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Do any of the airlines have an AFPAK Hands program? Mine doesn't.

The seniority system is the only way to ensure that safety is the #1 factor motivating decisionmaking, vs trying to "look good" for management.

Just the fact that they're playing that card is an indicator of where their decisionmaking compass is pointing.

There I was, flat on my back....

You see, a pimp's love is very different from that of a square...

ATI AT-94A2. Basically the same gun made in the same factory as the Zenith (MKE in Turkey), but the previous importer. A2 stock and 16" CHF barrel with no muzzle device. It was imported with a bunch of weird stuff; A2 stock spot-welded to trigger group/lower, mag-well bars to restrict use of 10-round mags, etc. I sent it to Parabellum Combat Systems and had them 922r it, remove the mag bars, clean up the welds, strip the weird painted finish off and refinish in black duracoat. The OD green furniture is Pakistani-made and the lower is clipped-and-pinned and US-made.

I used to have the Hi Point 995TS, and although it was ugly as hell, just a tad heavy, and that big bolt reciprocating jarred my teeth when it cycled, it was utterly reliable and boringly accurate at plinking ranges. I sold it to get an MP5 clone instead.

It has been a couple years since I've been lectured by the SARC and the SJA, but I believe that what I've been taught is that you are, in fact, a rapist, and you violated the UCMJ and sexually assaulted her simply by looking at the photos.

Do a little searching on this site about she-who-shall-not-be-named (cha-ching $$ !) and you'll gain some tremendously important insight. The "story behind the story" with her is just as important as whatever you know about her currently.

Yes, all of the multi-ship demo teams use the sing-songy (and what appears to be somewhat loose compared to other mil flying) comm. It originally started with using the voice cadence to indicate the onset of G or roll rates or the pacing for other maneuvers, and it has sort of morphed into what it is today. If you go back and look at the Blue Angels "Threshold" movie from the early 1970s, you'll see a much tamer version of this same thing in Navy-speak. I got a couple rides with the Red Arrows in practice a few years ago and they had even more intra-airplane talking, even with pilots joking shit-talking each others' maneuvers during the performance using this same type of comm. Except with British and Scottish accents, ol' china.

I'll put the question back on you: what kind of time would you be trying to log? The hitch is that you'd be trying to log time under FAA part 61 rules, and 61.31 requires anyone who "acts" as pilot in command of a turbojet-powered airplane (e.g. a WSO flying a Strike Eagle from the back seat) must have a type rating. Since many military aircraft do not have civilian type ratings available, the FAA considers the AF's instrument-checkride Form 8 to be the same as a type rating. So...since WSOs don't get an instrument check F8, how would you explain to an FAA inspector (or someone interviewing you for a flying job later on down the line) how you were qualified to fly the thing under FAA rules? The bottom line is, as Toro mentioned, these days there's no pilot logbook value of WSO time. Now, most employers will see back seat time as important airmanship experience, and will consider that strongly to the benefit of you as a pilot, but the numbers won't count toward any required pilot experience.

Back several years ago, probably 2008-ish, a CAFB SUPT student got picked up in one of these stings, too.

"Lt MonkeySex". Loved that one.

What a lot of people -- apparently yourself included -- are missing is that the letter was "fighter standard" straight-talk, despite what Killer's public response to it was. As a fellow Strike Eagle dude when this all went down, I can tell you that 99% of the bro network thought Toro's reply was right-on, because that's how we talk to each other and how we keep each other on the straight-and-narrow when we stray outside what is acceptable behavior. So, it is no surprise to me that Toro made O-5, and had a fine career afterward, because he's a damn good officer, aviator, and instructor, and the vast majority of his peers and leaders knew that, too...as well as not thinking the email was some wildly-offensive douchey move.

Peacefully enjoying the scotch-of-the, er, check-of-the-month club, yes.

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No. Airlines consider PIC time as time in which you "signed for the airplane", so there will never be a time that the 'pitter's name is in the FP/MP/IP column on the signout sheet at the ops desk. You might hear about WSOs and RIOs from back in the day being able to convert their back seat time into pilot time, but those days are unfortunately long gone. If you want to fly professionally after the Air Force, either buy an airplane and fly on the side to build hours, or hit up the Aero Club.

The Mayor has lost control! The Mayor sucks!

As said, not at a "career" airline, no.

Nice ascot in the official photo, tho...

If you're gonna get hitched anyway, do it ASAP and enjoy the extra pay.

Which '17 is it going to be?

Use the company EFB to surf porn.

Bottom line, humans are on board the airplane for judgment and decisionmaking when things do not go as planned. It will be a long, long time before machines will be autonomously capable of that.

The "indefinite detention" language needs to come out of the NDAA. It amazes me that anyone who has taken the oath to the Constitution that we all do could possibly vote for such a thing. It is one of the most repulsive things to come out of Congress in decades (that is unclassified, at least).