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Whiting had an inadvertent T-6B shutdown a few months ago when the PIT stud moved the PCL abruptly to idle during an OCF (out of control flight) recovery drill and he had NOT raised the cutoff. One of the pins that was supposed to prevent the PCL from moving too far aft wasn't seated properly and let the PCL move past IDLE to OFF. They were able to reproduce the failure on the ground after the flight. Though their restart went better than this guy's, so nobody really heard about it. There's talk about a fix here, too, but no real progress that I've seen.

I'll be shocked if that DOESN'T happen.

More problems. There are fewer available IPs because however-many are over at the FITU (aka PIT) doing their transition training. Then there are simply fewer T-6s. And the maintenance contracts are different between the 34s and 6s, so they can't share any of their stuff. I heard even their GPUs can't be shared. On the upside, I have been seeing lots of new faces on the line, so Sikorsky must be hiring T-6 maintainers or at least transitioning their -34 guys over. The Whiting airspace was built around the capabilities of the T-34. It's unpressurized, not overpowered, not all that fast, spins down low, rarely flies above 10K' because they don't want to wear a mask, etc. Now they're having to transition to a high MOA structure and it's causing all kinds of problems. Some of the airfields used by the T-34 are even unusable for the T-6 because they're too short (no beta in the T-6). This has led to overcrowding in the practice areas and in the patterns. I think the T-34s had something like 5-6 pattern airfields. The T-6 has 2-3. I took my student to the backup to the backup airfield last week for patterns because the normal areas were full. We completed the event, but it wasn't great training, especially for a pre-solo student. On the other hand, if he'd been flying a double turn that day, we'd have gone to Bay Minette and you wouldn't be hearing me gripe. If one day Whiting was all -34s and the next day it was all -6s, it'd be much easier. They could just move to a few segmented MOAs and no worries. But trying to accommodate two very different airframes doing the same syllabus in the same airspace is difficult. Local leadership is aware of the issues (CNATRA leadership is a different story), and they'll all work out, but it's painful in the meantime. Oh, I forgot. They're sending some AF students to the T-34 squadrons during all of this to keep them moving through the pipeline, so you may or may not even fly the T-6.

Does Corpus have "Review Stage" still? T-1s oughta pick that up. Single engine LOC BC to a no-heading NDB hold to a no-gyro ILS.

Seems to be legit this time. An IP who just left Corpus said the AF IPs were getting 2 year orders when he left. And the O-5s at Whiting just briefed the AF studs here that they can track 44s, but they'll be one of the last classes to have the option.

Short tours are more beneficial to the member, so they're more difficult to get. The names seem backwards for that case, but shorts are usually shorter than longs.

300 in 18 months. 548 in 3 years. Must be overseas of course. I got mine for non-consecutive TDYs with no hassle whatsoever from MPF. Table 3.5 of AFI 36-2110 is what you're looking for.

All I've heard from guys that have done the CAFTT gig is that 99% of the Iraqi students have no business in anything faster or more capable than a Caravan. But hey, if they want to spend money on American exports, then by all means, buy a million!

https://vortex.plymou...sa_parse-u.html edit: DFRESH's link is more direct link to radar than what I posted.

I think you're right. This picture was obviously taken on leave. I shave before I put on a uniform.

One of our flight docs (who's an AME, too) just emailed us and told us to do just that - carry a 1042 in lieu of a medical. I don't know if that came to her through official channels or not, but I think that's what everyone expected to do.

Anything you've listed is a solid backpack rifle. But don't overlook an 18" 870 with Brenneke slugs. edit: Plus with a 12ga, you can load everything from dove shot to 3" slugs.

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Make sure you wear your poopy suit the entire crossing. It's required by the Vol 3.

The contrast in the way they fought war then and the way we do now has always amazed me. Bomb Germany or Paris and lose crews/aircraft by day, go to a movie or club in downtown London at night. In some ways his entries sound similar to how mine would sound if I kept a journal (brief, fly, land, sleep, do it again). But then he writes about how the Germans jammed their navaids to lure them into fighter traps and the similarities quickly vanish.

?? How does a plane with at least 4 radios lose control of all of them? Are they all routed through one computer/bus?

It gets substantial after a few years. ($600-800+/month)

Sounds like you need to volunteer for the UAVs, then. You could fly a brand new airplane, never emergency ground egress, never get shot at, never leave home, and STILL get flight pay. It'd be perfect, right?

BAM, BASH, and AHAS (links on the BaseOps homepage). One source is based on historic data and one is based on real time observations and radar. And bases have their own "Bird Watch Conditions" usually. Local regs determine what you can and can't do under different levels of bird activity. From ops normal to suspended ops. I think I remember that Little Rock made you fly higher on low-levels during certain bird conditions. I haven't seen any Falcon View integration, but it might be out there. It is integrated into a far more powerful program, however - Google Earth.

Definitely a 22. Marlin 60 is a good choice. Ruger 10/22 also a crowd favorite. The 10/22 will be more upgradeable in the future, if that matters. Marlin has other 22s, also - bolts and mag-fed. The tube mag on the 60 is alright, but a pain if you want to do Appleseed or similar shooting. If you want a little higher end, look at the Kimbers and Anschütz from CMP. https://www.thecmp.org/22targetsurplus.htm https://www.thecmp.org/22targetcommercial.htm

This is gonna get ugly.

It's whatever is allowed by the state. At Big Bend, it'd be concealed only because TX doesn't allow open. In the Wyoming part of Yellowstone, you could open carry.

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I'd be for it. Speaking of - I tried to PM you and it said you couldn't receive them so I emailed you through the forum form instead.

What I saw @ Elmo was hunting stuff for the long guns, a few revolvers, and the normal Glocks, XDs, tupperware pistols. They had a couple unique muzzleloaders (that aren't even firearms, but that's a different story altogether). I think AAFES charged a 5% surcharge, which effectively made their prices higher than off-base, where it's tax free anyway. Go check out Wild West and the other unique stores up there. If you go to Wild West, ignore the guy they call Ken. He's a real piece of work. Either way, skip the BX.