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    T-6s Grounded; More OBOGS Issues

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    And the stories of FAIPs yelling at SQ/CCs during all calls, demanding the WG/CC contact POTUS to resolve this... does the T-6 situation warrant the level of unprofessionalism we're hearing about?


    That’s overboard. I haven’t seen that in my neck of the T-6 woods and if so that’s insane.

    The biggest issue is all the risk leadership has signed off on our behalf. Half of our fleets ejections systems don’t function properly. We have a known issue with instruments flying to fail and filling our cockpit with smoke and fumes. Oh, and we have no way of knowing when this will happen. Our CFS may or may not work, and heaven forbid we get damage to the canopy and pass out. The fire crew is going to chipping for a while because we no longer have an exterior CFS handle. Our oxygen system isn’t working as advertised, and they are going to cap us at 8k cabin altitude. Cool I can live with that. But our pressurization system isn’t the greatest after being left in the cold and not flying for a prolonged amount of time.

    What could possibly go wrong? People are upset about the amount of risk being accepted for them. And the pressure to keep progressing the timeline. We’ll also see what these mods do to the syllabus. And if we are altitude capped we lose half of our training ability. It’s a lot of crap piled into one aircraft. I haven’t seen this level of risk acceptance to an aircrafts core functions in my career. But I could be wrong.
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    T-6s Grounded; More OBOGS Issues

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    There I was, in the shit, as a UPT student. End of story.
    I am just reading a lot of complaints about an issue that seems pretty minor. Plenty of other airplanes out there fly pressurized without the required wear of a mask for the purpose of supplemental oxygen. I hear plenty of stories about guys flying with their mask down in the T-6...why now is there an uproar? If you wear your mask for CFS protection and that’s the sole reason, there’s a fix for that. 
    There are a ton of risky things involved with aviation but breathing cockpit air with an emergency oxygen reserve just doesn’t seem to be one of those to me. 


    Sounds like we have a volunteer to fly the T-6 in its current configuration. He ain’t scared of no CFS burns to the face or high altitude ejections with no O2. He doesn’t mind breathing in acrid smoke and fumes. Dude I’m sure we could get you orders soon and we need the help.

    Sack up. Great line by the way. You sure you’re not leadership?
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    T-6s Grounded; More OBOGS Issues

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    I particularly enjoy the fact that they are 100% claiming cockpit air is good with a extreme small sample size, especially when you take in consideration the incident rate of the obogs issues.   No one is reassured with a handful of flights that say its good to go.  That article is worthless and the testing was pushed forward just for its release.


    Add in issues with our EADI and EHSI flying to fail and causing massive smoke and fumes in the cockpit and the fact that our CFIS may not work and you have yourselves a winning combination. What could possibly go wrong with breathing ambient air?

    T-6s Grounded; More OBOGS Issues

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    https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/02/23/air-forces-grounded-t-6-trainers-could-fly-again-next-week/
    Do I read this correctly? They are starting to fly the T-6 again on Monday but you won't use your mask, instead the plan is to breath cockpit air at low enough altitudes?  Any push back from the guys actually flying this plan?
     


    What we are hearing is sometime next week limited flying will begin. At my base we may only have 6-9 aircraft that pass inspection with the new tcto. Each base sent a smattering of pilots down to rnd for training and flying the t-6 with the new “configiration.” They will return to teach us how to fly breathing ambient air, then the ct train will start.

    I’ll believe it when I see it. Sounds like another shit sandwich the Air Force is trying to shove down our throats in order to progress the timeline and help that pilot shortage!

    F-16 Students skip Phase III

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    Too old, the AF want's youngin"s so it can project a long term outlook.  Senior Captains going through a basic fighter course would be expensive and thy would only get 3-5 years out of them before commitment is up.  The other elephant in the rooms is the AF knows who got the MC-12's (I assume you are referencing) out of SUPT, not the top grads.

