Thankfully the pilot is fine.
standby for a safety down day?
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A U.S. Air Force F-16 Viper assigned to the 49th Wing crashed during landing at Holloman AFB at approximately 1800 MDT today. The sole pilot on board successfully ejected and is currently being treated for minor injuries.
Emergency responders are on scene; additional details will be released as they become available.”
The students can find out now. When the flight commander submits OP4418 it’s supposed to have a fighter recommendation if they didn’t get a fighter assignment.
Because the Central School Selection Board (CSSB) just picks you up for school. Your DT (MAF/CAF/SOF) then vectors you to a specific school and that gets sent to the AFPC or A1 Bobs to sort out.
So the implication is that they didn’t know the basics? Not that Lts can’t be interested in more advanced tactics.
I just want to make sure I understand your intent.
Clarification for Bashi:
A lot of the 560th is populated with IPs who never taught T-38s in UPT. They were T-6 UPT/UCT IPs and then went to be a T-38 PIT IP later.
T-38 students that drop heavies do just fine in FTUs without ever having learned “how to fly as a crew.”
Heavy FTUs have less time in the jet now because sims can accurately replicate flight.
It’s one of the justifications being used to not replace it now.
I don’t see the USAF with the appetite for a T-Z trainer.
especially, when ACC is trying to lease T-50s through Hillwood for their ReForge experiment.
And Hillwood/Alliance wants UPT at AFW.
Funnily enough, AMF (Air Mobility Fundamentals) tracked studs for UPT 2.5 ( as of the latest draft) get more sorties after track focused on Crew Coord, mobility stuff.
They also may never fly a T-1 but that’s another fight.
You think it will be 737 sims? Hah, I think the AMP’d T-1 sim COA is more likely.
And to the person that said IFF should go away, it is. What remains to be seen is what the new APT fighter track construct is.
If anything, it would probably be more useful track B-52 bound students earlier then send them just to a bunch of T-1 sims. I’ve heard the B-52 flies like the T-1
In current UPT:
Sim Check, Trans Check, Nav Check
T-38 tracked studs do a form check
T-38s:
Trans, Nav, Form
No idea for Toners
Legacy syllabus had a:
Mid-Phase, Final Contact, Inst, Form.
So only T-1 studs get less T-6 checkrides
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-wuhan-lab-china-compete-us-sources
Cliffs: China was experimenting on SARS-CoV-2 for research not as a bioweapon. It escaped containment at the Wuhan Lab. The Chinese went full Chinese and lied and covered it up so it spread.
So what is the desired outcome now that we’ve ramped medical supply production and flattened the curve?
We don’t have a vaccine. That means at least 80%* of the population needs to become infected to develop her immunity.
Places that don’t have subways or huge events like Mardi Gras are less likely to spread.
*Unsure if 80% is the precise number.