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SurelySerious

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  1. There are a couple ANG/AFRC units out there that have something similar to focus on the physical challenges specific to flying. It’s not a bad idea, interested in how it works out for AFSOC.
  2. Zero. But that was probably rhetorical.
  3. I'll bite on this, because this sounds like a pretty huge case of you don't know what you don't know (i.e. low SA). I'm not going to sit here and tell you being the bomber requires the most skill in sorting SA to launch smart weapons vice cleaning up the air picture in a single seater...but yeah, dropping the one or two you're used to is easy. In this high end fight you're talking about, though, no one is calling a bomber to drop two weapons. In a RF or WSINT type vul, there are probably 20 DPIs per jet in the formation all roughly co-located that you're trying to hit in one pass battling system limitations that make it challenging to get the releases done if everything goes right. You're probably sorting in a few DTs last-minute in a jet that requires two people to input weapons data because it's in a computer programming language from the 60s. We tend to lack SA because literally the airplane has no way to convey us SA outside of radios. No A-A radar, no Link picture, simply listening to the Strike and OCA freqs. So when you're the Strike Package commander, you're sorting your targets and listening to the thrash within, monitoring the other striker formations, and assessing the threats from verbal calls the OCA dudes are all making on OCA freq because AWACS is always behind. All while some non-pilot in your jet talks over every radio call there is. Every air frame has their mission challenges in the high end fight. Bomber dudes don't have to be the smartest, no we're not setting our lift vector all over and maneuvering 3-D, and not every dude is capable of RF strike package commander type SA, but it's not sitting in Afghanistan dropping one or two 31s on a mud hut.
  4. You need to work on your Root Cause analysis.
  5. But HAF just briefed MAF manning at 110%. The glitch has been fixed. We just got this thread out of the MAF/CAF hate defensive death spiral.
  6. I think you’ve forgotten an important possibility there.
  7. What’s the IFF syllabus with respect to Instrument flying?
  8. Danger, Disagree. If our major issues are basic aviation skills like maneuvering in formation or instrument procedures (moreso), then I don’t think we can put the blame on a follow-on course. If UPT produces the equivalent of a Commercial MEL, then I think it’s fair to have standards in mind. In your mind, is UPT meeting that? I don’t have the IFF syllabus handy, but I doubt it includes the resources for building instrument proficiency to a passable level so FTU doesn’t have to; those aren’t Fighter Fundamentals, those are pilot fundamentals we should probably expect from Pilot Training. But that’s just my 25,000 ft perspective from my damn gold plated bomber throne as I wait to program the FMS to fly the CATIII ILS and never touch the controls. Kidding aside, all communities I’ve interacted with have to push more fundamentals further into training as each formal training syllabus is cut. The problem is at the undergraduate aviation training level across the Air Force.
  9. Reference the discussion in the Changing/Switching Airframes thread, but it’s not that simple. 1) it’s not not flying, it’s reduced flying, B) you still need to grow your crew force or you’ll have a yuge gap eventually, and 3) you can do tactical development to a certain extent in the sim to supp the reduction in flights.
  10. They haven’t paid their AETC bill because there’s no one their squadrons except LTs man.
  11. Not the 11-series reg? Sounds like I can’t find that in my EFB to follow.
  12. When you’re flying half way across the continent in an airplane whose avionics are out of the 60s, yeah. Plenty of VFR charts inside that thing. That and it keeps 6900 pages of expanded -1 out of the cockpit.
  13. That’s a pretty safe prediction given that the B-21 first flight is already scheduled per news reports for like Dec 2020.
  14. First, it’s not that there aren’t any flyable jets, there just aren’t that many. Second...you have to keep a broad spectrum of ages/experience in the community. If you just kick every new person out until the jets are ready in 4 years for full combat coded squadrons to be full up it would only be new LTs from the FTU (or in your proposal, people also new to the airplane fresh out of FTU), and that doesn’t really work. Although, let’s be honest, big AF is moving that way with the current definitely-not-retention-crisis anyway.
  15. I think you missed the WTF thread.
  16. They take training to make sure the network drives are organized and official things saved in the correct structure for federal law accountability purposes. It is super qweepy, had to deal with that on a deployment 6-9 years ago. When your network drive folders are organized with the numbers and the one where everyone actually saves there working docs is totally separate? Usually why.
  17. Slash all of the brown ranks. They’re indistinguishable.
  18. Standby for your HAF mandated down day to “address” suicides. I’m waiting for the part where they ask our airmen what’s wrong, then dismiss all the things brought up as whining/complaining. Sounds just like the pilot retention task force. Therefore, my only conclusion is they don’t actually give a shit about any of their people and will just produce more airmen to replace the ones they lose from the big air force perspective. But the appearance of having done something has been accomplished.
  19. Make it?
  20. Cons: nuclear. Global Strike shenanigans.
  21. Did you rent a bo-at?
  22. I was on my last free article, so it said a few days ago. From what I recall TLDR version: all Dems have to do is nominate a decent human being who can work with possibly Dem controlled House and Senate, but they’re convincing themselves that the only path is a person so radical the country won’t elect them. Trump wins again.
  23. If only there was a function whereby you could query the website...https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/search/?q="Short tour"&updated_after=any&sortby=relevancy&search_and_or=or And THEN, a whole discussion solely based on the topic you desire to learn about. https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/topic/15974-short-tour-info/
  24. When you load up the tapes, you just have to plug this in first.
  25. And the empire is significant.
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