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Nice first post…what else do you have to offer the forum? We’ll moderate until it’s more substantive.

I’d like to thank @Springer for taking the thread from circling approaches to F-4 friendly shoot downs. Impressive.

The great sage Adam Carolla had a different take. Basically, you're allowed to have stupid opinions in college, sure. But the types of people who write letters supporting Hamas are also the ones who get mad when you misgender them, who will demand a recognition that the land your building is on used to belong to Native Americans before every speech, who will complain about micro aggressions if there's only dairy milk instead of soy milk in the fridge... it's an entire lifestyle that lends itself to being a huge pain in the ass for their employer. So don't bring those people into your organization.

I don't know about you guys, but I've looked at ejection handles and cutoff switches hundreds of times thinking about what it would be like to just pull them. But I never had the plums to go for it 😂🤣 You gotta be in a bad place to do something like that.

A place where the housing costs less than a Honda Fit = threat ring.

I do wonder if for the sake of training more people faster we have given up some of the basic skills. While I didn't train with Orville like Huggy did, I am an old school T-38 dude who did the pencil method, dialed up pie in the sky for my working area and hand flew SIDs using my brain not the autopilot. Unfortunately my skills have atrophied thanks to automation, GPS and giant displays with a god's eye view of the world. A few weeks ago I was flying my airplane up north and was given a SID departing the DC SFRA. I do all my mission planning on foreflight and my plane allows me to squirt (sts), the flight plan directly to the panel from foreflight, an immense time saver. I cranked, got my clearance which was to climb via the SID to a point then expect radar vectors. Foreflight took the plan and I thought all was well until I tried to shoot it to the panel. The airplane did not like it and wanted a transition point from the published SID. The clearance I had did not match and every time I tried to enter an exit point it messed up the flight plan (I was dropping into a private field outside the SFRA for a business meeting). After "fighting" the system for a few minutes I finally said F it, I am a pilot and I will just hand fly the damn SID, which I did with no issues. All the new automation is great and likely prevents many mistakes. My airplane can fly fully coupled approaches and has everything except auto throttles so I don't take the Clint Eastwood Gran Torino approach yelling get off my porch. Instead, I use the automation but am putting more effort into keeping my basic skills sharp by hand flying approaches and such should the gonkulator fail or have a hiccup. I am sure the airline guys have thoughts, isn't most of your flying done through the gonk?

Also, what is this post from 20 years ago? The boomers are now on welfare.

Ever since Chang, all other trolling on this site is weak by comparison.

https://www.thefp.com/p/the-day-the-delusions-died-konstantin-kisin

A lot of us still fly like this, albeit with ForeFlight strapped to the leg.

Fr.

Dude, you’re being trolled.

Amazing how many times the Navy seems to leave us on our own only to later say, "sorry thought you were dead" Aka - this incident / Chapman etc

So stunning and brave.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/friendly-fire-victim-outraged-over-navy-officers-admiral-promotion/ Friendly-fire victim outraged over Navy officer's admiral promotion (CBS News) A U.S. Navy officer named Timothy Dorsey is up for promotion to admiral. Whether he gets it may be determined by something he did a quarter century ago as an airman -- something so bizarre, even he can't fully explain it. But, it changed forever the life of a fellow airman, Mike Ross. This photograph shows Mike Ross when he was a young Air Force pilot. CBS NEWS Ross was a young Air Force pilot flying reconnaissance missions in an F-4 Phantom jet. Grainy video taken by a Navy F-14 shows his plane during an exercise 25 years ago over the Mediterranean. After taking a closer look, the F-14 pilot did the unimaginable. He shot Ross down. "It took the tail off the airplane," Ross said. He ejected at 630 miles per hour causing leg, shoulder and spine injuries, which have degenerated over the years requiring 32 surgeries. Ross said it "ruined his life," and he is still in physical pain. "It basically made me 100 percent disabled by Air Force standards," Ross said. Navy officer Lt. Junior Grade Timothy Dorsey CBS NEWS Insult was added to injury last year when the Navy nominated the pilot who shot him down -- then Lt. Junior Grade Dorsey -- for promotion to admiral. Ross said his reaction was "almost visceral." "I almost got sick," he said. Ross claimed he had been under the impression that Dorsey had been let go. An investigation determined Dorsey had received an order -- "red and free" -- which according to his sworn statement he thought "would never be used unless it was a no-kidder, a real-world threat situation." He interpreted "red and free" as permission to open fire, an inexplicable decision since everyone else in the exercise understood it to mean a simulated shoot down. Dorsey himself admitted "it was a bad decision." He was never allowed to fly again, so he became an intelligence officer. The Navy kept promoting him despite the black mark on his record. Dorsey declined to be interviewed, but Navy officials say he was selected for admiral because his performance as an intelligence officer made up for that one terrible mistake early in his career. After the promotion became public, Ross received a letter from Dorsey saying, "I was unaware you suffered from any lingering injuries.... I am truly sorry for the incident and even sorrier for its impact on you." Ross believes he got the letter 25 years after the incident because Dorsey was nominated for admiral. Ross complained to members of Congress, who have the power to block Dorsey's promotion. He said he forgives him, however. "I forgive him because if I don't forgive him I'll carry him with me for the rest of my life, and he's not worth that," he said. Two pilots whose flight paths crossed so disastrously 25 years ago -- only this time it's Ross trying to shoot Dorsey down.

