TreeA10

They don't train those guys to exercise judgement. Years ago, I'm going through the crash school at Norton (yes, a long time ago) and I'm out for a run. I've run the perimeter of the base and was heading back to the Q's when a security police car passes me, cuts in front of me, and a dude jumps out with a shotgun and levels it at me. I am armed with a running tank top, shorts, and New Balance shoes. Idiot. I was not detained and allowed to go on my way shortly thereafter. In a heated discussion with the desk sergeant later, I was told somebody stole something from the BX. Lucky them, it I wanted it, it would be on the truck coming Tuesday.

Got an iPad mini w/retina display in an Otterbox. At work, we use an iPad 2 with a RAM mount. The mount will hold the mini. For small plane flying (Garmin Pilot), I strap the Otterbox cover to my kneeboard and then clip the mini over the stap and into the cover.

Haven't stepped foot into the BX in a couple years. I would have a list of things I needed and the BX would not have them but, oddly enough, the items were always allegedly on a truck arriving on next Tuesday.

If that marshmallow Easter bunny replica of the Jonger was a little smaller it would be life size.

After 30 years of flying, a MEL ATP and 12,000 hours a variety of jets large and small, I finally got my SEL in a C-172 via a Commercial Inst check last Saturday. Did the Figure 8 around pylons, chandelle, stalls, short field takeoff/landing, soft field takeoff/landing, power off 180 and normal takeoff/landing. Probably left something off that list. Was it perfect? No, but I passed. The check pilot wasn't expecting perfection, he was expecting safe. Flying small aircraft is dramatically different from the large jets we are used to. If you plan on carrying family and friends, I would highly recommend doing those things that will improve your understanding of how the aircraft performs. It doesn't take much weight or winds to start making large differences in how that thing flies. Adjusting my brain around those ideas took a little time and practice. That, and the fact I'm no longer sitting 15 feet off the ground in the flare.

And we certainly can't let them see the big board!

Who is the most brain damaged, the toe sucker or the woman dumb enough to believe him? https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/Walmart-toe-sucker-sought-786543

If you entered the military in Texas (on your DD214), you may also be eligible for the Hazlewood Act. 150 hours of state tuition that can be transferred to spouse or children.

Tree..

For the non-Jesus Nut crowd, what is this "Trucker Comm" of which you speak?

Women can have Furry February and stop shaving legs, etc.

Camouflage it and label it "Combat Mailbox."

Not sure how I was lucky enough to avoid this ass clown but glad that did. Sucked to be you guys that fell under his reign.

This. I ended up with some ungodly number of emails numbering in the thousands. Strangely enough, the world kept turning, I was still flying, and only some I.T. geek called asking if I wanted to keep my account open because the server was filling up.

"The Dream Machine" by Richard Whittle. Didn't really seem to be pro or con but certainly did cover Bell/Textron push for a tilt rotor since the 60s. Good look at how compromise affects design, i.e. the V-22's size was set by the amphib assault ship deck limits which was set by prior helos, not by best aero performance.

Where in the process do you then add the jalapenos?

I still think the plan is to screw up the healthcare system to such a degree that the government will be the only entity that can wade into the mess and save something resembling healthcare thus creating a single payer system. Those that campaigned for the ACA said we needed to insure everybody yet there is still 15 million uninsured. They also said the current system was unacceptable and substandard yet are willing to delay the implementation for another year. We won a World War in less time and we put a man into space in less time that these guys had to develop a website and system that actually works yet they failed miserably despite the billions of dollars thrown at it. Government at its finest yet we have people who think we need more of it.

This may explain a recent accident at the local municipal airport. After some non-use, a doctor of the surgical persuasion decided he needed to run his Cessna 210, but not fly it, so he saddles up to taxi his airplane around the airport. Somewhere in the process, he departs the prepared surface and flips the plane on its back. Right wing is bent pretty bad, rudder stoved in, nose gear ripped off, and prop/motor trashed. Turns out that he was talking on his cell phone while eating POPCORN (all over the interior after the incident) as he was taxing the plane.

It's a political move to limit the damage from the 2014 elections. Projections were 20 to 60 (depends on whose numbers you use) million losing their healthcare with notices going out in October which would certainly doom some Democratic Senators.

I think this is closely related to tequila goggle theory.

This was sent as an explanation: I heard about this from the rescue guys in Bagram, but they called it something else I can't remember. One of the guys literally put together a powerpoint to explain it. If I remember right it was similar to the stress vs. performance model, but with skank vs attractiveness instead. Drawn out it looked like the top half of a clock, with examples being sister theresa sitting at 9 o'clock being zero attractiveness/zero skank, courtney love sitting at 3 o'clock being zero attractiveness/max skank. The sweet spot for max attractiveness per unit skank was in the 11 to 1 position. I believe Megan Fox held the 12 o'clock position on their particular powerpoint example. Everything below the 3-9 line was like negative attractiveness. I'll have to see if I kept a copy of the powerpoint. Very in depth, WIC level presentation. Pretty funny shit.

Never heard of the skank clock rating. How does that work?

Working at 10AF, I did the TFI SATAF meetings. As we merged the Reserve side closer to the AD, the thought that kept running through my head is that life as a Reservists isn't going to be much different than someone on AD....except you get paid less so who would want to do the job? A reserve unit with AD associate might be okay but not so much the other way around. The AD view of the Reserves was also entertaining. Saw a couple WG/CCs step on their schwantz because of it. Nothing more entertaining than watching ACC send in a 2 Star to tell the 1 Star to shut up and color.

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. - Col. Ripper

If we have 12 hours from bottle to throttle, what would be the time from joint to jet?