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    UPT Next

    in General Discussion

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    UPT 2.5 seems like growing pains in a transition that I think needs to happen. People need to get used to training different than we have.

    These kids will get to FTU in a few years and find much of the training is sim based and BETTER than flying the mission because we don’t have any 300 mile long airspace to relocate reality.

    They’ll be the generation that makes it better, as right now the IPs have baggage from thinking flying must be better.

    I appreciate the updates from you guys firsthand.

    My UPT 2.5 grads do just fine in the FTU very little difference noted between them and traditional.

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    Money and Finance

    in Squadron Bar

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    State income tax question:

    When I separate from Active duty and I’m working airlines and reserves, what are my options?

    I have a home/business in WA which has no income tax, will commute for airlines but also own a home in AZ where my wife works and I’ll do my reserve job.

    Today in hypocrisy...

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    My 9 yr old called me a racist when I told her to eat her asparagus. Teaching moment, I asked her if she knew what racism was.

    “Dad, that’s just what my generation says when we don’t like something”

    Thanks leftists for making racism a joke.

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    What's wrong with the Air Force?

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    Some truth to this.  The old Charlie Beckwith quote “I’d rather go down the river with seven studs than with a hundred shitheads” comes to mind.  There are a lot of studs, and a whole lot of shitheads.  Would be great to better support and grow the studs, and weed-out the shitheads, but the entire personnel system isn't really structured to do this.  Probably more accurate to say the existing personnel system is designed to coddle the shitheads, and hope enough of the studs stay in to keep the wheels from coming off.

    Trust me…I volunteer my time on the support side of base to make sure they actually support ops. I walk into offices daily and wonder why we pay 5 people to do the job that one ops capt could do. I actually told the base commander he should cut 30%….he laughed.

    It’s pretty much welfare disguised as govt employment
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    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

    in General Discussion

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    :For apples-apples comparison:
    Airline+AFRES guy here: My avg days off/mo was ~17, or 209 total days off in the past 12 months.
    And that's actual days off, meaning at home, no duty, not commuting (I live in base). That number will improve when I retire from AFRES pretty soon here.
    Compare that to when I was RegAF. The avg days off baseline was ~12 days/mo (includes 30 days' leave, weekends, holidays, and family days), 153 days off total. Then throw in weekend TDYs and deployments and that number goes down considerably.

    What’s your airline seniority have to be to get that type of deal?

    USAF Finally found a way to get rid of the A-10

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    There’s no realistic scenario where 4G is doing actual CAS and F-35s are required to do SEAD ISO those 4G. Ridiculous. The reality is it’s either low threat and 4G is doing 3-09.3/JFIRE, or they’re no where near the fight and the boys on the ground are well aware they’re unlikely to receive much traditional CAS support, if any, from the 5G guys they’re working with. 

    I’m not so sure. If I were doing MCO CAS in a hog/viper, I’d want F-35’s helping let me know if anything was out there so I could avoid or egress the AO. The ALR-69 is about 35 yrs past it’s prime.

    USAF Finally found a way to get rid of the A-10

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    There's a big difference between "capable CAS platform" and "best CAS platform".
    Sure, in a permissive environment, I'd prefer an A-10 overhead. But I'd take an F-35 over nothing. There aren't enough A-10s to provide CAS everywhere, all the time. The F-35 is good enough at it to step into the role when necessary. 

    I’d tell the army to just write off the F-35 and use arty based on what I see.

    There is so much USAF pro F-35 fanboy bad info out there such as “well in a high threat environment only an F-35 would be able to do CAS” spread by inept generals.

    That’s crap. If it’s a high threat environment the F-35 will be doing SEAD until it’s low threat enough to do CAS…at which the F-35 sucks balls with wall to wall beast mode GBU-12s.

    I’d much rather have block 30 vipers and A-10Cs doing the CAS with F-35s in support doing what it was designed to do well…SEAD.

    I don’t want to be anywhere close to the passive AAA/Manpad CAS threat in the F-35. I’d rather stand-off and use sensors and help other survivable platforms hit targets.
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    USAF Finally found a way to get rid of the A-10

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    The F-35 is a capable CAS platform. It might not have the same ability to bring ordnance to the fight as a F-15E or A-10, but 6 bombs per aircraft is more than I ever carried in the Hornet in actual combat. And I'm hitting the same TOTs, and many of our CAT-1s are as well - Plus or minus 5", that I did in the Hornet. 
    Granted, a great deal of that is due to the fact that there is no "Contact the mark ... from the mark West 50 ... Tally Target in 090." Its a lot less busy employing only 12s and 32s vice 82s, 83s, and 84s. 

    Yeah, I’ll need to disagree with you here. IMO the F-35 is sh-t at CAS. Is it the poor CAS weapons choices? Is it the pilot vehicle interface? Is it the community not having a good understanding of CAS?

    It’s all of the above.

    I can’t think of really any CAS scenario I’d rather be in an F-35 vs an A-10 unless the CAS was specifically taking out air defenses which would make it more SEAD.
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    USAF Finally found a way to get rid of the A-10

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    Careful on listening too closely to “experts”. They do things like put B-1s in CAS stacks and say F-35s are just fantastic at CAS.

    I can saying having flown 3 types of A/G fighters, the A-10 is hands down the most suitable to support ground forces.

    That’s only if the pilots are well trained.

    Ukraine probably needs artillery more than anything else.

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    USAF Finally found a way to get rid of the A-10

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    High speed and low altitude, guessing both sides are flying 500 KTAS below 100’ AGL to try to avoid / defeat the threat while using ECM, decoys, countermeasures

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    I haven’t heard how well the Ukrainian AF is doing but there is no better platform for doing all of the above than the hog which can survive the low alt man pad/aaa threat and go low to mask (ie what it was designed to do)

    500+ knots is rarely any more survivable than 325 knots (that’s the real level A/S when loaded down) vs a Mach 3+ missile.

    And at sone point to deliver weapons, the jet needs to unmask again, speed and hot exhaust is not helpful here

    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

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    I was at Nellis last week at a ceremony. Mask nazis out in full force including a fat shoe clerk that went out of her way to complain to management at the class six that I wasn’t masked when I walked in not knowing I needed one.

    Just insane. No mandates at Luke except in med group. If I need to wear a mask to work, I’ll work from home when not flying = pool day like all the shoe clerks during the pandemic.

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    WTF? (**NSFW**)

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    Why does the 24 year old Spirit F/O get to use the known crew member access point, yet DoD pilots entrusted with weapons of war have to battle airport security checkpoints? I’ve gone through four separate concourses in one day, each of which required me to remove my laptop/belt/shoes while some neckbeard harasses the mom of an infant about “excessive” amounts of breast milk in the diaper bag. Thanks Bin Laden. 

    Don’t you have TSA pre check?
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