08Dawg

Violent agreement. I started with a mini, upgraded to a mini 4, and have run foreflight for almost a decade, and I never looked back. Best setup hands down.

LAF-C O-5 board was in January and sounds like selects were informed today. For LAF-A, that timeline probably means late June to early July for release.

One of my good friends and her husband both work at the NGB. Her husband handles much of the rated management stuff for the Guard. She told me when COVID hit and airline hiring tanked, HAF predicted no airlines would hire any pilot for 3-5 years. They seriously got their bluff called on that one…

For the life of me, I do not understand why it takes 3+ months from the time a board concludes to the time the results are published.

There's been an amusing amount of leftist pearl clutching and reaching for smelling salts over the speed at which the mandate went away. The Vice article I read last night had the headline "the World's Worst People Partied Mid-Flight" (linked here for your reading amusement).

That sure as shit took about 69 seconds to drop, haha. My in-laws were flying home today. OMA-ATL- mask. ATL-JAN- no mask!

Depends on the base. Offutt and Minot are at HPCON-A, no masks required.

TSA extends the public travel mask mandate another two weeks…WTF is the point of that?

And the garrison wings are going to staff these A-staffs with what bodies?

Check your myvector. All my stuff (AMIC, ASPM, etc) shows up there under the experience-training tab with the PDS codes.

Rando question....anybody know how long it usually takes for the "as met" records to show up in PRDA after a board adjourns?

I got to this point when I saw the pictures of the Ukrainian family, including the mother and two children who were trying to flee and were killed by a mortar strike which seems to have intentionally targeted them. I feel a small amount of pity for them being conscripted, but at the same time, events like the one you noted shred any pretense of that and make me wish fully for their destruction.

I think I've given more Q1s with downgrades than I've given clean Q1s, but I've also never given a Q3, and honestly do not see the point of a Q2. That's an evaluator with no guts. Either put your instructor hat on and fix it in the debrief, or have the guts to Q3 them and defend your decision. Had a couple of cases that could've been argued into a Q3 by strictest interpretation of the Vol 2, but in my perspective the benefit of the doubt goes to the evaluatee. So, noted it, gave a downgrade in the appropriate area, debriefed it, and we moved on with life. At the end of the day, even with a downgrade your 942 is going to say Q1.

Rational me says the whole Ghost of Kyiv thing is implausible…but damn does it make for a good story! Just saw another story that the Ukrainian MoD is claiming to have shot down another Il-76. They’re giving the Ruskis all they can handle.

I mean, shutting down #7 for a rando high oil temp is one thing, but them TF-33s don’t usually flame out 😂

This was multiples engines if I recall correctly. Been a minute since that happened!

Every Buff flying today is a 60 or 61 tail. Some are champs. Some, like 60-0059, live to make the lives of crew dogs hell! She’s had flame outs over the Pacific, hydro leaks forcing real world no flap landings…even has her own song, set to the tune of “sweet Caroline”. “Balls 59…wouldn’t fly you if I could”

I really hate how every wing has their little -isms and how that comes back to screw people. I was lucky to get an SDE push on my last OPR, but I remember the one prior (post in-res IDE looks) and the conversation was something like “he’s a major, we don’t need to put an SDE push yet” or something like that.

Probably stay in Omaha, which means a commute to probably MSP or DEN

Probably doesn’t apply to most on this forum, but as a humble navigator CFIing my ass off and eighteen months from ATP mins…. …..best regional in your collective opinions? Looking mostly at SkyWest and Endeavor at this point.

What an enlightened response….

Ah, yes, the consumption memorandum! Some traditions are still alive. New Buff crew dogs are still being spoofed on their generations with this!

I’m guess I’m just a knuckle dragger, but can someone break down why this is a good thing? Feels like change for changes sake.

I’d like to think after bungling it spectacularly last year, they’ll course correct back to something more like the FY19 bonus….but that implies intelligence and caring on the AF’s part.