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    Fix-to-fix video

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    58 minutes ago, Vito said:

     I graduated UPT in 1987. I can tell you the F2F was the cause of a large percentage of checkride busts. Take a look at the Tweet cockpit and try to do a F2F using the RMI only. Doing them in T-38’s was so much easier with a proper HSI.

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    Asking for a friend…what’s an RMI? I’ve also heard that people used to fly things called NDB approaches but I can’t find anything in my 787 company manual. 

     /s

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    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

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    1 hour ago, dream big said:

    It’s a thankless job, it should definitely be a job contracted by civilians or done by GSs. The few good ones I’ve met were given some more rewarding responsibilities within the DOs realm to help them stand out. Of course that’s hard if the individual doesn’t give a shit to begin with. 

    Plenty of thankless jobs out there, but that’s not an excuse to not know what the 401 is as a SARM. I think it is akin to a pilot not knowing what the 202 is, but maybe I have just set my expectations too high. 

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    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

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    14 hours ago, Danger41 said:

    What?! How about the 5 ARMS troops sitting in the squadron scrolling their phones all day and not processing stuff?

    Some of those folks definitely put the Special in AFSOC. We had a terrible SARM troop one deployment. After several counseling sessions, I directed the individual to reread the RTM and sections of the 401. I’ve never seen somebody stare so blankly in my life. 

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    Today in hypocrisy...

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    3 hours ago, nsplayr said:

    People who do crimes should face justice and be arraigned, tried and convicted as necessary. Anyone and everyone.

    Jaywalking. Trick or treating as a 15 year old in Chesapeake, VA. Wearing slippers in public after 10PM in New York City.

    All crimes, so let’s find the dirtbag offenders and put em in the gallows.

    My actual point: thank god we are now deciding to enforce the law. The witch hunt 2.0 will absolutely instill faith in our bureaucracy. The real lesson learned is that it’s ok to do shady shit, as long as you’re not voting republican. Luckily we live in an era when you can identify as anything you want. So if you BO.net patrons ever get rolled up, don’t forget to play the trans/lib card for free passage. 

    The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

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    3 hours ago, Prozac said:

    Can you explain how most other developed nations on the planet who are far less Christian/religious than the United States have fared so much better WRT positive outcomes for young people/far fewer mass slaughter events? 

    Care to cite said nations so we can all compare notes?

    I’m with Bashi and the rest who see our divergence from Christian principles as a causal factor in the decline of modern US society. 

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    The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

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    36 minutes ago, bfargin said:

    Nashville metro police showed how to take down an evil douche. As that Sheriff in FL said, "you can't kill evil too much". One less evil doer roaming around.

    I am saddened that the perp wasn’t taken alive and brought to a black site where the families of the deceased could enact their own form of justice. 

    The Iran thread

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    Am I the only one who thinks we need to just totally fuck up Iran and be done with their bullshit for a while? I’m not encouraging a protracted and decades long conflict…but I would love to see these anti-American rug makers silenced for a while and rendered incapable of inflicting further harm to us. I know of at least one nation who’d be willing to aid in the delivery of a quick and lethal response. 

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    The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

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    2 minutes ago, Tank said:

    https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2023/03/22/transgender-troops-warn-gop-bill-could-upend-lives-weaken-military/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

    “Once people transition and become their true selves, there’s not a mental block,” she said. “With that they become exceptional. They soar above everyone else. They become absolute rock stars. They become an even better, stronger, faster, more intellectual performer than they previously were.”

    This dude is out here thinking that cutting off your dick or attempting to grow one makes you a super saiyan or something. I’ve heard that smoking PCP (and HGH/TRT) also makes you stronger and faster…when do we normalize that for our military members?

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    The new airline thread

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    7 hours ago, FourFans said:

    Looking at the stats on the FAA site, it appears that the number of runway incursions is staying relatively stable from past years.  Perhaps we're just seeing more press on them now with trackers like FlightRadar24 and such.  Still, not good.

    https://www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety/statistics/

    Good data pull, helps give perspective to the increase in media coverage. To me, it’s analogous to the coverage that shark attacks get…one person gets chomped and all of the sudden it’s like Jaws is at every sand bar of every beach in USA. 

    War Stories Thread

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    2 hours ago, hindsight2020 said:

    So yeah, that's a lot of fingertip at 2-4* bills (*you'll have to wait til my retirement to hear the declass number lol).

    Just the other day I was telling someone about your student that tried to do a NH recovery by rolling out and attempting to Immelmann at the top of the block. 

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    WTF? (**NSFW**)

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    26 minutes ago, Prozac said:

    Seen similar on a couple of occasions & know more than a few others who report the same. I’ve heard the star link explanation & while I’m no expert, it sure doesn’t seem like any kind of satellite activity I’ve ever seen. Kinda wonder if it’s one of these things: 

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    I don't buy the Starlink argument at all.  I should have also included that during the unexplainable light show I witnessed that night/early morning, I saw what can only be described as celestial BFM/ACM.  While I never trust publicly available information about sensitive programs, the DoD only claims that three of those were built.  I saw way more than 3 lights maneuvering/translating simultaneously.  Weird stuff...the explanation exists, I just don't have it.

    WTF? (**NSFW**)

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    On 1/13/2023 at 6:05 PM, TreeA10 said:

    Just a couple days ago, Driving back in the dark from Narita to DFW over the Pacific ocean about 140W, we are on pretty much an easterly heading about FL 350. We start seeing a light that would appear, flare up brighter, burn for about 20 seconds, then go out. This happened approximately every 40 seconds for several minutes with some larger time gaps. The lights had a high to low motion with a slight right to left track.  Looking through the HUD, the lights were anywhere from 2 degrees to 6 degrees above the horizon with no range estimate available. The sun was still well below the horizon in from of us. I'm thinking it was refections off satellites but the repetition was weird. I don't know enough about satellite density and orbital mechanics to hazard a guess. I've seen satellites, the space station and space shuttle reentry and know what those look like and this was nothing like those.  

    I had a similar experience just before Thanksgiving.  I was flying eastbound out of Japan heading back to the states.  For approximately 2 hours I observed a repeating pattern of 4 unidentified lights in an off-axis clockwise wheel.  The further east we flew, the more distant and faint the lights became.  The lights appeared to be quite dim when they were at the 'top' of their wheel, but were most bright at the 3-7 o'clock portion of the wheel.  I was exhausted and initially thought I was seeing things (as did the guy in the right seat), until he saw them too!  I'm not a space guy, so it was quite the feeling to see something that I could not explain.

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