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    Top Gun 2 (***NSFW***)

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    Wonder if there’s going to be a geopolitical antagonist this time, and who would play the role.

    Thinking of the Red Dawn reboot that CGI rewrote the NoDAKs implausibly in for the originally penned Chinese invaders (so as not to offend a substantial box office market).

    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

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    2 hours ago, waveshaper said:

    The Air Force's highest-ranking woman fighter pilot has been fired from running the office that oversees top secret programs:

    https://www.businessinsider.com/dawn-dunlop-air-force-woman-fighter-pilot-fired-secret-office-2019-6

    “The source said that things reached a boiling point May 31, when Dunlop lost her temper in a meeting with senior Air Force civilians. 

    An Air Force civilian immediately told Ellen Lord, the Pentagon's top acquisition official, about the situation in the office, the source said, and Lord walked over to the SAPCO office and removed Dunlop.”

    And that, boys and girls, should tell you everything you need to know about where you’re at in the food chain if your office includes GS employees.

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    UPT/Military vs. Civilian ratings

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    8 hours ago, viper154 said:

    Ya what was said above. Most the UPT bases have a dude that does the testing/paperwork the day after you graduate. You pay a fee, they teach you the commercial test, you take the test, a few weeks later you get your license in the mail. T-1 guys get a multi engine commercial, I believe 38s get the same now. Not sure about the whirlybird guys. 

    Correct me if I’m wrong (the mighty Tweet reigned in my time), but I believe you’ll get Commercial AMEL, ASEL, IA, counting the T6 time.

    Military Pilot Shortage and Aero Clubs

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    So this hit my in-container recently:

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    From: […] OG/CD 
    To: [a bunch of CCs]
    Cc: [a bunch of DOs]

    Subject: Civilian Aircraft Parking/Aero Club Survey

    Commanders,

    I have good news.  The FSS has published an Aero Club/Civilian Aircraft Parking Survey.  The overall purpose of the survey is two-fold:

    1. A survey is required by AFI in order gauge interest and begin the process of creating an Aero Club.

    2. The survey will gauge interest and build our initial contact list for personnel who wish to park their aircraft on the CAP ramp.  We will then coordinate with them to begin the landing permit process and eventually open the ramp to their aircraft.

    The survey will be active until 28 Apr 19.

    Although FSS Marketing will promote the survey on the FSS website, mobile app, and social media, I recommend you forward this to your squadrons/attached personnel in order to ensure they receive it, as I would imagine the FSS’s methods will not be as effective as an email from within the unit.  I’ll also work to make sure the word gets out to [tenant staff], but if you think of anyone else who would be interested, please forward the link along.

    The link to the survey is: [link to the survey]

    Let me know if you have any questions.

    R,

     

    On the one hand, its a faint signal among the static that maybe someone is out there who gets it.  On the other, maybe I'm jaded, but I see this fizzling out in the crib.  ...now, if big blue were to do some recapitalization of their Cirrus fleet at the zoo, doling out the existing tails to clubs AF-wide...  Like I mentioned before, I think the reasons that clubs were successful in their heyday had a lot to do with resourcing with surplus tails.  Unfortunately we don't have a glut of T-34s, T-41s, and T-42s laying around.  Although CAP has had some success lobbying for consistent recapitalization of their own fleet in recent years, (way nicer rides than when I was a cadet) so maybe that could form the basis as well. 

    Plenty of ideas about how this could work...few about how it could work given today's operating environmentals.

    Brig Gen Short (Aircrew Task Force) AMA

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    14 hours ago, FLEA said:

    Are these other FB pages written out (by group name) anywhere because I'm searching for a few that were just mentioned and can't find anything except MAF, Space and Acquisitions. 

    Typically closed/secret groups.  They won’t be “searchable”; at least on the CAF side they weren’t.  You join by having a bud nominate you.

    Military Pilot Shortage and Aero Clubs

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    11 hours ago, SocialD said:

    From my very limited experience with AF aero clubs, the governmental bureaucracy of an aero club is a PITA. 

