CaptainMorgan

Not going to happen. They didn’t order enough T-7s to put everyone thru it. When the T-6 is sunsetted, it will be IPT direct to FTU for the non-fighter/bomber dudes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Did somebody say Cold Stone? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Better yet, reflective for normal ops, and if you’re downed, you turn it inside out for evasion! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think your numbers are only showing the number of people, and not the amount they receive. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Have the other branches had similar ORIs mandated? I have a feeling this is a brilliant idea from our CSAF and not mandated by SecDef. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I know of at least one base that had a “block party” with fried chicken and watermelon. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Agreed, I met the Chief Pilot for the T-50 at the F-35 line at Navy Fort Worth about ten years ago. Lockheed was ready to go then, as opposed to the cluster we got with Boeing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Maybe the number was for an EC-130? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Dude, they will not spend the money. HAF’s priority is with other expenditures. They want the cheapest acceptable option for pilot training. It’s going to take dead bodies for them to reverse course. T-54 could be a viable option at END or CBM, but not DLF. The transition bases are just too far away for a plane with that cruise speed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I doubt the Navy has the capacity to support. There’s a reason we stopped tracking C-130s to T-44s. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

T-1 is dead except for XPW at CBM and END. AMF-S (T-1 sim only) is about to be dead. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well, they should have re-engined or replaced the T-1 with a comparable aircraft. They should have budgeted to buy T-6Cs, or a Tucano if they are unable to sustain the current T-6A fleet. They should have ordered T-50s instead of the dumpster fire that is the T-7. None of this would have been cost prohibitive, but it would have meant asking for more money or cutting other programs, which big blue is incapable of doing. The Air Force could make a course correction, but I don’t see that happening until they’ve suffered multiple class As that are attributed to the pathetic training that was the result of AMF-S, direct FTU, and now IPT. They won’t be quick to admit that either, something else will be found causal as mishaps occur. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Too many students were taking the VR headsets home to “chairfly” and returning with sticky controllers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You’re way too much of an optimist. The Air Force could have cut 1 B-21 and re-engined the entire T-1 fleet. Also, you’re strangely obsessed with acro… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As of now, and they’ve started it at CBM, you do IPT, an abbreviated T-6 syllabus, then track heavies or go 38s. I expect that eventually the T-6 for heavy drivers will go away. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk