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2 hours ago, Hacker said:
Basically, a man incapable of actually seeing the bigger picture due to his enjoyment of smelling his own blue-tinged farts.
That is a great line there Hacker! Made me laugh out loud.
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1 hour ago, Mark1 said:
When you can show a meaningful relationship between the two with p-values and confidence intervals, let me know.
The what?
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Saw this today on Aviation Week...
NASA Finds Boeing Showed ‘No Initiative’ To Fix F/A-18 Hypoxia
Aviation Week & Space TechnologyIn a little-noticed addendum to NASA’s report on the unexplained physiological episodes plaguing U.S. Navy F/A-18 pilots, the agency concluded that Boeing, the manufacturer, showed “no initiative” to fix the problem. But Boeing is pushing back, arguing that it has long been a “proactive partner” in the Navy’s efforts to mitigate the harrowing cockpit events.
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4 hours ago, FourFans130 said:
Depends: is he a HPO?
So true
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1 hour ago, BashiChuni said:
I don’t know if the airlines were facing the same mandatory retirement numbers for the next 10+ years in 1999.....
maybe they were. Old timers?
Valid point. But at Delta at least, we have been steadily hiring WAY more per year than even our peak year will see in retirements.
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3 hours ago, joe1234 said:
True, but having a low seniority number at a legacy airline makes life much easier too. Every time I see a guy break down the math of staying vs. going, they always come out much farther ahead by getting out ASAP.
Like investing, you go with the risk you can tolerate.
Seniority is everything at an airline as long as you are actually working. I remember a bunch of guys back in the late 90's crunching the numbers in the squadron and the math then, like now, clearly said GET OUT NOW!!! Many did, most were promptly hired, almost all were quickly furloughed, and were then begging for a job. At any time, anything can happen to dramatically change the landscape. In 1998, you COULD NOT LOSE by going to an airline! The math ALWAYS came out ahead by getting out ASAP...until there wasn't a job.
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2 hours ago, Azimuth said:
Such bullshit that this article was even written or that charges were filed. The alleged victim, who made the allegations, is his soon to be ex-wife who, until a couple days ago, was fighting a losing battle for custody. Sad and disgusting that a dude's name is dragged through the mud before any of the facts of the case come to light.
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3 hours ago, Orbit said:
Someone just posted to TPN that JetBlue is giving out free airfare to military members wanting to travel to PR for the service.
That is awesome. Well done JetBlue.
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7 hours ago, Blue said:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-post-iii-8922ab127/
As of Sept 2017, he's a "Senior Adviser" to BGI LLC.
Guess the calls from Lockheed and Boeing never came.
BGI does a ton of F-35 sim acceptance and development work. Probably not a bad gig as far as Defense Industrial Complex jobs go..
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21 minutes ago, matmacwc said:
Every intention of leaving it, but stringing the job along until after training.
Gotcha
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9 minutes ago, matmacwc said:
Good one, but no. If you have the leave time I don’t see the problem.
You're talking about a dude with a full time ART job taking an airline job with no intention of leaving the full time ART job?
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2 hours ago, Buddy Spike said:
While I agree with just about everything else you said, this is a hard no.
Pretty sure he's not suggesting you SHOULD do that, he's saying you shouldn't be worried about what would happen if it did. If you know you're cheating and a conversation between the airline and the unit would expose said cheating, you probably shouldn't be doing it.
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8 hours ago, Springer said:
Ummmm, I did a 170kt break this afternoon in my RV which was paid for by my job flying 136kt ILS finals.
Curious...did you build it or buy it already built?
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7 hours ago, Ram said:
I feel bad for whoever gets fragged for this SIB. Not only do they lose a month+ of flying, but they have to listen to Raptor dudes refer to their jet in the 3rd person. ("And then, Raptor did....")
Hilarious, because it's true!
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28 minutes ago, nunya said:
If pilots did more of that and less of everything else, they wouldn't be stampeding the exit door for a job flying 136kt ILS finals.
Truth
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3 hours ago, SocialD said:
I don't believe there is anything wrong with having another job, as long as it's OK'd by the boss. Did any of those officers go into their other jobs with full intention of NOT working there after they get on property? IMHO (which isn't worth much), it seems like an abuse of a law that is meant to protect us when we have to drill, go TDY, deploy or even fill a vital role in the squadron that pops up down the road.
