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Initial Pilot Training and Future Pilot Training
brabus replied to LookieRookie's topic in General Discussion
Elon’s not wrong, he’s just about 20-30 years off a realistic timeline (unless our entire acquisitions process massively changes, doubtful). -
We can’t be too hard on Huggy, he did do UPT in a Stearman and has spent a lot of time at altitudes with very little oxygen.
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No amount of base/equip seniority will make me fly the 73. The French have thoroughly destroyed Boeing on this one.
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Sadly, impossible. Most of the Arab world, and many of its similar-minded neighbors, will always be filled with so much hate and will always be completely incompatible with western values and society. We cannot solve this because whatever re-building, AFPAK hands bullshit, etc. we do, it will never change their ideology that has existed for thousands of years. Best we can do is try to keep them away from us.
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Those recommendations better include repealing the NFA and erasing the ATF.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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Initial Pilot Training and Future Pilot Training
brabus replied to LookieRookie's topic in General Discussion
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.
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Initial Pilot Training and Future Pilot Training
brabus replied to LookieRookie's topic in General Discussion
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.
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Initial Pilot Training and Future Pilot Training
brabus replied to LookieRookie's topic in General Discussion
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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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@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?
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That would be awesome, take my money El Salvador!
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Yep, I’d say the vast majority of the loud pro-67 people are very disingenuous about their motives.
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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.
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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.
