[Idaho & Oregon ANG]

Too bad that your little birdie didn't introduce you to Google, wants check dot com, or good ole fashion find it out for your-fvcking-self. But since I like to be helpful I will give you a break. Here is some POC information that I found out about the unit all by myself. And she will even answer your educated questions, never bothered her with one that I could find on the website though.

POC: SMSgt Tammy Hughes

email: tammy.hughes@idbois.ang.af.mil

phone: 1-800-621-3909

website: http://www.idaho.ang.af.mil

Packages are due 15 December 2007

Well, I'm not sure where you got your info from, but that webpage isn't updated. It says packages are due in 15 Dec 2006. If you got your info from somewhere other than that webpage, then I apologize. If anyone finds out anything more, please post. I'm thinking about applying to this unit, but I already have an OTS application in for 08OT01, so I haven't 100% decided if I want to go ANG yet

Darin

["Conflict" with Turkey?]

Are you ######ing shitting me? This is an issue because some spolied musicians spew about it? Who do they think they are...Bono??

I prefer my music by guys who get drunk, screw roadies, destroy hotel rooms and drive their Rolls Royces into swimming pools. I was pretty much put off of musicians with a cause when I was sitting in RFK stadium in the pouring rain listening to Bono rant on about how we need to feed the poor. ######ing hypocrite, first they charge me $75 a ticket for seats where I was closer to God than the stage, then the guy that has more money than a majority of third world nation's GNP says I have to do something to feed the hungry? ###### him, The Who kick U2's ass any day of the week!

Cheers! M2

Damn straight!

[To the heroes...]

Here's a Toast...

On 11 Oct, it was decided that a GREAT American will be awarded the Medal of Honor. This is the first MOH awarded for operations in Afghanistan. The MOH will be presented by President Bush on 22 October. Here is a link to the story:

Real American Hero

This weekend please lift a glass to LT Michael Murphy, his team, and all those who worked to save them...

God Bless

[T-6 Texan II sim]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-factor

Basically the tendency of most prop aircraft to turn left without control input.

Which, btw, is simulated in FSX and FS2004 along with torque effects.

[Rainman trying to beat the toll camera]

That's fun to watch. It looks like both front wheels go flying off in different directions. As far as the people not stopping to help - 1. I'm 90% certain he was killed on impact, and if he wasn't he was burned to death within 10 seconds anyway. 2. The retard was running from the police so perhaps he deserved what he got... but maybe I'm just a standard American, hehe.

[TBAS Information]

In my opinion the best practice is MS flight simulator and fly a helo. Buy a cheap joystick and some CH rudder pedals and your good to go. The good thing about flying a helo is that it forces you to track two things independently (2 dimensions with cyclic, 1 dimension with tail rotor) just like in the TBAS. Make sure you practice hovering because that's where you are really working. Flying a fixed wing a/c is ok too, but you're not forced to fly coordinated especially since in a simulator where you don't have that seat of the pants feeling.

ymmv

-Darin

[Whats the funniest thing you've heard over the radio?]

Reminds me of a book I read called "Blue Skies" an autobiography of a Spitfire pilot. here's a copy and paste....

... "My first view of the tiny island of Malta is still a vivid memory. Through the mid-morning haze, it looked like a small golden leaf floating on the sea. I thought it looked ridiculously small, measuring roughly seven miles by fourteen miles, and our new airdrome, Takali, stood out as obvious and exposed.

"Gonda control," called Duke (Arthur), "Tampax squadron requesting landing instructions."

The reply came from Malta control: "Say again."

Duke returned, "Tampax leader requesting landing permission."

Gonda control again asked, "Say again, please. What call sign?"

Duke, now impatient, "Tampax leader."

"Please repeat call sign," intoned Gonda control.

By now Duke was obviously exasperated and certainly still seething over the loss of Cam. He roared into the radio, "Tampax leader. Tampax! Tampax! The stuff you shove up your snatch."

I could visualize the horror, the giggles, and the consternation that must have swept through the operations room. After another delay we finally received a polite and quiet reply instructing us to land at Takali airfield."

My last Marine Corps squadron's callsign was "Hustler"; i.e. "Hustler 404, cleared for takeoff".

So we're in the lead aircraft on Day 2 of a 3-day, 2-ship X/C from MCAS New River to Edwards AFB to trade aircraft (CH-53E's) with our sister squadron. We're somewhere over Texas, headed to Kirtland to RON, and my pilots are talking to someone (I forget who) to request VFR Flight-Following. The controller can't seem to grasp the request; comes back like 3 times asking us to "say again your callsign?".

Finally, my copilot, who is the squadron OpsO, says over the radio "It's HUSTLER, just like the magazine!"

Dead silence on freq for like 5 seconds... meanwhile, we're laughing our asses off in the back, and the pilot (the squadron CO) is shaking his head and saying "I can't believe you just said that on the radio"... but at least he was chuckling when he said it.

Finally, the controller comes back with our (correct) callsign and squawk, accompanied by plenty of laughter in the background.