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T-Mobile is doing a thing until March 31st for $100 for two phone lines unlimited everything, 10GB wifi hotspot, and 20% off your contract for life. So $80.00 for two phone lines with all that jazz. I would switch but I did the NEXT with ATT and it would be about a grand to pay out of my ATT contract. Brutal.

ANGFlyer, thanks for the tip about BogiDope. I created an account. Looks like a ton of hiring info, good articles and the interactive map is great. Highly recommend it. This would have made my life easier when I was rushing units.

Food either Pot luck or Burger burn or Pizza and wings. Throw the latest kids animation on in a main briefing room or main auditorium in sq. Mingle.

Is there a place on base studs post where they need a room mate? I saw the board at the gym, it was empty, but I am looking to share a place but do not know where postings would be.

Favorite: Sleep Cycle and is right now .99. The accelerometer measures your movement throughout the night. You can see peaks and valleys of your sleep. The point of the app is to wake you up within a thirty minute window when you are not in a deep sleep so you can wake up refreshed. So far it is pretty right on. *I am no way affiliated with this app.

My time has yet to come to get too scared in a military aircraft but I have a FEW from civilian flying: 1) First solo turning final and a Lear passes a hundred feet off the nose right to left and then calls tower "short final." (I cleared final but I was in a high wing and didn't see him.) 2) First solo over the numbers when an experimental aircraft calls emergency. He flies across the runway I am on, missing me by about twenty yards right to left, and crashes midfield in the grass almost taking out the VOR. (He lost oil pressure and panicked. Had four souls on board. No injuries but experimental lost a wing doing a ground loop.) His radio transmission was "I will be crash landing on the airport". That is it. 3) Late to class one night so I borrow an airplane to fly to another airport just a mile from the college. On my way back to drop the plane off I was IMC in a C-177RG. Strong downdraft when I was at 4000 feet. Full power nose up. VSI reversal at 900 ft-ish. I was probably a quarter mile or less from a tower that went to 1000 feet. I know this because I was just checking my DME on a radial when it happened. That night I checked on the sectional where I was at and there were towers REALLY close that I was below.

Passed down from a friend...Something like this. ATC: (Aircraft) Descend to 4,500. Expedite descent and slow to final approach speed. Aircraft: Unable. ATC: Don't you have spoilers on that thing? Aircraft: Affirmative. Spoilers are for my mistakes though not yours.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1450606.html NEW ORLEANS -- Divers have found the body of a Navy pilot whose training airplane crashed Saturday in Lake Pontchartrain. The Navy says Lt. Clinton Wermers' remains were located about 1 a.m. Wednesday near the airplane. The 33-year-old Wermers was a native of Mitchell, S.D. He was assigned to a training squadron at Whiting Field in Florida for about three years. Wermers and a Navy student aviator whose name has not been released crashed in a T-34C Turbomentor airplane about 6:30 p.m. Saturday while on a landing approach to the New Orleans Lakefront Airport. A Coast Guard boat crew rescued the student Saturday night.

The hold up was getting the planes I suspect. Now that there are a handful there are more parts to this machine than the IP's. You have the sim dudes, the maintenance/support dudes, the system classes @Whiting, and the logistics of the survival/egress training at API in Pensacola for ground school. Seems like once the planes were there, the IP's and the sim dudes started to spin up. Don't forget the changes to the environment like split-field OPs, and airfield requirements like by adding ILS etc... Lots of moving parts to get them up for training besides spinning up the IPs. let's take this as a side note and focus on the thread subject which is more important. Awaiting some good news I hope.

Based on watching/doing the bailout trainer standard answer-it depends. Depends if your in OCF, O2 mask on or not, fumble around with getting the chords released, fumble around getting harness disconnected, fumble around with pulling the canopy emergency open, etc. On the ground trainer maybe 6-9 seconds-ish. Others on here may say "I can do it in five" or "it would take me 10-15 seconds in real world" so it is based on individual's speed and the situation itself. Depends.

There are instructions within that link on how to handle that I believe. (Not sarcasm) You just have to submit a request to the university it says to make that particular course eligible it looks like. Going to go through that process now with the same type of degree your wife is looking to get for my wife.

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I am afraid of heights too. The escalators at Atlanta airport are terrifying to me. However, I have been skydiving and even popped the door open in a Cessna at about 8k feet to see how far the plane would yaw without issues. Has to do with being on a structure touching/connected to the ground. Suspended in the air in an airplane no issues. I am at UPT now and have quite a few civilian hours. Give it a shot I doubt you would panic given the stories you heard here. Good luck!

Easy one...take the slot. Kick ass and serve honorably.

Just finished "F-15C Eagle Units in Combat" by Steve Davies. Quick read and held my attention 100%. First person accounts from the pilots on their air-to-air victories in the F-15C.

Maybe a control thing. But I always heard it was because you were connected to the ground. Buildings, escalators, ladders...all connected or touching the ground. Flying, free-falling, piece of cake.

A common side-effect to Rogaine from my reading is syncope. "Syncope (SIN'ko-pe) is temporary loss of consciousness and posture, described as "fainting" or "passing out." It's usually related to temporary insufficient blood flow to the brain. It's a common problem, accounting for 3 percent of emergency room visits and 6 percent of hospital admissions. It most often occurs when the blood pressure is too low (hypotension) and the heart doesn't pump a normal supply of oxygen to the brain." Seems like a good reason to me. Maybe the experts have something more to add.

Riggs, I had the same problem with WMP 10. I thought it was a codec issue too. What finally resolved my sound ISSUE was using my WinDVD Player. So if you have software installed that plays DVDs right click ) open with ) <DVDProg>... after you saved it ofcourse.

is it me or is there no sound? <---Delete Got it to work in my dvd player...nice video. [ 01. November 2004, 14:00: Message edited by: TMRoss ]

All weight reqs just dropped three pounds as of this morning I was told. I am 6'00 tall and it was MAW of 205 now for next boards it is 202. So I have to drop a few before I got into MEPs for the initial physical. So you may want to find out if you have to adhere to the new weight requirements.

how did you get passed the initial physical at MEPS or brooks? I have to get one soon before I submit my package for AD and I am 210 for a 205 max allowable. It is like two weeks away I am hoping and I am starting to knock the weight down. I can do 6 or 7 pounds by then Im sure. If not then my recruiter wont send me to MEPs for the initial eye, ear physical. What have you tried? If you are drinking sodas, drink water. If you arent running, start running.

Is there going to be a minimum GPA for non-techs applying for a pilot slot? I called two officer recruiters today and asked them and one said YES the other said NO. :confused: Any help or direction towards new pubs on new AD requirements would be appreciated.

E-mail the person back with a fax number. Have them sign the document and send it via fax to you. It is easy to get the fax header off with some correcting tape. Then kinko it like chaw said. Mention to them that you are applying to many units. They may have the initiative to give you 25 original copies. Or...one guy lived about an hour from me that sent me a .doc. I went over to his work, where I used to fly so it wasn't a weird situation, and after him letting me test fly his new pitts I asked him to sign the letter.

Is there a list of the awards/accomplishments presented during graduation that a stud from UPT could get? Is there an award for knowledge? Best stick? Etc...

Looking at the ****pit photo of the T-38C. Underneath center MFD and beyond the stick is something that says PUSH. Anyone know a link to point me to the layout of this ****pit? Or if you know off hand what that is for. I have the photo as my desktop background and it just stares back at me PUSH! Pretty annoying now not knowing what it does. Data cartridge? DVD Player? Cup holder? HA. Thanks