jonlbs

Definitely recommend getting out. Like others said its an awesome new chapter and its up to you on how you look back. Accept the dogshit but embrace the good (people, good trips, etc.). Don't try and paint it perfect. You are gonna find a lot of people are having a similar experience. There is a 311 page thread about what's wrong with big blue.

RIP to the crew and those on the ground.

You are so young, if you want fighters stick with fighters. You got 5 years of applying in my opinion till I'd start looking at non fighters. That is of course if you really want fighters. Scores and letters seem good enough to get you in the door at most places. Good luck with the grind.

Should check out Chad Powers the new tv show. Think the coach is somewhat based off Kiffin at least appearance wise. Hilarious and worth the watch if you a college football fan.

Truly the greatest. Uncle Buck. Planes trains. Cool Runnings. Great outdoors. Can watch them all on repeat. will check it out for sure.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250918-the-airliner-pilot-who-gets-to-fly-world-war-twos-biggest-bomber

Guess he should’ve just taken the breathalyzer.

Am I the only one who doesn’t know who that is?

Fuel to cutoff and back to run may be part of the dual engine failure items? May have thought engines spooling back was dual engine failure? Maybe had wrong alt set in MCP and when VNAV engaged at 400 ft they went to idle? honestly have heard lots of plausible theories and I think you are right that they are gonna release information in the least attention grabbing news worthy ways possible. Piece by piece until people aren’t interested in it any more.

If you cant get the planes go for the pilots next. Passive intelligence could probably find the name and address of nearly every pilot in the US Military. Can't imagine what active intelligence could do. Send a kill squad (cartel? spies? poison? gangs? every scumbag has a price?) and no planes are taking off. If I'm thinking it, they probably are too? It's way easier to fight dirty.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sY7cQNx4Hg4&feature=youtu.be

Was lucky enough to fly these heroes home from the WW2 museum in New Orleans today. Special flight and will not forget their stories. They were so humble that they thanked us for volunteering for the flight when we were all there to thank them. Greatest Generation is an understatement.

People went to college to do things besides chase ass?

https://www.aviationpros.com/aircraft/defense/news/21282366/air-force-personnel-remembers-fb-111a-crash-50-years-later @bfargin your FB111 low pass story led me to this. Guess they repaired that bird with another one that had a dual engine failure. Called it the Frankenvark and it never would fly straight…

https://youtube.com/shorts/7Fw7bZoPyVU?si=KZehGb5SndOahWQW

https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/ “This leaks”

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.638777/gov.uscourts.nysd.638777.2.0.pdf Tulum to Houston. Not sure if in flight or on the ground. But definitely a narrowbody. “The pilot became visibly enraged, broke the lock on the door and forced the bathroom door open pulling the passenger out of the bathroom with his pants around his ankles…”

this is the most important dibs of my life.

Apples to Oranges. A lot of people have died for no reason under the guise of “freedom” and I guess I’m not one that supports that. When real freedom is at stake I have no doubt I’ll be there. Also not sure how you keep up with the 1v5 debates on here. Seems like a full time job so kudos for sticking with it 😂

Corrupt Ukraine or corrupt Russia. I don’t know what their cause is? Sure ain’t worth dying for. But if you insist it is.

That’s the most insane part, it’s so predictable yet when it happens all we see is shock and confusion. Followed by a company message about how amazing we handled it but all I see are 1,000s of pissed off people in every terminal and delays and cancellations that stack for a week.

Depends on the airline but it wasn't that uncommon in the Mormon air force. Seniority combined with instructor pay and some people cross that threshold of willing to go back to the bottom of the list. You get your fair share of "unique" people but most are good people who just didn't strike the gold mine of timing.