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Watching my Foreflight ADS-B picture of the departures out of OSH when I was departing Appleton on Sunday was....eyeopening and scary. I'm glad I had something that gave me some SA on the VFR traffic that was leaving the event. It was an asset.

Thread bump. Has anyone done the Appleton deal? My group rented out some space in a house by the field, so we decided to try the less congested option getting in there since we have a place to crash.

Try the AOPA Members page. I guess it's not the official AOPA page. I'd post the link, but I'm already 3 deep at a Mexican cantina in Alabama and am sucking at Al Gore's internet right now.

If anyone is on the AOPA Facebook page, there is a hate fest going on about military pilots. It's entertaining, but there is a very sad level of knowledge on military special use airspace among many of the posters there.

Maybe at your base, but that incident was the driving factor AETC-wide and the only reason at END.

Last year at my base its was 75% fighters.

I'll be there all week with the kiddo. Catching a ride in my old man's Bonanza up there. Should be a fun week.

Bullshit. That was the super-secret Me-263.

I'm not necessarily going for a pile on here, but whether you like it or not, support types have a stigma. At my base, when I roll in at 0600-0630, the MSG, Med Group and other support units have completely empty parking lots. When I leave at 1800-1830, those parking lots are also empty. Our Finance shop closes up at 1630, regardless if you are waiting in line or not. We have no flight docs on duty after 1630 usually. We asked if a doc would come in if we had a in flight physi after 1630, and were told to basically pound sand. I'm not accusing you of being one of those 'types' and the fact that you visit this forum makes me think you aren't. But there are more bad examples than good ones these days, at least in my world. The primary mission of my base is flying training. Yet, the support squadrons are far better manned than the ops squadrons right now, but there seems to be zero desire in the support units to help us either accomplish the primary mission of our wing or assist those that do. I wound venture to guess my example isn't unique or special, either.

I think your numbers for UPT graduates is off. We do 400ish per year just at END.

Insha'Allah

I've read a lot of Mike Rowe's stuff recently, and he seems like an all around good guy. Has anyone met him in person and can verify this?

Those of you that received their DQHB or equivalent recently: what MAJCOM/base do you belong to? My MPF has been months late with the RRF and O-6 boards (leaving us with 3-5 days to produce the products), so I'm just wondering if it's a MAJCOM issue or wing issue.

Does anyone understand the Russian obsession with aerobatic demonstration teams? Everyone and a while you'll read about them standing up another team.

Wow. He was new to RND when I was at PIT. He was incredibly cool when I exercised the SA of a puppy crossing a highway and erased his briefing board, and used it as reason to mentor an Lt over a beer instead of crushing me. Which one of the 'good ones' is next?

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I know 3 OSI agents between my commissioning source and ASBC. Of those three, one was generally a good dude and a solid bro (at least at the time). The other two, however, couldn't wait to be 'elite' , 'make some arrests' or "ruin some careers" (that last one was seriously a direct quote). They really seemed to just crave authority and power over others. My guess is that this is probably representative of the entire department.

Well, now I know why they didn't answer their phones at 2PM last week.

False.

I worked at that museum back in the day and met the pilot a few times in passing. Bad news..

Just an opinion based on some graphical study, but over the past 50 years, the size and scope of the Federal government has only gotten larger. With this increase in size and scope, more and more regulation agencies have been created to oversee private industries. I'm obviously a free-market capitalist to the extreme, but I personally believe it is the increased presence of government in business that has been a driving factor in wealth inequality. Those that can afford to get preferential treatment (e.g. tax breaks/incentives) get hooked up while the small businesses don't.

So what you're saying is there is no link between workplace jokes and actual sexual assault...right?

Stop the witch hunts. Prosecute the perpetrators of legitimate sexual assaults to the maximum extent possible within the UCMJ. Make an example out of the assholes that are doing it. Hold the guilty accountable, and any leadership that allowed it to happen. Don't treat the 99% of military members like they are in high school. You'll be surprised at the results.

My friends that work at for profit companies laugh when I tell them the details of the sexual assault witch hunt. We have so many problems as a service. Sexual Assault is one of them, no doubt. The problem is, we aren't attacking the causation of sexual assault. We think punishing the 99% that obey the current regs will keep the 1% of 'bad-guys' from engaging in rape, etc. I have my 4th SAPR brief of this year tomorrow. Is this going to tell me anything I don't know, or believe? No, it isn't. It also isn't going to change the behavior of the people that think rape or assault is acceptable. I really don't think making 69 illegal is going to change anyone's behavior, and I'll venture to say I think you are out of touch if you think it will.