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    Hurlburt info

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    for what its worth i have multiple friends who recently moved out of navarre for destin....they are much happier.

    but they are young married couples with no kids.

    id say if you have kids navarre is great (minus the daily rush hour traffic)

    no kids? come east of base

    Track Selects and Assignment Nights

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    2 minutes ago, SurelySerious said:

    High Angle Strafe, but really it's irrelevant.

     

    My larger point is that what we should be expecting from fighter guys, bomber guys, UAV guys, and A-10 guys (apart from certain advanced skills/quals) is the same wrt Brief/Stack/Mark. ALSA Bulletin 2013-2 has a good article articulating this. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a579983.pdf

     

    If the AF isn't providing adequate training to provide the product at the end of MQT (and really, they're missing the mark in UAVs to an extent I'd argue in the name of faster production), that's a different issue.

    in a perfect world sure that'd be nice. 

    it's not attainable though. barbus made my point much more eloquently. and it's not one dude nor one data point. 

    regardless it's a moot point cause it ain't gonna happen. 

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    1 hour ago, HU&W said:

    I'm curious what mission set you think the MQ-9 does, if not CAS.

    i'm intimately familiar with the MQ-9 mission set

    i'd argue you can't plug and play an MQ-9 pilot into an A-10 cockpit...tell him to go do CAS...and get the same return

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    alright ill be the asshole...i don't think dual qual RPA/light attack makes sense

    GENERALLY (key word GENERALLY) the pilots sent from UPT direct-> RPA are not your top sticks...i'll just leave it at that

    throwing that dude into a dual qual to fly light attack would be asking for trouble when he's splitting his time on a robot.

    light attack ain't flying from point A to point B...CAS deserves specialists not generalists and not guys fcking off half the time just so they can "fly in a cockpit"

    the guys i've encountered in their post-RPA duties are 70-30 not sharp/low aviation SA-descent stick good SA. that's just my experience. the talent isn't there for dual qual. hurt feelings RPA guys flame away!

    and +1 for moving RPA bases to cool locations...too bad congress will get in the way.

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    "We're not training commercial pilots."

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    20 hours ago, Motofalcon said:

    Well, I read this two ways/have two opinions:

    1) The flt/cc and/or IPs are trying to tell you that if you are only here to get your ticket into the airlines, you are here for the wrong reasons. What we do as military pilots may be similar (MAF) or not that close beyond the fact we are both in airplanes (CAF), but either way, this isn't Embry Riddle, so if that's what you are here for, get out. I see nothing wrong with setting that expectation right up front, especially with all the airline/AF exodus in the news; we don't want LTs who are just waiting for their clock to run out so they can go fly for the big 4 (we have enough O-4s doing that...)

    2) You're goddamn right I'm better than an airline pilot. I'm also the best fighter pilot in the Air Force. If you don't believe me, come fly with me and I'll prove it.  I say that with some sarcasm, but I also know I spent ten solid hours of academics about 2 months ago (and probably 480 more of self study) learning about to use M7.1 in my mighty viper and efficiently employ the 69 different weapons we carry. Not once did we talk about the fact that I am also flying an airplane at the same time (by myself #singleseat), and I'll have to recover it (via hand flying!) sometimes to 200' on an ILS. And I might have 3 wingmen following me around as well. That is just assumed. So when an entire airline pilot's - sorry, crew's - job is to take off, go somewhere else, and land, which is all of .80% of my cranium, yeah, I'll feel a bit superior. They can get butt hurt about that and cry during their drive home in their Maserati and lick their wounds while they don't work for a week, while I sweat my ass off in MOPP4. That's fine, that's the deal, and you bet your ass I envy them in some aspects.  However, I also don't go around telling everyone I am better than an airline pilot, and they are just idiot bus drivers, or whatever. That's just poor form and seems petty. They have their benefits (QoL, money, etc) and I have mine (BFM, dropping weapons, shooting the gun, Red Flag, etc).  No need for name calling, especially since some of them have been here and done this (ref Hacker above and many, many others on this forum)

     

    But as your hand flying your ILS who is getting ATIS?!

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    Promotion and PRF Information

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    Posted · Edited by BashiChuni

    Something about doing the right thing and integrity isn't what big blue feeds us?

    i say the right thing is to say fck that idiotic waste of time. 

    I know I know PYB and all that nonsense. But god damnit I'm fcking sick of it. 

    I don't know why but this fires me up haha. 

    Promotion and PRF Information

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    Posted · Edited by BashiChuni

    39 minutes ago, Duck said:


    Take heed of this guys. I'm serious. I've seen guys who have said "all I care about is flying, so I'm not gonna finish" surprisingly they ended up not flying for about 8-9 months on a deployment while the ACSC finishers stayed home and flew.


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    And that's why I'm hitting the door the day after my commitment is up. 

    Fck that idiocy. The Air Force just can't Stop doing stupid shit

    its not like we're fighting a fcking two AOR war right now or anything

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    1 hour ago, tkc10chief said:

    I was told yesterday to get it done via correspondence (08 guy). "It can't hurt and until we know more, just get it done"

     

    I'm sorry but that is such fcking bull shit. 

    What a complete and idiotic waste of time and I won't do it. But then again I'm not on the "path" to greatness 

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    10 hours ago, di1630 said:

    The best leadership for the Air Force is rooted in the pilot community....unfortunately "most" of the best pilot leaders are in the guard already or not on a path in the AD system to be in control.

    Sad fact, the system doesn't promote the best leaders into leadership...which is why you see the kid who got picked on his whole life until he figured out that he could join the USAF, fill some squares and be the mfwic.

    Most of the great pilots and bros I respected when I was a LT are gone...many of the ones I saw as ass-kissing careerist, risk adverse square fillers are now the decision makers you are blaming for the USAF woes.

    There are still some great ones though.




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