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Riddller

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  1. Lesson of the day: be as flexible as humanly possible! Be ready to fly at any time and know the procedures for every approach/departure and the boundaries for your areas.

    Good lesson! You'll need it at UPT... like within the first week!!

  2. (This goes for IFS and UPT)

    I won't go into where the number 88 and 89 comes from, you'll see it when you get here.

    If you hook a bunch of rides in a row OR hook a checkride, they give you what they call a "Progress Check", otherwise known as an 88 ride. If you hook that, you go to an 89 ride with the squadron commander, and he determines whether or not you'll stay in the program. On a checkride, though, you only have to do the 88 ride for whatever you hooked for. So if you busted an altitude on departure, you just go back up and fly a departure. If you hook for something on the ground, then you only have to repeat that ground item, hence the term "Ground 88", which is what I had.

    The caveat: you're only allowed a limited number of 88 rides, normally only one. So you don't want to use it up!

  3. Sorry it's been a few days,like you said: busy busy!

    Anywho, yup lot's of studying, at least for the first 15 days. Some days I study on my own, other days guys from my class will come to my place or I'll go to theirs and we'll study. It just depends on what we're going over, what I feel like, etc...

    As for PT, there's no organized PT. You're required to have like 80 hours of PT logged by the time you finish T-6's (and yes, you have to log your PT time each week). If you've got time during the day, you are allowed to go to the gym for an hour (at least my flight commander let's us, I don't know about others) but we've been so busy, I don't think anyone in my flight has gone during the day.

    And I'm a ROTC grad, from the University of Kansas.

    Some of the guys in my flight and I were just talking yesterday, and we realized this is the first time in MANY years that NONE of of have any idea what's going on with March Madness!! So I THINK the Jayhawks are doing well, but I really have no idea.

  4. My wife was out of it 2 weeks ago, was fine last week, and now is back to dieing! I know one flight in phase II that 3 of their IPs are down for the count and another couple of students! I guess if I'm the first in my flight to get it, and it's before the flightline, then I'll be fine when it's time to fly and the rest of my flight will be down for the count!!

    OK, I guess it's not very nice to wish that on my flightmates... in fact, I wouldn't wish this stuff on my worst enemy (well... maybe Hillary)!

  5. Hey Riddler,

    I made it home safe and sound. I got a fvcking speeding ticket in Amarillo! I got tag-teamed (sts) by a couple motorcycle cops. Oh well. How is everyone doing in 07-11? Did a certain LT who's last name starts with N pass his 89 ride?

    Glad to hear you made it! ...speedy!! And no, he didn't make it through. And a certain asian guy who's name starts w/ K decided he didn't really want to be a pilot either, so he's taking off too. Keep in touch!! I'll be back at work Wednesday, so give me time to clear out my mailbox and send me an e-mail on global. Later!!

  6. On checkrides, can you give me an example of what kind of Qs an IP might ask? Is it pretty much the standard stuff an FAA examiner would ask you on your private pilot checkride? BTW, Congratulations!

    Nothing you should worry about studying for now, they teach everything you need to know during academics.

    I got asked stuff like "What are the 4 left-turning tendencies and how do they work?"

    "What is that thing?" [pointing to something on the plane]

    "What is max ramp weight?"

    etc...

  7. Where are getting your kegs from? Is there a place in Pueblo? I'll be there in about 2 weeks and that might be some good info.

    Have you been taking trips on the weekends? Is there anything worth seeing if you do take a weekend trip?

    I've tried a couple different places, and I like Loco Liquors down on 1st and Santa Fe. the other places had taps that didn't work so we had to keep going back to get new ones. Plus, Loco has a bunch of high-end beers in their kegs too, if you want to pay the extra.

    As for the weekends, some people have gone whitewater rafting, people have brought their motorcycles and gone riding through the mountains, hiking, whatever!

  8. Yup, they've talked about that quite a bit! Doss is doing everything they can to salvage this. They've even talked about getting us new (and different) aircraft! They're really worried about having a repeat of the T-3 incidents, so they're being super-cautious. This is all be handled at the 2-3 star level from what we've been told.

  9. MOST of the people here are in the same boat as your friend. They might just have to study a bit harder to remember stuff that might not make sense to them when they learn it. It's much easier to remember stuff if you already have a point of reference. Tell them not to worry about it, and if the have any questions, ask them in class or ask the more experienced guys from their class or mine.

    Not a big deal, that's what this place is here for!!

  10. 1: Yup, they show us civilian sectionals in academics, but you never actually use them when flying or flight planning. They hand out in-flight guides to everyone which has all the stuff you need, namely a print-off of a TPC chart with PFPS overlays of the working areas. If you don't know what all that means, don't worry about it. You just use it. They also have IFS-specific approach plates which tell you when to call who on what frequencies, and how to get everywhere.

    2: Areas 1-6 are 10-17 DME off the PUB VOR/DME, 14 radials wide, to the south. There's more areas to the south of those, same radials, and like 17-23 DME and 23-28 DME (I think). Once again, don't worry about it, they give you everything you need when you get here.

    3: IFS traffic normally uses the small runway while other traffic uses the larger one. Regardless, IFS traffic still has an upwind, crosswind, downwind, base, and final, they're just rounded. Deconfliction is accomplished the same way it is at any other airport, via the tower controllers. The tower does normally have split frequencies though. One for the south side (normally IFS traffic) and one for the north side (normally other traffic, but IFS traffic can be sent there too). when you come in for the initial, they just work you into the pattern.

    You only fly to the initial for your FIRST pattern of the flight. After that, you stay in the normal traffic pattern. This is assuming you fly out to a training area first, then back for pattern work. Half of the IFS aircraft do that, while the other half do pattern work first (everyone usually takes off one after the other, 5 times a day, usually 10 aircraft at a time). Halfway through the flight, those in the pattern go out to the traning areas, while those in the training areas come back for pattern work. If you do pattern work first, you go straight into a crosswind after takeoff, and do your thing for ~30 minutes. Coming back from the training area afterwards, you just fly to the initial for a full-stop.

    Anybody reading the preceding paragraph and not having the foggiest idea of what I'm talking about, DON'T WORRY! After one week at IFS it will make perfect sense to you. It's easy and it's not a big deal.

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