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In 50 sorties you flew with 120-140 IPs? How many AT, 88, 89 sorties did you have?

Perhaps I should have further elaborated. There is absolutely value in training via a simulator, and it *could* aid in significant performance improvement in UPT. The caveat is exactly what Pooter is discussing above, it must be used in a focused, methodical manner involving some sort of curriculum. Simply playing around and doing barrel rolls and loops in a VR sim is useless, I watch students do it constantly each day in the squadron. I see students screw around for an hour in the VR sims supposedly rehearing a formation sortie only to royally bomb the sortie the next morning. However when another IP or I sits next to them and talks them through training goals, forces them to set up properly and rehearse, and hold them to performance goals, there is noticed improvement in their performance in the aircraft.

Generally, a waste of money from a training standpoint. Prior to UPT it would have limited value. You may be able to practice maneuvers, but without knowledge of standards and techniques you'll be expected to perform under during UPT, the training is negligible at best, negative at worst. Once you begin UPT you will have nearly unlimited access to exactly this type of set up. At Vance there is a lab in each squadron with multiple VR simulators and each flight room has one of their own. You will be encouraged to use it as much a possible. As far as having one a home, you will be better off just reading the pubs, working out, and getting a good nights sleep.

hope so, I'd love to see an American GC contender at the grand tours, but a 5 stage Oman win is a far cry from 3 weeks of pain in the tour/vuelta/giro. Hopefully Movistar will give him support, the only other name on their squad this year is Enric Mas.

They are both internet blowhards attempting to make a name for themselves by throwing shit on the wall and seeing what sticks, over the bodies of people's friends and loved ones. Jumping the gun, bad guesses, they cover all the bases of poor incident investigation.

If you’re headed to Vance, msg me and I’ll be happy to chat Everyone teaches form.

I've seen a lot of follow-on promises in 13 years...take guesses as to how many actually came true, I'll wait.

Vance still does a Friday winging/grad ceremony. The dinner/banquet has been dead due to covid, there were rumors of it coming back, those have died again.

~100 hours in T-6s, around an additional 40 in the T-1.

at least for fighters, the syllabus is longer, 96 hours in the T-6 versus the 60ish they got in the legacy syllabus plus a full T-38 syllabus

Feedback was first person direct to me, a T-6 ip who trained them, so I could make changes for subsequent classes. Still tiny sample sizes, but so far, they are certainly no worse than what we put through before

FWIW, the first UPT 2.5 class hasn’t even showed at the FTUs yet, the initial T-1 studs just dropped 2 weeks ago, the -38 studs still have several months. Initial feedback from the T-1 and T-38 IPs is that the stick and rudder skills are comparable to legacy syllabus students, but critical thinking/contingency analysis, inflight adaptation are better than they’re used to seeing.

My student yesterday would probably attest that even in upt 2.5, stress is plentiful and raging helmet fires are still very normal, though I’m not sure if he’s landed yet, considering how far behind the plane he was.

There are several, the primary one is next to one of the campsites in west row, was still open when I left 20 days ago

🍺 a toast...

I’ll dissent on the Massifs, they are different, not better. The fabric is good, the sizing And fit is atrocious, I’ll go back to the bag happily. They nailed it on the jackets, but the flight suits are no improvement.

This is it right here. As a Lt, I went to red flag and saw fellow Lts flying fighters be more or less get locked in the vault for 12 hours, my intro to 130s was the sq/cc asking if I had completed my masters yet, and then scolding me because I hadn’t even started it.

Add another 5-10 years at a minimum

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I've got my boat driving license, was worth the cost. I only bled a little.

they were hot as hell every time I went, you just needed to drink a lot more.

So imagining things or being lied to, awesome.

Same PT shirts as everyone else, in the back with the rest of the uniform stuff.

Some poor bastard at Yokota has to take the RPA must fills. At least they'll PCS all the way across the pacific for 6 months before they head to Randolph.