RangerMateo

Look up a program called Swish. Way cheaper and easier to pick up than Flash ;)

2 concurs. Sorry Riddler. Try plugging that into your mission computer (or your Funk N' Wagnalls for that matter). =) I'll take this opportunity to caveat my math skillz (Yes, with a 'z') with the fact that I'm a Human Development and Family Science Major...

According to the new 217 you're actually doing 300 KIAS + .02*24000 = 300 + 480 = 780 KTAS. Little did you know how fast the mighty T-1 actually is! Why are you on Baseops now anyway, you should be studying for your nav check!

LoL. We looked it up in the blue pages in the IFG too (For those of us still stuck using a T-1 IFG, jerk) and it's nowhere close.

So, I think we came across a error in the new Vol 3. Can anyone verify the TAS calculations on Pg 52 and 53? I'm showing that 250 KIAS at 9000 should be around 292 KTAS (250*(1.02)^8) instead of 430 KTAS and 250 KIAS at 12,000 should be closer to 317 (250*(1.02)^12)as opposed to 490 or 500?!?. Came across this when someone called me tonight asking for help figuring decent gradients and said based on the 217 that he would have 340 KTAS at 180 indicated and 8,000 MSL. Something no smelly right.

Just for the record... If you've been to Vance there is kind of a weird road layout from the student parking lot to the main road to get off base. There is an ongoing argument between a few of us as to which is the fastest way. So one day my friend and I were leaving at the same time. He's a believer in driving down the road by the OSS and I go around the circle to the road that goes east from the main MPF building....which has one of the four stop signs on base. As I was rolling up to the stopsign I could see headlights South on Gott. I knew that if I stopped completely he would pass me, so I rolled the stop sign and pulled out right in front of him. Then he turned on the red and blue lights that I wasn't aware he had... While explaining the situation to the SF guy that was in the car that I thought was my friends car, I saw my friend's black Corvette pass me (So my way is faster!). On the upside, the two striper asked me if I knew why I'd been pulled over, I said yes, I rolled a stop sign and that I was trying to beat my friend off base. He looked a little shocked that I was that up front with him, then he laughed and said, alright...have a nice day, Sir. They're not all jerks ;)

I heard about that. Awesome. We were going to order some stuff from them at Altus and this dude overheard the conversation and he was like "Hell no, let me tell you a story..."

Does anyone know of a website/thread/etc that has some good info for T-1 PIT, etc.?

Any changes to this? Trying to search for any threads on PIT and getting the three letter error. Tried Randolph, FAIP, etc, but nothing definitive is coming up.

I tried that too, just gave up and I use IE for CAC enabled sites and that ghey AETCBRI site.

Current state of USAF networking is evidence of that. I really don't understand people that make fun of or dismiss the idea of a Cyber Command. It's probably the most necessary thing that is lacking out there currently...and I would argue it is more important that getting more F-22's, for the near future anyway. Arguably it doesn't belong in the Air Force, but who else are we going to give it to? The Army? That'd be a *great* idea (No it wouldn't). USAF is interested mostly because of the $$$'s associated with it, but it really makes the most sense to be integrated into the AF at least until it becomes it's own service (and I think it will...black flight suits and all...). We also should have called this an act of war: Chinese Hack Into Senator's Computer. Imagine the state of our defense if our computer shit all the sudden stopped working. Most can still navigate with a TPC, compass and stop watch, in fact, there are probably some folks out there that could spin back up on Cel Nav pretty quickly, but how do we communicate, coordinate, get recon, etc. Not to get all ASBC about it, but if we have any critical Center of Gravity it's our network/comm systems. If that shit breaks we're up a creek and the bad guys know it.

Don't forget smoke signals...there are natives in that area of the country too...

Air Force Universe Wide Strike Command...we can't leave the Space folks out...

Not sure if this fits the current motif, but I'll risk it...

Formula isn't secret...they put it up on a TD-1 here at VAFB for the maritime types. The inputs are "secret" because they are always changing since they are only based on the last 60 to select...and just because one dude pulled a 62 doesn't mean he pushed the curve right (necessarily) because he could have bumped a guy off that would have an adjusted score of 65 pushing the curve left overall. In theory you could get a good wag if you had every Navy dude submit their gradesheets and compared them all. My guess is that the actual scoring method is based on deviation from MIF rather than absolute grades. Just a guess though...

Useful info, thanks. Heard the Florida job is backed up now too...awesome.

That's part of why I thought about leaving the 38's up at the top and they were until we got the dreaded "UAV's are coming" brief at which point I looked at the way things would pan out assuming the "Maybe one fighter, one U-28, and one UAV". I would have been at the bottom of that pile of three, so T-1's actually provide a better option for me. That being said, I did list Helos first and still had 38's ahead of T-1's on that off chance I would come out of that okay, we just happened to be one of those classes where there were three people that wanted (Helos) and two drops. Oh well =) Like I said, I'm happy where I'm at, but the SOF or U-2 stuff looks more appealing to me than the C-17/Tanker world.

That looks like its the one at Rucker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH-56_Cheyenne

Yeah, pretty much. Not what I'd want to do because the only thing on the fighter side I would want would be an A-10. My cards fell how they fell and at that 38's were my third choice. I was just interested in the U-2 because it has a unique mission and someone I was talking to brought up the whole deal. I just was curious if there was anything to what he was saying. FAIP will probably be my third choice behind the two airframes about which we must not speak lest the thread be deleted! Just to ponder Brabus' question, I suppose I could see some reasoning to taking a highly intelligent/skilled individual (ie - not me, I actually got my fourth choice...) to fill a single seat slot rather than recalling a guy that may have gotten there during a time of more liberal 38/fighter drops. Yes, yes, I know nothing, stupid LT, I've never been operational, I've never deployed to ______istan, and therefore cannot have any intelligent thoughts whatsoever...I'm just saying... Boldface Applies ASBESTOS SUIT - DON

I did some asking around and they pointed me to Beale's website that actually lists FAIPs as eligible, but it definitely looked like something that you'd have to do on your own to get the ball rolling. They also said something about some guys going to the U-2 then crossflowing to a fighter since they use a T-38 to stay proficient, but that seemed sketchy to me because even though you're qual'ed in the T-38 now you still haven't done IFF or anything. Any truth to that?

Just curious about FAIP assignment process as it stands currently. Someone said that there are still occasions where you can go to the U-2 or even B-2 if you tracked T-1's and then FAIP. Is there any truth to that at all? I can't imagine it would be real common, but is it doable?

Just curious on the HAPL overspeed...is it possible that what he actually heard was the gear warning horn at 120, which is much closer to 125 than 316? That being said, we were messing around in the sim and at idle boards you can overspeed...at least according to the computer...we had to try pretty hard though.

There's not?

M2 is right here. There's a ton of dineros in cyber that the AF wants their hands on. You may all laugh at me now, but down the road Cyber has more of a chance of doing the split from the AF than anything else and becoming it's own uniformed service. However, I do think the wings are pretty ghey.

Yeah...so it's the newer T-6's I'd be worried about ;) New boldface and all...