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On 3/28/2020 at 11:51 PM, HuggyU2 said:
It's a serious subject, obviously, and there have been some high-profile cases involving airline pilots in the last few years
Here's a good story on when "shit got real" in the airline industry.
https://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/recovery-deep-stall-180974455/
Lyle was on my no-fly list prior to the incident. Having said that we were glad he was able to overcome all obstacles and return. Great credit to the CEO Dasburg.
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On 3/31/2020 at 6:15 PM, viper154 said:
Wife and I have both vehicles, fairly new mid end cars fully ensured with Geico for $75 a month, clean records, good credit. We switched from USAA, they were charging $125 a month. Local company for home owners, live a mile from the coast, not in a flood zone, $1600 a year for - $270,000 home. USAA wanted $2800.
47 years with USAA and NO claims auto or home with the exception of windshield replaced last year. Getting the runaround on a house claim now. It ain't the same USAA of old.
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7 hours ago, MC5Wes said:
OA-37B My favorite aircraft to work on.
Nice! Panama?
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On 3/16/2020 at 10:36 PM, HuggyU2 said:
Sorry for the confusion. I was just trying to be sarcastic and funny, and figured that anyone that looked at my avatar would chuckle.
Huggy I was wondering how long it would take them to catch on. You better be using my checklists!
TDY to Honduras. The Hondurans were transitioning from the F-86 to the A-37!
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Waaay back in the day UPT grads that received FAC assignments (O-2/OA-37) were guaranteed a fighter after a 3 yr DM tour. I was a flight/CC and my guys went to F-15/F-16/A-10. Most are airline capts now but one retired as Wing/DO at Cannon.
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On 3/14/2020 at 11:37 AM, AirGuardianC141747 said:
Very true regarding - none of us want to work ourselves to the bone during our final years, let alone now. Studies have shown that those who retire at 60 vs 65 live quite a bit longer in our business (Cargo studies based on some of the extreme schedules).I went at 59. How much time does that buy me?
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On 2/11/2020 at 1:42 AM, FLEA said:
Stoplight hell is the truth. Supposedly, 30 years ago the city voted on whether or not to build a bypass to I-10 north of the city before it got pushed up to the mountains. The city council was afraid Tucson would lose its "small town feel" if they did that and voted it down. Now 30 years later the population exploded to over a million and there is no room to put a bypass.
Does smiling Sally still smile for her troops on Houghton south of the airbase?
I was there when the bypass issue came up. You have it right. They were going to elevate it over the washes. I was pretty much against it. The growth was already out to Reddington Pass and most homes were on multi acre lots.
I never get near Houghton....so depressing driving from the NW side of town. Sally is up against the leftest Mark Kelly.
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On 2/1/2020 at 4:16 PM, FLEA said:
Tucson proper is a slum. The city refuses to enforce odinances or has overturned them that have essentially allowed meth addicts to take over the down town. There is a heavy presence of MS-13 and 1%ers in the city limits and crime is relatively high everywhere except the CBD. My wife was a cop there for 3 years and worked homicide scenes enough to develop mild PTSD after we left. A member I worked with bought a house out the NE gate and had a stray round from a drive by pass through his 1 year olds nursery about 30 inches from the crib. I wish that base would boneyard itself.
I don't think it is that bad as you are approaching it thru the eyes of your cop wife. I will say that the area from DM north to the foothills and west to Oracle Rd is crappy. Might look for a rental off Craycroft in Fairfield in the Foothills. NW Tucson is the nicest and where I live (25 yrs) but as someone previously mentioned it would be stoplight hell to get to the base.
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On 2/5/2020 at 5:57 PM, tarheelaviator said:
Just be the best you can at your job and try again for pilot later.
I know of a guy that washed out of UPT but became the best WSO he could be. After 6 kills he was offered another UPT slot. Chuck DeBellevue
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On 1/15/2020 at 6:52 AM, HossHarris said:
I’ll contrast as a delta commuter.
Year 2/3 maddog
$136k pay, $14k PS, $23k DC, $5.5k per Diem and other stuff.
$179k total.
360hrs of block.
60 nights on the road (not in my own bed).
no strategies or gimmicks .... no premium or overtime flying .... just absolute minimum effort.
/bragging
Or you can go full tilt at DAL using "strategies, gimmicks, premium flying" like my $$$ obsessed brother-in-law 320CA who made $602K last yr and averaged $500k/yr for the previous 3 yrs.
