Scooter14
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UPS 6. RIP
My thoughts exactly. Nightmare scenario on an airplane.-
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Apparently the CBT folks didn’t get the memo two years ago either…
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Now about this instead?
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…unless the device only works when you want to slow down in which case you’re describing the hybrid design manufacturers have been using for 20 years.
Apparently I need to get smarter on electric cars. I honestly had no idea that they did that. -
Emergency power/hydraulics from a RAT come at the expense of increased drag.
Extend your range on the other hand? Are you unfamiliar with the concept of conservation of energy?
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Right. Clearly it would not make sense to fly with a RAT deployed in a turbine aircraft with two generators on your engines and one APU as a backup if a generator fails.
But if you’re going 75 on a highway and you throw a small RAT out there into the slipstream or like herkbum said have it in your wheel to charge the battery…
Not sure what you’re getting at with the “unfamiliar with the concept of conservation of energy.” Feel free to amaze me with your engineering degree I guess. -
Great comment here, maybe at cruise we can use two props on the 130 as generators to power the other two!
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I’m not sure what other USAF aircraft have it, but the KC-46 has a Ram Air Turbine that can deploy to generate emergency power. Most modern airliners have some variation of this.
That would be handy on a long highway trip…deploy a small ram air windmill type device that would at least generate power to extend your range?
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Scooter…wake up it’s meeting time.
ATIS
“Grandpa ATIS, what did you do in the war?”
Every day at 1500 I would bang on the wall and make sure Scooter was awake for the O&I. Somebody had to do it… -
Haha, I clicked on it by old habit. No more access for me!
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154 days and I’ll be in the same boat amigo!-
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HTTPS://arcnet.sso.cce.af.mil/ARCNet/VRS/Volunteer
Tons of open positions out there for Capt-LtCol -
On this note, CSO school track selects now. The tracks are Nav, EWO, WSO, and SO (Sensor op) with different aircraft opportunities.
Nav - RC-135 (and variants), AWACS, JSTARS, not sure what else other than ARC C-130H. EC-130’s are being phased out.
EWO- RC-135 (and variants), EC-130 replacement, BUFF, etc…
WSO - B-1, B-52, F-15E
SO - AC/MC/HC-130, U-28 (note: this track is very AC-130/U-28 centric, MC-130 CSOs are closer to navs in reality, and HC-130 CSO’s are somewhere in between) (I’m an HC/MC-130J FTU instructor)
I don’t think Buff EWOs are dropping anymore according to the Buff guys on my last deployment. There’s some sort of mod to move that functionality to the two WSOs downstairs. -
Maybe it is just me but having the government move the goal post is very concerning.
It’s not just you. That is disconcerting if true.
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ClearedHot.
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I’m not being facetious. If there’s data out there, it’s worth taking a look at.
We all made decisions based on what we knew and believed at the time.
Delta was the prevalent variant up my way last winter. A lot of people got vax/boosted up here (myself included) because the hospital data showed the majority of those in critical care were unvaxxed. That wasn’t the case in other parts of the country.
The news has been COVID quiet. No more money in it and it’s a new administration so no more gloom and doom. People are burned out and it’s not a threat anymore.
It would be interesting to see what happens moving forward now that “COVID’s over”…which I believe to be true.
People said that if you got the vax you’d be dead in 6 months. I’m still here.
Some people said it would affect birth rates. Hasn’t yet around here and we are a highly vaccinated area.
If the protein or the mRNA is persistent in the body, that’s disconcerting and ID like to read more about it.
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Absolutely STUNNING news that is being ignored. I think we are at three studies now that show lasting changes to you DNA if you received the MRNA vaccine, including the ability to pass those changes on to offspring. But Faucci and the government doesn't lie...
I passed on the booster after my wife and I had out anti-bodies tested and discovered our protein spike numbers were still over 2500. How will manifest in our bodies over the next 10-20 years...
Do you have any links to the studies? Everything I try to search just brings me to a 2020 study or the CDC website.
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I have heard of Captains telling FO's to add him to their no-fly list lol.
Awkward
FO- “Parking checklist complete. Good flying with ya, maybe I’ll see you on another trip soon!”
CA - “Yeah, about that. Here’s my employee number. Do me a favor would ya…”
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That would be very interesting and a complete abortion since the AT-6 doesn't meet several of the objective requirements (it actually failed part of the assessment).
Well, that’s never stopped them before…why start now?-
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Trust me - the KC-46 is not digging it's heels in when we try to do something new. At every major exercise we've been doing something that tankers have never traditionally done before. Tankers with NVGs, etc. My OPRs are full of firsts. However, there's a line between doing something a bit wacky and new, and something like single pilot ops; in my humble opinion, a f***ing ORM nightmare.
For both you and tac airlifter, I’m all for innovation. Accelerate change or lose, right?
However the air refueling enterprise as a whole must ensure we can safely and effectively be on time, as fragged with the go go juice to project and sustain combat airpower over the duration of a conflict as that is priority #1 for a tanker aircraft.
Any innovations/tactics/ideas we implement must enhance and not detract from priority #1.
You hit my point on your last line…Just because we can doesn’t always mean we should.-
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The Citation CJ4 (which I am rated in) and the Phenom 300 are the largest FAA certified single-pilot aircraft. I'm told it is because the pilot can see both wingtips. That said, even as a 767 co-pilot, I couldn't see the right wingtip... so does that matter?
I personally don't see an issue with "the mechanics of flying" the 767 single pilot. Please understand, I'm talking just "flying", not "employing".
Now doing the tanking mission? I have no clue and other, smarter people can chime in on the need for two pilots.
BTW This topic deserves its own thread.
Huggy,
On a good day from point A to point B, one could probably fly a KC-46 with a single pilot and a boom operator.
