Danger41

I’ve done several of these major city training ops but every time the hits took place, it was in abandoned buildings or the like. I even got asked if I wanted to play opfor in an abandoned mental hospital out on Long Island at 0200 once. Seeing as how that’s the start of a horror movie, I politely declined. Bill de Blasio also saw me almost get simunitioned and detained on the Staten Island ferry but that’s another story from that trip. Also, if you ever get the chance to do the Hudson River tour VFR in your respective jets, be sure to do it. Awesome experience. Getting terrain warnings off the Freedom Tower is pretty wild.

I’m not going to pitch in on the political left vs right but I don’t know how you could watch that and not think chaos was present.

Much like California being a great place except for alot of the Californians, I see the same thing in the church. There are a ton of Christians that miss the forest for the trees and use certain verses as a cudgel to push shitty ideology. My brother was a drug addict that literally nearly killed me as a baby and would have killed himself if not for our churches youth pastor, pastor, and my dad (no shit talked him off a literal ledge with a gun in his hand). They got him in recovery, helped him along the way, and he became a very successful person. He also relapsed twice and the church family helped him. Conversely, I know families where the parents divorce and they are excommunicated from the church. I don’t want to get into a dogmatic argument about all of that, but that kind of thing does more damage to the church than damn near anything.

I’m honestly more worried about any kind of mental health help for aircrew than the physical stuff (which is also abysmal). There are plenty of guys that could get some mental health* counseling but won’t do it out of fear of permanent DNIF. *Back in the POTFF days when SOCOM was laying for psychs to be in squadrons, we had one and a bunch of guys talked to her. Most of it was marital issue type stuff and not deployment PTSD stuff. Naturally, that’s gone now.

When does that one come out?

Maybe they should implement something so the pigeon types (don’t fly unless you throw rocks at them) don’t get full flight pay? Or if you suck, you don’t get full pay. Encourage people to actually study and get good instead of putting all your time and effort into admin and email forwarding.

No shit there I was immediately following the Soleimani strike when we were expecting a response and the direction for response to the contingency planners from above was “fuck Iran up”. I’m not kidding.

I’ll never understand that willful ignorance. I know it makes me a total try harder but when I worked at the WIC I made sure I learned what satellite was which or what NKE could do what effect (already mastered a computer visrecce). It’s pretty amazing how far something that simple (that takes a max of 30 minutes) goes to helping build a cohesive team.

Lol don’t look at Saudi Arabia’s view on that particular subject.

You’re married too, huh?

Can’t believe I forgot this gem.

Must’ve been one of those UPTski 2.5 VR comrades that got Flankers instead of May’s to Siberia because of diversity, am I right? *high five*

Haha yeah so anyway how about those landings in the U-2?! Pretty crazy huh. And what about if your nose itches in the space suit?

No shit, there I was. Flying on Sunday down to the panhandle up in the mid-20’s and damn near hit a silver party balloon. I could see the ribbon string hanging down and the silver inflated balloon clear as day. I don’t know the physical properties of helium or anything but it was hanging out up in the mid-20’s and -26°C. I couldn’t believe it didn’t pop. I also didn’t t have the 9x uncaged so I missed my chance at glory.

Main benefit is flying the U-2. Can we set a Baseops standard or something when the airline types feel the need to go into the airline pitch about how much money it is, QOL, etc you can just brief that as “standard”? We got it and are all jealous.

Please God don’t leak our group chat.

John Chapman and the Battle of Robert’s Ridge 21 years ago on 3-5 March.

Looking at those videos it seems to me that both are the result of buffoonery on the pilots part. Assuming the animation and radio call timing is accurate (big assumption), UPS 2992 was cleared onto the runway to line up and wait before UPS 2974 is 6 NM away over POWLZ. They’re given a takeoff clearance with instructions, they read them back and are told the aircraft is on 2 mile final aka “move your slow ass” by ATC. After the go around, 2992 is given taxi instructions back to try again and doesn’t read back clearance to cross a runway and 2974 asks what the delayed departure was about. Once again, who knows how accurate the timing is and animations but for a UPS crew, I don’t see how that couldn’t have worked. And the Boston one, the biz jet just takes off with zero comms and clearance (at least that made it in the video) so that’s just extreme buffoonery. I think he was given departure instructions but not takeoff clearance in a call that was omitted from video because he checks in 3.5 climbing 5.0 on a SID. Maybe he just was executing his clearance with zero other calls. I find the animations on this one suspect because it would lead you to believe Jet Blue would’ve straight up landed on the biz jet and went around at 75-100 feet because of ATC direction. I find it hard to believe the deck angle on the 737 is that severe that they couldn’t see that. Additionally, with the weather shown they easily could have seen the runway and the whole airport from FAF. Regardless, buffoonery for sure happened. On the DEI comments, thankfully one diversity hire female made it up to Boston to prevent that crash since the white male pilots couldn’t see it or be bothered to wait to take off when told /s.

1 year from separation (validated) and 2 years from retirement. How they tell the difference…no clue.

Interesting. I’m about as far from working on nukes as it gets, but I find it interesting that it’s MSG and LRS that got the axe. I’d (perhaps ignorantly) assume that would have to do with the ability to deliver missileers to/from or something? It says it’s all classified results, but that just seems odd to me. Once again, well out of my lane so maybe I’m just stupid.

Having sat in a bunch of Ops/MX meetings at Hurlburt, I can see why he drinks.

I guess they figured he already cheated death once. No need to tempt fate with an Osprey ride! (Kidding…kind of).

F-35 ramp strike report released and broken down. Pretty interesting. Spoiler alert…overdid the shit hot break, didn’t have enough power, and similar to the Eglin guy he got caught up with the auto throttle (APC?) thing.

That’s so perfect that the nations leading Mig killer was grounded because his ladder broke and he took a swan dive to the ramp. I bet he got fucked up good falling off Rodan like that.

“That depends” of course but high key is 2000’ AGL and low key is 1000’ AGL so once above those, that’s a better bet. The turn back assumption is you totally lose the motor and don’t have the altitude to attempt a restart. If you’ve got partial power or anything, I’d keep the motor running until it was hurting more than helping. It’s also one of those things where it’ll spit out a number for turn back and the rule is if you lose it below that number, you’re supposed to land straight ahead (or at least in front of 3-9). However, if I’m taking off out of Hurlburt to the north and lose the motor, I’m turning back no matter what instead of going into 100 foot trees. Or if I’m at Cannon, I’ll turn for the crossing runway even below the altitude. Turn back is definitely more of a think about it ahead of time thing than a binary reaction for aborting takeoff.