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17 hours ago, matmacwc said:
My guess is his exec's have seen it and showed it to him.
The question isn't if they showed it to him. They almost certainly did. My question is which passages did they highlight/extract into the BLUF. Those who pare and control content also control the conversation.
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3 hours ago, YoungnDumb said:
Also, they are getting rid of teaching students EP patterns. Basically if the kid has an engine problem they want him to fly home normally, and if it gets bad just eject. So ya...
Standups are going to get a lot easier...
Your engine fails on takeoff---Boldface applies: EJECTION HANDLE - PULL
You have an oil overtemp---Boldface applies: EJECTION HANDLE - PULL
You have a gen fail---Boldface applies: EJECTION HANDLE - PULL
etc...
Or, we could continue to teach airmanship and a PIC mentality.
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4 hours ago, Jaded said:
This guy was also asking how people would feel if students went directly from the T-6 to C-130 units. You know, since they both have propellers.
The one on TPN? The idiocy of that dude's question almost baited me into a response. I really wonder if the people coming up with these ideas are actually pilots.
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4 hours ago, Vertigo said:
I agree. I don't believe the baker should have to sell to a homosexual couple if they choose not to, even though they are a protected class (and 18 year olds aren't).
Both are state by state. In Oregon, age is a protected trait, 18 and up.
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14 hours ago, Smokin said:
Did someone mention filing a lawsuit? That was the first thing I thought of when I heard they were going to put that policy in place. Hope he takes them to the cleaners and scares other companies from entering politics.
The best part is that it's Oregon. Therefore, rulings regarding cake sales should be immediately relevant.
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2 hours ago, HuggyU2 said:
WTF, indeed...
While this message came from the Navy, I wouldn't put it past the AF to do it.
BTW, now that it is 2018, and teletypes are no longer in fashion, can we develop a more readable message format... and avoid typing in all CAPS?
WTF???
I hope someone sends a return message to COMNAVSAFECENSLIPSLOPFLIPFLOPNICKNACKPADDYWHACKGIVEADOGABONE asking them to clarify.
LOTS OF WORDS IN CAPSI read it, but didn't see anything that looked shockingly different than AF fall protection program requirements. What did I miss?
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Interesting choice by Dick's Sporting Goods today (http://pressroom.dicks.com/press-information/media-statements.aspx?camp=sns::20180227). Most of the headlines are focusing on the company's decision to stop selling AR-15s, along with their encouraging an AWB. Not much to see here, as it's totally up to them what they choose to sell.
More interesting to me is their choice to limit sales of firearms to persons 21 and up. I'm no lawyer, but I thought that the CRA limited a business's ability to deny service based on protected traits. In many states, age has been added to that list of protected traits. Obviously, this wouldn't apply to something limited by law (like alcohol sales age, or existing laws on gun sales), but if someone is legally of age to buy a rifle, can a business legally discriminate based on age and deny the sale?
Edit to add, the average age for mass shooters is 34, with the preponderance being white males. Just imagine if their discrimination criteria was "we won't sell guns to whites, males, or people between 30 and 39."
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20 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
40 out 110 AFSOC O-6's hit the eject button, including a few HPOs (at least one a muilt-year BPZ sitting Wing/CC).
Some might see this as a good thing, but that is still a lot of experience walking out the door all at once.
What's changed? Do they know something the average person doesn't? Specifically, are they worried about Gen Webb or Gen Thomas being replaced by someone coming up that has historically exhibited very different leadership priorities?
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Open architecture sells the scorpion for me, but it already seems to be out. I think a-29 would fit the bill well too, better if they adopt open architecture. For the AT-6, after perusing the OBOGS thread, I can't fathom it being considered for combat.
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On 2/15/2018 at 9:26 AM, Weezer said:
Interesting things going on at MHAB...
So, if functions are pulled to A-staff if they support multiple sqs across the wing, why is there still a comm sq instead of straight A6? Barring cyber, doesn't that (and most of the other MSG functions) belong under that umbrella?
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3 hours ago, Champ Kind said:
Pretty sure I remember him self-IDing as a troll last spring sometime.
Yep, dude finally snapped out of the troll identity a few crises ago, made a few value-added posts, then disappeared for awhile.
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2 hours ago, FUSEPLUG said:
Yeahbut...
UPT grad?
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37 minutes ago, mikezulu2016 said:
Seen a fair point on a FB page "if tacking on stripes is now hazing, how long until fini-flight spray downs are considered hazing as well"
It's already in there...
"(7) Subjecting another person to excessive or abusive use of water"
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On 2/7/2018 at 4:12 PM, LookieRookie said:
Boeing says when designing the cockpit it had today’s youth in mind—a generation raised with smartphones and tablets that have few, if any, physical buttons. It has tried to eliminate as many knobs and switches as possible by consolidating them into a virtual touchscreen architecture.
