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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...
OK,Start by inverting the last fraction and multiplying:
3x² - 27 .. 8x² ....... 6
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.... 4 ...... 9 - 3x . x² + 3x
Now you can do some factoring and canceling:
3(x² - 9) .. 8x² ...... 6
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.... 4 ..... 3(3 - x) . x(x + 3)
You can cancel the 4 with the 8, remove the 3's and the x's.
(x² - 9) .... 2x ........ 6
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.... 1 ...... (3 - x) . (x + 3)
Now x²-9 is a difference of squares which can be rewritten as (x - 3)(x + 3):
(x-3)(x+3) .... 2x ........ 6
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....... 1 ...... (3 - x) . (x + 3)
Cancel the x+3:
(x - 3) .. 2x .... 6
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...1 ... (3 - x) .. 1
Now notice if you factor out a -1, you have 3-x which will cancel:
-1 .. 2x .. 6
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.1 ... 1 ... 1
Multiply across and you get:
-12x
217 is the number following 216 and preceding 218.
217 is also a Centered Hexagonal Number.
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What's the 217???? I just do half my altitude, added to my KIAS for true. Works marvelously. 300KIAS + 120 (FL 240) = 420KTAS. TLAR Pilot Math is where it's at!
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!
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Sorry RM, I think your higher math skills are lost on most who frequent this forum. You're right, those number definitely don't look right, but try just doing it on the wiz-wheel, I think you'll get more support.
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.
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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.
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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 ;)
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Funny story...
I was told after I left a certain unnamed B-2 squadron, the new casual who took over my exec job was told to order some more zaps. Instead of finding out the company they normally go through, he finds some fly-by-night company on the internet. Long story short, he sends $400 of squadron money (and gets nothing) to some company in Pakistan... probably to support Al Qaida... from a B-2 squadron! Define irony...
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..."
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Does anyone know of a website/thread/etc that has some good info for T-1 PIT, etc.?
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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.
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Give this a try: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3182
It works for me, may look a bit sketchy, but haven't had any problems with it. Be sure to read the reviews, specifically the issue with the "alternate driver." I had to do that fix to make mine work.
I tried that too, just gave up and I use IE for CAC enabled sites and that ghey AETCBRI site.
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With the increasing reliance on the internet, its vulnerability to attack, and the sheer manpower that China has dedicated to it? Yes, yes, a hundred times yes. Right now, they are the nation states' world leaders in cyber attacks, IMHO. They have a massive quantity of troops doing nothing but cyber attacks. If you don't think we don't need a capacity to counter it, you are sorely mistaken.
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.
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The morse code connection is currently competing with the long entrenched semaphore community.
Don't forget smoke signals...there are natives in that area of the country too...
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Just wait 20 years and it will be Air Force Air Global Combat Strike Command (AFAGCSC)
Air Force Universe Wide Strike Command...we can't leave the Space folks out...
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Not sure if this fits the current motif, but I'll risk it...
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NSS is a scoring system used by the Navy. It's used for for both track selection and airframe selection. The formula is kept secret though many have tried to decipher it with limited success.
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...
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Talking with some U2 guys recently, the schoolhouse may be closing up faster than thought; I dont think you would have a realistic time frame available as of now to finish UPT, PIT, and fly 800+ before U2s stop hiring new guys.
Useful info, thanks. Heard the Florida job is backed up now too...awesome.
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Sorry bud, I have to raise the BS flag here just slightly. You say you would want an A-10 (if you had gone the 38 route) and that now your top two picks out of T-1's are a U-28 and an NSA. Well, from the majority of the drops I've read on here, your best chance for getting a U-28/NSA is out of 38's, not to mentio that A-10's obviously come out of 38's....but yet you say you made 38's your 3rd choice. Either your BS'ing yourself and everyone else reading this thread or you are completely oblivious to how the assignment process generally works out of UPT.
Having said all that, good luck with getting the SOF aiframes...continue working hard and I'm sure something good will come your way.
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.
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I could of sworn we had a thread solely dedicated to naming planes in them, but no luck.
This popped up on a website I frequent, and I was wondering if anyone knows what it is, the confusing this is it looks like it has wings on it.
That looks like its the one at Rucker
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As an outsider reading Ranger's question, It sounds like he is asking this: If you go T-1's, you try your hardest to get FAIPed, and then you do leg work for the U-2, that you might possibly get a fighter, and he is wondering if there is any truth to this.
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
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Well, yes and no.
Yes, that's what I meant...that U-2s don't just drop on FAIPs as part of the normal process.
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?
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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?
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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.
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I love how everyone says 'something will be on the SIPR" like there is a Baseops.net Forum on the SIPR where we post all the classifed stuff we can't talk about here.
There's not?
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That's a bet you are gonna lose...
Cheers! M2
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.
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I agree Fozzy. I had the honor to be the first student to fly a couple of T-6's. They had less than three hours on them. When Vance received T-6's from other bases with more than 1,000 hrs there was a great difference in how the plane responded to PCL movements. The gremlins in the plane's systems would pop up as well.
Yeah...so it's the newer T-6's I'd be worried about ;) New boldface and all...
Better than Powerpoint?
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Look up a program called Swish. Way cheaper and easier to pick up than Flash ;)