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I didn't think you could enroll as a Lt. Just wait for SOS until you're a Capt, although a deployment is a good time to knock out PME. Enjoy being a Lt as long as you can, don't waste your time on SOS.... Study airframe/tactics, booze, chicks, anything but SOS.

What's the chances for a FAIP that was casual for a year prior to UPT (so a 5.5 - 6 yr Capt wingman) to make the reqs for weapons school, IP w/50 IP hours in that airframe? I know its small shot, but one that I want to takeadn push for. Any success stories are welcomed for any encouragement that I can gain. Thanks.

Chuck is right about the PA and the TOLD factors (critical field length)that the temp affects that might let a T-38 land there but not be able to take off until its cooler in the morning. Don't forget about the displaced threshold on 18 either, IIRC that brings the landing runway couple hundred feet below 8K.

John Thompson, Back to the original question. If you're XL 05-11, you're in the T-6. The biggest limitations are that as far west as you can go in Albuquerque and they want you within one state away (generally). The reason for that is maintenance, if you break our mx dudes will come fix you. They want you within one state because if you start going farther away you are getting less training and longer for the mx dudes to travel if you break. You should be able to plan wherever you want within those constraints, keep in mind as the end of the fiscal year approaches you might be limited to mil fields for on-base billeting.

N1 = speed of the engine in percent of max rpm Np = speed of prop in percent of max PMU = is the brains of the engine controlling fuel, engine, prop, . . . ITT what others have said

quote: "Wow, how things and attitudes have changed. I remember a mission over Afghanistan when my GPS went figure merit 9, my recovery base was 500-2 with blowing sand and all they had to get back in was a portable TACAN" With the T-6, T-1 and T-38C all having GPS we are raising a generation of GPS aviators. The GPS is not the only navaid in those aircraft either so young aviatiors will get their share of prec/non-prec approaches(that aren't GPS) as well as basic navigation. The TACAN as a navaid was already to have been decommissioned that's why the T-6, T-38C, and possibly the F-22 do not have a TACAN. (That's what I have been told, still looking for it in writing) Embrace technology or get left behind. quote: "By the way not all mil fields have an ILS, especially in combat" this topic is "Approaches at UPT"

Doesn't the T-38C have a GPS? If it does then you really don't need a TACAN unless the field you're going to only has TACAN approaches ( mil fields should have an ILS approach). The GPS can give you dme to a navaid and a bearing pointer, just depends if your GPS is ifr-nav certified.