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Those recommendations better include repealing the NFA and erasing the ATF.

Well the FAA has bypassed thousand(s) of qualified applicants for quite a while based on immutable characteristics. And after a handful of years controllers are making well into the 100s. Not sayings it’s airline Capt pay, but it’s not dogshit either. And the systems/NAS structure is pretty antiquated - there absolutely needs to be some significant tech overhaul in addition to restructuring the NAS (both of which they’ve talked about for a long time but not actually done shit…until 67 people die).

Have not validated this, but heard yesterday CSAF says long term shaving waivers are dead and if people have actual skin irritation problems, they should learn to shave better/use steroid cream. I DGAF about all the guys who are probably total BS artist regarding the waiver, but I’m sure there are dudes with real skin issues - sucks for them.

I don’t think CRJ has ADS-B IN, so its a moot point. ADS-B is a great tool, but it’s likely nothing beyond a minor CF in this accident. Honestly this one is not hard to figure out that the major fix is don’t do stupid procedures. None of the discussion about NVGs, chick pilots, ADS-B, etc. even matters if you simply stop putting aircraft at the same lat/long with only 100’ of vert separation and your “backup” decon is pilots promising they’re visual on the correct traffic/some controller being directive end game to avert disaster.

“Character of war…must be fully prepared to execute operations from austere and challenging environments…our airmen represent a key competitive advantage over our enemies”…you know what really captures all that into one succinct package? Uniform inspections like we’re in ROTC! Fucking idiots.

Literal flying in the civ world can be a lot more challenging than mil flying. Employing mil aircraft tactically is where the challenge eclipses civ aviation.

Regardless if the Biden admin had these deals made or not, the fact is our neighbors didn’t give a shit about the problems or executing anything to help solve them. That is until they got a Trump boot up the ass. I don’t care if there was zero “heavy lifting” and all Trump did is threaten something in a tweet. I care about the results, and so far, the results have been exceptional and the majority of the country is happily receiving all kinds of things they voted for.

I think TW is great training and does make a better stick & rudder pilot overall (because laziness and below average skills are punished more immediately and apparently). The better stick & rudder skills gained tend to transfer to flying as well, even though TW only technically affects ground handling and takeoff/landing. Also flying GA aerobatics helps improve aircraft handling skills, even transferable to jets. If we’re going to go for pre-UPT training, a fleet of citabrias could do well.

@Lord Ratner Sure, totally depends on expected use/scenario - we all may have wildly varying scenarios in our day to day lives. Mine will never involve needing to grab a folded AR and shoot from the hip, but I would never say or imply that applies across the board.

What’s the primary reason for such shitty MX production rates on the T-6? It’s crazy these things had brand new car smell when I went through (still had T-37s also) and I haven’t even retired yet and the whole fleet is on its ass in a major way. Amazing how well we can find ways to massively fuck up everything.

This is most likely Trump doing his thing to elicit desired responses from other nations, just like with tariff threats. That said, if we truly go through with “full up” nation building, well fuck that. All for destroying people/things over there if required for our security, but outside of that, I simply DGAF about those people and the shitholes they’ve built for themselves, it’s not our problem.

True. But I’m also not really worried about the lack of that capability in a DI - the fold is so I can store more compactly, not to shoot it that way. Also, I fully admit one of these days I’ll at least buy a piston kit to mod one of my uppers. Mainly because I’m curious how much difference in carbon build up and gas to the face there is when shooting suppressed (which is how I shoot 99% of the time with ARs).

For the size problem, you already accomplish that with a folding lower (buffer tube folds to side). No need for a piston to accomplish that.

My hope is this cleans a lot of rot out, yes with some collateral damage, and they adjust the policy in the not-to-distant future to actually allow for remote work for the “laptop heavy” crowd. Basically it’s a short term attempt to see who takes the bait. But we’ll see.

That’s a valid concern/negative of the cut with an axe approach. The perfect solution would be to honestly assess which jobs actually *need* to be in person and which jobs have data to support better productivity in office vs. remote. There are plenty of jobs out there that are legitimate for remote work, but as helodude pointed out, this is probably just a mechanism to reduce the bloated gov, which needs to be done, but certainly sucks to lose good ones in the process.

Good, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. If we could cut 80% of the civs, we’d be much better off.

@Smokin I’m always curious about a piston AR, but the pros over DI I’ve read are cleaner, cooler, less jams - things I’ve not really had much issue with shooting lots of DI. My curiosity is still there, but my gut says it’s not a significant difference/impact won’t be noticeable, so why go down the piston road?

That would be awesome, take my money El Salvador!

Yep, I’d say the vast majority of the loud pro-67 people are very disingenuous about their motives.

Ben thinking about that lately, can’t seem to find anything definitive (lots of speculation). Let us all know if you find any good data.

Maybe it’s not 4D chess, but in less than 24 hrs from my initial post regarding tariffs on our allies, we have wildly succeeded with one of them. CA will soon follow. I’m not in blind support of tariffs, but I am open minded and so far in the last month (including before he took office) Trump has been wildly successful with them, whether via actual implementation or threat of. So far we’ve seen tons of leftist doomsdayers proven wrong multiple times on this front. Remains to be seen how a long term tariff strategy works, but the “we’re so fucked!” cries on X, etc. are laughable.

@ClearedHot SBR/pistol AR shooting 300BLK subs. Keep in mind the 9mm is going to over penetrate just like the AR (or a shotgun) on clean misses. There is not a magic caliber that causes enough damage on good hits while also not penetrating sheetrock on clean misses. The most important factors in the HD scenario are practice and knowing where the area/directions are that you don’t want to shoot (e.g. your kids bed is on the other side of that part of the living room wall). A secondary factor would be where do you live (apartment vs. home on multiple acres) - do you have to account for neighbors? Pistol, shotgun, rifle can all be used effectively as long as the user is proficient and has thought through those “avoid this shot trajectory” situations.

No I’m not saying that all. But looking back I realize how I wrote that could be taken that way, so I don’t blame you for the response. A better way to say it is just because they’re an ally doesn’t mean they don’t face repercussions for actions (and lack of actions) leading to negative outcomes for our country. The carrot hasn’t worked, so here’s the stick. They don’t get anymore free passes just because they’re an ally. Furthermore, as an ally they should act like it and do a lot better WRT border-related issues. We’ll see how long this lasts; my guess is not horribly long as they realize they’re economically way outside our league.

Actively tariffing two “allies” who continue to not GAF about our shared borders and are directly contributing to significant amounts of American deaths and general degradation of society. Trump uses tariffs as leverage, and he has been extremely successful at wielding them. CA and Mex are welcome to FAFO, or they can start actually doing something about the shit they let pour into our country. Now to the topic of tariffs as a baseline/long term economic strategy, I’m not sure yet. They will certainly raise prices in the short term, but if that yields substantial growth in American production/less reliance on foreign imports in the long term, that is a good thing and potentially worth the short term cost sacrifice. Secondly, if this is done in conjunction with reducing/eliminating the income tax (not holding my breath, but for discussion’s sake), that would essentially mean I pay more for consumables, but way less to the gov’s pockets where I have little to no control over where my money goes. I have control over my own spending, I have zero control over congressional spending. I prefer the former and I think most Americans do too.

I trust the FBI about as much as the CCP at this point. But, I suppose it depends on the official reason they were fired (not just whatever single quote was printed in a news article). Could be bullshit/lawsuit city, but may not be. Also, we’re they truly fired, or just reassigned to BFE Field Office, ND and quit?