp4

ID to vote = RACIST! Vaccine passport ID = BRILLIANT!

To fully persuade me of your perspective, please share your opinion on abortion and euthanasia. Philosophical consistency is highly convincing.

This. Not saying that having a different trainer for studs tracking to the heavy / crew track is better but having a real advanced trainer for them is a must. Never flew the T-6 but if back in the day if they had just given the deplorables an extended T-37 course vs another more complex trainer it would not have been the same. Having to quickly learn another aircraft, more complex systems and get more cross country, simulated mobility missions and planning was good. Not perfect but worthwhile training, my opinion only. Everything is worth what you paid for it, min run training / go cheap and don't be surprised with what happens.

If anything you more-so make the argument we just shouldn't be using FAIPs in phase 3. I don't know the T-1, I went to Corpus, but the multi-setvice MWS expereinced cadre there was phenomenal at developing basic airmanship concepts that you might consider apart of CRM.

We already know what it takes to make good (fighter) pilots: cognitive ability, emotional stability, and motivation to succeed (https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:180418/datastream/PDF/view). But leave it to the USAF to never read the studies they commission from RAND. When I first started in the flying world, I personally over-emphasized being technically smart - after having done it for almost 20 years, I'm convinced physical/athletic talent is an important component as well. Not to the point of being a division one athlete, but you should be above-average smart with the general ability to play most sports. As far as the PPL influencing the PCSM goes, I do think it matters since it's both a proxy to measure how motivated someone is, as well as a measurement of their ability to fly - there is at least some correlation between someone having a higher propensity to succeed in UPT who has a PPL vs someone chosen randomly from the population. I know the AF knows this, but the current effort is motivated by a desire to "uncuff" themselves from perceived restrictive selection criteria so they can implement whatever X-action program they want in order to have the right shade of skin flying their airplanes - not because current selection programs aren't actually working. Seems like fraud, waste, and abuse to me, but what the hell do I know? Besides the above, I'm already certain it won't work for one simple reason: the balance of male/female cadets at USAFA (~7:1 while I was there) is not mirrored in the fighter pilot community (or the pilot community at large). These people are of equal talents, with equal access to UPT, with equal ability to fly, yet the balance becomes lopsided immediately after graduation. There are other factors at work that "select" for pilots - PPL at USAFA didn't make a difference, and it won't make a difference elsewhere. Personally, I believe that great nations will inherently be diverse - talent has no color or sex - great nations know this. I don't think that logic works in reverse, though I suppose we'll see.

Who said it is the most infectious diseases ever? For the record, the nine most infectious diseases are: Smallpox - Int he 20th century alone it killed 300 million humans. We have a vaccine. Influenza - We have a vaccine and update it every year to cover a spectrum of mutations. Rabies - We have a vaccine. Tuberculosis - We have a vaccine. Leprosy - We have a vaccine. Typhoid Fever - We have a vaccine. Bubonic Plague - We have a vaccine. Malaria - We have a vaccine. HIV/AIDS - We have a treatment, a vaccine is still in the works because this is a very odd virus. We have been working with Corona viruses for many many years. This is a simple mutation of a protein spike which was very fortunate for us. Also, science has advanced and thanks to emergency authorization this was one of the first uses of the mRNA approach.

If you're enlisted into the unit that hired you, then they should allow you to request an authorization in DTS for the TDY and book your travel through DTS (you'll need a line of accounting from your finance folks to fund that trip). Been said but my experience and experience I know of with other guard guys is that the unit will pay for it. So I'm not sure what's different about you going TDY to WP vs someone else going TDY to some other place. On the reserve side, the dudes I met at FC1 said they have to pay for it out of pocket and their recruiter will get them reimbursed.

I love me some zero comms. Exit the traffic pattern and turn the radio off. Radio batteries die during my run up...no problem, do a clearing turn and blast. Best type of flying there is!

I feel you there -- I would've done that 100% too! Good luck with getting everything set up, and let us know how it goes.

This was definitely not my experience. Once I was gained by my unit, I got the process starting to get a CAC, get a government travel credit card (GTCC), and get DTS access. I’m Guard, btw so this may be different for you if you’re in another component. My FC1 travel was completely booked through DTS and paid through my GTCC.

I’m enjoying ATC-Zero ops. Some of the less busy towers are going to CTAF-Ops around 2200 or so.

And the press just glazed over it like because they have been Jedi Mind Fucked buy the DNC. Journalism is dead in this country.

