Sprkt69
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Is there even one program that Boeing isn’t screwing up? It’s an honest question as I cannot think of one between all known military and civilian programs.
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On 3/27/2022 at 8:22 PM, ViperMan said:
For real? Sorry, did I miss the major news story that China has invaded a sovereign country (unprovokedly) and is shelling civilians in a criminal manner? I get China ain't our friend, but this comparison exemplifies "specious." Call me when China starts dropping cluster munitions in Taipai...I'll get on board with your theme.
Yes, for real. I’d recommend paying more attention to what China has been doing over the last 20 years.
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1 hour ago, ViperMan said:To legitimize Putin and his ilk by dealing with him and in doing so tacitly approve of his actions? That'll just engender even worse.
You mean like how everyone deals with China?
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There are not enough applicants for the airlines to hire over the next couple of years. Already desired number of new hires is being lowered to meet applicant pools
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33 minutes ago, pawnman said:
I'm baffled. How, after 20 years of doing the training, organizing, and equipping for them, did we not know their capabilities?
The cynic in me believes we knew their capabilities, and each level of leadership painted an unrealistic picture to show "progress" while they were in charge.
More like each level of leadership wanted to show how successful they were by increasing something by X% on their next performance report. Gotta make rank you know.
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6 hours ago, teaser said:
Wait until the Bob's realize how many pilots are going to be required to conduct Over The Horizon missions. I have a feeling they are already regretting the recently reduced bonus amounts.
I doubt it
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39 minutes ago, BashiChuni said:
I’d like to see us move away from a Q-3 risk adverse flying culture.
Better way to teach lessons than just slap Q-3’s on aircrew for every incorrect decision.
It builds a mindset and culture that is afraid of failure and afraid to take risks in combat.
You say that like management isn’t already trying to develop better comms so they can speak, I mean direct you while you are in combat.
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5 hours ago, ViperMan said:
We're currently pushing it to the CAF...
Also true. Hence the Class A rates
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47 minutes ago, Swizzle said:
Drop on request vs. Self Initiated Elim, same right?
Failing/washing out another matter, ref. rated aircrew is voluntary duty going in...presently...until draft
It seems failing/washing out has been pushed to the FTUs
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10 hours ago, di1630 said:
FTU so yes I’m seeing the direct result of training.And not the slightly above well below average UPT graduates. Don’t kid yourself
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Can’t fly a non-combat dangerous mission if you can’t get the jet to taxi
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22 hours ago, jazzdude said:
The retention of flying experience is in the ARC. AD needs pilots to fill staffs. So as long as people punch out of AD and go to the ARC as at least a TR, the total force stays okay experience-wise for flying ops. Where it gets hurt is losing good pilots on AD staff to guide the AF, in planning/requirements/acquisitions/policy/etc.
The lack of experience in the CAF is also getting people killed, losing pilot and machine in the process.
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3 hours ago, jazzdude said:
You can do that, but there are consequences...
AFI 36-2501
2.10.3.2. An officer who causes his/her non-selection through communication to a selection board is not entitled to involuntary separation pay.Small price for freedom
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18 hours ago, FLEA said:Anyway my overarching point is HAF/A1 rarely makes decisions that make any sense. Whether 11Rs are offered a VSP or not, I'm certain we are all going to be left jaw dropped wondering "why?"
From a friend at HAF, pilots are also planned to be cut in the VSP/RIF as they are “nothing special”
The good news is that the airlines are starting to hire again
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I have not heard of anyone that has really enjoyed staff under Gen Wills. Seems if you disagree with him, you will only suffer more
Just ask the dude who connected an increase in class A’s to a lack of training/experience
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33 minutes ago, jazzdude said:
This assumes that people can voluntarily isolate at home if they feel at risk.
A good portion of our country lives paycheck to paycheck, so their choice is to quarantine and lose their job (assuming the vaccine is immediately available to them, it still takes 6+ weeks to develop immunity), or go to work and put themselves at risk.
