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    Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I gave my $.02 worth on said survey above. Their 15 year TFI commitment is absurd no matter how much money is offered. The USAF needs to readjust their reality of what type of force they want to retain. If outside agencies are hiring no one will sign up for a 15 year TFI commitment, regardless of how much cash is thrown down. So, let's accept the reality and realize we're going to be a younger, more inexperienced force. I suggested 6 year commitments to allow for initial training and follow on flow to the ARC without the lifelock commitment. Much better recruitment and retention net, vice treating the symptoms and not the disease.

    shack

    Red Lens Test Waiver

    in Aviation Medicine

    Posted

    for what its worth, depth perception is a common issue in our modern screen driven lives. a tip is to practice using the magic eyes books, they are called stereograms and they can help you train up that binocular depth perception that staring at your phone all day kills ;)

    Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Yeah, I just deployed with a manned ISR asset a shit load of times over the last 5 years of my career and have a strong background in aircraft MX and support...what do I know. I'm pro manned ISR, but you could make the argument either way. Some manned assets use a lot of bandwidth too...

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    BL, it depends...

    Not saying you don't know anything just felt like saying logistics aren't a huge issue was glossing over a potential snake pit.

    You're never going to convince me that unmanned ISR is anything more then the governments wet dream of being able to kill/spy without officially sending in American personnel. Which I don't have a problem with. But call a spade a spade. The saves money argument is garbage

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    Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Think you shacked it for the most part...loiter and willingness/ability to get lower (below clouds) have proven advantageous many times... Also when you add superior ball capes in some cases, the RPA may be the superior asset in some cases. CRM, TTP, WX penetration/avoidance, and the ability to look out the window and get the big picture stacks in favor of the manned asset. Won't discuss finish. I think logistics is debatable, but we can call that a push...

    Logistics debateAble? Ok I'm not one to throw stones but that shit dude. If you don't know the numbers look them up. bandwidth, maint, 50+ percent crash rate. The cadre of dudes task with control and retrieval.

    If manned assets fell out of the sky and required so much shit and were so vulnerable and only were slightly better in very certain situations the Air Force would be part of the army again so fast your head would spin

    ANG: Be Careful What You Ask For

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    honestly i see it as this way, a way to spin up and draw down for positions such as pilots that allow them to retain talent when they need it and not have to pay it... i mean whats better then getting a traditional guard bro out of UPT hungry for hours and giving him all the flight time he can muster. then later in his career hes more fo a part time dude (leaving space for new blood) while retaining his skills for use in emergencies

    ANG: Be Careful What You Ask For

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    . make it so the ARC begins losing support of civilian employers due to the expectations for them under USERRA becoming unreasonable; and you will start to see people exiting the ARC, and the ARC having a difficult time remaining ready/relevant/reliable.

    This. Airlines are one thing but coming from corporate you will effectively be blackballed unless you jump ship.

    Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    It's funny you show a picture of the Combat Air Tractor.

    It amazed me how hard the Phil's were sticking their fingers in their ears to ignore that aircraft while simultaneously copy/paste'ing the requirements for their new turbo prop light CAS aircraft program straight from the Super Tacano's sales brochure.

    The prob with the agcat are the landing gear interfering with the sensor sweep.

    What's wrong with the Air Force?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I think this is simple...Put the GCS at places people want to go and you'll get more volunteers. It's be said over and over again, but if you put those bad johnnies at MacDill, Eglin, Luke, McChord, Charleston, Hickham, Hanscom, Patrick, <insert sweet Navy coastal base here>, etc then I bet you'll see more people interested than if it's "wait, so I don't get to fly airplanes anymore AND you're sending me to Cannon? Sweet. I'm out."

