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On 10/7/2021 at 3:52 PM, SocialD said:
If you choose to stay in and are the type that is going to use mloa to enhance your schedule, don't be the jackass that brags about it when you're around co-workers who can't do such things. It happens a bit more than I'd ever have imagined and as a fellow mil dude, there nothing more cringeworthy.
While I generally agree with this advice, trust me when I say there are plenty of less than ethical (but contractually legal) schemes that non-military pilots pull to enhance their schedule and/or make TONS of cash to not work and they do it without batting an eyelash so don't feel guilty for dropping a day of ML here and there. Just don't abuse it (like dropping it the days before and after Thanksgiving or Christmas day, because they will call your BS).
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Aside from the obviously return of travel demand, I am sure the vaccine mandate was something the airlines expected months ago and part of the reason why they ramped up hiring again, knowing that a good number of people may choose to leave over it.
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On 10/5/2021 at 10:15 PM, hindsight2020 said:
Fwiw, AFRC AvB is paid out on anniversary dates (arrears). Cant speak for the active duty, though i can say fiscal 21 offering on active duty was laughable, especially compared to the terms on the AFRC side.
This is what I am familiar with. I guess the AD bonus is paid differently than the ANG/AFRC AvB.
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5 hours ago, arg said:
I can confirm this. My flight out of CLT to TPA was delayed almost 2 hrs that night.
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Good financial advice going here, but to play devils advocate; having the Guard or Reserves when you need some time off (holidays, birthdays, summer time, etc.) is a nice option. There are different options out there depending on the unit and how valuable you are to them. MPA days, T-AGR, etc. There are lots ways to tactically place an AFTP or RD to make your QOL a little better, especially when you are junior. It (sometimes) is not all about the money. Of course while I say this I am nearing my 20th year of this shite and ready to GTFO....
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Isn't this why they pay the bonus out each year AFTER you complete each year of the contract (to avoid pay-backs)?
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On 10/2/2021 at 10:48 AM, DirkDiggler said:
I sympathize with the TOLD; about 10 years ago our planes got carbon brakes, best mod the Bobs had put on the airplane in a long time. Trouble was, they didn't want to pay for the testing to redo the TOLD so all our numbers were still based on the old steel brakes. I could kinda understand that since at the time I was in legacy MCs and we had an upcoming (though moved several times) retirement date. I assumed that the newer MC-J would have revised TOLD since the aircraft is gonna be around for 30+ years. Wrong. TOLD is still based on the old brakes even though all the aircraft have been modd'd with the new ones. So our portions of our TOLD is "more better" but you don't know how much better and still have to use the old numbers.
Same thing happened with the KC-135, but we finally did get carbon brake data. I think it took at least 5-6 years to get though. Hellava difference. For the most part, I think the Air Force cared more about maintenance costs than aircraft performance.
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5 hours ago, CaptainMorgan said:
Vaccinated in 09. I think everyone who flies AMC aircraft still gets it.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI am pretty sure Small Pox is not a requirement for aircrew these days, mostly because the old Small Pox vaccine we've become intimately familiar with is not being produced anymore.
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Definitely must be region dependant. We can barely get our flight docs away from their civilian jobs to fly with us.
I disagree. The doctors that were in my ANG unit never had a problem maintaining currencies.
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2 hours ago, MC5Wes said:
Update
So, basically were looking at
1 Year for GE and Pratt to appeal the decision.
2 Years to build the first 8 motors.
2 Years to modify the airframe and avionics.
2 years worth of flight testing at Edwards.
Air Force asks Congress for funding for the program.
Congress cancels engine program, Proposes buying additional B-21s.
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32 minutes ago, slc said:
Ditto on bidding off Sept. Flight loads are less, kids are back in school, no crowds, cooler, parks/campgrounds are dead.
Side note: is that pic Grindelwald area?
Not sure if it's because we're still running reduced schedules, but I just flew two 3-day trips in the last two weeks and every leg was pretty much full. Some of them were completely full with very few non-revs. The airports are still packed. I think "teleworking" is providing some people (especially ones without kids), the opportunity to travel without taking vacation.
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13 minutes ago, dogfish78 said:
47% is still a profound percentage of non-compliance. How would your unit even function with 47%, darn say 40%, less people come December?
They wouldn't. Ironically, Ops (aircrew) has higher percentages of vaccinated people. I would venture to guess somewhere north of 75%.
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2 minutes ago, Blue said:
Honest question: Is there any kind of open-source intel on what the Taliban has planned for the next weeks/months? I know the Taliban aren't likely to just drop everything and rule in peace. At the same time, are they going to set off on some kind of Khmer Rouge-style genocide, where everyone associated with the West is on a hit-list?
I'd assume the reality is somewhere in between the two. I know some want to paint the Taliban as a bunch of Neanderthal goat-ers, which maybe they are. But they are a bunch of Neanderthal goat-ers who have to run a country, including Kabul, a city of 4+ million people. They may have all kinds of plans related to theology and women's rights. But they also have to keep the lights on. They've already reopened Kabul airport with the help of the Qataris. And I'd have to think they'd rather ransom an American first before they hang their body in the street.
