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    UPT Segregation

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    16 hours ago, elvis said:

    This is the first of I've heard/seen people coming to DLF from UPT Next. It's also the first I've even heard of anyone washing out of Next. My class is the one right behind the "innovation flight" where they're testing UPT 2.5 and we already have 2 people who got washed back. The students are not a fan of it at all. 

    What are they not liking about the program? 

    F-15X on the Air Force's Budget Request

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    3 hours ago, di1630 said:

    Damn I love the BFM arguing.

    I find it’s completely contingent on what you grew up doing and how much importance was placed on it. Viper pilots seem to place the most emphasis on it. I always retort:

    Why do fat girls give good head? Because they have to.

    Why do vipers practice so much BFM?


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    So that is why you like riding Fat Amy...makes sense now

    UPT Next

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    20 minutes ago, brabus said:How many hours are pilots/WSOs coming out of F-15E B-course with? Curious how it compares to the F-16/F-35, as those jets are both AETC vs. ACC, and as close a comparison as possible regarding breadth of mission sets.
     

    Hypothesis: ACC knows fighter business better, so why is AETC sticking its hands in the fighter pie with 2 of the 6 fighter MDS. 

    I think it is fairly obvious from the new CSAF, all of management want the numbers to look good regardless of how many jets are crashed. All objections to the master plan have been deemed “not a team player”

    UPT Next

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    51 minutes ago, FLEA said:

    I hate knowing this but I think this is a battle we (pilots) are going to lose. 

    Of course. We will be the ones that shed blood for the decisions of management.

    F-15X on the Air Force's Budget Request

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    18 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:


    And cocaine is a helluva drug but go pills aren’t the Limitless pill that make you unstoppable

    Yes but with new toys requiring minding during the fight and fighting an opponent likely 69 times more capable than the last enemy we fought who had capabilities to oppose us and pose a realistic threat(s)

    Give the 4+ gens LO loyal wingmen controlled by the WSOa while the pilots fly the Eagles as 4+ gens, each crew in each Eagle is effectively now a mixed force two ship leveraging the relative strengths of each platform

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    Your inspirational suggestion on the tactical usage of loyal wingman may be highly unlikely. I’d bank on updated avionics and AI still making WSOs obsolete in that fight.

    Besides, I’m guessing real fighter pilots would rather have extra fuel and a lack of intercom noise. 

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    F-15X on the Air Force's Budget Request

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    11 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:

    Somewhat counter intuitive I admit but if this platform takes on a quarterback role, not necessarily but just envisioning it to, I think flying & fighting the platform itself, directing the wingmen, keeping the full tactical picture and defending the HVAAs, again assuming it would be DCA tasked as LOs went forward, would be a lot for anyone not to mention the comm piece.

    So basically what happens already

    UPT Next

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    1 hour ago, Seriously said:

    Primacy of learning is a concept Air Force leadership does not grasp. Learning to do something correctly the first time by getting the right quality and quantity of training is far more efficient than guys trying to relearn basic pilot shit in the midst of 5-10 years of upgrade training (MQT, FLUG/AC, IPUG, Msn Commander, Weapons School, SEFE, etc.).

    Are you trying to say the CAF should not have to teach the basics because it should already be known? 

    UPT Next

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    7 minutes ago, Homestar said:

    That’s fair. But every time I hear Gen Wills speak he knows that you can’t replace time in the seat. But I think the pilot shortage is a strategic problem that could render the AF ineffective against a peer threat. Which is the greater problem?

    I’m not smart on the ins and outs of teaching methods used by PTN but if there’s a better way to instruct than what we’re doing I would love to find it. 
     

    I’m not convinced that mishap trends today are a result of 20 fewer hours in UPT. I definitely think the AF should research it tho. 

    Crashing too many jets will also render the AF ineffective 

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    UPT Next

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    55 minutes ago, Magnum said:

    How about we keep the number of rides in UPT / FTU and use tech to make a much better product in the same amount of time? What if...


    - Studs entered the turn circle correctly the first time they flew it because they flew it with VR 69 times before BFM-1?

    - Studs knew where to put their jet in ACM on the first try everytime because VR showed them where to go?

    - Studs learned a solid cross-check with the help of VR to free up time for more tactical tasks?

    The things we could push them to in the FTU and UPT while still giving them plenty of rides to make dumb decisions that scare they to death with the safety net of an IP.  We might be able to rationalize all the second assessment FTU IPs when their abilities are that much better... Nevermind the fact that we become a superior fighting force.

     

    You mean put less onus on the CAF IP? Pshhhh, Big Blue will have none of that

    What's wrong with the Air Force?

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    5 hours ago, Prosuper said:

    How do toxic senior E's get empowered? Who gives them a Senior Rater Endorsement? It's not from a old MSgt who just got told that all you do is your job and you deploy too much, I have never seen you at the Xmas party or a top 3 meeting. Most E-1 to E-6 MX troops never talk to their officers, only officers they actually talk to are ADC's or Op's guys. If a MX guy is talking to his CC it is in his blues signing for a Article 15 for missing a dental appt because he got stuck on the line producing a sortie, yes that happens.

     

    In my opinion, the problem was from a combination of all of the above. My SNCO who retired as a crew chief said many of the problems started when MX got severely cut post BRAC. Much of the experience was gone and the work fell on the shoulders of the younger NCOs. This they did not train the young airmen like they were trained. As everyone progressed, the lost knowledge stayed lost and only got worse. The planes got older, parts more scarce and the demand increased. On top of that, Big Blue decided that there were too many specialties, like in avionics. 3 different specialties became one. It worked at the time because the guys had some cross training and experience. The new guys did not. Also, a crew chief is a crew chief and can work on any bird. So they pulled a lot of ‘excess’ crew chiefs and sent them to different jets. Ive seen a C-5 guy in charge of the flight line with A-10 and F-15 crew chiefs working on F-16s. You can imagine how well that was going. They’d work the crew something like 26+ days a month to try and get working aircraft CONUS.
     

    When ops and Mx split, I think many of the Mx officers went full shoe clerk. Chasing green slides rather than actual success. Their drive for future rank through successful PowerPoint slides probably led to  many of the current toxic cultures in Mx. My old SNCO would smile about the old Ops+Mx days and tried to hide in my shop as long as he could.

    What's wrong with the Air Force?

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    8 hours ago, HAWDINGL said:


    People don’t like AFSOC’s self-proclaimed premier CONUS installation?????

    It always drove me nuts when people at the regularly scheduled ‘fix the AF CGO forum’ complained about assignments of three years being too short. It was always people from real horrible locations like Hickam, or name your base in FL, Etc. I wanted nothing more than for them to eat their words and spend 5 years at Cannon.


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    You mean they wouldn’t enjoy the stench of cow @ss when the winds were from the wrong direction?

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    Atlas 767 (Amazon livery) Down

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    5 minutes ago, HuggyU2 said:

    It's been a big eye-opener to see the lack of proficiency (mainly due to having never trained to it) of many commercial pilots when it comes to unusual attitudes.  

    It’s what you get when the mentality is to train to never get into an unusual attitude in the first place. Just look at stall training 

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