nrodgsxr
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Anyone know where to get a patch with Calvin (& Hobbes) wearing a flight suit and pissing on a UAV? I had one but lost it and can't find the site where I originally bought it from.
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If you're on AD, rumor is that next year TA will start covering flight time/classes toward FAA ratings - including PPL. That's what the Aero Club here is saying at least.
sweet I'll have something to put TA towards now that i'm giving up on my masters
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I said it is great to start when the technology is new because it gives you an edge on people who get into the field when it is mature. You have seen where it started and how it grew to where it is in the present day. The opportunities that you will have in the civilian world will be great, and in my opinion you will be very marketable to any company dealing with the technology. You will pretty much be able to write your own ticket.
I think you've been drinking too much Koolaid from commanders.
I honestly believe I will be worse off b/c of my UAV experience compared to my peers who stayed in real airplanes. highpaying UAV jobs are out there if you want to deploy to shitholes
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its the way of the future man, the AD boards are looking for 70+ and rotc is looking for about 65 pilots, i think we will see that within the next 20 to 40 years UAV's will be major contenders on any type of battlefield. I mean look at what they are already capable of.
Ok but how does that help you to be a part of the "wave of the future" people keep talking about it in generalities.. no specifics. Is it going to help you make rank easier than a real pilot? I don't think so
To me it's stupid to try to get into a career field that one day will completely eliminate pilots anyways.
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I think that it is a great career field and it is good to get in while the technology is new,
I think you made the right choice..
just curious.. why do you think it's a good career field to get in while the technology is new? I keep hearing people say that but I don't really understand it.
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It is.
but not probable
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As someone that's going to leave his first assignment with an IP qual, Master's knocked out, and SOS in-res complete, I would absolutely sign a piece of paper saying I'd stay in for 20 years as long as I made O-5 and could fly/instruct the whole time.
...not sure about refusing the bonus, though. Maybe if they incorporated the above "deal" in with the bonus, it would be ever more appealing.
I'd go one further and give up my commission to be a warrant officer if that was possible.
Hell I'd stay O-3 for 20 just flying if that was possible.
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Must not be a fighter pilot.
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Can you post some reasons why your getting out? Is mainly due to family and time away from home? With the current condition of the economy and lack of flying jobs it doesn't seem right. Or is flying for the big blue just to much of a hassle? I understand that every job has it problems. Seems like a lot of people are trying to get in and a lot trying to get out. What are your you going to be doing once your done with the AF?
I'd love to join a guard/reserve unit... figure out how to pay the bills when I get to that crossroad. There's always a job out there to the dedicated/resourceful even in a bad economy.
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If you want UPT, then wait and apply at your station. Going 18U isn't going to get you to UPT.
I agree. I think you will greatly hurt your chances of ever flying a real airplane in the AF if you get any 18U stink on you.
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I've been googling the hell out of this topic to find ANY information at all regarding the topic. I've been wanting to get into UAV/RPV/RPA/whatever since starting ROTC.
I got the email from our det NCOIC on 16 Nov and took the TBAS that week. Who all is applying?
I thought 55 was a little low to let in considering all the buzz I've been hearing about how desperately the AF needs RPA pilots...
Pipelines only have so many slots to train people a year. Don't give up!
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Fail your PT test right before your OPR is due. Get referral OPR. Fail PT test again 90 days later. CC recommends separation. Out the door you go!
but will they give me a honorable discharge?
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You forget... All services are going to downsize by 10% per year in 2010, 2011, and 2012, per SECDEF. A 30% cut means that pilots who get out don't have to get RIF'd. We'll take our lumps, our bend-overs, and our bad assignments and like it. Oh, and we'd better get a 90 on the PT test too.
I haven't heard of any pilots being asked to leave yet. If that's not the case please let me know how I can separate and get out of my ADSC.
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If there is a DG program there it would be a good bullet to get.. anything to help you get strat'd. Gayness = success in the airfarce unfortunately.
Yeah shit like that will help you stay in the jet. Take it from a guy who ignored all that bullshit and won't likely get to fly an airplane in the airforce again because of it.
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You volunteered for whatever the Air Force has in store for you. But they will start reaping what they sow in the next few years.
I'm actually thinking of volunteering for global hawks. (christmas leave canx so i could deploy... again. Sort of inspired me to get out of the tanker.) Any word on thier ops? Looking for days working/off, mission length ect...
Global hawks dudes have to deploy too and are getting tagged with MC-12 deployments. A buddy of mine at beale isn't very happy. I'd ask for a T-6 or T-1 if I were you.
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I'll stay in if they let me out of UAVs.
