BFM this

Lol, you don’t have to be a WCoS to know that’s a foul. Hell, I’ll bet the LTs in the room knew it was fucked up like polio as soon as it was happening. This is like busting a rule on a checkride; from the WG/CC’s perspective, his hands are probably tied with respect to the outcome at this point.

I guess I will both agree, and at the same time respectfully disagree slightly with your position. I do want a certain moral fiber woven into my kid’s school day, but I will also admit that it’s a very specific moral fiber that I’m referring to. And I specifically moved (for a number of reasons, including, but not limited to) from VA to TX, and the atmosphere difference was better than I could have hoped for. Citizenship, civics, civic duty and virtue, and yes, even general principles on how not to be an asshole. I’ll also concede that it’s a slippery and perilous slope should the school board take a turn for the worse while the parents are asleep at the switch. Southlake, TX, for example.

Every flu shot that I received was under threat of the UCMJ. Haven't had one since. ...also haven’t had the flu since then so 🤷🏼‍♂️

As we’ve seen, also dubious...

Exactly Which is why the spike in morbidity/mortality is notable. That there is no potential for causality, while valid as a null hypothesis, is more dubious than its counter hypothesis. 2000/4years vs 5000/.5years is an extreme jump, no matter how you parse the data.

So...pre-COVID, old people weren’t getting flu shots? Your supposition might be correct, but leaves doubt.

Masks are just the prop. It's about publicly enumerating who is vaccine compliant.

46% of the voting pilots agreed with you.

IM(biased)O, K4 should be the seventh app for any .mil airline applicant, barring those who can say for certainty that they couldn't stomach certain aspects of the sector (16 day lines, planet lapping, etc). They are easily on top of the heap of regionals and other ACMI operators. That said, the latest contract was VERY incremental over the previous 2016 contract, due mostly to the drag on negotiations from the previous year's events. Likely scenarios will have a much more productive negotiating environment when this contract is up in four years. However, expectation management: the best ACMI dog in the business will always lag parcels and pax, simply because it's a much leaner sector historically. The organized labor lens can angst all day that management is making money hand over fist in the current environment, but that can change over a commercial break, and chaining a company to a contract that will ensure the doors get locked at the bottom of the next cycle...even this pilot group understands that reality. But beyond that, there's a few -isms within the company that I think weigh it down on it's way to becoming a "destination job", namely a training dept that is being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century, inability to sit any form of "in-base reserve", negligible retirement benefit, etc. Crews are great, can't beat the 74 for bucket list type value; still highly recommend.

Granted mine wasn’t a high power staff job, but holy hell, you really gotta be smokin the tires to get fired from a MAJCOM staff desk. Especially in the current market.

I’m impressed that the LPA managed to come up with an offensive double meaning and it made it back to the Bob in less than a day. ========= MR MAYOR! POINT OF ORDER! I move that Lt Herr’s new call sign be “Prince Albert”, or “Prince” for short. ========== I’ve seen the occasional socially awkward CC, but most of them knew they were socially awkward and came to accept it as a limitation, working around it. This idiot sounds completely oblivious. Suggest a hostile renaming: D.B. You know, for Daring Bob. Used in a sentence: “We used to call him Phats, but that was before he came out of the closet as a raging Daring Bob.”

North Texas is going to go down as a unique storm/natural disaster. Last night it was 6°F when my wife called and said that our power was out. Not a huge deal except for the fact that we had been running the pool pump at a higher speed to keep that system from freezing. It quickly froze, we will find out on Saturday when the temperature gets above freezing weather or not that entire system is fucked. Likely. Likewise, the master bath is against the exterior wall, and no hot water is running to those spigots. The neighborhood I am in is not plumbed for natural gas, and apparently we are split among two different power grids. Luckily, my grid came back up after a few hours this morning, so we’ve been able to run the heat to try and save the plumbing. The other half of the neighborhood has been on a 10 minute cycle all day. Pretty sure all those houses will be a mort for plumbing when this is all said and done. Last but certainly not least, the neighborhood is all septic. Aerobic septic. Sprinklers are frozen, so no showers and only limited flushing for the next few days. If anyone has any stock tips for plumbing suppliers and contractors in North Texas, now is the time to buy. I just started my commute home this morning, and I’m stuck on the West Coast. Fun times.

Out of curiosity, what’s on your daily reading list?

Highly doubt that. Agree with most of the points made here, but given her CV, she can kick a ball. Don’t get me wrong: she would have provided precisely zero help to the return coverage, but that probably was the point. Put the ball exactly here, avoid the biggest return threats. She did her job as asked, I’m guessing. That’s probably the strategic blunder here: should have let her give it her best grunt, let the chips fall where they may.

You should catch his live act sometime. Totally worth the cover plus two drink minimum. 🤘

I would agree that it isn’t pure vertical, but bank never broke 90? So a pitch/sliceback?

-80 degrees C (colder than dry ice) is not your standard refrigeration obstacle.

Pulls pin and tosses ad hominem grenade. Walks out. Right...Good talk, Russ.

I must be missing the reference.

Pretty sure they don’t have ejection seats; bailout only. Glad they all made it!

The FO’s incompetence and the CA’s competence intersected well below the available recovery window in this circumstance. FO made an input well outside reasonable expectation, so much so that it produced a startle effect in the CA, fatally delaying the attempted recovery on his part. An antidote could have been a timely and assertive “MY AIRCRAFT” from the CA, but given the data, even that is left to doubt; regardless, no such declaration was recorded on the CVR.

Reason #369 why I’m so glad to no longer be traveling with the circus. ...small j vs big J? WTaF? The very definition of dodging valid feedback.

In 3y the regionals will be back to picking up .mil with R-ATP mins. If you can sprint to an EP qual, you could potentially go straight to a major.

Don’t think that’s normally a thing in the case of injuries and no fatalities.