    Lol Luke a sweet base? ;)

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    What's wrong with the Air Force?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    You'd see some improvement in retention, but not much I think. The plan right now is to double output here at Holloman. We're about to cannibalize ops squadrons for dozens of their instructors to increase FTU manning. So ops manning will take a nasty hit the next year, and it's going to be the experienced dudes and dudettes squadrons can least afford to lose, especially en masse. So in the medium term, you'll have ops squadrons flooded with Lt's and not enough IPs to teach them MQT. It is going to be a very rough 2017 for dudes flying the line. To compound the problem, the current bottom of the barrel for 18Xers is terrifying. We had several dudes at my last squadron who I wouldn't trust to tie their own shoes. When we double the number of 18Xers, we're going to see the average quality go down. In the long term, perhaps increased manning will alleviate some issues, but I think we're 4 years out on that, best case. Either way, I don't plan on sticking around to find out. Bottom line: there's a hole in the bucket and the planned repair is to pour twice as much water in.

    if the quality is such shit on some of these pilots its about time they revisit the warrant officer solution

    What's wrong with the Air Force?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    From the linked article: "The Air Force has been losing more drone pilots than they can train, which has Gen. Welsh concerned and which has forced him to order a stop-loss."

    Is the stop loss now official?

    -9-

    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

    Where is he loosing drone pilots to? All those commercial drone outfits? Oh wait...

    How Do They Look At Your GPA for Selection?

    in What Are My Chances?

    Posted

    But that's what frustrates me the most about the public speaking class! I did exactly what the professor said. He said write and give a speech about whether you believe in hate crimes or not. It was choice. Yet I didn't and I was considered wrong, though it was an opinion based assignment.

    I guess I just have trouble getting use to how PC college is.

    I'm doing well in my business classes (I have A's in them so far) and I find the Business Communications class I'm taking easy. I know I can get all A's in my business classes. I simply just wanted to know if those B's and C's in my Gen Eds would matter in the future when a guard or reserve unit looks at my transcript. The two A's I got recently pulled my GPA up. I know I can do well do well in these business classes and get all A's.

    Sorry if I'm sounding so rude or whinny. I'm guess I'm frustrated (a lot of family issues going on at home) and I don't think taking it out on random strangers on the internet is going to help. (Especially on strangers who are suppose to help).

    Don't even have words.

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    How Do They Look At Your GPA for Selection?

    in What Are My Chances?

    Posted

    Well so far I've only taken 2 actually business classes (I'm taking my 3rd right now) and I got A's in both of them (91 in Intro to Business and 95 in Intro to Entrepreneurship). I just found classes such as english, music (needed it for an art credit) and public speaking hard. When it came to music I still couldn't understand whether a song was homophonic, monophonic, extraphonic (I made that one up). Basically you had to listen to a classical song, identify if it was one of those things and write a paper on why you think it is this phonic. If you get it wrong, 50% off. I ended up with a C.

    Then I found public speaking hard, I just wasn't good at giving speeches got a low b. I find the Gen eds stressful, even with going to the student help center on campus.

    Believe Im not a big gamer or drinker. I basicily go to school, work 20 hours a week and take care of my 80 year old grand mother. I'm not privileged like most kids my age.

    Maybe you need to drink more? If you find gen eds hard and public speaking hard how are you going to do in UPT doing EP standups?

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    How Do They Look At Your GPA for Selection?

    in What Are My Chances?

    Posted

    Dude, 2.87 GPA is pretty darn low...you are looking like a football scholarship type applicant with that on your record. Not saying it's the end of the world, but man you are making it a harder road than it needs to be. Quit messing around...anyone can get a 3.0 + in college...ESPECIALLY if you are business major..jeez man...make it a priority over beer and video games and maybe you can fly jets for cash like the rest of us...or put it off...up to you.

    Shack.

    And business admin is a cakewalk bro no reason you shouldn't be in the 3.0 club on gen Ed classes and still be able to keg stand with the best of em.

    Track Selects and Assignment Nights

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    To tag on that, I’ve been told in commercial world there are some pilots who dislike pretty much everybody, not just prior military. They also can’t stand graduates of other training pipelines such as collegiate programs i.e. UND, Riddle, etc… because they didn’t “pay their dues” earning money to pay for ratings one at a time mowing lawns, grocery stores, odd-jobs, etc… then once flying they had to work nights/weekends/holidays for low pay as CFIs, freight dogs, pipe/powerline patrol, etc… if someone took a perceived “easier” route then themselves, they don’t like em’.

    EDIT: Spelling.

    And then there's the aerobats that don't say shit and do stuff 90 percent of other dudes out there never have/will do ;)

    It's all about being humble and a good bro (to the whole pilot community )

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