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That's easy! Ambien+three beer night after a 12 hour sortie. I was probably dehydrated, too. Coincidentally, 9 of those hours were VFR, both above and below FL230. But not that far below. :)

But was that the correct beach?

Kinda surprised that the Eurofighter costs $200m each. Seems like a lot of money for something that can't get closer than 20 nm to a Raptor.

Ok, I agree with all that. Especially the part about the CRM game. I'm interested to hear the CVR on this one, if it's ever released. Does it even require a safety investigation?

The fight or flight reponse was definitely in full effect. Everyone chose flight. Ref guineapigfury's comment again.

Wow, not only does he demonstrate 4 heinous acs of cowardice (drops crying infant to avoid being highlighted, leaves 3 family members in theater, decides not to go back in, then drives away), he tells the media all about it the next day.

So do you talk their eyes on before or after you take the aircraft? If you're flying and the PNF sees the airfield before you do, can HE take the jet from you? How is it good CRM to play "I've got a secret" on a visual approach?

######ing hell I hope you try to walk into a flight room with this attitude someday. You're a college student; you're not phenomenal at anything.

They can be ID'd from 200 yds, I swear it never fails. (source: I live in CA)

Ha, Officer Darwinism, fair enough.

We need to compile a no-shit list of rules and put it on the front page of baseops.net. I would add: - Don't bitch about your current assignment to anyone, wife included. Your commander will eventually find out and the next assignment will be worse. - "Don't you ever go f***ing NMR for anything." - "Don't worry so much about the piss ants that you get trampled by the elephant." - Don't argue with the evaluator - Don't ask a colonel/general a question in a public forum. They will even invite you to bypass the entire chain of command, don't do it. It takes a while for new guys to learn this stuff through mistakes. Might as well make it boldface.

A SSgt boom operator in my Sq just showed me a bean/currency tracker program that he built. He taught himself Python on a deployment and built this thing for free on a weekend. It's stand-alone software, not an Excel or Access product. The AF way overpays for software like this because the guys in charge have zero SA on the subject. The entire idea of strats is bogus.

Do prior navs turned fighter pilots have the same problems?

1. Since every AMC aircrew member will have iPads shortly, make an app that automatically fills out the voucher as we travel. I'm aiming high on this one. 2. This is probably KC-10 specific, but sometimes we fly non-stop the long way around the world (east) from Travis to get to the desert. DTS assumes we go the other way, which causes IDL problems. Which are a pain in themselves.

Sweet they redeveloped the Power Glove.

DAT MOM

TLDR: You can fly a low of fighter airshow demos for $750K-$2.2M. And this is only one TIB trip. This July, TIB will be performing across the AOR for two weeks. Being a numbers kind of guy, I wanted to quantify the cost of this "deployment" (that's what they call it, no kidding), so I busted out the trustly old excel spreadsheet. I came up with a low-end cost (KC-10 deploy/redeploy, C-130J intra-theater) and a high-end cost (C-5/C-130H) based on the USAF CPFH models and hours assumptions. A good friend of mine had to move these guys, their standard cargo weight 70k, along with 40-45 personnel.

The following may come across as naive, but I still refuse to accept it as standard. I can't believe that, in a time of constant war and budget cuts, that anyone in our Air Force can afford to spend one single brain byte on anything other than doing their job or thinking about how to directly improve it. Take time for your family, take time off, but don't FOD-out your actual workplace with bullshit like fundraisers and organized socials.

You. Want. KC-10s.

I'll take it.

Used to be fun; now boring. This trend pretty much applies to every plane in the military.

Why not, that's how the rest of the Air Force works.

It's because everybody only studies the gouge.

Here's the actual report. Pretty much the gist of things is that SRBMs will kick our asses and break our jets before they take off. It's too bad that Schwartz didn't read the report, because the congressman missed some key points himself, such as "Substituting F-22s for the F-15s doesn’t change the situation very much, either." "As China’s ability to deliver accurate fire across the strait grows, it is becoming increasingly difficult and soon may be impossible for the United States and Taiwan to protect the island’s military and civilian infrastructures from serious damage. This is hardly surprising, and is rooted in thebasic physical and operational reality that, given foreseeable technologies, it is and will remain cheaper and easier to build rockets able to deliver payloads accurately onto a relatively large and stationary target like a runway than it will be to build rockets able to reliably intercept fast-moving miniscule targets, like other rockets."

OK, so what happened then? Was he a good guy or a bad guy?