That's not a real choice. It's a choice between fulfilling immediate needs (food and shelter) or expose themselves to risks they cannot control (where there's people they have to interact with who don't care to mitigate the risks).
Taiwan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Australia to name a few countries all seem to be doing well with aggressive measures and showing they work in practice, if you actually enforce those measures and people comply with the measures. Contrast this with the US lockdowns being "there's a lockdown in effect, so don't go out unless you absolutely have to, or if you want to, or whatever. It's not actually going to be enforced" and then being surprised when the lockdown doesn't have a huge effect in our cities.
The other practical evidence masks and isolation/quarantine works is that there hasn't been an explosion of covid cases originating from hospitals. So hospital staff wearing masks (and I'll grant you that the higher risk staff in close contact are likely using n95 masks), segregating Covid patients from other patients, and limiting access helps significantly slow the spread within hospitals.
Along similar lines, the other piece missing from just pointing at mask mandates and Covid cases is what the actual compliance is.
I'd rather kill business than people. Businesses will eventually come back once we get through this. Look at any other major natural disaster (hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes): communities rebuild, and businesses rebuild after completely being destroyed. If we take care of our people, they can rebuild their businesses and our economy.
And are lockdowns killing people? Or is it our country's lack of safety net and ability to respond adequately to a pandemic?
Do the pandemic restrictions suck? Yeah, absolutely. But it's still not as bad as any deployment I've been on. Does wearing a mask suck? Kinda, but I think wearing my David Clark headset over a 16-24 hour FDP sucks worse.I think you underestimating the problems that many small businesses are in.
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On 12/31/2020 at 8:38 AM, Breckey said:
1. Yes a lot of politics
2. Kirtland is far better. There really aren’t any training areas or ranges near Maxwell that will further reduce the training quality. The only thing that Maxwell has is a little used runway.
This further reduces the number of good assignments for the “Huey” as Yokota is most likely going away as well.
Ft Ruck is pretty close. Maybe Elgin too?
if you take one of the mouths to feed from Kirtland, doesn’t that mean more range time for the 60/22/130 crews? Maybe get them back toward timeline?
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2 hours ago, Breckey said:
The MH-139 FTU is going to the 908th at Maxwell as an active associate. It's needed too because a legacy Herk unit has no idea what to do with a helicopter. It makes almost zero sense.
Word is lots of politics and the fact that Kirtland is not amazing.
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15 hours ago, HuggyU2 said:
Well that's the problem, now isn't it?
Easy now, slackline may try to hijack the thread again
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6 hours ago, di1630 said:
I did a lot of night overheads and 15 degree night SFO’s were standard when I was on exchange in Europe. As were night form t/o and landings.
I imagine USAF quit in the 80’s or so. Just a guess.
UPT based do night overheads to get pattern reps but the IP flies the pattern and SP gets the jet on final,
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile appNight overheads still alive in some parts of the USAF
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32 minutes ago, Bender said:
I’m quite sure everyone is told at some stage to lower the seat to the point it’s above your head...whether they listen or not is a different answer.
~Bendy
Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile appSome of us are not short, so lowering the seat more was never an option.
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1 hour ago, Vandy01 said:
I flew the t-45C about 15 years ago... I don’t recall that discussion.
Currently flying the F-35A... and no- no discussion on a manual TRS pull prior to controlled ejection. I don’t know that it would change anything.
In both aircraft, they have canopy breakers on the seat as well... just like the other 4th gen “normal” jets I’ve flown.
Is the canopy breaker shorter than many pilot’s helmets?
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20 hours ago, uhhello said:
Yes. In my flying career I have been briefed on multiple sister service safety investigations reports.
Including all privileged information?
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6 hours ago, uhhello said:
They are available through the safety channels.
So the Safety Center told me something incorrect?
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Don’t forget 787 production problems. No 787 has been delivered in like a year or so