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    Cost of owning a plane

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Where in general is the break point on renting vs owning, interns of hours flown per year? 
    I know there is some wiggle room there depending on how much you value the flexibility of going when and where you want and what airplane you fly.  
    But is there a rough hours per year where you should keep renting vs deciding to own? 

    A lot of it depends on type of flying. If you like to go XC for days on end, those hours pay off quicker because you can park the plane and not pay a min time.

    There is a big difference between the 1.5 local flight pilots and the trip-takers.


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    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

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    Odd situation/possible low SA on my part at the time:
    As a CSO with an expired CSO ADSC, I was eligible for the ACP that dropped late September/Early Oct of 18.  However, well before that bonus was announced, I was picked up for pilot training.  While processing my PCS orders, MPF/TFSC told me that in order to receive those orders to UPT, I had to sign an ADSC stating that if I completed pilot training, I would owe 10 years.  Well, I went ahead and signed that, and they tacked on a 10 year UPT ADSC effective on the day I signed it, well before I ever left my pre-UPT assignment.
    So, months later, when the time came to apply for the bonus, it was of course denied because I had an existing (erroneous) UPT ADSC.  This was 8 months before UPT graduation.  In fact at the time I was too busy getting my shit pushed in in T-6's to bother trying to fix the ADSC issue.  Once I graduated UPT, that 10 year ADSC was updated to reflect my grad date.
    I'm missing out on $225k of pre-tax bonus here, so does anyone think I have a chance of getting this resolved in my favor?  Do I open a case with AFPC, Finance, Legal, IG?  Lawyer up?  Or do I just STFU and enjoy my window seat?

    For $225k I’d look into it IF you can show the paper trail of their error and your denied bonus.

    If you take a CSO bonus though and leave the career field, I’m not sure you keep getting that CSO bonus. Might ask about that.






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    E-11A crash in Afghanistan

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    WTF does names have to do with stating the obvious from the photos? Is that gonna change a GD thing if BADFNZ makes some factual observations about the photos in contrast as to what the news was reporting?

    I’m with BADFNZ here and I think some of you guys are being over sensitive.

    He’s not getting at anything personal, just disputing the Taliban CNN claim.

    And he’s correct.




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    E-11A crash in Afghanistan

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    Something is not adding up.  BACN usually hangs out in the bozosphere, way out of the reach of any RPG, SA-7, or rock that the Taliban can throw at it.  Also, this is not the wreckage of a plane that slammed down from thousands of feet in the air.  The fuselage is largely intact, and it almost looks like the fire started from inside given the burn patterns.

    All facts.....to which I have no idea why you are being told to not speculate/discuss and being shut down.

    As long as you aren’t disrespectfully pointing fingers at individuals, placing blame and spreading rumors, some people seem to take the safety process “don’t talk about it” a little too seriously.

    I for one think this shit should be front and center in the same care and manner people are talking about the Kobe crash.

    People should care when service members die and planes clash and want to understand why and it should be discussed.

    You guys don’t think that civilians aren’t armchairing this in other forums. I like hearing from other professional aviators.

    What is to be gained by silence?

    People died in a third world shithole flying a jet that nobody hardly knows or cares about and likely never will because we don’t talk about it for some reason.






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    WTF? (**NSFW**)

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    So what is the point of a form landing? Or practical uses?
     
    What skills does the form landing teach?
     
    What are we missing out by not doing them?
     
    Apply the same questions to fix to fix.
     
    Curious what your thoughts are.

    In 2020 there is little to no use for them (landings) aside from an extremely rare and improbable emergency/weather combo driving it.

    Now the need to shoot an approach in the weather is valid but rarely would both need to land so those should be practiced.

    A lot of allies who run their air forces to USAF 1960’s standards still love em. Mainly because they look good.

    I say get rid of them.

    Fix to fix? Lots of better ways to get to there with INS/GPS but I’ll be damned if I haven’t done the pencil method I learned in the T-38A on each of the 4 jets I flew after. Sometimes it’s just easier, but no need to learn it IMO.




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    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

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    Damn, digging into his pranks 10+ yrs prior in Korea.

    Watch your ass people. In 2020 you are one misconstrued joke/prank/drunken misstep from making the AF times or SARC briefing.

    Not to say this guy doesn’t sound a bit odd but compared to the stuff I’ve seen in 18 yrs, this is nothing.






