BFM this

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.

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.

https://www.flightglobal.com/defence/usaf-pilots-to-train-at-italian-flight-school-in-historic-first/164331.article

I mean, it is CA after all. To them, it’s a feature, not a big.

Not to mention, you could come up with some pretty wide spectrum comparisons for GI Bill usage. The high end being some Ivy League private school with a yellow ribbon financial incentive, the low end being a trade program, or in this case ratings. Everyone's GI Bill usage is going to be different. The most important part is that it gets USED, which, tragically doesn't happen in a shockingly high statistical rate. For the record, I was on the MGIB during school, before the rates started rising. $465 a month baby! Good news is that I got a year plus up under the P911GIB...which I intend to use for a rotary wing add-on 🤙

Probably not in this case. Likely the flight lead's local callsign. Possibly bought at an LPA sponsored callsign auction after upgrade/joining the unit.

Yes, BUT...I do have one in my safe that I wouldn't trust as a fishing weight. I'd happily drive down to Dallas for $150. Best price I would probably get for it.

I wonder if there’s some MBAs that ignored the design engineers. Nah, that’s ridiculous.

I've been running the Tenicor VELO5 for the past year. Been an absolutely fantastic holster. I've been carrying a Hellcat OSP with it.

Just to clarify, contrary to my roadside gameplan, I would enthusiastically submit to breathalyzer offered on a jetbridge. Fun story: Pilot is on his way home from a trip, gets a call from a CP asking why he refused his random test. Fast forward several years, and lots of litigation, turns out that the minimum wage, non-English speaker with a clipboard didn’t get the job done that day. I’m guessing that the award didn’t make up for the lost income, and stress of having to litigate the case. Unfortunately he was over 65 when the case finally finished.

"Listen man, we're just going to run a few tests so that I can establish that you're safe to drive. It won't take too long, and you'll be on your way." Enter, the Drug Recognition Expert. Blow zero? Yeah, doesn't matter. For further Google fun, look up the 600+ sober DUI arrests in Tennessee. BREAK BREAK: Just to pull this discussion back on subject. On the side of the road, about the time when the cop starts with the small-talk questions (which are not small talk), I'm limiting my answers, and I will quickly establish that I don't consent to searches or roadside tests. On the jetbridge is another story. The rules of evidence are different, and I'm more concerned at that moment with my fitness to fly and further employment, in that proximal priority.

Rumor is that the F/O popped in Sweden doesn’t drink. https://www.chicagocriminallawyer.pro/blog/the-impact-of-keto-diets-on-dui-breath-test-accuracy/

Unfortunately, from what I've seen, false positive, or BS "drug recognition expert" arrest that ultimately gets thrown out, still triggers certain Fed actions, including grounding and HIMS goat-rope (a valuable program, but if you're stone cold sober it gets devalued as a haze).

My personal bottle-to-throttle is about double the FOM standard. Just too much money in the pot to call that hand. That said, if I ever do get into widebody international again, I will go full Quaker from CONUS coast-out to clearing US customs. Happy to go hit Oktoberfest or a bottle of wine with dinner up the Italian coast...but only on vacation.

Billions of cargo ton-miles flown by 767s every year. OTS systems and parts just lying all around. AF: yeah we want to redesign the tracks and rails. Just cannot get out of their own way.