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contraildash started following 2025 College World Series , E-7A Wedgetail and Initial Pilot Training and Future Pilot Training
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Well if we get 1500 pilots a year we’ll have lots of bodies and no iron… /sarcasm Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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Initial Pilot Training and Future Pilot Training
contraildash replied to LookieRookie's topic in General Discussion
Recent visit feedback: Leard can’t read a room, was tone def, and avoided answering most questions. My professional concerns: 1. We don’t have enough applicants for UPT. Forcing more USAFA/ROTC grads to UPT will just result in more DORs. Problem not solved. 2. USAF doesn’t recognize FAA ratings and doesn’t seem to plan to do so. So to drop critical things like instrument training/checks is a massive failure on leadership. It is a wild abdication of our training and qualification that is unacceptable. 3. MAJCOMs don’t have the ability to absorb more inexperienced pilots. FTUs are backed up. Training is being pushed to ops units with wild experience-inexperience ratios. 4. IPT is not faster, cheaper, or better. Nor will it produce the 1500 pilots/year that they think. But as already stated on here, they don’t want to hear that. There is no backup plan for when this doesn’t work. 5. I expect higher attrition rates. Is AETC going to lower CTS when IPT isn’t producing the magical number of pilots? When everything else changes, that is all that is left. Unacceptable. Finally, and we are already seeing this, Q3s and accident rates are already climbing (this is before IPT even started). We are not flying enough nor experiencing pilots at a sustainable rate. SIMs are not a 1:1 equivalent. People need to fly. Throwing more inexperienced pilots at the problem isn’t going to help. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro -
Shit talking in non-contact sports is funny to me. Especially when hitting a baseball is already incredibly hard, more than two-thirds of the time people don’t get a hit? Yeah let’s talk some shit. ‘Unwritten rules of baseball exist to protect the fragile egos of pitchers.’ -Jomboy That said, I’m always down to watch America’s pastime, slam some beers and $ hot dogs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Update. F-this POS mobile tapatalk app. Apparently it’s back to spamming emoji shit anytime I type a number
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So much for that. I’ll try from my computer later. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/eed.jpg This will probably be all jacked up, but here is the entire memo plus pre-made Q&A. No one is being involuntarily forced to stay….but we aren’t cutting orders and you may be delayed. LoL Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro this worthless POS app ADMIN NOTE: Sorry, tried to clean up your post but somehow that destroyed the URL you were posting!
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None of those investments are due to the tariffs. Based on the articles you’ve linked, all three of those were generally planned expansion and upgrades to existing facilities based on strong economic growth through January. Not brining work/jobs/ect from overseas locations because of the current tariff discussion. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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The message where SECDEF is posting times/assets/ect is cut off. Note the squared bottom of the text block and lack of a time stamp. There was more to that message that was not posted in the link above. Just pointing that out. Update: saw on another platform, the cut off part says: LoL
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Initial Pilot Training and Future Pilot Training
contraildash replied to LookieRookie's topic in General Discussion
AETC: focus on GPS things, prepare for advanced avionics. Also AETC: we are decertifying your GPS. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro -
Initial Pilot Training and Future Pilot Training
contraildash replied to LookieRookie's topic in General Discussion
I am thoroughly confused as to what ‘problem’ 19th thinks it is solving with Future UPT (it’s all FUPT up…). They are sending students TDY to these locations, and they are paying the schools. That isn’t cheap. It will take longer to get through the entirety of the program from start to earning wings. I suspect that 19th will only count the T-6 to wings portion and declare ‘look we produce pilots so much faster!’ I highly doubt the product will be better by any means. I’d rather train up someone zero to hero entirely within the UPT structure….it has worked well for decades. So we are getting a worse product, that takes longer and is more expensive. Sounds smart. Once 19th started tinkering around with UPT, it induced all the issues. They haven’t let a year go by with any of the syllabi recently before introducing a different one. It has just been constant flail in a never ending state of change. If we want to incorporate civil training, I’d say do it after T-6s. Send the T-38 studs off to do their thing. Send the rest to (insert sim company) and get a king air rating or something similar. I’ve been through both Flightsafety and CAE simulator training for military aircraft, it was outstanding training and would be a good top-off for studs heading to heavies. ….or just buy some T-54s…. /semiannual rant off Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro -
Not really. The medical O2 tanks tend to be smaller than you think. The photos of the tanks found at the crash site show them to be small at best. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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The ring camera video with the couple walking out is nightmare fuel. Glad they jumped back inside, bits of wreckage were flying around. Lots of terrible videos and photos out there, beware as you browse the web. And no I won’t post links. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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This app randomly decides that numbers are some emoji code. No f’n idea why it is doing it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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Dude is certified legit. Talk to the Osprey boys about his motivational speeches for deployments. The missing finger knife hands are missed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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