Whitman
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Can someone confirm if the 2006 YG O-4 board is going to be March of 2015? That's the word on the street...
Thanks.
Isn't 2005 YG's board in December 2014? Seems like March would be too fast for another one.
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CZ showed up to the Captain-led roof stomp at the General's house when I was at SOS. As he approached on the porch, I said "Captains only" (to his bewilderment), pointed him in the direction of the empty beer cooler and aimed for the nearest exit.
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As it was explained to me many years ago:
1) Never use the rudder. You're inputs are never as quick or accurate as the rudder assist system and you'll only make the Dutch roll worse.
2) make sharp aileron inputs in the opposite direction of the roll as soon as you start to see/feel it. Put it in and take it right out, like high school sweethearts.
3) slow down. Dutch roll occurs by having more lift from one swept wing than the other. Slow down to reduce that lift difference.
4) land as soon as possible. DR is nothing to sneeze at. But I guess we've already figured that out.
To the crew.
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Good stuff. Are you receiver tanker (RT) qualed? I wonder if the sharp aileron inputs you referenced are similar to "chopping the wood" and making similar aileron/spoiler inputs to defeat PIO in the horizontal axis which sometimes occurs during AR.
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I was an IP in the '135, and I used to teach this as my little "bag of tricks" thing. At that time, not a lot of attention was paid to the Dutch roll tendencies of the jet, because the Series Yaw Damper (SYD) was very dependable. Dependable, but not perfect. I had this happen (Dutch roll exacerbated by a malfunctioning SYD) over middle-of-nowhere Canada in the middle of the night when I was a youngish AC, and it scared the bejeezus out of me. No matter what I did, it kept getting worse--up to 40 degrees of bank either way at its worst. Fortunately, we had a graybeard IP on the jet with us who came up to the jumpseat. He talked me through the recovery technique, and all was well. It's a counterintuitive manual control recovery, and had he not been there I can't help but assume the worst might have happened to us. When I became an IP, I made sure I told everyone the story, then walked them through the recovery. I hope the community puts emphasis on this for the lifespan of the airplane. Sounds like they will.
That's a wild story. What exactly does the manual control recovery entail and how long did it take for you to regain control of the jet?
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PC is good if they force you to go that route, all things being equal, you'd be dumb not to take the vsp money
My year group/AFSC is only over by 8. Trying to determine if more would be allowed through PC.
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Anyone applying for the Palace Chase program? Is it running parallel with VSP? I'm curious if they will only be releasing the estimated overage per the matrix for the all the programs (PC, VSP, RIF) combined. Seems like a good deal with 1/1 payback.
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I have plenty of justification "Pop up" when I think about hot Australian chicks.
...And now back to the regularly scheduled gloom and doom of this thread.
Wow, you went there!
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Some good flying down there, Whitman...
And is there a well established RV-4 mafia out there? That and the proven "hot chick" presence are key. Any AFPC rep would certainly understand if this justification popped up on a VSP package right?
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Serving Down Under: Australia offers military jobs to US troops facing separation
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Have you guys heard the AFSC matrix by eligible and overages is being pulled! If you are an 11M from the 2005 year group you do not have an 18% chance of being released. This is getting to be insane.
Why is it getting pulled?
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11R (Recce/Surv/Elect Warfare) Pilots are going to get crushed. Average 35% overmanned from 05-08 Year Gp.
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Actually, the matrix included 11S for 2004 yeargroup, but the document did not. so actually this is new/ different data.
Word. One of these days we'll get the requirements. You'd think after a month from telling the masses, they'd have this thing ironed out.
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Fighter, Rescue, and RPA aircrew are ineligible according to AF Times. Special Tactics and a few other officer positions are also not invited to the party. Basically everyone else is eligible.... according to AF Times.
So nothing new compared to the matrix? Copy chaff.
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Is anyone aware of Palace Chase options before ADSC associated with the FY 14 force management program?
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Checked my TSP today for the first time in a while, it's showing 23.32% return over the last 12 months. For comparison, the dow is only 14%. In the short time I've had a TSP account, I'm very happy with the below average expense ratios and above average returns.
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What's the AFSAS number? I can't find anything searching Class A and "C-12".
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JEEZUS CHRIST ON A CRACKER. Ask LTC Raible and the rest of VMA-211 if drinking your 3 beers/day and living in a hotel suite while deployed is better than dodging RPGs and getting mortared weekly. GFY.
Easy tiger (or Ram). All I'm saying is from a mission perspective, I'd rather be closer to the where I can do my job so I can have a greater influence. I never wasted much time worrying about where I was sleeping, whether it was in a B hut in OEF or a trailer in the CC, but the danger that our troops face in country is a legitimate threat and concern to me. That's why I'd rather be 30min away.
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Just stop. No one is feeling sorry for you.
I am. Would you rather be in the stack 12hrs with 1hr admin or 7hrs with 6 cross country flying out of one of the hottest and most humid places on earth where you have to deal with dirt bags at customs every time you go fly?
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Because everyone wants to roll 60-90 degrees AOB doing AR!
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Thanks, no. Compartmentalized and moved on. The MC-12W crash 2 days prior only made it worse though. I knew the 747 was going to crash well before it did. The first thing i saw was the plane climbing at a 45 degree angle. Even empty, they don't do that. The AOA kept increasing though...even at 80 degrees nose-high, it continued to climb albeit briefly. I can recount every detail precisely, but instead I'm going to go grab a coffee, go out to my backyard (rural Iowa acreage), and enjoy the day.
I'm sorry you had to witness that, hang in there. That sounds like a perfect place to relax post deployment.
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I believe there was a NATO C-17 headed that way yesterday.... Have we confirmed it was USAF?
:grabs popcorn for G2 FOUO discussion:
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I'm sure Gen Welsh had no clue so much of his time would go towards dealing with this nonsense. He has so many great ideas and has already made significant strides (no blues on monday and killing the Capt promotion boards) but this is a huge set back. This just illustrates the importance of hiring the right people.
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I always viewed the 4 engines on my wing as a pretty good life insurance policy. Never cared for a parachute but that's just me.
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Until told otherwise, I think the wise person believes that load shift is the culprit.
However, runaway trim could also be an issue....
I'm not a 747 guy but if it were a runaway trim issue wouldn't it have been nose DOWN runaway (obviously not shown in the video) because of the trim inputs from the flight deck with an increase in speed?
I believe the KC-135 Class A that killed everyone on board was runaway nose UP because they were on approach and trimming nose up as the airspeed decreased. I don't know, I'm not a doctor.
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The shifty 50 in Clovis is still alive and well apparently.