Yup, if yours truly were king for a day and still had to live in the realm of finite resources I would fix the Heavy Track Phase 3 problem thusly: Outsource to All ATPs or another contractor a ME program to get 25 hours of ME training. Get the bounces in the contractor's aircrafts and some more experience for Stanley. Return to your home base for T-1 training in a refurbished Nextant 400Ti. As you did your ME training and have your Instruments done in already in T-6s, you would have a short Instrument / Qual phase (no phase check) and fly this updated T-1 with avionics to get experience in datalink, BLOS voice, autopilot/autothrottles, FMS, mobility mission planning & execution, etc... Would not beat to shit this trainer in pointless and repetitive ground checks, bounce after bounce after bounce, but as what it should be, an introduction to flying crew aircraft with mission and flight management systems that must be set, monitored and used correctly to get a mobility/recon msn done Now back to reality...

All this is true. There are as something to be said about stretching your legs from locals in the cbus area to suddenly going to unfamiliar fields on the other side of the country, in more inclement weather, etc... They are removing a vital stepping stone in the growth and progression of young heavy pilots.

Yup front, I'll say I generally agree with you. But... Interesting paper, but there are limitations, and you're drawing a causal link when the paper does not show a causal link.

Form 4473: Ever used illegal narcotics? Ever been discharged from the military other than honorably? If so, please describe. (Both questions paraphrased for brevity). That wacky Hunter Biden kid and his .38 that the Delaware State Police, the FBI (why?), and the Secret Service (again, why?) all took a personal interest in when his former sister-in-law, then his main squeeze threw away in a dumpster near a high school. Poor, poor 50 year old kid. I'm sure I'd get the same considerations if I'd been caught doing, literally, hookers and blow and then bought a firearm.

I’m not implying anything, just seeking to understand your views. I note that instead of answering, you assumed an implication to my question and then called it wrong. Ok. Since your original argument was based on moral superiority (“Being vaccinated shows I give half a fuck about others”) I thought you’d have consistency of thought or application. I don’t require convincing on the efficacy of vaccines writ large, nor do I need a reminder that in the military I’m going to follow orders. I’m pro vaccine and have a three page shot record. I’m merely curious at all the (inconsistent) moral posturing and discouragement of convincing good-faith debate... all of which is antithetical to a healthy society. Maybe I’m having a hard time forgetting the “experts” were unanimous in concluding we needed a war in Iraq to stop their WMD program. Look man, I’m not trying to be a dick but one thing I’ve learned is that if an idea is good, it will withstand intellectual scrutiny. And that lesson has made me generally distrustful of people who want to skip all debate and go straight to execution.

No one. But your exemption on those grounds is personal. Not religious.

Also, in developing nations, people with weak immune systems and/or comorbidities are likely to have been previously “culled from the heard” by any number of other diseases that still run rampant in the third world. Some may argue: Well that’s survival of the fittest. We need more of that here. To which I counter: One of the hallmarks of a developed, civilized society is a universal reverence for life. Animals cast off their old and sick for the survival of the herd. One of the things that makes us human is that we’ve evolved past that necessity. Oh, and BTW mass obesity, while an unfortunate fact of life in the United States (perpetuated to a degree by our government’s massive subsidies to corn farmers), there are many other conditions that would make one more susceptible to severe coronavirus outcomes. I am not prepared to tell my friend, who’s son has MS that this whole thing is overblown and we just need more vitamin D. Getting vaccinated is a good sign that you give half a fuck about vulnerable people in our society.

I wouldn't put all my eggs in the vitamin D basket. There's something else that those developing nations have that the US and Europe don't have - a sub-50% obesity rate. Covid-19 is vastly more dangerous to people who are overweight/obese than to people at a healthy weight. https://www.obesityaction.org/community/covid-19-and-obesity-what-does-it-mean-for-you/

The majority of people and groups are trying to implement changes for the sake of being able to say they have done 'something'. Another large group of people are just parroting the first group because it's easier than making their own decisions. The dumb leading the lazy.

You forgot to include his position as a Executive Consultant amongst the "elite" at Afterburner Inc...... https://www.afterburner.com/daniel-fuzz-walker/

The definition of right and left seemed skewed in that graphic.

My $0.02 Get back to one primary trainer and one advanced trainer. The argument over CRM being critical to teach for half a year in the heavy track is crazy IMO. Learning CRM should take about a week in the FTU, even if the guy is trained in a T-38/T-7. It’s not hard to ask someone else to do stuff for you. I realize I’m being flippant, but CRM is not some highly challenging concept.

We've already entered a single aircraft UPT world right now with UPT 2.5 By 2025 all the T-1s will (might) be retired and it doesn't seem like the money is there to buy enough T-7s to replace the T-38 in UPT. But if money it no object, I'd prefer UPT maintain a dual track pipeline where future fighter pilots can work on fighter pilot stuff and mobility pilots can practice copying ATIS.

NTAs are by far better than most Tower controlled fields, generally.