Kenny Powers
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900 days? Holy shit.
Side note, why can I say shit but not ? Ops test: ass, , cock, bitch, .
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Same. I figure I'll forget about it (already had until reading this again) and then someday, poof, they figure it out and I get a bunch of back pay.
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Go with story.
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Due to the way the air flows around the canopy, a low pressure area is created on the front of the canopy, right where you'd be trying to look for the runway when flying an ILS, which cause water to just build up and pool there.
At least I think that's the science behind it but what it comes down to is it looks like driving through the rain with no windshield wipers on your car.
But it doesn't always happen, not sure what other CFs need to be present.
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The runway is 12.6K, it says he couldn't see outside so had to use on board instruments. Aside from landing with no vis (illegal) and trying to CAT III an F-16 (illegal), he should have landed on the captain bars leaving him much more than 6K to go on touchdown.
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That sux. I agree about Mad Jack's. Mediocre compared to any of the Texas legends (Franklin, Kreuz, etc...).
Maybe. But it's better than 99% of BBQ in the country and it's in NM.
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Has anyone seen the increase in flight pay yet?
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Continue flying whatever aircraft you just finished flying at UPT. Find empty pits on the schedule and go talk to the IP and see if he/she is cool with you tagging along.
If you're a fighter dude then go sand bag rides at an IFF squadron. It was no problem to do a few years back when I went through at SPS, can't imagine it being an issue at any other base. -
Some one better live stream all the tears...
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So what if you don't want to go to the airlines or get a PhD, want to be home every night, and don't want to work 16 hours a day? Fighter type with engineering degree/experience.
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On 9/8/2017 at 7:42 PM, VMFA187 said:
Was told a Draken A-4 punched today in the pattern in Nellis? Pilot ok.
I'm pretty sure this did not happen. I've been out here TDY for a little over a week and haven't heard anything like that. I think one did blow a tire or have some malfunction after landing the other day but that's all I've heard.
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27 minutes ago, extender10 said:
I am from the Seattle area and was hired at Travis AFB in NorCal. I had some contacts in the squadron there (My dad was a C-17 pilot and he had friends from UPT at Travis flying in the reserves) so that got my foot in the door once I asked my dad if he knew anybody flying the KC-10.
To prep for my interview, I found lots of questions from here in the forums, and some from airline interviews, and made a big "interview script" on google docs and just sat for an hour a few nights a week doing some "creative writing" in response to those questions. For the "tell me about yourself question" I got to the point where I knew it so well that I could add pauses and expressions into my response to make it casual and natural - I think it's the one question they expect you to have a sort of canned answer to - but want it to be from the heart. For the other questions I came up with some bullet points/trigger words so that I could make answers come quick depending on how they framed the question and stay on my toes.
I think I ended up making it 6-7 pages long, I definitely over-prepared but it really paid off. If you want to PM me I'm happy to share.
Another tip I have is to practice answering your questions sitting in a chair at a table, in your suit jacket or something. This helped me control my body language and fidget less, and get used to wearing a suit jacket - lots of buttons and pockets to learn to ignore. Even things like how to unbutton/button your suit jacket will make you feel like the guy in Wolf of Wall Street going in to the interview room.
I'm no expert but it worked for me - I got hired at C--5s and KC-10s Friday and Saturday back to back and ended up backing out of a C-17 gig. I know I'll get shit for that - but honestly the KC-10 tugs at my heart a ton and I know that the C-17 will be around for longer than the KC-10 and that opportunity will still be there in the future. I couldn't see myself flying the C-5, the crews on trips are really big and you end up logging lots of "other" time instead of PIC/SIC. KC-10 also goes more places. Plus, it's a DC-10. However, I owe a lot to the C-5 interview for helping me go in the next day confidently - also they are super top notch guys, just not what I saw myself committing to in the end. They stood me and two other interviewees up at the end and hired all three of us on the spot - it was actually really special. Made the decision I had the next few days really tough, but I felt really lucky to get hired two places in one go.
WTF did I just read?
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It's all fun and games until the defensive egg goes ballistic as you're gunning him and takes away your lag option...highly effective though if you don't get the kill right then and there.
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The glass half full perspective is that I've learned I can say fuck using the website. Probably never go back.
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You are quite the cyber warrior, but you missed a few critical steps:
1. Don't open the email link.
2. Remove your CAC from the computer.
3. Alert your security manager.
And don't take any CDs from your coworkers, they're all trying to fuck you over.
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Not sure if it matters but the website works fine on my phone, just the baseops.net and tapatalk apps giving the error.
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22 hours ago, DFRESH said:
Do you have Two Factor Authentication enabled?
Negative. It worked forever on my phone then stopped about a week ago.
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Having the same issue with the tapatalk and baseops.net app. Get a CSFR fail or something like that when I try to log back in to Base Ops on either. Can still see posts but only as a guest. Samsung Galaxy phone.
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My guess is that would cause even more 11Fs to jump ship, if that's possible.
11Fs, just like everyone else I'm sure, want less bullshit jobs so they can spend more time focusing on their primary job of being a fighter pilot. Not to say this the wrong way but flying drones would become a huge additional duty.
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That means you gotta front the strippers.
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Was he one of the dudes that got C-17s out of 38s?
The real question is, can he get his own ATIS?
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Agreed. Eventually, what separates the good from the really good in this business is brain power.
Some guys can read a book once and memorize it, categorize the info, and recall it when needed. Others have to study it over and over, every time the squadron enters a new phase of training, and then are still likely to mess it up during the execution.
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
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Pretty sure this is the extent of what our finance office said too.