But why?
I’ve flown tankers for close to 20 years now. Air refueling missions range from the mundane C-17 training mission or two ship F-15 CAP to complex Missions where you have multiple tankers talking to each other, ATC or C2 and to the receivers that may or may not be showing up at the same time/when they are supposed to and may or may not be as English proficient as we would like.
When you have multiple tankers and multiple receivers you need everyone listening up on the 3-4 radios and dividing the duties. It’s a lot, especially when there’s external factors like a retrograde, TIC, etc. A jump seater or an extra boom is a welcome addition in these scenarios due to task saturation.
Someone (maybe in another thread) also alluded to some of the additional capes (datalink, etc.) and the discussion that ensued tried to delineate if these detracted from the mission or enhanced the mission. IMHO, they are designed to enhance the core competency of air refueling when utilized properly but, if we are not careful they can easily distract the crew or the squadron from the fundamental mission of a tanker.
In an emergency/non-normal situation as well, there’s a lot to accomplish. In our sims, we train with two pilots and the sim instructor plays the boom or we bring one in. Are we bringing a boom into every sim now since they will now have to train for every EP? Will they be running pilot checklists while the only pilot maintains aircraft control? I guess flight engineers used to (never flew with one but I know they were integrated up front) so now the boom does it? I’m ok with that, I implicitly trust the booms but again, why not just have two pilots with the boom backing us up.
Maybe I don’t have the big picture.
I’m all for innovation but besides possibly ferrying aircraft in a wartime situation to either survive them or get them to a frontline unit where other pilots are executing a near peer fight and we need all hands on deck I can see no good reason to try and fly a 767 with one pilot.
I see this as a distraction from the mission and not an enhancement to the mission.
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Here in Chicago, violence has always ebbed and flowed. Over the years, the local government and PD seemed to be "business as usual" as long as the crime stayed in the right places and amongst the right people (i.e. on the South and West sides, and amongst the gangs and the poor). Every now and again, crime would spike in the Loop or the North side (where all the money is), and city government and PD would respond with a quickness, upping patrols and reassigning manpower until the crime abated.
Now, you've got events like this. In Lincoln Park, one of the nicest neighborhoods in the city, some dude lies in wait behind a building, then jumps out to rob someone of their phone. Guy fights back, there is a struggle, and the poor SOB gets shot twice. While the victim is lying on the ground in agony, the perpetrator demands his phone password, and once he has it, he puts a bullet in the guys head.
It's like something out of a movie.
Blue, you’re not wrong. It absolutely is like something out of a movie.
The fact that someone getting executed (or critically wounded with life altering injuries) on the street with a bullet to their head for their cell phone is something we equate to Hollywood and what society sees on the big screen.
It’s kind of sick if you stop and think about it.
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Wow that's impressive, I guess. Did he have some sort of gripe with the 46 or was he just looking to do something different?
Haven’t you heard?
It’s cool to hate the -46. All the cool kids are doing it.-
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The AF "needs" you. I'm of the belief that the AF can be told to wait.
While on Active Duty, each of us... and our families... were often managed in a crisis manner of "we need you to deploy NOW!" Many things seemed to be an emergency because of lack of planning. As an AD pilot, we didn't have a choice.
Now that a pilot has left active duty and has an airline job along with their Guard/Reserve job, it's time to tell the AF they will have to wait. And 6 months is not unreasonable. The AF will not crumble because you cannot meet their timeline.
Giving up union protection by remaining on probation is probably not going to be a factor. But... what if it is? Will the AF rescue you because you went on mil leave 6 months before your probationary period was up to help the AF out? How's your family going to feel about your gamble if you lose?
Most of you have SGLI, right? Why? It's because it is very cheap insurance.
Waiting a few months and getting off probation before diving back into the squadron is ALSO cheap insurance.
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In what way?
I’d like to see stats on how many packages went up to ROPMA, with a WG/CC DNP to O-5, and made O-5.
I would bet it’s less than 25%.
I don’t have those stats, but if I was a major contemplating my future chances on O-5, I would not hang my hat on
“Even a WG/CC DNP doesn’t really matter on the process in the ANG in ROPMA. “
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On the ANG/AFRC side the community is largely prior KC-135 drivers.
These things take time to work out.
Which unit are you with?
The two ANG/AFRC units on the east coast have prior AV-8B, A-10, F-15E, F/A-18, MV-22, KC-130, E-6, F-16, C-17, C-5, KC-10, RC-135, guys who have exchange tours, former CRG guys, former loadmasters turned pilot or boom as well as KC-135 guys.
Many flew the KC-135 pre-conversion, but don’t sell their experiences outside of the community short. The ARC also “purpose built” their units to incorporate guys with receiver AAR, Datalink, etc experiences.
EDIT Plus, unlike the AD, the ARC units tend to retain this talent because they are not subject to a PCS cycle.
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Even a WG/CC DNP doesn’t really matter on the process in the ANG in ROPMA.
I’m not sure how true that statement is…
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One thing to consider if you’re expecting to be full time over the typical O4-O5 period, you will lose out on $25-30k over the 3 yr period from “on time” promotion to ROPMA promotion. So a full time guy should ask himself, “am I willing to pay $30k to not do ACSC?” If you’re part time it’s less of a factor.
Also consider if ROPMA will put you at > 17 yrs, because if so, you’ll now have to do more than 20 to retire as an O5.
Another thing to consider on the ANG side is if you have any sort of desire to go beyond O-5. Sure, you’ll probably make it to O-5 as a flyer but that will be the end of the line with no ACSC.
That may be fine for you, but it’s something to consider, especially if your unit sees you as a player for either group command or something at the State HQ level.
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Oh good the Gucci boys finally get to call someone else a prima donna after holding that title for 40-something years!