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all aeronautical badges are required to be worn, per 36-chow my hog. Parachutist badge is an aeronautical badge. I'll let you make the logical leap...

I count 2 flight suits in the pic. Play a little Where's Waldo. Donk's not wearing his, either (only other person I can pick out). So obviously all who participated were told to wear ABUs, and those 2 other peeps I bet had really good reasons to be in flight suits. Whatever.

at least Bagram calls it Combat Orientation and Combat Finish. And you don't have to wear a reflective belt in PT gear. Unless the new Wing King there has made some drastic changes, Bagram is the least Big Blue-feeling place of the deployed locations I've been to, considering there's a Wing there. The CCC is a great dude.

the Japanese gate guards salute us, so I salute back. FlyinGrunt is spot on.

I've already taken a fair number of ERAU classes online. I'm already down that road. All I want to know is about that SPECIFIC class. Was my request ambiguous in my original post?

I don't have a choice. There's not an ERAU campus here. So I do the online gig. Do you have relevant info to add about the specific class I'm asking about?

thread revival... I'm doing my masters through ERAU (MAS in Aviation Safety) for those playing at home...I'm interested in taking ASCI 516 "Applications in CRM", but I'm curious how time-consuming the online course is...I've taken a couple online classes that had a 3-page paper due almost every week, and I've had others where there's been much less active participation required. So who here's taken it within the last year or so and can shed some light?

helicopters.

ah, must have gotten them mixed up. Thanks for the clarification.

the MGWT of the M is 24,000. That's 2 grand difference. Obviously that won't matter worth a shit if you don't have more powerful engines to offset. But the skin is thicker, it has fly-by-wire controls, glass cockpit, etc, so it would be leaps and bounds better than our current ride. Plus, all those upgrades weigh less...so maybe our zero-fuel weight would actually be reduced...plus the M has wide-chord blades, which would give us more lifties.

you apply for TA electronically (AF Portal). When you apply, you choose the Ed office to send the TA request to. Since you'll be at Maxwell, recommend you call them up or see them face-to-face and you will most likely send your TA request to either them or your gaining base.

I like beta. The reason the Navy wants beta is that all their OLFs (aux fields) are 3000 ft, which is too short for a T-6 without beta to aid stopping in the event of an abort. They'd have to sink $$ into lengthening all the runways and they don't want to do that. And in some cases there might not be enough govt land to expand onto..

That's a Navy thing. When I drive on base in my civvies, I return the gate guard's salute. If I'm told to report into the CC for disciplinary action, or something else equally formal, I salute. We don't wear covers indoor either, unless under arms.

if you're going to fly helos in the AF, then you'd go to Kirtland for FTU to learn your MWS (the stage after wings are awarded but before going to your first operational unit). If you're trying for fixed wing, I don't know the answer, but I would guess you'd have to go to some portion of UPT. Now, if you also had Army fixed wing time, that might be a different story.

I want it. https://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2009...;WT.mc_sect=gan

the Army CAN fly in red illum now (at least in OEF). They have a stand-alone FLIR for SA purposes (not tied to any 1553 bus/nav system or anything, and the display is mounted to the side of the dash (where the adjustment handle for the pedals is), and currently the O-6 accepts that high risk now by mitigating with FLIR and flying acceptable approved low-illum routes. So now we get the call mostly when it's crappy WX. And that bit us in the a$$ recently. agreed with busdriver on how our assets should be used downrange right now. I'd like to not be sitting on my ass all the time, while the MEDEVAC bubbas fly multiple times a day. It's just not an efficient use of resources! As to why EUCOM and PACOM have dedicated CSAR (that also deploys downrange, too) is because of the higher potential for bad things to happen in those regions. Technically, we're still at war with NK, and China's looming large as well. That's the sort of conventional cross-the-fence-behind-enemy-lines war that would fall precisely into our mission set. Then on the EUCOM side, there's always Russia, I suppose. That unit used to be based in Iceland and provide SAR for that country as part of a treaty agreement with the US back in the day. Now they do their own rescue (we trained them up sufficiently, just like we trained the ROKAF up as well), and Kef closed, so they moved them somewhere else.

interesting article about a DARPA program called Sandblaster. If and when we get a new helicopter, hopefully this will be on it. And if we don't get a new helicopter, hopefully this will be added to ours. https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/darpas...am-is-on-03151/

like at the beginning of this thread?

don't forget if you go to the Springs, you'll get to do fly-bys at USAFA during noon meal formation. For that reason alone you should go slicks.

xerox. though I do think the Chinook is too big for our mission. I'll take what they give me, however!

all I said was that it was the least agile of the three.

Krabs, Helicopters are very agile. Swift and quiet? Not so much...and the Chinkook is the least agile of the three, I would wager. As for "net-enabled" some of the stuff I've read says they are trying to have a wireless ICS system, so maybe it refers to that? Or maybe SADL/LINK 16. We can talk to most everyone with our current radios, already... Mission systems I think refers to all the stuff we currently have (FLIR, AR probe, etc) plus more (hover coupler, TFTA, etc). As for "armed" and "self-protection system" I'm quite sure that refers to what we currently have, but improved upon (maybe DIRCM or LIRCM?) and at one point Boeing was touting defensive missles. Sounds like fun!

I'm here right now. Rooms: most buildings have a nice setup where you have a living room and a bedroom for your room. Your own bathroom (no sharing). One building (the new one, 22018) no living room, just a bigger single room, and your own bathroom. Each building has a wireless router, though the signal doesn't propagate throughout the building, so you have to go to the lobby/basement of that building for internet if you don't get the signal in your room. HOWEVER, each room will have wired high-speed starting sometime in May. Of note, the new building has an elevator, the older buildings do not, so if you don't want to be lugging a bunch of heavy shit up and down the stairs, ask for first floor or the new building. What have you got against SW Suites? First time I was here I was off base with them and it worked out really well (I had a non-a). Rooms are $39 (TLF is a little more), so that's $1170/mo. Should be plenty to find a furnished apt in a decent part of town.

definitely go ANG over ARNG if given the choice. You might be out of time given your age at commissioning as far as age goes. Pave Lows retired in Oct 08. Best bet is to talk to one of the Guard/Reserve units that flies 60s...and see what info they can provide you. Also call the helo functional at AFPC. Search around on the AFPC website for the phone number. His name is Maj Brad Dow. 210 RQS ANG Alaska 101 RQS ANG NY 129 RQS ANG Moffett, CA 301 RQS AFRES Patrick AFB, FL 305 RWS AFRES DM AFB, AZ

right now the Army is asking us for help with CASEVAC, at least in OEF, as we're willing to forward deploy to be closer support during a pre-planned op, and most of their birds aren't. So we are their "recovery birds".