Yeah, they're going to do that by keeping the right people around working for them as slaves. The Taliban themselves are not going to do any sort of physical labor or do anything that requires something more than a 2nd grade education.
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I would say it'd be tough to hold a medical-related job down as any type of DSG aircrew member. Being an aircrew member requires quite a bit of participation.
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The retirement blows unless you're dumping at least 10% of your paycheck into your TSP. Other than that, the ART program is a great way for a young pilot to build time for the airlines. The new pilot series GS13 pay scales (changed 1 Jan 2019) are pretty darn decent, even without a formal retention bonus.
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39 minutes ago, FLEA said:
Don't want to derail the threat but I felt it's important to remind everyone it's been one month now since we've left and there are still American citizens stranded in Kabul while Taliban go door to door murdering people. I can't understand how that's not getting more press.
There are also thousands of green card holders and tens of thousands of Terps and SIV qualified vulnerable Afghans.
Well trying to highlight antivaxxers and anti-maskers is a much juicier story ya know....
9 minutes ago, dogfish78 said:What's everyone's unit's rates of those not subjecting themselves to the covid injections? My unit's at around 78% who are not taking it.
Last I checked, my ANG unit was about 47% unvaccinated at the moment, but leadership has a "plan" to "edumacate" people during Oct/Nov UTA's and then start processing separations in December.
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23 minutes ago, Alpharatz said:
Ya haven't lived til an outboard water pump on a hot day with a maxed out KC (say...#5 in a six ship... mired in a haze of black smoke from twenty four lead water burners)..shucks it's nutz... Then of course..sometimes ya didn't..
It's hard to believe the A-model had less than 57% of the thrust the R-Model has today and that was with water injection (less than 45% without). We've even got old, de-rated CFM's on our KC-135's. The newer models they've got on 737's and the 320 family can put out over 30,000lbs each. The LEAP is over 31,000.
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13 hours ago, Prosuper said:
After working the past 40 years on TF-33's or JT3D's anything will be a improvement. I had one stretch in Saudi where I changed 7 TF-33's in two weeks on the same tail number(E-3C). Always a oil pressure related problem. The last 7 years on KC-135's I've changed 4 engines on a fleet about 400 airplanes and some those jets still have the same engines on the wing when they were hung when upgraded from A to R model, that is what they are hoping for.
There have been CFM56's that have gone 40,000+ hours without an overhaul. Granted these were -5 and -7's. KC-135's have -2's. Of course, everything -7 and newer, I believe, have generally been FADEC controlled.
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Some talk about mask wear....
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Interesting. Maybe they hit the bone... didn't even feel my Pfizer. Actually had to look over and see that the dude was done. Then a week later it felt like someone was sticking an ice pick into my arm pit.I did the J&J and that son of a gun hurt like all get out going in. I've had tons of shots, but that was by far the most painful jab so far (not knee buckling pain but def uncomfortable). -
10 minutes ago, torqued said:
That's a compromise I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to make. Is J&J authorized to meet the mandate requirement?
It was 6-8 months ago for us in the Guard. They told everyone that if they got a COVID vaccine off base at a local pharmacy to make sure it got into our records. I do know that Walgreens' system talks to ASIMS. Is the DoD mandating the Pfizer shot even for people who've already gotten the J&J? I know quite a few people in my unit who opted for the J&J last Spring.
My only concern is that when I got the Pfizer through Walgreens, ASIMS flagged me due for a second one. It just comes up as "COVID-19" so ASIMS may in fact not be smart enough to recognize the difference between the one-shot or the two.
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1 minute ago, torqued said:
This case might be different. If someone DOR'd before graduation, they've effectively ended it.
I don't know the details of this one, but the student has finished flying so graduation should be before the official deadline of Nov 2.
If this student were smart, he'd remain passively non-compliant until after he's winged.
You know the easy way out to a lot of people's hesitation to the new mRNA-type vaccines would be to just get the J&J jab and be done with it. It's an adenovirus vaccine. The technology has been around and been used since the 1970's in many other vaccinations. Get the J&J, get it in your military medical records as having a COVID shot and be done with it.
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9 minutes ago, torqued said:
I think he should argue that he successfully completed the training, and met all the preexisting conditions and standards to be designated an Air Force pilot. It wasn't until after he met those requirements that the vaccine was mandated, and even then, it isn't a condition for being a pilot, just for staying in.
Even still, I'd also be surprised. It's probably a rare situation and the risk of blowback for denying him wings isn't enough for Wing leadership to care about. Unless they're a Gen Milley, they're going to tow the line.
You are trying to use way too much common sense here. They will not wing him. The pilot shortage is a crisis of the past.
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There are justifiable scenarios for everything. We have to do military duty to stay current and juggling two jobs is not always an easy thing to do (none of the non-military people should envy us for it...). As long as you can CYA and prove you were doing duty, not much they can do or say about it, but of course we all know this. The main point being don't be one of those guys on a transcon who says, "Yeah man, I dropped mil leave last week right in the middle of a 6-day stretch of short-call. Bawahahahaha! It worked great!" because you'd probably get the "You're a douche." side-eye from the person next to you.