Everything posted by 10percenttruth
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MC-12 Crash in Afghanistan
C'mon now, you can't bag on me for calling it plain and simple airmanship when you did the same thing seven sentences previous. And take it easy with the snark, I wasn't bragging about those hours, I was illustrating that I in fact did not have "zero twin turboprop experience". We could all always learn a thing or two, whether we have 6, 600, or 6000 hours. It's a highly perishable skillset & one that needs to be practiced to be effective.
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MC-12 Crash in Afghanistan
Not so, I have about 600 hours in type, and I'm very familiar with how p factor works. In this exact instance, how they got into the stall is a more causal factor than the recovery procedures. Maybe the syllabus has changed, but I remember a distinct emphasis on not putting the autopilot into a VVI climb mode, to preclude this exact scenario. In either case, poor recovery procedures & a lack of understanding how the plane was stalled didn't help.
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Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
Somwhere there's a pack of Civil Air Patrol guys that have been wet dreaming about this day for years. I can't imagine their excitement.
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MC-12 Crash in Afghanistan
Which is why I wrote the second part. In this case, "RELAX, ROLL, POWER AS REQD" would have been better, but that isn't as catchy. To reiterate: procedures may vary from airframe to airframe, but the basic principles of decreasing AoA & getting more air over the wings still apply. I still argue that it's airmanship 101
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More SARC briefings soon.
^ holy shit, this!
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MC-12 Crash in Afghanistan
Ok, everyone say it with me: "MAX, RELAX, ROLL" There, sign the GTAR, you're all current for another RAP cycle. This isn't rocket surgery, it's a fucking stall. Procedures may vary slightly from airframe to airframe (P-factor & whatnot), but the basic principles of aerodynamics don't change: if a wing(s) is stalled, increase airspeed & decrease your AoA. This is day one UPT stuff. Yes it should've practiced occasionally, but I don't need a quarterly class to tell me that trees get big when I push over & trees get little when I pull back.
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Squadron Posters
I have the BUFF one in my man cave, he does great work!
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Is this a social experiment to find racism?
BQZips mom?
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A Toast in Remembrance of the Fallen...
A toast...
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White Male Club
Actually it is: IAW 36-2205v4: Seen that happen & I can guarantee there was a mountain of paperwork behind it that called it anything but "crying in the debrief". MOA, CAP, all kinds of things. The sickening part is how much CYA justification the CC has to compile to wash out a scrub if they're a minority. The same issues would have a white devil out on the street in a heartbeat. I guess that observation makes me a racist though, and one in denial of white evil.
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Palace Chase info
Should be standard ops for any special program you apply for. Good CCs will at least steer you in the right direction & give you a big picture look at the choices you have. Bad ones will show you how it's a mistake because it differs from their career track.
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MC-12 Crash in Afghanistan
What's wrong with that? In all seriousness though, maybe my reading comprehension level is dogshit, but that mates up fairly close to the report I read.
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Forum Downtime
Once again, you're the man!
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Forum Downtime
Yes. I also refuse to upgrade tapatalk because they made the old paid version free, added advertisements, and released a new paid version. Yes The quotes aren't separated from the replies, making a huge wall of text. I'm using the upgraded tapatalk.
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
Just so I'm tracking: You're complaining without all the information or no reasonable solution about people who complain without all the information or no reasonable solution? Got it. Douche
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Latest Movies
Headed to it tonight, since I missed my chance to see Through the Never in IMAX 3D Edit: best use of 3D I've seen. Fantastic flick!
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C-17 4-engine flameout/SIB/FEB questions in here
Good on ya day man. Times are tough & friends are few these days. It's commendable that you stepped up willing to rehash a shitty moment in your life. Hopefully once the dust settles it will turn out to have been for the better. If I was in your shoes, I'm not so sure I'd want to be in an organization that chucked me under the bus without at least making my errors a learning point. Seems like a par-for-the-course waste of talent. Cheers bud.
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Information on PIT (Pilot Instructor Training)
Let your CC know early that you're interested. The process if fairly similar to the VML move, except AETC determines the availability of slots.
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Latest Movies
Still better than iron eagle