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    New Fitness Rules

    in General Discussion

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    With 90%+ accuracy, I bet anyone on this board could walk into an AF sq and pick out the unhealthy/hi risk of PT failure.

    We know the difference between the short stalky athletic dude that has the same waist as the the potbelly middle-aged NCO who hasn’t seen his d-ck in the last decade.

    We know the people in flight suits who are “bingo Velcro” and timing out.

    This is all just a metric for our leadership to have a leg up stand on the undeployable fatties who sadly just have loopholed the system anyhow.

    I broke 2x toes a while back and stood in line with all the other waivered gimps who were all a bunch of fat-bodies looking to not fail on account of their hung toenail.

    Yeah there is the occasional fit pilot who fails but like I said...90%+accuracy we could predict just by looking


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    Enlisted aircrew not saluting?

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    Wish that were true... but he had pilot wings.. and also consistently tells the pilots how to fly the jet..


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    I’m very informal, but:

    If he’s not a pilot and wearing pilot wings, I’d rip them off his suit and tell him to report to the DO and chew his ass.

    And if I saw a pilot let an aircrew tell them how to fly, I’d get the f-ck off that plane because no pilot worth a sh-t allows that to happen.


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    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

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    Thought I saw somewhere that rated retention didn't improve despite the pandemic...

    The shoe clerks are staying in. I know a LOT of shoes that haven’t had to go to work for months and so their 30 min of email from home each day while getting a paycheck.

    Pilots, maintainers and others actually still have to work. But I know a lot of pilots who aren’t separating as covid dashed their airline plans.


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    What's wrong with the Air Force?

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    When did USAF fighter/attack quit flying night overheads?
     

    I did a lot of night overheads and 15 degree night SFO’s were standard when I was on exchange in Europe. As were night form t/o and landings.

    I imagine USAF quit in the 80’s or so. Just a guess.

    UPT based do night overheads to get pattern reps but the IP flies the pattern and SP gets the jet on final,


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    The Next President is...

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    The same people who were miserable behind their keyboards for 4 years with TDS - Trump derangement Syndrome will soon be the same miserable victims with BDS - Biden Disappointment Syndrome.

    If the GOP keeps the senate, the dem infighting will be fun to watch. Very few campaign promises met, sets up the right for gains in 2024.

    The beta males and 2/10 feminists who were calling us all (on the right) racists and sexists will be miserable....still.

    And now we don’t have to hear about BLM or other statistically retarded causes for a while.

    The blue wave never happened. Not a bad election.

    Cheer up, it could be Hillary’s second term.




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    NFL Ratings are Way Down

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    Anyone can scoff doing flyovers if you want. 
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    Damn Huggy, did you follow the concrete arrows along your XC route? My grandad told me about them.

    All kidding aside, I’ve been on f-ed up flyovers. Even porked one myself (I’ll blame the anthem singer).

    But I’ll stand by my argument that nailing a TOT has very little training value for fighters in 2020.




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    NFL Ratings are Way Down

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    Flyovers are excellent training and I don't care who you are or what you fly.  Simply being able to be at a specific place at a specific time has more real world combat implications than any BFM larping you'd rather be doing.

    Yeah, it’s pretty damn rough with INS/GPS to hit an uncontested TOT these days. I say we dedicate missions to it..maybe a phase. Reminds me of the time in the ‘stan, there I was, EGI failure...no sh-t...checking my g-shock watch hoping I had the skills to make that TOT to the tanker +\- 10 min with quartering headwinds so strong, I had to wind correct.


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    The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

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    I’m all for diversity in the ranks but I doubt we are suddenly going to find a ton of missed high-end recruits in the inner city.

    I’ve said before, I could find better recruits by stopping the BS academic and chess club qualifiers that get kids into UPT.

    I’ll take medium-intelligence type A recruits any day over the super-high-intelligence weenies I see filling the cockpits.


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    Marine 130/35 swap paint

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    That is a c model, navy does weird stuff, not sure why you’d put gear down.

    The jet goes into a different flight control mode when you aerial refuel anyhow with gear up.

    I’ve refueled from a c-130 before with Eurofighters and Tornadoes all stacked up. It’s no big deal except when 2x wing pods are out, you feel really close to the other jet refueling right next to you.




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    Eglin F-35 crash

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    Is the speed hold at 202 normal? That seems really fast? Is there an auto-throttle type system too or does it control pitch? Is the vHUD IFR rated? Can you pop the visor up and fly off of some kind of display in the cockpit?
     
    Thanks for the capes brief!

    Generally you speed hold in the instrument pattern then simply press a button on the throttle to hold your AOA at the FAF as you set your flight path marker where you want to touch down. No flare or power modulation required, the throttle rolls back at touchdown.

    A lot about the jet is rediculously easy and automation can greatly help but over reliance is an issue and sometimes you think something is on/off when it isn’t, get sidetracked such as 6-9 steps to get your ILS symbology and it bites you.

    The ILS is horrible. I mean worst I’ve ever seen in aviation horrible to include GA.






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    The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

    in Squadron Bar

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    Brawnie sounds a lot like a guy I knew...liberal SJW who railed on racist filled America even though as a growing up middle class minority, he was provided a free academy education, paid to fly jets, promoted to top ranks and even after all that, was a victim of white Americans and selfish conservatives.

    Victimhood mentality sucks.


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    Track Selects and Assignment Nights

    in General Discussion

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    Sarcasm detector inop?
     
    Though, my cynicism is rooted in the fact that all the people who went through the initial PTN program were well above average performers to begin with, who were cherry-picked specifically for that program.


    Imagine if you will, a place where the Air Force could groom top quality pilot candidates, educate them on flight maybe in their late teens/early 20’s....get America’s best by offering a free 4 yr education. We could call it, maybe an “Academy” or something.

    Seriously, I’ve railed on this before. Why isn’t our academy and flight screening getting us people who can kick ass?

    I’ve had academy grads (and ROTC) teaching at UPT I’d gladly trade for the high school educated quarterback at my B-8 football school because that guy working at the local grain elevator had more leadership and pilot potential than the band-geek-chess-club Academy grad.

    Part of the problem is we aren’t getting America’s best through our commissioning sources.




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    Track Selects and Assignment Nights

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    The problem with those studs is they were hand picked to go there because they were already a level above their peers, and this program wouldn’t fail even if they were trash.
     
    The washout rate in our B course classes has been rising over the last couple years from the general population of all this change and reduced experience. They won’t all be fine, the number of students who can’t make it through PIQ is on the rise. We’ve had multiple cycles with washouts this year, which is not standard. Basic fighter admin is what drove most of it. 

    Any chance for an example of the admin? Range/munitions delivery or just safety of flight to/from the ranges?


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    Track Selects and Assignment Nights

    in General Discussion

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    Is there any word on how studs from the first two classes are doing? Either in the schoolhouse or after? 

    No notable difference between the students who flew ~100 hrs in T-38’s normal UPT track and the guy who only flew T-6’s a few hours and his second solo was in a fighter.

    Regardless of track, they are all equally bad but will be fine with some experience.

    UPT next guys are NOT the weakest students going to CAF squadrons.


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