Clayton Bigsby

Any coolness he had for a calculated 'fuck you, I quit you fuckers' was LOST when he attempted to have his lawyer leverage his fame/notoriety for a return to the job. And no, you can't return to a job where you deliberately deployed a slide without an actual emergency. They fire you when you do it accidentally, let alone maliciously. I don't personally have any beef whatsoever with gays. Having worked in an airline, I know they're a part of life (a big one in the airlines, for some reason the industry attracts a lot of them) and they're no less of a person/individual for having the gay. But I have a hard time with someone throwing what amounts to a worked up, irrational hissy fit, but then reversing course after they've had time to consider their actions. If you're going to burn a bridge...use napalm!

I used to work MX @ TCM, awhile back. I believe what you're talking about are the QAR tapes, which were located in the smaller avionics compartment right below the bunks - you face it in the left CRACM seat. It's a tape, some sort of DAT or the like, so no PMA involved. The C-17 doesn't use PMAs aside from Panasonic Toughbooks used for electronic TOs (called the D-TOS), which is really just like the normal e-pubs. Nothing magical about it, just a tougher than normal laptop. It still breaks when someone, say, lets it fall when working up on the wing. Yeah that happened. I remember changing out the tapes and handing them in but don't remember who necessarily, and I think it might have been a Mx Specialist job (like Com/Nav or GAAC or something) that I did to help out with. I also didn't work with anything more advanced than the Block 15, McChord had just gotten its first COSA jets as I left maintenance. So it's possible it's something else now.

It was alright. In some ways it was a movie that seemed created just to get a bunch of stars onscreen together, kinda weak on story but big ups in action, fights, explosions, guns, etc. I believe there was zero CGI in this one! If you go in looking for existentialism and deeper meaning, yeah it won't work, but if you go to be entertained by shit blowing up you'll do fine.

Actually I think this is. Slides are very expensive to re-pack and rig (I've heard around 500k), so JetBlue will have a decided financial interest to go after this guy. In a way they can say it's stealing from the company, etc. Plus there's a whole host of 'air piracy' laws I'm sure they can charge him on... edit - looks like he was charged with reckless endangerment (of who? Himself?!?), and criminal mischief. Man, embodying the sterotype for sure. If only he screeched away in his Miata... Oh, it gets better! Cops found him in some gay sex at the house! link

After years of working on/in that jet, I know what you mean, felt the same way.

00-0173?

: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.