amcflyboy

Well it looks like, no sh*t, we're getting the iPad to replace our epubs thumb drives this weekend at drill. I inquired about electronically sourced FLIP, and was told that the software for updating those pubs are still in testing, but they are on there way. Our Stan/Eval guys were literally running iTunes on our baseops computer and individually updating the software and pubs for roughly 200 iPad 3rd generations. Should be interesting because I was also told that if you lose it, you pay for it. The Air Force only bought enough for issue and not to replace. Great!

E-publishing still holds some expired regs. Did you try there?

This.

Shack.

You know what, you might be right about the Commissary and online sources. I know I could buy them from my services squadron...on a Guard Base that is. I think the Life Support section in my squadron sells them too...on a limited basis though. I'm not sure how my father acquired them many moons ago. I never really asked specifically how he got em'.

Go buy a couple of cases of M.R.E.'s from your services section. That'll do it for you food wise...it's what my dad did back in the day when we lived in earthquake land! Next, go buy a couple of huge trash cans, and stuff them with old blankets, pillows, bottled water, canned heat (the ones for chafing dishes), an AM/FM radio that operates off a wind up generator. For starters, anyways....

Agreed....don't be a knucklehead if you're going to do one. I've just personally seen too many guys lately go "MIA" in the brain!

To answer your question, I don't play "I've got a secret." That's what causes smoking holes in the ground. This is not the time to play stump the chump. I do direct their eyes to the field before I take control, but when you're only 3000' AGL, and trying to find the runway with a handful of aircraft, this is when I have to play A/C and intervene, and If I'm flying and he/she sees the field before me, then yes I will let him/her steer me towards it, if need be. Again this is why I back all my shit up with instrument approaches and the NAV building an LZ in the SCNS, to prevent this from happening. This is a small practice of staying ahead of the aircraft. Am I perfect? No. Yes we play a sensitive game of CRM, and I thank the previous guys for backing me up, but we're all thick skinned (at least I think we are) and need to accept instruction from time to time and stay ahead of the aircraft. Again, I've had good copilots who've kept me honest as well, and I buy them beers and distract the fat chick for the rest of the night. This is not shitting one's pants. I agree there is a LOT of queep in this man's Air Force, but If doing an instrument approach into a field takes away 10 minutes from your drinking time, well then so be it. Live to fly/drink another day! Agreed. That was definitely an impressive takeoff at Peter O. Knight!

<RANT ON> I know I'm going to get flamed here, but whatever, I don't fucking care! Someone mentioned about "standby for an FCIF prohibiting visual approaches." IF THIS IS THE CASE, then this wouldn't surprise me one bit, and quite frankly, we would deserve it. This is a pet peeve of mine and as a Safety guy and an Airlne pilot, I've flown with too many guys in my squadron who get lazy and request visual approaches to airports they've never been to before. I see them losing their minds asking me if I have the field in sight. I tell them I do, but they don't and try to get me at last minute to request an instrument approach, all the while I have the ILS and inbound course dialed in. Instead, I take the aircraft from them, and get lined up and give the plane back to them. All this is then followed up by a snide junior high school remark just to save face. At my airline job we have SOP's that state, "All visual approaches will be backed up with an instrument approach." Sure, the C-17, C-130, etc., etc., etc., all fly tactical stuff and yadda yadda yadda, but this is NO EXCUSE to not use your instrument skills to land an f-ing aircraft. <RANT OFF> To piggyback on what other guys have said, hopefully there were circumstances that caused them to land at Peter O. Knight instead of MacDill.

How about I just first!

Yup, and look what happened to him. B.O. ousts him, and now he's working on the Board of Directors for my company!!

Yup...was in CLT last night on airline business. I saw the metaphorical black cloud lingering over those poor guys; all the planes were chained down. Words can't even express my sorrow. RIP boys.

Whoa whoa whoa! AIS was a ton of fun! Lots and lots of drinking in OKC....and oh yeah, instruments.

Though I never watched the Andy Griffith show, I did watch Matlock back in the 80's. Godspeed sir!

Giggity! Right now, she's filing a lawsuit against NBC/TWC because her contract was not renewed due to her military service. I hope she puts some serious foot to ass!

Crap...I'm doing it wrong!

Definitely...not hot, but cute! She seems like the type that knows how and when to "have fun" This. This as well...again she's not Jenna Jameson hot or Kate Upton hot, but.... I don't know what you would consider young bucks, but I'll have to agree with you on that statement, regardless. Could she be crazy? Maybe. Could she suck the chrome off a trailer hitch? Probably. Does she know how to have fun and keep it real, especially with that body? Don't know, but willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. From the neck down she appears to be rock solid, but she's a "butterface!" Eh, either way

I don't, but guys in my unit do. The MD-80 is a pig...period. It's not fuel efficient, and the climb gradient sucks on it, especially for an airliner.

Classic!

Wrong....the next A/C FEB for allowing it to happen. Though that is still badass!

Just from my point of view when I was at Bagram. I saw military controllers, and I do agree that they were pretty good...especially with dealing with the retard ISAF IL-76 planes. Those damn penguins...yes they do get in the way of the skiway when they decide to wander on to it and cause us to go into holding and wait for them to leave on their own accord. Unfortunately, the Antarctic treaty does not allow airfield ops to "shoo" them away! Rainman and BQ...here you go: McMurdo station (Williams Field, Pegasus Field, and Ice Runway) are all considered Class D Airspace with a special restriction that stretches out to 100 DME, in accordance with 13AF and PACAF, and mind you, this is in a non-Radar environment. Everything else is class G Airspace with position reporting requirements all the way to South Pole, WAIS Divide, etc. We do position reporting to Mac Center on HF's. Can't even begin to tell you how spooled up these guys get when there's 3 planes all flying the "A-track" all the way to the Pole, and there's 44 minute spacing minute spacing between each plane...one minute less than the required 45 minute spacing. We here the classic, "please restate your estimate for P4, P5, etc., etc." We've been doing this for 13 years, with the same controllers, and they still freak out. UFB! Then throw in 4 planes recovering to MCM with the proper 1 hour spacing, 1 plane from WAIS, and 1 from AGAP with 45 minute spacing from everybody else, followed by a C-17 that's 1 hour out coming in from Christchurch, and then sprinkle in two or three Twin Hueys transitioning the airspace, and well out of range of the approach corridors. You can hear the panic in their voices, like it's the end of the world! GOD FORBID, we pull these guys away from their video games, or High Times Magazines!! Does this help??

Ladies....simmer down now!

Survey says....wrong! They're going to take those 4 H-2's and send them to Little Rock to support the school house. Direct from our WG/CC just a couple of weeks ago.

Uhh...What? Why is it that contract ATC dudes are the biggest fucking retards of all time? We have the same problem down in Antarctica. Basically the guys who graduate last in their class!

Nope...we're just an implosion bomb counting down. 10...9...8...7....