Sprkt69
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3 minutes ago, icohftb said:
No they oversped their gear because they lost track of airspeed. Talking f16 since i dont know the gear limits to the f22
RC was not the late rotation.
RC is they are behind the jet from the start. Late rotation is a contributing factor for overspeeding the gear. Typically the MP being not fast enough to get the gear handle up with the right pitch angle set for the acceleration and climbing away from the ground. You tell me, if you are doing an AB takeoff on a cold day in your lightly loaded block 50 how close do you get to your gear limit before the lights go out? Or even a block 30/40. How close does your inexperienced wingman get? And did you ever look at the video to verify?
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25 minutes ago, icohftb said:
Nobody has oversped the gear because they rotated late...
Actually they have in fighters
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10 minutes ago, matmacwc said:
I also think non fighter dudes don't realize how fast this all happens. I had a Block 50 F-16, clean, have a 700 foot takeoff roll. I didn't have to use AB, but of course I did, and rotated as soon as I had a speed indication. Even an F-16 can be a dozen second takeoff roll, max.
You forgot to mention getting the gear up before the overspeed. Doesn’t always happen without pulling power and pitching the nose way up to slow the acceleration
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5 hours ago, M2 said:
Is it semi-auto? 😎
Fully semi-automatic
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2 hours ago, tac airlifter said:
And I don’t blame politicians, I blame our generals.
I blame both. I will also raise you the O-6s whispering stupid nothings via PowerPoint in between rounds of using up knee pads
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2 hours ago, HarleyQuinn said:
If you want airmen to be expeditionary then you have to train for the fight. All these training days off medical and finance receive, some needs to be converted into days where they shoot, practice MOPP, and combative skills. Most of them will never use this training unless they PCS to Korea to sit in MOPP gear.
When a base was attacked in Afghanistan, a bad ass from special forces went outside the wire to kill one of the insurgents in PT gear. Watching it on video looked really cool. Wasn't AF that ran outside of the wire. When the bases are being attacked it's Special Forces or a Task Force that rolls up the bad people.
If you want your finance troop to be effective at combat, then you have to actually train them properly on how to be effective. That means training with firearm outside the CATM range doing convoy ops, base defense, CQB, etc. Otherwise they are just checking off items to green up a slide and are more of a liability than an asset.
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4 hours ago, Merle Dixon said:
Flight naming ceremony. Not a roll call. T-38 flights do this now, naming ceremony in the flight room once all of the students are post-solo. Many flight rooms have a dry erase white board, or 2, full of potential call signs for the students. One of the potential callsigns, on the white board, not the call sign given at the ceremony, was “Can’t Understand Normal Taxi.”
I do not know how the “Can’t Understand...” written on the white board came to the attention of the food chain. Does anyone else know for sure? Did a GOs wife see it?
Does everyone get a trophy too for soloing a T-38?
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I wonder when Kwast’s shenanigans as a young pilot will find the light. He did fly fighters at some point right?
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When did students start geting named in UPT? Sounds like an awful idea
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“By failing to address incidents of dangerous behavior and a threatening environment, irresponsible alcohol consumption and disrespectful treatment of some students, these leaders did not establish and enforce a culture that upheld our Air Force core values,” Kwast continued.
Where do you even begin to make fun of this?
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1 hour ago, 14N Guy said:
Retiring as an O-4 isn’t bad at all. I thought about going guard/reserve but I want my retirement to begin the day I leave active duty, not when I am 58-60. It means moving more and possibly getting terrible jobs, but, it will only be as bad as I let it be especially since the rules of the game don’t apply to me anymore.
You do realize you can still get a federal retirement starting at the time you hit 20yos while being in the Guard right?
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6 minutes ago, Guardian said:
Why do you need to retire as an O-5? O-4 isn’t too shabby.
Do what you want. If you want to 365 your way to an O-4 retirement, have at it.
The option is to do the same job in the Guard, have significantly less AD BS in your life and still make O-5 for a federal retirement (about $500/mo more in retirement).
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1 hour ago, pawnman said:
That's my goal. Advancement through attrition. Almost no one left in my year group or the two behind me. The Air Force is begging retired O-5s and O-6s to come back. Seems to indicate there are a lot of openings at the O-5/O-6 level. Remains to be seen if the USAF can be smart about filling them... The last promotion board doesn't seem to be much of a departure from the ones that occurred in the past few years though, so...
