HuggyU2

Fake news. I’ve seen this since 1995. Yawn 🥱

No, Karl, you're wrong. To address your point, I do not know the IATA codes for most airlines. Yet I am someone who could potentially provide him the feedback he desires as I am friends with very senior people at two of those airlines, including a pilot who is single-digit seniority at one of them and another who is involved with hiring. The OP can accept my critique or not. It was offered as feedback to help, not to make him feel good. And whether he accepts my critique or not is of no consequence to you.

I understand, however realize that many military pilots here go direct to one of the big 6, and don’t grow up in 121 regionals. I had to look up two of the airlines you abbreviated, and yet I was hired by United long ago. Want help? Know your audience.

F9, B6, and NK. Most here don’t know what that means, so I recommend you spell it out. This isn’t APC, and a few extra key strokes might make a difference.

There are a multitude of problems with the entire evolution. A couple of the very minor ones are: - it wasn't an airshow. - it wasn't waivered airspace.

I had not given that much thought, but you are probably correct. Good point.

As with many things "airline", beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

The only related fact I've seen is the that status of the crew has not been officially reported. We shall see what the morning news cycle has to say.

The TBM is a nice plane. But for $4M, I just don't get why so many owners don't go with a twin-turbine.

If it is necessary to get to a military retirement... especially one where you don’t have to wait until 60 years old to collect... I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss it. I find my retirement to be very valuable

One could argue UAL is an unknown due to Scott Kirby. The guy is brilliant. He understands the competition... and my understanding is that he probably has a bit of drive to crush AA for personal reasons. He also knows a lot of their secrets. If he doesn't get sideways with the unions, there is a lot of potential with him. A lot. Many think he's the smartest leader in the industry.

New jet, new day.

It's an anonymous forum. At least for you. What wing is this?

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I have a request... I would like a copy of an ejection seat briefing guide that is given to pax. I don't mean the classroom briefing guide that the pilot briefs before the flight, but more what an egress instructor gives a pax during their seat training before the flight.... discussing seat position, canopy jettison, post ejection, etc... Obviously I don't need specifics to a particular kind of jet. I would just like the overall items so that I don't forget to include anything on the one I'm writing, which will be specific to the aircraft I'm working with. Hard copy, electronic... if it isn't that many pages, you can just photograph them and text them to me. PM me and I'll give you my contact info. Appreciate it.

12 hours at United as of last year.

If they hit Al Asad, it would definitely improve the place.

Why do "they" think that typing everything on the NOTAMS in CAPS makes it easier to read?

Who was the fired OG/CC? What was his background? His bio was removed from the CBM website before I got there.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/soleimani-colin-kaepernick-us-terrorist-attacks-black-brown-people "There is nothing new about American terrorist attacks against Black and Brown people for the expansion of American imperialism," Kaepernick tweeted. Now that the NFL has "moved on" from him, maybe he can get back in to the books that he never really did during college. Iran: guess what, Colin? That country is made up of people that are ethnically Persians. You want to put them in to a "racial" context? How about "Caucasians for 800, Alex" ? Farsi: the language of these Persian people. It's an Indo-European language from the same linguistic family as... you guessed it... English. p.s. Nike, I'm still not buying any of your shit. Nor will I ever.

We regularly engage foreign fighters in Iraq. And we don't check their passports before going kinetic. He was in the wrong place as an enemy combatant, on a known battlefield that we have been fighting on for years. I hope for the sake of his family he had SGLI.

I'm a day late in posting this... But on 29 Dec 1845, The Great State of Texas allowed America to join it. You're welcome.

We had pm'd a few times planned to get together when he was coming out to visit relatives near me. I had no idea he was dealing with this. I will pray for him and for those that knew and loved him who have lost a treasured family member and friend. My condolences to those that served and flew with him. p.s. I never asked him what "Matmacwc" meant. Any idea, CH (or anyone)?

Yes, quite a few U-2 pilots have gone to TPS since at least the 1980's. In more recent years, one goal has been to get a TPS graduate that could eventually move up to run U-2 Flight Test at Palmdale. At least three U-2 pilots that are TPS grads are currently flying for NASA. Another (Mike Masucci) was one of the three people to fly in to space in Feb on the Virgin Galactic rocket. https://spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-expects-rapid-conclusion-of-spaceshiptwo-test-flights-after-downtime/ Mike also taught for 3 years at TPS and was heavily involved in designing the U-2 glass cockpit. He retired from the AF as the squadron commander of the U-2 FTU. For those the remember Mark Graziano, he was a TPS student when he was killed in a T-38 mishap at Edwards. Can't believe that's been 10 years. I don't believe we have had anyone there for about 2-3 years.

I was at Beale going through initial training that day. We were in the squadron and the fog was so thick there was no way anyone was doing any flying. Then, we hear the KC-135Q's fire up and taxi. WTF? We couldn't see them... we couldn't see the buildings across the street... but could hear their takeoff roll. It sounded like they rolled the entire length of the 12,000' runway without climbing. They were obviously loaded to the gills and doing something real world. I was very glad I was NOT in one of those jets, rotating just in time to clear the departure end lights with no visibility. My hat was off to those crews. As it turns out, they were the tankers that refueled the F-117's... which I believe was the first time a -117 dropped a bomb in anger. Boomer, out.

I don't understand how FedEx and UPS do their trips (which I hear is great if you want to commute), but where I work, you will start out of your domicile with 2 exceptions: 1. If a trip comes available for the next day at another domicile, you can grab it from Open Time. I see this with pilots that live near a senior base, but cannot get domiciled there because they are still too junior. 2. It's rare, but sometimes a trip will begin with a deadhead from your domicile to the city you live in. You grab the trip, skip (and get paid) for the deadhead, and show up to your local airport in time for next leg. It's been said a thousand times before... but if you choose to commute rather than live in domicile, you forfeit a significant benefit to being an airline pilot. For the record, I commuted for 18 months from San Antonio to Chicago.