    I get the point in we are too old. Assuming we all came from the bottom of our class isn’t correct though. It was definitely a mixed bag especially initially when they started sending dudes UPT direct to the MC12. Either way the Air Force has a problem it will fix in different ways or it doesn’t and we get stupid ideas like 45 hours in a T-6 direct to the viper. Not trying to start a pissing contest just pointing out some hypocrisy in the system.

    Cheers!

    F-16 Students skip Phase III

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    What I find so weird in all this is that the Aircrew Crisis Taskforce's solution to experienced dudes leaving is to shove more shit in the intake end of the process?  Increasing brand new inexperienced pilots is the solution?  Isn't there an absorption problem right now where there aren't enough training slots for current grads and they are waiting a long time to train in many airframes?  I also just read that experience levels are plummeting in many squadrons.  So now we're going to just create more inexperience pilots, with less initial training.  Sounds like a logical solution. 


    Funny they missed an opportunity for 55 dudes and dudettes who have T-38 training and deployed operational experience with 1500-2000 hours of flight time to help fill the experience gap and they stowed a majority of them away in the 11R community.

    Something tells me the Air Force doesn’t really want to solve this problem they have created.

    F-16 Students skip Phase III

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    Not a single line IP should say the word time line. That's for DOs/CCs to argue about, maybe. If the line IPs aren't holding the standard,  we're all ed. There's a bar, either hold people to it or go get some remedial training on being an IP.


    The problem with this is when we hold the standards on the students and send them to a board, we are told somehow we screwed their training away due to some asinine numbers problem, and boom. Dude that couldn’t cut it and had multiple 88 and 89 rides is back in UPT feeling untouchable. The flight commanders and line IPs on my side of AETC have been neutered which brings the thought process of “I’ll pass him because it doesn’t matter what I do, he’ll progress through upt anyway.”

    It’s a shame and the student and product suffer in the end.

    T-38 Down @ DLF

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    I knew him in field training and ran into him again during pilot training. What a great dude. Made field training a riot, and great support for a dude trying to figure out the transition from navy 34s to the 38. Very sad day in the aviation industry. He will truly be missed.

    Him him.

    U-2 Dragonlady info

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    I recall back in 2005 or '06 when PBD 720 was going to retire the U-2, starting in '07, and with the last U-2 gone in '11.  

    Uh huh. Yeah.  


    I said it back then: "The last U-2 pilot hasn't finished elementary school".  


    Oh... just so you know, it's now official:  
    https://dragonladytoday.com/forum-3/
     

     




    Best news I've heard in a while. Hoping for an opportunity to interview soon!


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    Changing/Switching airframes

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    Sorry bro, that sucks. But you should be aware of how the AF got itself in this bind in the first place. No amount of MC-12 bubbas is going to fix shit.


    100% agreed. They screwed the pooch a by shutting down the fighter pipeline for 3-4 years and are now paying the consequences. It just baffles me their logic in this whole debacle the AF has created for itself and how the right hand isn't talking to the left.

    AFPC doing one thing leadership saying something completely different. AF standard right?


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    Changing/Switching airframes

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    At my base they are personally going around to each of us that we're T-38 to MAF guys and asking us if we were interested.

    UFB. Answer is in front of their face and they refuse to see it. This is why I hate the Air Force sometimes. I'm an open volunteer (and I'm not the only one!) but because I'm an MC-12 dude...no dice. I don't get it.

    Track Selects and Assignment Nights

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    Ya, and what are they going to do with late Captains that only have MC-12 and T-38 IP time when they get done with the UPT gig?

    Not a rhetorical question. Can they (if they even want to by then) go to IFF or should they expect ISR/Heavy/RPAs?

    We are hearing rumors it is possible to get an 11F gig. Talked with the AETC/CC last week and he said they are looking at all the MC-12 dudes in AETC that were 38 trained and seeing if it makes sense to send them through IFF. That's one of the "levers they are pulling" (sts) right now.

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