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Skitzo, we live in a world that has checkrides, and those checkrides have to be guarded by SEFEs with red pens. Who's gonna do it? You? You, BQZip01? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for downgrades, and you curse the FORM 8. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Alarm Red's downgrade, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves useless careers. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at CGO meetings, you want me giving that checkride, you need me giving that checkride. We use words like how many feet off altitude, how many knots off airspeed. We use these words as the backbone of a life being tactically useless. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who steps and starts engines under the blanket of the checkrides I give, and then questions the manner in which I ask general knowledge questions. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a Master Question File, and run as fast as you can from the weapons officer. Either way, I don't give a damn what Q-1 no downgrade you think you are entitled to.

Hope "subdued" means "kicked the shit out of".

Accident Investigation Board released yesterday: http://www.airforce-magazine.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/Reports/2011/March%202011/Day04/T-6A_AIB_030311.pdf Says IP shut down engine and performed restart procedure improperly, severely damaging engine and preventing a restart.

Never deemed you lame...just the analogy. Getting grumpy in my old age, but that comes from a guy who thinks the Zamboni/Light Grey linkage will always be hilarious....no worries!

The last thing I feel is "called out". "Pointy Talky CAS" is a loose construct floating around in my pea-brain based on having done CAS once or twice in my mediocre career and having used an iPad to surf porn...err do market research. CAS can be the best of times or the worst of times. More often than not it is confusing, chaotic, frightening, and did I say confusing. When the bros on the ground are getting shot through no malice of their own, they tend to speak fast, come in broken, send bad coordinates, keep their nuggets down, spend considerable time fighting back....rather than talking...I would certainly do the same. In my mind an iPad or some similar device that can present what the guy on the ground sees AND what the guy in the air sees in a COP that is interactive to both parties, offers hope in eliminating confusion. I certainly like the idea of sticking my claw up to the window with an IR pointer to circle and confirm a target location, but if environmental, urban, or combat factors preclude such a thing I think it would be nice to go John Madden and circle a part of the image like a telestrator that both parties can see. A "shoot here" capability that both parties can view/agree upon/manipulate does move the art of the possible a little further down the field and maybe helps us kill bad guys and more importantly save good guys a little bit better. Just my .69c and not something I am going to get all butt hurt about if folks disagree. If someone has a better way, lets move out, but I see no harm in at least thinking about ways to do things better.