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    Tops in Blue (TIB) - WTF?

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted · Edited by Steve Holt!

    I'm scheduled for CAS in a few days, and these ######ers just showed up to put on a performance that same day. "This is 9 line Tango India Bravo - type 1, bot..."

    Well, at least they're adhering to the new 3-09.3's min info gameplan requirement. So we got that going for us

    Why Not the B-1 Instead of the A-10?

    in General Discussion

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    We need platforms that can kick down the door, and I view going from awesome to just effective CAS as the price we have to pay due to budget limitations.

    I'll put that on the board as the objective the next time we go to war. Be just good enough for the ground commander. I'm sure they'll dig it.

    Drop Night Booze Question

    in Squadron Bar

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    Lol, they steal your shit and force you to give them money. You don't need the club to have a drop party, been my experience that you can do a better shindig by having an after party at someone's house or east berlin or wherever the cool kids hang out these days. Plus you don't have to worry about the Monday morning bleed-over from all of the O-5 and O-6's watching your festivities like a hawk. YMMV

    Drop Night Booze Question

    in Squadron Bar

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    Your Sq will also pressure you to use the club and their beer. So, use the club from 4-5pm, tell a few stories, light fare, no one drinks. Then, arrange a "real" celebration somewhere else, or even off post, and enjoy your kegs.

    Requirements met, everyone wins.

    This. We had similar problems with getting not terrible beer and the club. We were required to use the club and required to purchase a minimum amount of crap (I think some food and a keg or two.) Our class just decided to min run the club festivities and give them as little money as we could and have a get-together after with everything we wanted.

    If you attempt to just show up with your own kegs and play the Lt card, it's been my experience that they will take your kegs. They'll feed some line about how you can get them later after the party and never give them back.

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    Pilot over-reliance on automation.

    in General Discussion

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    Agree with the need for pilots to be able to do that pilot shit and hand-fly the airplane proficiently. However, guys these days need to be equally proficient with the automation. It's there for a reason and has the potential to improve safety and reduce fatigue during normal ops. The goal should be to never have to ask "What's it doing now?". You should know exactly what the automation is going to do before you push the button.

    I don't know man. The airplane I fly has 3 autopilot options. Altitude hold, altitude and heading hold, and the third option, and they don't do much to make me a better or safer pilot, except maybe to help out when I need to get some snacks from my pocket.

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    What's wrong with the Air Force?

    in General Discussion

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    Is a STURON the same thing as the OSS student section?

    Yes. Sort of. They pulled the studs out of the OSS and made a whole new squadron for them. Something about the OSS at upt bases being large enough, generally, to be counted as a group.

    And for what it's worth, they seem to make this statement every 6-9 months and nothing ever comes from it. The first two hours I ever spent on active duty were in a meeting about not being able to say so to speaks.

    AF Light Air Support Aircraft

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Steve Holt!

    Lawman:

    My question was directed at you. I've seen what the hog can do with ccip solutions, hars and iron sights, and I've seen hog pilots shoot with all 3 of them with the same level of accuracy. I guess it was a slightly loaded question, I was curious if you could still argue a 9 sq meter accuracy at your ranges without having nasa spaceship computers doing the aiming, since that seems to be the jut of your "the hog is a terrible platform" argument.

    'Cause having to rely on all that stuff to get weapons off the jet would be a hell of a hindrance to your platforms effectiveness, wouldn't you agree?

    *edit*

    Also, dude, I don't think HOSS is upset by you thinking the hog should retired. The hog is an old and tired jet, and I wouldn't mind seeing a new A/G fighter built with the same level of care and design and purpose as the hog was back in the 70s, built with the same ideals that were put into the hog and flown by a community that gave a shit about the mission as much as the current hog community.. I think HOSS is upset by the fact that you seem to be full of shit.

    AF Light Air Support Aircraft

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Steve Holt!

    I would like to see the A-10 stick around, but the arguments I've seen from most A-10 guys throwing around on here and facebook as to why it should stay are not convincing. A decade of COIN has us thinking that the Army cannot conduct ground operations without constant close air support. When we get into a real war, every time a grunt hears an AK-47, there will not be a dedicated two ship overhead within 5 minutes. Yes, it is the best airplane ever built for killing tanks. But the absolute best tank killer is..... another tank. Two target strafe against moving armor is badass, but once we finally get that anti-armor laser guided 2.75" rocket (technically a missile?), we will be able to create the same effects on the battlefield above tactical AAA and manpads from just about any airplane.

    Seems to me that it is only a matter of time. If I were an A-10 dude, I'd be arguing pretty hard for a low cost medium tech LAS aircraft. And this is coming from a guy who wants to see A-10s still in the CAF a decade from now. I just don't see that happening.

    The hog is capable of a level of CAS well above what's been needed in Afghanistan over the last decade. The first gulf war I think is a better example of the reason the hog was created.

    Everyone's always keen to jump on the green and blue shit bandwagon for the future of the A/G bubbas, which I think is why "the bone is the best CAS platform to date." That's a lot of investment in a lot of systems that have to work right to get the job done. There are already plenty of stories of dudes who end up putting bombs in terribly wrong places when everything works normally, what happens when their colored shit doesn't work

    Instrument Studying before UPT

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Steve Holt!

    I'm with these dudes.

    A month before you go to IFS, go to their website and print out bold face and ops limits to memorize on the shitter. When you get there they will explain what the words and numbers mean, but if you know them already it will make your life easier. They will fill in the rest.

    A month before you start UPT, memorize the words and numbers for bold face and ops limits. If you want to be super push it up you can probably find a blue suiter sim guy who is willing to take a bit of time and explain to you and your buddies what the words and numbers mean, or you can wait till you start and they will explain it to you, and already knowing them will make your life easier.

    Same story on my end of CFIIs and dudes with thousands of hours struggling through instruments and 0 hour guys who were able to get by alright. It comes down to natural ability and your willingness to put in however much time you need to supplement however much natural ability you have. Which for most dudes in UPT is a lot of time.

    Fighter Aircrew Conditioning Test (FACT) info

    in General Discussion

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    They had us take a FACT at IFF that was somewhat similar. It was different from the original weight lifting one at Laughlin but was somewhere along the lines of what you describe - a lot of cardio and not much else. We did some situps, high knees, squats, and some other shit. There was no maximum score, there was only "recommended" numbers and it was like 40 of each. You couldn't pass or fail to test so everyone just did the minimum number. It was a joke of a test.

    The dudes administering it said the same thing. I guess AETC was trying to revise the test so they were trying all sorts of weird shit and, since it hadn't been decided how to give the test, they couldn't actually make it count for anything.

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