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    Promotion and PRF Information

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    Cool. That's what they told me, and I got passed over for major in my first look (95% promotion rate). No negative indicators, SOS in res complete, flt/cc, etc, just not a lot of real strats or awards, but nothing that would've pointed to bottom 5%. All my leadership up through the wing were as surprised as I was when I didn't make it. Best part was that on the same board, a dude that was a FP (needed supervision to fly, failed to check out as an IP in MQT) in the T-6 that was getting sent back to his previous unit made it. Picked up second look with a DP though

    So yeah, glad you've been lucky, some of us aren't.

    Back in 2012ish, a bunch of 11F’s, mostly viper guys got F-Ed when their leadership tried to play with numbers thinking there was no way they’d get passed over, and favored the non-ops dudes with weak records. It backfired, the non-ops guys made Maj, the pilots didn’t.

    Weird shit happens. It’s not right but the statistical odds are that that won’t happen to most people in a normal tear.

    Your story sounds like something, somewhere at some level got F-ed up and maybe it was covered up and never explained to you.


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    Promotion and PRF Information

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    if all you wanted to do was fly, be prepared to retire as a major, but if you could could suck it up and do a staff assignment, O-5 becomes realistic (but not guaranteed). And that was 16 years ago when I had that talk.


    16 yrs ago was a different AF. Hell ,5, 3, different AF. I hear we are looking at 90%+ to O-5 coming up. I’ve known multiple HPO’s would could have timed into 1-star jumping ship recently to airlines.

    What am I getting at? If you want to fly, do it. As long as you don’t have a DUI or UIF and have min-runned your square filling (SOS/ACSC), in today’s AF, you can fly and will probably promote.

    *some communities vary

    I was told multiple times that by choosing flying over career I’d never make O-5. Best choice I ever made was ignoring that advice and choosing what I liked doing.

    Even if I had been stuck at Maj for life, I’d still choose flying.


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    Passing of Matmacwc

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    Pyro was a class A dude who made the world a better place. Great attitude right up to the end. What many people don’t know is that he was given the 95% diagnosis of a few months to live almost 5 years ago. Fought like hell. I’ll fondly remember all the jack and cokes at the bar with him. Godspeed Pyro.


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    Information on PCS/moves/moving (DITY, TMO, DLA, storage)

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    Haven't dealt with an accompanied TDY enroute to a PCS...The plan (confirmed with my functional and commander) is to outprocess/move, head to Altus for 6 months of training with the family, and PCS to Fairchild. I'm confused on what my orders should look like (formal training & outbound assignments were clueless).
    I received a RIP for the training course to Altus (and a change from status 1 to 3...PCS enroute), but it didn't mention anything about my report date to Fairchild or my family. Ultimately, my immediate concern is getting orders squared away so I can setup the move with TMO. Here are the questions I have:
    • Should I expect a second set of PCS orders with my report date to Fairchild and my family? Or does this RIP for the TDY enroute training to Altus need to be amended to include my family and Fairchild as the destination?
    • With my family on the orders for the TDY enroute, will this change/increase the lodging per diem at Altus? Either way, we have a family crash pad setup. I'm just curious what the official number is going to be and what the source document is. 

    It’s been a while so I’m not 100% sure but you should get orders from your current base to Fairchild with the TDY enroute annotated. I don’t think your family is included in the TDY unless specified so you’ll get generic BAH for them and TDY pay only for yourself at Altus.


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    Military members may* be overpaid

    in Squadron Bar

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    If that's the case, my gut says we're manned about right. Pretty much every unit I've been in limits leave to 10%. Throw in schools/TDYs and individual deployments....,

    I’m talking 25% of support. Not ops people. I’ve deployed numerous times the last few years, I was appalled at the support-self-licking ice cream cone I saw. It’s bad at home station also when you pull the curtain back on some of the support agencies then look across the flight line at their peers in rank.



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    Military members may* be overpaid

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted


    So in summary, ya a shit ton of the AF is overpaid and the remaining people are underpaid.

    I remember 6+ years ago moving to the wing HQ for my attached job. Couldn’t believe how unemployed half the people were. Those doing work were mostly doing irrelevant tasks to justify their job and career.

    I bet we could cut ~25% of the force with little degradation of the actual mission.

    I say actual mission because most of the support functions just support themselves and call it the mission.


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