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    Leadership at the 'Deid

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    [Cue Jeff Foxworthy voice]: If you start your laptop purchase process with "which BX should I buy from"...

    I haven't been in the computer market in over 4 years, so I'm sure that there's ton's better links, but why dontcha try here for starters.

    This thread hijack brought to you by the letter H.

    A-10 makes wheels up landing at Edwards

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    The last jet that landed in this configuration (at DM) had damage to the vertical stabs and lost some antennas. It was up for it's FCF within a few weeks.

    There's a checklist page for this procedure and among other features, you'll have unlimited brakes available (no anti-skid), differential brakes for steering (though I'd make the SOF get OG approval before I took the high-speed...), and the flaps and speed brakes are not expected to contact the rwy.

    The CL calls for jettison, so even though this jet was flying a Flag sortie, it is without the training Mavs normally found on the stations just outboard of the gear wells (prob somewhere on the range, still attached to their rails) and any other fun that they might have had on the other stations (bombs, rx, etc).

    Cheers,

    Fuel Conservation

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    I've tried to exercise my right to STFU lately, but...

    Ok, anyone on the board had experience outside the military with operating (read: maintaining, care, feeding, piloting) airplanes? Anyone with mx background know what it costs to run these airframes?

    I ask because if you do, you know right out that this fuel conservation BS is someone's (very high up) OPR bullet, and that's it. Pulling the power back to and from the area saves gas, but spends 3 for every one fuel dollar on mx. Your most efficient profile is to set max continuous from gear up to FAF and get the DLOs met.

    What I do like about the current trend is that if there is no training to be had (PIREP 300 to the moon), we take the early land dev's or bag the whole go. A big improvement over "all Cat B's to the desk". The next step is to s#!+can the whole flying hour program (good luck, been in play since I started mil av 13yr ago-->just a rewrite of the VN tonnage doctrine).

    FalconView questions

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    Posted · Edited by BFM this

    in CFPS, establish a point by name, coords, drag drop in fvw, etc.,

    within the description container type @###. @ being the function and ### being the three letter of the navaid.

    Works also with @XXXXX for intersections, or @KXXX for airfields...

    edit: (it appears that three X's in a row is naughty...)

    TRUE UPT buffoonery

    in General Discussion

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    Originally posted by Riddller:

    What's a 'lag roll'?

    To get from a relatively close, admin formation to a further spaced travel formation, lead flys s&l while the jet on the wing does a big barrel roll around lead, thereby flying a longer 'string' and ends up again co-altitude/airspeed, but much further aft, typically btw a 3-wood up to a mile if its done right.

    International/Overseas (Cell) phones

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    I'm using Vonage from PACAF. It looks, acts, smells like a regular phone. I pick up the reciever and for all intents and purposes its a Tucson dial tone. Anyone calling me dials my Tucson area number.

    Signal quality is great to anywhere in the US. It falls off a little bit when I'm calling my buddy in his apartment right above mine (he's got packet-8, another provider). Then it's seems like we're throwing this signal to the states and back, but still very usable.

    The worst is when I try to make a call to, say, a cell phone that is local to where I'm at. Lots of delay, poor signal quality, I only do this when I've forgotten my cel phone at work. I don't have a local landline.

    It seems that around half the bros where I'm at have VOIP, mostly split btw Vonage or Packet-8.

    RIF Beginning

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    I'm hoping, for what little faith I have left in my fellow officers' common sense, that noone expected this process to actually be productive or useful. That it (the process) would in any way be able to separate the wheat from the chaff, the turds from the punch, the weak swimmers from strong performers, the tools from the...whatever. I lost all hope when they said FY 02 and 03.

    I was OTS class 04-01. That's right: my senior class was three weeks inside the threat ring, and my class missed it by 4. I know in my heart of hearts that there were some awesome peeps in 03-14 that got the axe and some in my own class whose names I would gladly see submitted to the board and whom I'm sure to meet as a Capt or beyond someday.

    There was no way that this was going to be equitible or even, in pessimistic terms, in the best interest of the Air Force. No F'in way.

    Our best hope would have been to have the Office Space Bobs visit every base and pose the question to every LT: "So what is it, exactly, that ya do here?" officespace9.jpg

    Typhoon oops

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    Originally posted by Bender:

    The landing gear also has a "computer."

    WTF is it with the french airplane designers and their computer-love? Is it that the old simple gear lever is to prone to error from the monkey in the seat?

    Keeping your helmet

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    Often times, helmets do not last an entire flying career. Shortly after the individual gets fitted for their new helmet and its ready to fly, I've seen the old helmet perched atop thier locker, put there by the life support folks so that they can take it home.

    dog tags?

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    Originally posted by JS:

    ...don't forget to get silencers...

    two inches of electrical tape works better than any silencer I've run across.

    As far as wearing them, that habit was beaten into me long ago. So much so that I don't bother looking up regs, I just wear them.

    I figure it serves it's purpose: they'll be able to more readily identify my remains among all of the other cr...oh, wait, never mind.

    Civilian flying during UPT

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    Probably so. Motorcycles statistically are on par with or just slightly more dangerous than light GA. Unless of course you're talking about a couple of UPT studs and their girlfriends out shining their asses at Lake Amistad. Then all bets are off.

    I was in the middle of digging up stats when it hit me that I really don't care that much. I just was wondering how draconian a commander can get before reg's or higher authority says BS.

    A commander could say:

    -no motorcycles,

    -no hard liquor,

    -noone outside a 25 mile radius unless on leave

    -and noone off base overnight.

    These are all legal orders and seems to me that they would all be in line with improving readiness and keeping airmen safe, right?

    Civilian flying during UPT

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    Originally posted by PilotKD:

    ...At Moody, the OSS commander forbid anyone from flying outside of UPT unless it was IFT. Why? Same reason the AF prohibits alot of other things...

    I'd be interested to know the legalities either way on this one. Seems to me, if they could, most CC's would forbid all sorts of things, starting with motorcycles. There's a reason that they don't, and I'd be surprised if said commander wasn't just beating his chest about civil flying knowing that anyone who asked would be permitted.

    I'm really interested in this one...

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