4BAF5FAF-0F1B-4A46-BF6E-1AB529265A46.mov Every AFSOC wing right now….

Cry me a river...I must have missed your outrage when the Liberal hate machine used this VERY playbook the past few years. 1. Liberals Dox Founder of Libs of Tik Tok 2. Doxxing' new liberal weapon for publicly shaming people 3. Former Democratic Senate Aide Gets Probation For Helping Dox Republicans Over Kavanaugh Hearings 4. Five conservative Supreme Court justices doxxed 5. When there was push back against Liberals who did it they cried like little bitches

The left would find this totally reasonable if conservatives were the ones getting called out for being at a protest supporting hate/violence and subsequently getting told on/fired for it. Want another fun one with the hypocrisy of the left: They’re against Israelis building settlements in the West Bank (which is part of Israel)…and yet they’re totally ok with, and in fact support, illegal in immigrants coming in to the US and wanting to stay here permanently.

And that's why I'm okay with it. People like you will find a way to tie yourself in knots making it about everything else instead of their own responsibility for their actions, and nothing will happen. Thank you for proving my point. Bill Ackman didn't just wake up one day and decide to ruin some college kids' lives. Those *grown ass adults* proactively chose to do something following a tragedy. If no letter was written, no billionaire could sleuth. Does anyone here actually think the reason we stop being stupid as we age is because the numerical representation of how long we've been alive goes up? Absurd. It's because we exist in the world and start to see the consequences of actions. Cause and effect. It's experience. If you aren't old enough in college to be responsible for your actions, why do we think that you should be responsible for your actions when you are older than 22, or 25 as you wrote?

Indeed I have, as well. The irony of course, when it comes to that insufferable "your entire livelihood...is just my motherhood" attitude, is that the plurality of that demographic's personnel losses rests squarely at the hands of the very mOthErHooD they deride as scutwork. Miscontrol/Loss of control in IMC, spatial-D causal. Statistically far and beyond mechanical causals, to say nothing of a galaxy's worth of separation from anything resembling enemy action causal. But you can't talk about fight club with that crowd without being shouted down with appeal to authority fallacies. Arrogance is made of such ways, wcyd.

This is getting almost as good as listening to gunship pilots argue about how to fly an orbit.

Meh. Get below the weather, look outside and make it happen.

I want to be there.

IIRC the Vol 2 has a blurb about a Senior Examiner Program that doesn’t have a requirement for a valid instructor qualification. I’ve never seen it in practice though… Edit: Former AFSOC A3V Chief and didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn last night. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And the FAA's new face for HIMS? They'll probably rebrand it as HERS somehow for good ol' Patty...

How does everyone one of these threads degenerate into boomers complaining about welfare?

This is why the sexual assault problem gets worse every year. All of you are more concerned about the 2% of cases that are false accusations than the 98% that did actually happen. Or the 60% of cases that don't get reported at all... with this attitude, it's no wonder victims don't want to speak up.