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I flew around with the canopy open on my first solo in the T-34. All I needed was a scarf flapping in the breeze.

Huggy's back!

shit, we have CF-18 Toughbooks that screw in to a port by the copilot's leg to connect to the GPS. iPad would be a third the size/third the weight, even inside an otterbox.

or something happens during a practice auto that leads to an inadvertant touchdown (wind shift to a tail wind during the flare makes the level/cushion sporty...as does a water bottle jamming between the collective and the armor wing on the seat). re: WAATS sim, we have permission to use it and log currency for Contact, EP, and 50% of our Instrument approach requirements from ACC. Trying to get permission to do every other DLQ there to reduce trips to NASNI, but ACC won't currently accept the Navy paperwork allowing the Army sim to be used for this purpose IAW the DLQ MOU, because the Navy paperwork isn't dated. Even though it's attached to the most current MOU. We cannot log sim refresher at this sim b/c we don't have the capability to conduct the rest of the sim refresher syllabus, namely CRM refresher (systems and tac academics aren't cosmic), since no one in our community is a certified CRM facilitator. The WAATS sim only benefits the DM units anyway, since everyone else would still have to go TDY to use it. Plus, since it's not our cockpit or systems setup (the Lima had differences in the hydraulic system), so it's not a perfect solution. No collective trim, our nav system replaced with the IFR-certified GPS, buttons on the cyclic and collective are different, no FLIR/HDD, etc. We'll send a crew up there occasionally to keep the hands warm, etc, but it definitely doesn't replace flying in the real bird. Even with the Sikorsky aero package (unlike the bastardized T-38 aero package we have in the ones at Kirtland), it still doesn't feel right.

how about take the discussion over to Baseops SIPR? It exists for this very reason...

can't speak to the Hueys, but we have a 3 month EP sortie currency requirement. Mandatory items include a hydraulic malfunction, stabilator malfunction, engine malfunction, single-engine approach/landing, and straight-ahead/low altitide autorotations. Besides the fact that helo sims are only at Kirtland (24 month currency for sim refresher), the sims do a very poor job of modeling takeoffs, landings, and autorotations. That stuff HAS to be flown for realz. So landing from a Boost/SAS off situation, when the helo is statically/dynamically unstable, needs to be done in the actual aircraft. We actually allowed to log one EP sortie per 12 months in the sim, but our next EP sortie MUST be in the actual aircraft and MUST include autos.

You guys still do 180 autos? We haven't had that requirement for years (straight ahead and low altitude autos for us). By doors open, do you mean the cabin doors or cockpit doors? Either way, that's what gunners belts and 5-pt harnesses are for... The AIB President is a 60 guy by trade, maybe he did a little helo education with your OG while he was there.

they have 9 tie-breakers, is this because they actually needed them at one point, or someone got bored? Reverse SSN with lowest number winning...I supposed if you and your twin were equally ranked at the Zoo, then that one would come into play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRibRj770J8

who is Gen Welch?

BBC is reporting a crash in Zabul province killing 6 people, anyone have more details?

Thanks!

Wrong. Both the HH-60 and HC-130 Instructor Upgrades (for every crew position) are done at Kirtland (FTU schoolhouse). To do them in house requires an SMT waiver, and ACC hasn't been handing those out a lot recently. Nor do the squadrons really have the flights to dedicate to that effort. Hell, a 3 ride flight lead upgrade syllabus can take several months to complete, and it's not for lack of trying.

Butters, what AFI has this currency, as I don't see any currency mentioned in the 13-217? Is the currency just for performing LZSO duties?

can any LZSO types tell me if your V1/V3 or a MAJCOM sup require periodic refresher training? Or is it a one-time thing with the guidance contained in AFI 13-217?

umm, no.

you and LumberJack go skinny dipping together?

but yet you still screwed it up!

but I'm not saying the words, I'm saying "you saw fuh" the acronym. I went to "you saw fuh". Not "I went to the you saw fuh" There is a difference!

I'm not going to get into this conversation except to point out the extraneous use of the word "The." It's not "the USAFA". The only place "the" belongs is in front of Ohio State.

umm, Rucker dudes don't get FW anything in the drop, so not sure what you're thinking of.

I'm sorry, this is a little flawed, as not all 461 dudes were necessarily eligible for the bonus. Your bro would need to go look and see how many of the 461 met the eligibility requirements. As mentioned, prior E, prior service, other factors are in play here. Once your bro knows the true number of the 461 who met eligibility requirements, only then will we know what the true % takers was.

the trend I notice is that forums that have the word "login" in the redirect get blocked, and forums that don't, don't.

that was some entertaining coversation to say the least!

I already know of two times in recent past where a crew has PL'd b/c a backender saw daylight through a 308 beam crack. They've stiffened the beef-up plates enough that the new weak point is the engine bay. Both Patrick and Nellis have seen cracks there in the last year.