    The benefits are (were) the support structure, especially during times of plenty when surplus T-34s and T-41s could be the backbone of the club, on base facilities, including avgas availability (which is gone with the wind, obviously).

    But you're right, the golden goose was strangled by the typically Air Force answer to non-existent problems, such as the hamfisted application of an AFI11-2AeroClubV1,2,3 template that turns a sunny day in search of the $100 burger into, well...more queep than it's worth.

    That the Air Force doesn't make support (real, risk managed, managment-managed approach) to supporting Aero Clubs is a shame.  It should be a core cultural priority; we're the fucking AIR Force, for chrissakes!  AFB's should have an Aero Club, Navy bases should have a sailing club, Army bases should have an MWR shooting range and backcountry hiking/camping.

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    USAA

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    Maybe they’ve reformed since...

    My experience with First Command was them giving us their pitch as we started UPT.  As I looked at their numbers, it was clear that they were only interested in soaking as many butter bars sitting with me in the room as possible.  Compared to the vast selection of investment vehicles available in the world, the rates of commission and expense ratios that they were charging, amounted to a loan shark diversifying into the whole life insurance sector.  Suddenly their uncanny ability to attract the talents of so many retired senior officers made a lot of sense.

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    The Next President is...

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    14 hours ago, disgruntledemployee said:

    Ah, I see the solution. All TSAs at DCA, IAD, and BWI no show and effectively shut down air travel in the DC area.

    Extreme, sure.

    Likely, no.

    Watching it actually happen and the reactions, priceless.

    Out

    Likelihood of any bureaucrat making the connection between such a "job action" and the RLA...nil.  TSA jobs program gotta be protected.

    What's wrong with the Air Force?

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    1 hour ago, Hacker said:

    Reading that news coverage of the CDI makes me incredibly glad I am off that sinking ship.

    Warrior monks everywhere, pandering to the feelings of the lowest common emotional denominator.

    Ironic pandering.

    Everything I’ve read indicates that the female student in question is straight pissed that leadership has taken it upon themselves to be offended on her behalf.

    ...can’t say that I would blame her.

    The new airline thread

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    3 hours ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:

    Dumb question but need the info...
    My wife is an ER nurse working a fairly demanding schedule that is made a month plus ahead of time. If I jump the sinking AD ship and somehow land an airline gig how far out are the schedules posted? Just trying to figure the future out.

    My wife could earn another 30% without breaking a sweat, or more if she cared to, but that extra in her paycheck pales in comparison to what my time on the road  nets the household.  Make no mistake, my work schedule effectively becomes HER work schedule.  In the most acute example, if I’m going to work an OT day, she is effectively working a day of OT, with all of the associated life disruptions as well.  So my schedule planning (especially OT) begins with her input.

    Our ethos is that while we may be intentionally derating her career, doing so allows us to hunt the big game with my schedule.  We bid around the 14th of the month.

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    The new airline thread

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    7 hours ago, Napoleon_Tanerite said:

    PIREP from a current applicant (me).  Yes, MOST of your pilot credentials info will transfer, but there are many transposition errors necessitating a complete scrub of your app.  Do not assume that just because you have and up to date PC profile that your app in the new system will be good.

    Went back to reference my FDX.PC profile for some of the answers, but it’s gone.  So at least I got that going for me.

    It's Official, OCPs are Coming!

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    On 10/8/2018 at 8:16 AM, Lawman said:

    .Unless you like the idea of changing uniforms to go to lunch at the main post PX because we treat bags like we treat tankers coveralls... not allowed out in public. (Real policy that existed on Fort Hood at one point)

    You say that as though it isn’t a completely  artificial construct, fabricated by insecure leadership.  The way you say it, it’s as though you think it’s normal or something. It sounds...institutionalized.

    “[It’s a] Real policy that existed [...]”. Naw man, it wasn’t real.  It was a policy, yes, but it was a figment nonetheless.

    A different perspective is that of the fifth monkey who just got into the cage, and there’s a banana up on that ladder.  ...just sayin.

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