WRT to something legal vs unethical. Watched this happen... Dude doesn't pre-post MLOA and gets assigned a 6-day coverage trip (means he didn't want it but got it because he's junior) that spans Christmas eve/day. Due to manning he is unable to drop the trip. He then uses one day of MLOA on the first day of the trip to drop it. He immediately picks up a highly lucrative trip that started on day 2 of the original trip. This trip gets him back home Christmas eve morning. I'm sure he will go do some mil duty at the base, but to use MLOA to get a holidays off is a bit unethical, though totally legal.
You are correct, many O's have picked up part time jobs or run a side business. Only caveat is that your other job can't interfere with your military duties and the JAG usually has to review it to be sure you're not creating some kind of conflict of interest. For example, working for a defense contractor part time with duties that overlap with your AD job. You certainly can't work a FULL TIME civilian job while on FULL TIME active duty orders, I'm sure we're all in agreement on that.
USERRA was not written with the expectation that 'the troops' would use it to game the system, cheat their companies, and massage their schedules. But that's exactly what some have decided to do. And if anyone is asking why it bothers me/us, here's why...when a dude pulls a bullshit move like SocialD described above over Christmas (definitely happens), what do you think happens to that trip that spanned Christmas? That's right, someone else without the USERRA get out of jail free card gets shacked with the trip and misses Christmas when they otherwise would have been home. It's always amazing to me how much home station military duty (and on an unrelated note, ALPA work) happens over Christmas driving so much MLOA. I seem to remember the base being a ghost town...
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22 hours ago, VMFA187 said:
Picked up my DD-214 this morning.
Congrats! What's your plan?
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55 minutes ago, HuggyU2 said:
A few years ago, a Raptor landed gear up when the pilot neglected to lower the gear.
Do do any of you know if that pilot flew again in the USAF?
Yep, he did. Touch and go gone wrong. Reserve O-4 or O-5, sat for a while but went on to finish the TX then off to his Reserve unit.
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Saw this on FB...have heard the pictures are legit but no other info...
whatever the cause, it's going to be pricey!
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2 hours ago, Guardian said:
Is it illegal? Reference?
So.....you're asking (for your friend) if it's ok to be full time active duty military (which is what an AGR is doing), without any intention of stopping full time military service, while starting employment at an airline under the auspices of going to work for them by taking some of your leave, only to leave the airline once your seniority number is secured? All by using USERRA protections to screw the company without ever leaving or intending to leave full time active duty service in the military?
How on God's green earth does someone think this could possibly be OK?
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Interesting tid bit from the GAO report:
"Air Force officials added that during that period, Air Force fighter pilot gaps were generally limited to non-operational positions, such as staff assignments at Air Force headquarters or combatant commands. However, our analysis found that the Air Force has been unable to fully staff operational positions since fiscal year 2014."
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10 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
Also, over the past four years over 1/3 of the USAF's Fighter Pilots have elected to leave the service.
Did you read that to mean 1/3 of those eligible to separate or retire actually did, or 1/3 of the total fighter pilot population left? I could't find the data on that...
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1 hour ago, tk1313 said:
Don't care what side you're on... I challenge anyone to read the above article and tell me who/what is to blame for the Parkland shooting. Plenty of people say "this tragedy could have been avoided!" then go on to let out some long-winded political screeching that has nothing to do with actually preventing this from happening again.
OK, I accept your challenge. Nikolas Cruz is to blame. But the FBI, Broward County Sherrif, and Florida Department of Children and Families have blood on their hands in this. Their failures in light of overwhelming and repeated evidence of threats of him shooting up a school are pretty clearly spelled out in that article.
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1 hour ago, HeloDude said:
Because this didn't happen before the early/mid 90s...
And the AF also didn't bring in quite a few Army RW pilots in the 90s that ended up doing just fine.
That’s what I was thinking too. I thought a pure helo UPT was the norm prior to about ‘95.
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What a bullshit statement. Execution rate? GMAFB.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2017/
Summary:
Unarmed White Men killed by police: 24 (2017) and 17 (2018)
Unarmed Black Men killed by police: 19 (2017) and 12 (2018)
Yes, there are more White Men in the population than Black Men. But to draw some type of tyrannical conclusion that the 700,000+ police officers in the country are on some kind of black citizen "Execution" spree with 19 unarmed black deaths compared to 24 unarmed white deaths is just ridiculous.