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Welcome travelers with great big hug and salutation. You travel today on back bone of Soviet air transport fleet IL-76. IL-76 is unique airplane... only plane run on coal. For tonight’s inflight entertainment we have tetanus shot followed by soggy brown bag lunch and vodka. Please after finish meal and vodka keep bottle for make pee in. I encourage to avoid direct contact with Misha the 3rd officer and plane dog. This is same person. Misha has fleas and also short temper particularly when performing fuel consumption check. If at any time you feel unsafe during flight we encourage you take short nap. It will all be over soon. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I agree with everything you said, but had to call particular attention to this because it brings back such good memories of a time where people were NOT the types of individuals you called out.

Long shot, but I know there are experts here who might be able to help. BLUF: Long-time A-10 leader passed away this week, and is being interred at DFW National Cemetery next week. We're looking to see if we can get a 4 Ship flyover but have no idea where to start with the airspace. That cemetery is 10nm SE of the eastern runway at DFW, so airspace should be simple. Right? Coord through official USAF channels to approve it is underway, but would like to know if anyone has any words on where to go otherwise; ATC POCs to coord and/or approve, or even just to find out if there's no way to proceed. They've done Memorial Day flyovers there, but I'm sure they have plenty of time to coord in advance for something like that whereas we have a week. Any point-outs are greatly appreciated, even if it's to show that it's unpossible so we can plan for an alternative COA here at Moody. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Zero

Try emailing the CARF they should at least be able to point you in the direction of a POC. Possibly could help out the formation in an ALTRV for the event. https://www.fly.faa.gov/carf/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The rabbit hole went pretty far, lol.

welcome to the thread bro

The Russian C-141A....

I'm not sure I can describe this as well typing it out, but when I was in Afghanistan we got a tour of one of the Soviet knockoff c-130s, and I asked about takeoff data. The guy laughed and pretended like he was holding the yolk of the aircraft, pulling it back momentarily before returning to the neutral position and saying "not yet." He did it multiple times, then on the last time held the imaginary yoke back to his lap: "Not yet..... Not yet... Not yet... Not yet... Rotate!" I kid you not, there were pine needles jammed into the wingtips, and an empty bottle of vodka next to a bare mattress in the navigators pod in the front. Different type of flying.

Bottom one is cool, spent six years up there in the 92nd and retired 2016.

Vance 22-12.

The gang knocked it out of the park and then some. Crazy. 3rd launch attempt and they nail it. https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1LyxBnOvzvOxN

Lol this got me wondering so I checked out their pay. Unfortunately, the $100k bonus is for pilots with >950 hours 121 time. But for the current pay rates are pretty awesome. Orders dried up for a short time in 2012, so I went to Compass Airlines (no defunct) and started at $28/hr. Envoy newhires now start at $93/hr! My newhire pay at AAL was $52/hr and $91/hr at DAL. FYSA, I adjusted all these number for current day inflation. These kids are finishing college and walking straight into $100k/yr jobs...nuts. I wouldn't shy away from going to a places like envoy if you finished your career with no currency, or the legacies are not calling quite yet. With the slowdown in hiring, it's bound to happen to some. It's good money and you likely won't be there long. Apply everywhere, but if the legacies haven't called, I wouldn't hesitate to take a regional gig. I had a good time flying at my regional. I'd just recommend going to one where you don't have to commute. As someone who has recently retired, I can say you won't miss all the bullshit captainmorgan mention. I live under the pattern for my squadron and can watch SFO's from my back patio. I love to watch them, but I sure don't miss it, because I know all the stress/BS/sacrifice that goes along with that flying. They were night flying last night and when I heard the first burner light for takeoff, I raised my whiskey from my campfire in my backyard, while I was "working" (long call) at DAL...go get'em boys!

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There’s a balance to what I’m about to say, but a while ago people went through life acknowledging that everyone has shit happen to them, has a hard day/week/month/year, etc. People sucked it up and persevered, because there was no other good option. The weak ones didn’t make it. And that was life. Nowadays, there’s so much push for therapy and talking about feelings, and it’s OK to be sad and confused and blah blah - how about sack up and get on with life. I mean the first thing I said, which is there’s a balance. I’m not anti-mental health and taking care of it. But when I see large majorities of people not being able to handle their fragile emotions, I have to say most of them just need to suck it up and stop being weak little candy asses. But they won’t, because our society and culture enables them to be weak. Leave the mental health work for those who truly need it, and not for every swinging dick who’s simply a pussy because they were never taught an ounce of resiliency.

The starting point in the conversation should be: Why at this point in history are human beings, at an incredibly higher rate, having these mental issues? It’s clearly a cultural phenomenon or societal issue and not biological. The lack of parenting leads to kids raising themselves under heavy heavy influence by a new phenomenon - social media. The adults should be addressing this and not condoning or supporting it. Especially, medical providers. But, it’s big business and generates huge sums of money.