Riddller
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How about some numbers for the C-20/C-37/C-40?
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I think making it an app is the way to go. What do ya'll think?
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Today is "International Talk Like a Pirate Day" and I haven't seen a message for that yet.
I'm proud to say I'm in the midst of my first night ever at the Died (leaving soon) and everyone was talking to tower and ground in their best pirate voices: awesome!
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You don't need orders or a passport. I've got family up there, they just stop you at the border and ask you your buisiness. No biggie.
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Crap! I never saw this when it first came out! That whole "UPT thing" really sucked away my Baseops time... I'm glad you brought it back!
F'ing hilarious! (sp?)
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Captain and Sprite: No contest.
Beer: Boulevard Wheat. I've ben around the world and have never found anything better. Plus I'm from KC, so I guess I'm partial.
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... Who is RVSM certified besides the C-17 (?) and for those of you that aren't (T-1/T-38/F-16/F-15)? what altitude do you guys go places at nowdays?
I assume (maybe incorrectly) that the question mark after the C-17 implies you're not sure if the C-17 is RVSM certified. Yes, it is, it's just not GPS approach/departure certified. We can fly GPS departures on autopilot if we back it up with "raw" navaids though. It all has to do with the database (as previously mentioned in regards to the Herc) being able to be modified by the crew. The new software for the Block 17 aircraft can be certified, they just haven't yet.
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Here's the quickest thing that came to mind when I read this...
First thing huh? Wow, must suck to be thinking about homos all the time...
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It has all the equipment to be certified, but the AF hasn't spent the money yet to get the piece of paper.
It's like right now, after 2 months of C-17 training, with all the gee-wiz computer crap on it, it's got all the equipment to be certified for GPS approaches and SIDs, but we don't have the piece of paper yet saying we can do it. Crazy.
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The clearance is good for however long it's good for, regardless of your status (active duty, IRR, retired, out all together, etc...). I'm not sure how long each clearance is good for though. I think it's like 10 years for secret and 5 for TS, but don't quote me on that. Anyway, it's good for those 10 years (I think) from the time the investigation was done. A lot of military people make sure their clearances are good for a long time after they get out because there's a lot of VERY good paying jobs out there for people who already have a clearance. You can pay for your own in the civilian world, but I heard that costs like $50K. Smart people let the military do it for them.
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LMFAO M2!!
That was awesome!
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Going for my PPL I only needed about a quarter of the ground school time because of my prior Nav time, so it saved me some bucks, but that was the only tangible item. Non-tangible: definitely made UPT easier not having to worry about how to talk on the radios or the procedures for an approach. I just had to concentrate on the stick-n-rudder skills.
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I was at Whiteman for a year on casual, and there's a guy there doing great things who came from RC-135's, so anything is possible. I will say that ALL the rest of the guys I met there came from something that required a T-38 at UPT. It's very close-nit up there, but they are not obnoxious about letting new people into their circle, it was actually a really cool community and I had a blast, even though everyone there knew I wanted C-17s.
I really can't say for sure, but if I were you, I'd try to talk to some people up there. Call, e-mail, whatever. The club usually has quite a few people there on Friday nights, see if you can make it up there and have a few beers. Hang out, talk to people, and say, "Yeah, I really want this for next assignment, so I figured I'd come up and check it out." vs. "Hey, are you somebody who can get me a spot here?". Not that you would, just throwing that out there.
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If it's not a steam gauge, it's fvcking glass duder. If you've flown with steam gauges then you would agree, IMHO.
I don't know if you were talking to me or TheWolf specifically, but I'll answer: I have flown with steam gauges, more than most people here. Yes, I will agree that the little LCDs in the T-6As, as far as all weather and night/day usability, they are generally easier to read, but it's still just a digital picture of an analog steam gauge and (many of them, as TheWolf pointed out) are otherwise the same. I've gone from a C-130 accepted in 1953 to the T-6 to the T-1 to the C-17, with progressively higher levels of "glass cockpit" and even the C-17 is showing it's age compared to the newer stuff out there. Compared to the early 1990's "glass cockpit" of the the C-17, the T-6 doesn't hold a candle when you look at all the gee-wiz stuff which can be displayed.
I know, I know, two totally different missions, so the T-6A wasn't even designed with the stuff a C-17 can do in mind, and I'm in no way busting on the T-6, I thought it was perfect for it it was designed for. I just think that the concept of a "glass cockpit" has so far exceeded what the T-6 has by this point, that to say it has a glass cockpit, while technically accurate, is kind of a misnomer.
My $.02
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Instead of a "glass cockpit" with a couple large LCD screens (a la T-38), there are 10 (including RMU and GPS). Still glass, just different.
Yeah, I think that's as good a reason as any. I thought about my post later and realized that it was a totally subjective statement. To me, a glass cockpit is one where any display can show you whatever you want. It seems like they just took the old steam gauges out of the T-6 and replaced them with LCD screens that do EXACTLY the same thing, it just doesn't seem like that much of an upgrade to me.
Just my opinion, I don't claim to be an expert.
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A or B model?
The new B model (which supposedly only the Navy is getting, but no one has for now) is truly a "glass cockpit": HUD, maybe three reconfigurable big LCD screens, that sort of thing. Most of the instruments in the A model are in fact small LCD screens, but I don't know if I would really call it a "glass cockpit". Regardless, you can probably find pictures on papertrainer.com, but as for manuals for their use, I don't think so, at least not electronically. If you go to UPT (I don't know your background) you'll have more than enough time to get familiar with everything.
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And Nole, you might want to check your math...
... (For those of us still stuck using a T-1 IFG, jerk) ...Yeah, my mission computer computes ALL that stuff for me now... :)
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Sorry RM, I think your higher math skills are lost on most who frequent this forum. You're right, those number definitely don't look right, but try just doing it on the wiz-wheel, I think you'll get more support.
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Not every airfield we go to has a DOD approach
True! I had to go to a WAY out of the way airfield in Thailand once. Thank you Jeppesen!
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These guys are out of Topeka and we'd see them all the time on campus in Lawrence. If I was towards the end of my career, I would so let them have it...
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Funny story...
I was told after I left a certain unnamed B-2 squadron, the new casual who took over my exec job was told to order some more zaps. Instead of finding out the company they normally go through, he finds some fly-by-night company on the internet. Long story short, he sends $400 of squadron money (and gets nothing) to some company in Pakistan... probably to support Al Qaida... from a B-2 squadron! Define irony...
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"2" to everything above. I wear my aircrew wings in my flightsuit right now, and have been since the start of UPT. I got a little crap in T-6's because the place they ordered the cloth nametags for the studs didn't have my wings "on file" and the place that did (Mardon Co.) didn't have the little picture they put next to your name on the tag "on file". Therefore, I wore my leather nametag with my wings all the way through T-6's. Sorry, but I worked my butt off for those wings (school was even harder than UPT) so I'm going to wear them. It wasn't a problem in T-1's because they used Mardon Co. for their cloth nametags.
As soon as I get my pilot wings, though, I'll only wear them in my flight suit. Like others said, I've seen guys with two sets of wings on their patch in flightsuits (including jump wings), and I think it's gay too. I've got jump wings so technically I could have had them on my flight suit patch too, but no thanks. Right now in Blues I'll wear both wings, but as soon as I'm done with UPT, I won't wear the jump wings, just the Pilot and Aircrew wings.
The new airline thread
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That whole post looks glorious!
....almost there....