If you want to retire as an O-5, the Guard is hiring
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33 minutes ago, Danger41 said:
This is a great thread to emphasize the importance of delivering actual feedback. Most dirt bags in your squadrons probably think they’re doing a good job. People don’t earn wings (or become 14N’s, etc) and get operational without wanting to do well at stuff. Not everyone has enough self SA to realize when they’re missing the mark.
I love this quote attributed to Nick Saban (not sure he said it). “If you want to make everybody happy, don’t be a leader. Sell ice cream.”
You think passed over good dudes would rather be casual acquaintances with you or have you tell them what they’re doing wrong and give them a productive way forward?
I agree with you 100%.
Feedback needs to be 360 degrees, not just top down. How many could say that they have had honest, consistent feedback for their entire career? Either from their OIC or their subordinates.
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3 hours ago, 14N Guy said:
I think you have a valid point. One thing I forgot to mention yesterday is that I was told that if I had only one OPR that had the negative comments on it, it most likely would have been overlooked. However, because there were two it sent a “clear message” to the board.
Could I have done things differently? Absolutely. I wasn’t as mature as I should have been. I wasn’t as good of a leader as I should have been. But, if somebody had given me this feedback a year or two after I got those OPRs I feel confident I could have done things differently to get the results I wanted. It certainly would have changed my assignment preferences. Instead, AF feedback (at least in my experience) is all rainbows and unicorns.
What is this feedback thing you speak of?
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29 minutes ago, viper154 said:
Hell ya we would. Most of us take 1.7 hour drive that way monthly. Always depressing leaving Lubbock and going back to Cannonistan
LBB has some commercial traffic, more than CBM/END/DLF, but nothing crazy that couldn’t be worked around. Every flight I’ve ever taken out of LBB was east, the opposite direction of Reece.
A little easier of a drive than the 3.5 hr drive to ABQ
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13 minutes ago, tac airlifter said:
Just wear it & see what happens.
I believe the proper response when queried is something along the lines of “Bless your heart, I’ll take a look into that. Have a great Air Force day!”
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17 minutes ago, FlyArmy said:
When I used to fly GA I was an active mil pilot, so i was vaguely familiar with MOAs. I was always on FF and didn’t go thru active moa’s. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about the GA and commercial traffic at KIWA, which wouldn’t be much of an issue if a bunch of T6/38/Xs showed up. The PHX area is saturated with GA flight schools, including many weak english speakers. But they tend to hang out at the GA airports and some of the practice areas, not MOAs and probably not KIWA if it became a UPT base. So long as this hypothetical Willy base had easy access to the MOAs east and south, I don’t see much conflict with commercial/GA. So long as it wasn’t too saturated with Luke, TUS, and DM traffic (and anyone else in the area), seems like it’s as adequate airspace as any, with 99.69% of days flyable.
Probably not the best idea unless your UPT people’s plan on flying to the Sunny MOA. Besides, there are civilians that use that airspace and airport for fighter training as well
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From what I’ve seen, “It’s not about the money” argument is from people that think the AF can change the toxic $hit show it’s become. The argument of “show me the money” is typically from the people that want airline pay to put up with the BS.
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And how expensive is this 5th gen helmet supposed to be? Or what weapons are they going to simulate? And what happens when the datalink does not work?
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1 hour ago, SurelySerious said:
Is that still a thing?
Very much so
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5 hours ago, torqued said:
I'd say pretty much everyone who wears one. If you have both hanging side by side, you're going to choose one, and you'll have a reason. If you "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" it every morning, it's not because you're so prepossessed with larger, more important AF issues (as if it matters what you think anyway) that you can't devote a single thought to it.
I love the bag and all the pictures in my office of me wearing it on the flightline while gazing distantly at the horizon, but I've never been more comfortable during a deployment than when wearing the 2 pc earlier this year.
Air Force culture and tradition is dead and buried and likewise, the flight suit should go with it.
Well thank you for your service soldier
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12 hours ago, Magnum said:
You're no longer required it pass it... Or go past chart 'B' on the depth perception.
Are you trying to say there was come common sense that was applied?
Commanders are dropping like flies this year
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Will probably have a job lined up with the Reserves