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"Its amazing how much more pull a Col. has than a new Lt." Very true, this is the only time in your career (or at least for a long time) that you have an O-6 that has less than a dozen AD people in his command. Ask him to go to bat for you and I'll bet you'll get paid a lot sooner. When I was an ADD Lt, I was the senior officer at the det for about two weeks due to a bunch of TDY's. Our host base called and said I needed to go there for in processing, including base orientation and that kind of crap, traveling on my own dime (they said I couldn't go TDY to my own base). As a brand new O-1, I didn't have any way out of it. When the Col came back, the base called again saying I needed go to back for some more queep. He called them up and told them no and I never heard from them again.

The only way to learn it is to have someone show you the basics and learn yourself from there. My class was just starting low levels in 38's when I went DNIF for a few weeks. I spent a lot of that time just trial and error on that program and that helped a ton, much faster with it now

May just be personal tolerance, one guy in my class flew with a jacket if it got below 65 out. You can close the vent off some, but since you can see making funny colors on the hud, it must have been pretty hot in the front too.

SD is Spatial Disorientation. If you can't see a good horizon, or even sometimes when you can, and the plane is moved around quickly aggressively you're inner ears can't keep up and your body can't figure out which way is up. If the student is under the bag in the back (kind of like a big curtin pulled over the canopy in the back seat) and the IP takes the aircraft and maneuvers aggressively, the stud in the back probably felt like he was spinning around. Also can happen if you have the aircraft in a bank for a long time, your body adjusts to that and can make you think you're flying straight and level. SD is very dangerous and has caused many accidents, which is why it could also be good training for the stud.

I'll bet that was some good SD for the stud!

"Sir, I have the aircraft" awesome. At my class's assignment night there was an old IP telling stories about instructing in the P-40. They did the GUMPS check on downwind before landing. The guy had a student who kept forgetting to do the check and one day the IP just yelled GUMPS! thinking that might get through to him. Instead, the IP sees the student unstrap from the seat and jump out over the wing. The IP landed of course and the student was standing on the ramp waiting for him. "I thought you said 'Jump!" At least back then it wasn't too expensive of a mistake for the stud to bailout. [ 13. April 2006, 21:24: Message edited by: Grad@ENJJPT ]

Your report not later than date, is just that. You should be able to report a little early, talk to your commander about leaving a little early. Looking back I would have liked to have gotten here a few days earlier so that I could be a little more settled in when class started.

Sounds like a good enough reason to me. I stand corrected.

I don't want to Monday morning quarterback and by no means do I have ANY sympathy for the terrorists killed in this video, but I do wonder about the legality of the very last shot. From my understanding of the Geneva Conventions, wounded enemies are no longer considered combatants unless they again engage in warfare. Obviously I am no expert on the GC's, this is just from ROTC and those stupid computer training we have to do all the time and I'm sure most the guys here are more knowledgeable. However, if you watch the video, at about 3:05, they see the guy crawling out from under the truck, say "He's wounded, hit him." That seems fairly black and white to me. I am sure the world is a better place today without those bastards that got shot, but we should all be careful about situations like this. We should not lower ourselves to their level of warfare. Again, please correct me if I have misunderstood how the GC's apply here.

I've heard mixed accounts of the recording media for F-16's and was wondering which was correct or if it depends on the block. I've heard a standard 8mm tape for HUD/radio and also something about a digital AVTR.

Dude, WTF? Your profile says you're at Columbus, so unless you're an IP or on an alpha tour, who are you to get pissed about other people wearing wings? Also, how long ago was it since you were an "ROTC (insert AFA/OTS/whatever) homo"? I thought it was dumb that we were authorized those fake wings in ROTC too, but I was a cadet, so I shut up and colored. Unless you were already an officer and a pilot when you were born, you might want to take it easy categorically bashing guys just because they're younger than you.

Dude, order bacardi when you're out with the guys and you'll regret it. Just get jack and cokes (or just jack) and i bet no one will blink twice.

I know you left already, but in case you didn't make it to the club, it's not the best ever. Once in a while some good crud goes on, almost always good on assignment nights but varies other times. The club sucks standard but the civilian tool in charge of services is moving out, so maybe someone good will replace him.

My first class (I washed back right before assignment night) did an American Gladiators theme. They rented this inflatable platform and jousted each other, winner getting the assignment first. That was pretty cool. My second class played dodgeball. We were going to have each player chug a beer before they could run forward to get the ball but figured that wouldn't fly. I guess it would have since they did a similar thing at the last assignment night.

Sauerkraut is always a crowd-pleaser, nice and chewey

Haven't been issued them yet, but my orders to Luke say that I have to get them before I depart Sheppard.

Thread Hijack! (If I call it, it's legal right?) Anyone know if married students going to RTU at Luke usually stay on or off base? Any places close to base that are better than others? If PHX really has "blown up" in the last five years, would it be worth considering buying a house for those 7-8 months? Thanks.

ENJJPT 2 F-16 (one of them being me!) 2 F-15C 1 F-15E 1 A-10 1 B-52 1 T-37 Plus two more 16's for guard dudes and five Tornados for the Germans.

Ouch dude, why all the hate? Anyway, I think the best answer to this question is the UPT standard answer: it depends. There are guys in my class that knew exactly what they wanted when they showed up and will hopefully get that Friday. But there are also guys like me, I knew exactly what I wanted to fly from the first day of ROTC to showing up at ENJJPT. When I make my wish list (got washed back, so I fill it out in a few weeks) that jet is probably going last. Like someone said above, don't worry too much about it, just show up and do your best and everything will sort itself out in the end. In ROTC, you should be worried about where you're drinking this weekend, not what jet you're gunna be flying in two years.

Have you speed tested it since you lifted it? There are some sites on the internet that will compute your speedometer error based on the different tire size from your factory settings. Won't help you beat the ticket, but something you might want to know.

I tried a google search on his name to see what else pop up. Probably not a coincidence that two of the first four were about some dungeons and dragons type game with dwarfs. That was a pretty funny resulting thread, particularly about the OPSEC and him calling himself a sandy.

Maybe they just train the duty desk types to be that way cuz they are the exact same way here at Sheppard. It may be that they just pick up on the organization's attitude in general towards students. For those cadets and casual Lt's looking to go to flight school, don't expect to get treated like an officer until you get your wings. At least as a cadet I could get into the computer lab after hours, more than I can say about ENJJPT. While it's annoying that, for many of them, their professionalism is on par with that of a jr high student, it is usually just one more piece on the huge pile of $hit you have to shovel through while at UPT. As HD said, you could always ask them "what did the five fingers say to the face?" [ 23. September 2005, 18:55: Message edited by: Stud@ENJJPT ]

Back down to a cat 4, that might help a little. Better than the previous 175 mph sustained winds anyway.

I'm looking at getting the ESS ICE glasses. They are designed to be shatter-resistant and have a bunch of stories from Iraq of their products saving many eyes. They're non-polarized and meet all the mil specs. Plus you can change the lenses, even have a laser protection lense. I know someone talked on here about them before, but does anybody wear these flying? I've found them for $32. I doubt they would stop a bird going through the T-38 waffer thin canopy, but it might make me feel better! :cool: https://www.essgoggles.com/ICE-Series_6_detail.html

Heres the publication that deals with all T-37 maneuvers. https://www.e-publishing.af.mil/search.asp?keyword=11-249 However, this reminds me a little of a topic a earlier this year where a kid was talking about doing form in civilian planes. Juding by your signature block, you graduated from UPT and know about formation flights, just wanted to put my disclaimer in there. Be careful.