“Brand-new features include the avionics large-area display, the up-front control, and the touchscreen technology,” Boeing T-X Chief Test Pilot Steve Schmidt says. “We’ve really tried to put as much functionality on there as we could and take as many mechanical switches out of the cockpit.”
Sounds exactly like lockheed's brief during the F-35 factory tour I went on 10 years ago. They were bragging that they wanted a 'virtual gear handle' to go with all the other touchscreen tech, but DOD made them put in a real handle so pilots would feel better about it...
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10 hours ago, ThreeHoler said:
Mk.1 eyeball puts the SUAS at roughly 1500-1800 AGL...well into the Class B. Enjoy your fine and possible prison time, Mark Stoney.
Good eyeball. Assuming 3 degree glideslope for the aircraft, along with wingspan and ground features, I have the suas at 1270 Agl.
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If you're a math nerd, you can calculate this idiot's altitude and clearance from the plane based on the geometry of the aircraft and ground features.. To get you started, the plane is on approximately a 3.5 mile final to rwy 25 at KLAS. Cheers.
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On 2/4/2018 at 3:40 AM, nsplayr said:
GMBL would be an epic callsign for an MQ-9 sensor operator...thanks for the tip (sts)!
MQ9 SOs aren't the only community that uses/screws up gimbals.
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Throughout your career, you'll face a number of key choices from which there is no return. I can say with confidence that I have no regrets for any choice I've made that was based on what I love or who I love. The only ones I wish I could take back were ALL centered on 'what will this do for my career?' Follow your passion, and take care of the people that are close to you.
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Go find an officer recruiter. Or a guard unit.
Really, REALLY, just go to OTS. Don't bother enlisting with hopes of maybe getting commissioned later.
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1 hour ago, nsplayr said:
Hahahahahahahahaha...ok, interesting fantasy but it's never gonna happen. The part about her trying to be a Democrat anyways.
Why not? Her dad was until a few years ago.
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On 1/28/2018 at 10:56 AM, viper154 said:
dwell
Companion trainer
Leadership.
Excellent points. My list for sustainability aligns pretty closely, but with some amplifying points, in priority order...
1. Dwell. And it needs to be implemented yesterday. If there were 1000 F-16 pilots and 1000 F-16s, the AF would balk at a COCOM request for 1000 tails. The same should be true for maxing CAPs. Dwell doesn't need to be 2:1 or even 1:1. Make it 1:2 (programmed) like everyone else. Dwell needs to be by squadron. An entire squadron should spend four months preparing to fight a specific 5-6 CAPs for two months, and then hand the fight over to another squadron to prepare again. That's three squadrons sharing each CAP, three 6-CAP squadrons for every 6 CAPs, etc. There are not enough squadrons today to do that, so we should cut CAPs today. If we really need 60+ to survive/win our various wars, build enough squadrons to support that. "Because we're used to that many" isn't sufficient justification.
2. One daddy rabbit. MQ-9s shouldn't be split between two different MAJCOMs with two different priority sets. Having a bit of experience in both, my opinion is that the better strategic alignment for the MQ-9 is the MAJCOM that has the preponderance of other M-designated aircraft. If AFSOC does take over, yes that means Creech should be the third AFSOC base, and it should have all the BOS a normal base gets. Regardless, no major base should be the tenant of a host wing that's over an hour away.
3. Stop managing the manpower, policy, and systems as "RPAs". It's literally the only aircraft that's categorized according to its cockpit design. The only similarity between the MQ-9 and the RQ-4 is that the fly-by-wire goes through a satellite datalink. They are no more similar than a C-17 and F-15 that both have glass cockpits.
4. Companion (alpha) trainers are a great idea, but only during dwell, not combat. We need to be building airmanship for our 18x pilots beyond the 39 hours they get during IFS. I like the Cirrus SR22s the academy uses due to the minimal life support requirement.
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Turns out, the plan is to make flying 'fun'?
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2 hours ago, DTMA0616 said:
I am a student pilot with high hopes of going to TPS!. I have an undergrad in a STEM field and I have an MBA. My intention was to use TA to earn a second Masters in a STEM field to make a more competitive bid for TPS.
I have not looked into AFIT and I don't know much about it. I was hoping to begin working towards this second Masters within the first year or two of completing UPT. Would AFIT be a viable option?
1. Read this. http://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/af_te/publication/afi99-107/afi99-107.pdf
2. Don't sacrifice being the best pilot by splitting your attention on a degree that won't get you closer to your goal. Every iceberg can only hold so many penguins.
3. TPS gives you another masters.
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