I expect him to croak the day after he retires if not sooner.
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On 9/3/2019 at 3:32 PM, StoleIt said:
I was bottom of my ROTC class, had a gentleman's 2.7 GPA, and (still) questionable leadership...but I did somehow manage to fly a bunch of members of congress around the world and pass my OME last week. 🤷♂️
On 9/3/2019 at 3:09 PM, Danger41 said:Sometimes collegiate performance translates to piloting ability. Often it doesn’t. I put zero stock into someone’s pedigree when I make my assessment.
Bingo, how low can we go? Long haired surfer/sailing dude from Hawaii, 2.3 GPA, 2 yr ROTC program an after thought, UPT DG, Phantom driver, ret DAL. Who would have thought.
Ayz33, don't sell short Homstar's remarks about chair flying. I locked myself in a room and chair flew each and every flight for hours while classmates were out playing water volleyball.
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On 7/23/2019 at 10:06 AM, SocialD said:
Awesome! Few things better than cruising around at 500 feet with the door open and being able to smell fresh cut grass.
I couldn't agree more as I rarely get above 1,000'. Dawn patrol over the WI countryside:
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I was dicking around the other day in my RV-8 sending love messages to my bride. Unfortunately with my newly installed ADS-B she can follow me in real time. My track from flightaware:
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Everyone likes cockpit pics. RV-4 I owned pre EFIS's and RV-8. As you can see I like simplicity. No desire to fly SE IFR.
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On 5/8/2019 at 12:56 PM, HuggyU2 said:
As a fan of the A-37, I’m looking for anything associated with the airplane. Checklists, Patches, photos, parts, etc...
Let me know what you’ve got.
Huggy I have at least a checklist but am in MN for the summer and would not be able to send anything till late fall. I gave the Dash 1 to a civilian owner yrs ago.
Why the interest? I have 1000 hrs in the Dragonfly and surprisingly it was more fun to fly than the Phantom.
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With your new airline career ahead, you will soon put this all behind you. My first day at a major was just as exciting as my first day at UPT. Like someone said, don't get involved, enjoy single life. I div before going to the airlines and unless you are flying boxes, it is a very target rich environment. Stayed single for 28 years then married a wonderful lady going into retirement. The day of my div was one of the happiest days of my life, a huge weight off my shoulders. Best of luck.
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Huggy, of all the RVs, the -14 goes together much quicker than any of them according to a guy that gave a presentation to our RV group who first built a -10 then the -14. Every time I get into a -7 or -6 it seems small because your shoulders touch. The -8 feels roomy in comparison.
As someone has mentioned, the best flying RV is the -4 when SOLO which I flew 99% of the time. Cockpit is tight when compared to the -8:
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51 minutes ago, FlyArmy said:
I don’t think jumpseats are bad to HI are they? I get nonrevving isn’t viable for HI, but I’d think there aren’t a whole lot of people filling jumpseats.
Do you really want to sit on a jumpseat for 5.5 hrs especially on a B-737 that many are now flying to HI? Don't get me wrong because I was a commuter for 23 years and did all I could to make jumpseaters feel welcomed, but do you think the cockpit crew wants you on their jumpseat for that long?
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7 hours ago, Stitch said:
RV-8's are bad-ass...
Yep but keep it light and simple. Having flown my entire life with either a back seater, student, someone in the right or left seat, wingman etc, it's great to fly solo and reflect. Huggy with his U-2 experience can probably relate.
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11 hours ago, RTB said:
Curious...did you build it or buy it already built?
Purchased
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12 hours ago, nunya said:
If pilots did more of that and less of everything else, they wouldn't be stampeding the exit door for a job flying 136kt ILS finals.
Ummmm, I did a 170kt break this afternoon in my RV which was paid for by my job flying 136kt ILS finals.
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Unlike my F-4 pig I would think the thrust to weight is so great that once it lifts off it is going up.
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On 12/4/2017 at 9:31 PM, JeremiahWeed said:
And those are RFs. Can you imagine a C or E model with 18 mark-82s and some missiles? Min-burner on one engine just to stay on the boom!!
Even in the RF we would tap burner especially when carrying 3 bags. The KC-97's were being phased out when that pic was taken.
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That says it all. Careful who you run with on layovers.