Pooter

The fact that they're calling it "F"UPT without even a hint of irony tells you everything you need to know.

Yeah I think the word is out that these have durability/safety issues now. When I shot at small arms about a year ago people were stoked about the new equipment, and honestly I thought it was pretty smooth. But that could also be because my benchmark was the broke-dick M9's they've been abusing for decades. Shame that we can't even get new stuff that works, all the way down to a f-ing sidearm. The craziest part of this whole thing is the Air Force's insane "duty load" policy that they teach everyone - round in the chamber, safety on FIRE, and holstered. They even tell aircrew to do that which is borderline suicidal to do inside of a pressurized cabin. Sig mechanical issues notwithstanding, the other services think we are absolute clowns when it comes to gun safety and I have to say that I agree.

In other news, the saga of Sig P320 uncommanded discharges continues, this time tragically claiming the life of an F.E. Warren Airmen. I'm not super smart on the internal mechanisms that led to these problems, but I know it's been a controversy across the gun world for quite some time, with Sig even claiming they fixed the issue on newer models at one point. Sad it took an airmen dying to finally do something about it. In summary: classic air force waiting until it's too late to address a clear safety concern. Also Sig is absolutely cooked.

go easy on the guy he's having a hard day at work

RJ Capt doing a stream of consciousness debrief to the entire cabin 😬

I think the problem stems from how asinine and obvious your debrief of the whole situation is. “Just shut down the engine if you see a guy trying to dive into it.” yeah no shit sherlock, THEY DIDNT SEE HIM It’s like telling the person who just hit a deer on the highway in the middle of the night “hey man hit the brakes earlier next time and you won’t hit a deer” Sick thanks dude, I’ll be sure to see the thing I couldn’t have seen sooner next time

We need a full investigation Epstein may have been killed in federal custody We have the files and promise to release them The client list is literally on my desk We are reviewing the files for imminent release We need to comb the files to protect the victims The FBI actually just gave us even more files which we now need to review NVM we're not releasing the files There actually never was a client list The files are a democrat hoax Are you still asking about the files What even is a file

Didn't fly the AT-6B but I know any variant of the T-6 sustains energy better than a 38 which we got by with for well over half a century. And the cherry on top is your ASD can be longer than a 0.8 😆

I think you're the one fixated on being "technically right" brainstorming a perfect hypothetical pilot reaction in a scenario that lasted a grand total of 26 seconds. I don't know how you do ground ops but I don't spend the entire time craning my neck to check my 5 and 7 o'clock on the off chance a suicidal spanish drug addict decides today is the day he's going to swan dive into one of my engines. Yes, if you see a crazy spanish man running towards one of your engines, probably shut it down. Would it have made a difference in 26 seconds? Absolutely not. The main fan would have still been spinning plenty fast to kill him and the cowling only sits 22 inches off the ground - plenty low enough to jump into without aided engine suction.

Possible stupid question, but is he wearing anything company-specific in those videos? Looked to me just like a generic captain outfit with white shirt, epaulettes, tie, and a fly safe lanyard, but I'm not smart on the details. And I would think AA would come down pretty hard on anyone wearing company-specific stuff postulating about random incidents, no?

Not an AA guy but its interesting that his first flying-related video was only posted 9 months ago according to his youtube channel. Since then he's posted dozens and dozens of them and the India crash videos went particularly viral with views in the millions. Don't know his age but from the looks of it he is nearing mandatory retirement and is attempting a career pivot to old man internet aviation influencer/guru.

I've seen some pretty questionable "boots" in shoe clerk world. Some of these rules end up happening because we have asshats out there clearly abusing the intent of the regs in uggs or coyote brown air force ones. But I don't disagree with you that we are refocusing on stuff that absolutely doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things and it has been a significant downward trend for quite a while.

Such a wildly out of touch quote. Pretty sure the entire T-6 faip mafia would give their left nut to fly a weaponized version with 50% more horsepower

Thought the media was being alarmist about it and then I read the text of the bill. Literally outlines basing B-2s and MOPs in Israel and a contingency plan to transfer custody of them to the Israelis. YGBSM

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-could-arm-israel-us-134559013.html real doozy of an idea here from the Israe.. *ahem* America First crowd. They're not even hiding the ball at this point "“I’m honored to introduce the Bunker Buster Act with Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a bipartisan stand to protect Israel and stop Iran’s nuclear threat. Iran’s uranium stockpile makes clear that the danger is real. This bill gives the President the authority to equip Israel with the tools and training they need to deter Tehran and make the world a safer place,” said Congressman Mike Lawler (NY-17)."