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With what almost was Tenerife 2.0 at JFK, AA 777 v DL 737, a thought occurred to me: a lot of energy is spent in initial and recurrent training on precise callouts and movements based on the GUI presented. While this is a good thing toward producing a homogenized product for the line, there seemed to be a lot of pull on the eyes toward just the PFD, with little discussion or encouragement to, well, scan. At all. So for myself, I identified the threat and adjusted accordingly. I make a conscious effort to scan the entry points down field, identify anyone approaching and holding short. On the roll, just after the 80kt call, quick glance to the engines (white needles pointing in roughly the same direction and near the carrots), airspeed (still under 100), then up and check the runway for movement ahead, quick glances down to the PFD for accel progress. More or less the same thought process, as much as brain bytes allow, inside of a mile on landing. fwiw
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Grew up in the Marine KC community smokin a lucky. Old heads would tell of the risk aversion, how we were "high value assets", Corps was lucky to have Herks a' la Key West Agreement and all that. Fast forward to OIF week one: community had already lost one crew the prior year, I had a front row seat to a notable blue on blue, and now crews were coming back with SAFREPs of having to maneuver due to active tracking by AAA on the way into the LZ. Kinda rearranges your worldview right quick. Stay frosty folks.
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oooffff I remember showing up here as a UPT select and you were still AD. My back hurts...
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In lesser TX primary news: Gonzalez was primaried to a runoff in TX23 by https://x.com/TheAKGuy 43% to 41%.
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Most of the prep for flatbed loading is complete ✅
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Thousand or so emails between Epstein and Peter Attia 😬
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Great question. 🤷♂️
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Several examples of ASHP hitting their lights, subject vehicle making indications of pulling over (flashers, slowing down, heading to the next exit, NOT RUNNING), and getting PIT'd in under a minute. Policy, training, culture.
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Anyone feel free to chime in and correct my understanding of the history and facts: My first shutdown that I experienced while receiving a DoW paycheck was during the Clinton administration. Our paychecks were delayed a few days, but the paychecks arrived in full. Every shutdown since, same song. In fact, while I was always required to show up to work, even if my paycheck was delayed, other federal agencies were handled differently. Some agencies, or certain workgroups within those agencies, were told to stay home. And yet, time and again, once a CR was passed by Congress, those workgroups received their full paychecks. Seems like the government, and media mouthpieces, will use words like "furlough"...but that word has a different connotation than if I, in my current role, were to be confronted with the same term. Yes, the fact that Congress can't do its fucking job is righteous bullshit. But this admin isn't really breaking any new ground here. Broken trust, indeed.
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Would guess that this would not be an overall cut of the force. More likely the opposite. Just a manning reallocation. Maybe the tech has improved, but at one point launching an RPA sortie was greater than the similar manned sortie in terms of manning and dollars.
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At the end of the day, they're all just grasping at a different part of the elephant. Still blind. If I hear Rogan say one more time that the Fire Department (public utility) is socialism (central planning the means of production) again...
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Been a minute since my last HF shot, but do we have airborne target TTPs now? I mean, the Pk against ground movers wasn’t eye watering, and you had to get a bunch of variables just right.
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Next 9/11: drone swarms targeting airliners, first or second climb segments, most vulnerable. Simultaneous execution across a dozen or more airports before NAS can react and shut down. Clancy predicted 9/11 methodology seven years prior.
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