Clayton Bigsby

:flag_waving: thoughts and prayers!

Why do AC-130s have loadmasters? Calculate W/B? Can't the FE do that? Or do you ever carry cargo, besides ammo?

Happens elsewhere in US Gov't service besides the military - for probational employees in my line of work, a charge is enough to halt your training and process you to the unemployment line.

Yeah TCAS RAs are handled entirely differently in the civvie/FAA sector. It's a big deal regardless of whether one party has visual contact. It's not MARSA, besides, don't you have to ask permission for that?

I'll support prior mil politicians regardless of party provided I agree with their personal political platform and that they show a willingness to divert from the party line. But as soon as they end up like Murtha, I'm out.

Army Guard Captain running for Neil Abercrombie's US Rep seat in Hawaii. Abercrombie is running for Governor...

I'm a big fan of profanity.

Considering Iraq is largely over, I find it incredulous people don't support kicking more ass in Afghanistan. It's always the same, tired, weak-ass anti-Iraq arguments people use to oppose anything going on right now.

Yeah because the parking isn't fucked up enough back there...

Why isn't this thread pinned? Meanwhile M2 and like 2 other people carry on conversations in the gun thread...

Try www.allsp.com Should be every season/episode, ever. Streaming. Lots of annoying pop-ups but worth it I think.

I recommend you stop being such a faggot Seriously, get bent. Spewing party line is lame.

Does the BUFF have elevator tabs used to fly the stab into position like the KC-135 does, or does the H stab work "normally" where the elevators are elevators and the H stab surface is used for trim through a jackscrew?

The Brits - further defense-cutting themselves into irrelevancy. And then they'll complain about not having enough helicopters for Afghanistan.

That's noise back that they need to hear.

They're registered to the country they're stationed, just like the NATO AWACS (which are registered to Luxembourg). Papa is in Hungary... I think they weren't painted up in NATO markings like the E-3s were because many traditional NATO allies didn't participate, while a bunch of new ones (Czech Republic, Sweden, Hungary etc) are participating that haven't in the past. I think there's at least 2 non-NATO countries participating? Airplanes #2 and #3 were just finished too and are flying, not sure if they're delivered yet...

ACARS already broadcasts a ton of stuff for airliners...such as the auto-text messages from the Air France A330 to its dispatch. I think a lot of that kind of info is already exchanged, but clearly more could have been sent from the AF plane...

Umm, a whole lot of pvssy to chase! There's what, 4 colleges and several beaches? McChord - believe it or not it's very sunny and not so many clouds at all for like 5 months straight, sometimes longer. 90+ degrees there is pretty rare, it's usually in the 70s or low 80s all summer, and with the exception of this past winter it usually doesn't get all that cold there, 40s-50s and rain in the winter. Do you want to do airdrop? McChord, Charleston, Hickam, Elmo...not necessarily in that order, just those are your only opportunities for it if it's something you might like to do someday.

There is a pet-in-cabin fee, but it may be less than checking the animal. It's case dependent. Sometimes on international itineraries/routings, pet-in-cabin is made unavailable (except for service animals),due to customs clearance issues - for example, due to quarantine requirements, pet-in-cabin is specifically unavailable on United to Hawaii. Same for England.

Contrail - PM me with your itinerary, I worked for United up until this last week (still have plenty of connections), I'll see if it's REALLY 250. That sounds fishy, it usually goes off of kennel size and two cats are hardly huge.

Nice job glossing over garden spots like Altus, Dover, and McGuire...lol There is a painting from Operation El Dorado Canyon, showing 3 KC-10/KC-10/F-111 chains...kind of funny a KC-10 would still be passing gas to an F-111 while also being a receiver from another KC-10... to the OP - Look, I'm no pilot, but I think it depends on what kind of flying you want to do. Want to fly up at 30k a lot, orbiting for receivers and racking up the hours? Or do you want to land a bunch in all sorts of different places? Look where the mission is - tankers, passing gas inflight, and cargo, well it has to be delivered to whatever place so you'll go almost anywhere. Keep in mind every time I flew, even out of the 'deid on supposed out-and-backs, we dragged ALL our bags with us, everytime, since we might get re-routed somewhere else and then not see what we left behind ever again. Tanker guys can fly with a simple backpack/overnight kit since they're probably coming back, soon...part of the price of being able to go anywhere, right?

Well you're certainly going to do a connection, however doing it all within one airline greatly simplifies things - usually an airline has a monopoly on a certain number of gates within an area, maybe an entire concourse if it's their hub. That means the difference between pets being moved over a couple gates to the connecting flight, to having to go to another concourse clear on the other side of the ramp/airport/whatever since it's an interline (to another airline) connection. Keeping it on one airline also is cheaper - you'd only have to pay that pet fee once instead of twice. No matter which way you cut it you're going to have to pay that most hurtful one - the rotator can't get you everywhere. Which airline is charging you 250 per animal, and on what itinerary? I've heard of and seen 100-ish per animal, more if the kennel is huge, but for 2 cats... I get to pay 100 per animal to go to Hawaii, plus all the quarantine processing fees. Yay.

Do the Brits use ration cards for beers at the Muff?

Anybody ever submit an IDEA form, showing how the AF could save massive money by disbanding them...money that could go to actual war or equipment expenses...?

Probably one of those urban myth/fallacies, like automatic straight A's if your roommate commits suicide in college... In this case it's one that also needs to be curb-checked.