UAV = me separating asap
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5. Eligibility. For the inaugural board, all officers who currently have an 11/12U duty AFSC will apply for and meet the board if any of the following apply: (1) volunteer to recategorize to the RPA MWS, or (2) have a RPA FTU course graduation date before 1 Oct 08, or (3) have a date of rank to Major of 1 Sep 10 or earlier, or (4) are a Lieutenant Colonel. Officers who have a RPA Rated Management (RDTM) code, regardless of duty AFSC, will also apply for and be revalidated by the board. The board will only consider Regular Air Force Officers.
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The Wing Chief of Safety (a Nav) at Offutt has decided that this does not apply to 135 Pilots and will not release it to the biggest wing in ACC. Shame, looks like we could all learn a lot from this accident.
He's probably just lazy and doesn't want to ask the SE center to send the videos. If he actually watched it he would realize the lessons to be learned apply to ANY flyer.
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Maybe I'm just really slow, but I recently learned that certain AF Education Centers are Airman Knowledge Test Centers. If I understand this right, free tests for IP equivalency, ATP, etc. Anyone know anymore details?
did you call them and ask?
I just took the MCI test.. very easy. I studied for it three nights and used the sheppardair study guide program. Now to make an appointment with the FSDO
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So, you were a FAIP and then you were assigned to UAvs?
No I got my UAV while I was in c-17 IP upgrade. And no im not a bottom feeder. I was first to upgrade to AC & IP out of my peer group. I just had a CC who didn't really "know" me b/c I was sent to the wing right before his change of command followed by FSO and then a ground deployment away from my squadron right after. I've just been a flying whore my first 3 years on station and never said no to the schedulers. Well guess who's the boss going to send to a uav? Not the execs, dudes who plan dining-outs/golf tournaments and booster club prez. He's going to send the guy who's not strat'd b/c he's been TDY the last 3 years. Funny thing is I volunteered for an ops assignment 6 months prior then later to go to altus. However at that time AFPC would not let me go OPS yet because I didn't have enough time on station and then later altus all of the sudden became a good deal and was hard to get... ridiculous
Well I think I got my point across. I'm bitter. But life's not fair.. it is what it is. The air force doesn't owe me anything and I don't owe the airforce anything after my ADSC.
until then embrace the suck!
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I know what your point was, but I think you really underestimate the dedication those lowly Army NCOs display when they train to operate their lowly Predator. I also think you really over estimate your training. Yes, you graduated UPT, congrats it's a hard ######ing program. On the other hand all it really qualifies you to do is learn the next level. You seem to have a huge chip on your shoulder about being a Pred pilot, how hard is it to actually fly a modern aircraft from A to B? Not very ######ing hard. The hard part is learning to employ that aircraft to get the mission accomplished. I bet you I could safely fly a Marine Cobra from A to B with about a week of training. Does that mean I could do the Marine CAS mission? I could probably learn to safely fly a predator from A to B in a week, could I be a successful armed ISR pilot in that time? Flying the stupid thing is not the hard part, being a good tactical aviator is the hard part.
I get that you're pissed about not actually getting to fly an actual aircraft. I sympathize. But seriously, what you're doing is very valuable to the grunts on the ground, are you saying you don't feel any pride about the peace of mind you provide them?
Sure I feel pride about doing my job but I still hate it with a passion. It's not like if I died today that some grunts on the ground would be in jeopardy. Big Blue would just find someone else and train them to do the job. I'm bitter because the AF could fill these positions with qualified and willing people if they so desired but instead they waste all the time/effort/money they previously spent training me to be an IP.
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Not to bag on you but I'm pretty sure the Army doesn't let junior enlisted operate the Warrior Alpha (Pred). Granted NCOs do fly them with Warrant Officer supervision. I don't know the weapons release protocol.
Ok.. ,Staff Sgt. Cpl, Spc ranks.. but you get the point.
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Predators have been deployed operationally since 1995. Just guessing but you were probably in high school (or younger) then. Who did you think flew these things? Of course it's an option, and it has been for years before you signed up.
I new nothing about UAVs until after I got to my first operational assignment. They weren't being dropped at pilot training and dudes weren't getting nonvol'd left and right to them until recently.
All of you who think I'm a whiner because I hate my job can EABODs. As I said before, you're not the one stuck wasting your "flying career" sitting in a GCS operating a POS. I have the worst "flying" job in the air force and you know it.
I signed up under the impression that I'd be flying SOMETHING for 10 years, not wasting my skills and training doing a job the other services let their junior enlisted do with a fraction of the training.
Do I still give 110% in the hopes the air force will let me leave the UAV community one day? yes.. but that doesn't mean I have to happy about it. And yes I regret it. There is nothing wrong with that. I just want dudes who are thinking about pilot training to know that flying NOTHING for a large portion of it is a very real possibility.
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So much for "Officers First".
Easy for you to say. You're not stuck operating predators for a majority of your upt ADSC.
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UAV (RPA) 2011 Grads
in Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA/RPV/UAS/UAV)
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preds are mature but still a terrible design with terrible TOs that will serious flaws never be fixed due to funding limitations