Everything posted by BFM this
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
For every year that you sign up for the bonus, you are committed. Seems simple enough.
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
Prior: tell me how I didn't have the same commitment?
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ATTACK....
Shuddup Nav!
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Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) Certificate
While I agree with you in principle, the counterpoint is that there have been plenty of pilots, from all walks, who "learned" stuff in their respective pipelines, and then packed it in to much media fanfare. Including Mil pilots. Yeah, I think the new ATP rules could have a MUCH bigger cutout for Mil, but the opposing forces (puppy mil ERU, ND, Perdue, All-ATPs, etc) would have dragged us back to 300hr wonders in the right seat of an RJ. ...pick your poison. At the end of the day, an end of ADSC Mil guy still has a logbook that the civ guys can't complete with.
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TDY Gouge: NIAGARA ARS
Nothing written up in the TDY gouge section; TDY to NFARS for a few weeks. Lodging? WiFi quality in said lodging? Gym? Local eats? Send it!
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Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
But it's okay, because you are required to stay on base, so at least you have that going for you.
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Brexit
Oh, then by all means, enlighten us, the unwashed. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/eu-to-launch-kettle-and-toaster-crackdown-after-brexit-vote2/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3649655/How-Brussels-spends-money-grows-trees-devastating-dispatch-reveal-Eurocrats-live-life-staggering-excess-10-000-earn-PM-s-150-000-taking-decisions-affect-lives-secret.html Seems me that Brits made a call. You might not agree with it, but drop the righteous indignation. Don't get me wrong, there are counterpoints: https://www.google.com/amp/www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/british-lose-right-to-claim-that-americans-are-dumber/amp# But maybe Andy Borowitz and John Oliver aren't as smart as they are witty https://hbr.org/2013/06/the-european-union-a-failed-ex
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
They scoff as a function of their own dissonance; confirmation bias. Vetter's post contained all of the essential elements: -Choice of whether or not he would help--no obligation to be a "Yes Man" -He chooses to live in base, substantially improving his QoL -He may choose to bid another base when he becomes more senior -He then may choose to relocate, or commute if if that is more advantageous -He was immediately rewarded for helping out -He may at some point trade some QoL for an earlier upgrade; seat, iron, or both -OR, he may get kicked to the curb at the next market correction or merger. Who the fvck knows Based on his posting history, he (like a lot of us) might trade a sizable chunk of the above for more time in a USAF tail, but not at the expense of being marginalized and commoditized on some spreadsheet
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Working for Wing IG
Interesting? Exercises Promotion? Inspection--esp if you take the WG through the next capstone. Flying? ADO, hands down.
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Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
GMAMFB! The AF loves to tout how cheap RPAs are in one argument, and then how ridiculously expensive they are in the next. Typically, whichever angle the AF is arguing, is BS. (For the record, over the horizon, distributed Drone ops is fvckin retahdid expensive) How much did it cost to wire Ft Smith, AR, and a half dozen other ANG locations for droids? THERES your cost. It's not some obscene number that gets thrown around after the staff cooks the books all weekend to defend that bullsh!t rice bowl NW of Vegas.
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Escaping RPAs
The perennial BODN entertainment clown. Never fails to entertain. Show up Contribute for 50-100 posts Go full retard Achieve critical mass meltdown CAPSOFSandy PYB And now in the left corner, weighing in at 169# soaking wet, from Knob Noster, MO, the TwisterInYourSister, ILoveScotch!!!
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Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
[usually around 2 in the afternoon during the last week of the month] "Oh, hey there MCC, I'd like to get scheduled in 5 different GCSs for 0.2 each."
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Track Selects and Assignment Nights
Hmmm...so does that mean that assignments are given based on IFF performance? That's a first for an IFF performance being anything other than proceed/divert to heavies.
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Promotion and PRF Information
Seen a number of IPUGs rammed through in min time, only to watch the newly minted IP go up to wing and occasionally log some IP time on the 781 to maintain currency for the next year or so, and then it's off to school. But hey, got that K prefix...check.
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Enlisted Drone Pilots
I hadn't looked at it that way. In sarcasm font, what he said makes perfect sense.
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Enlisted Drone Pilots
Don't post drunk.
- Prior military aviator going through UPT
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
365
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Just turned 29 and looking at my options
Style points for emailing 1FW/ALL with your question. ...that's one technique, I guess
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Questions on the GI Bill (Tuition Aid)
You can use you Post 911 GI Bill for any flight training you want as long as it is Part 141/142. I have yet to find a qualifying school for the Seaplane rating in the Northwest. Lost of schools you can get extra type ratings. GOTDAMMIT! That's three hours of my life spent Googleing GI-Bill Seaplane, then GI-Bill Helicopter, the GI-Bill Super-Constellation type rating course, then...
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
- RPA School at Holloman
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AFRC Stoploss
Not really a stop loss, as far as I can tell; appears to be a standard force management paper drill from one FY to the next. Reading the memo, one could request transfer to IRR of 30 Sep and get an approved date of 1 Nov. Not very stop-loss-ey, imo.
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AFRC Stoploss
Lot of comments along the lines of "this is SOP, happens every year." By the letter posted, someone approved for separation on 30 Sep could separate 1 Nov. That, by definition, is not Stop Loss.
- Questions on the GI Bill (Tuition Aid)