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So, now that pot's legal in Colorado, are they having mass briefings at USAFA about it?
That and a few CBT should cover it
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She's on Greta Van Susteren's "On The Record" right now... same old shit...
She said warrior
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I am pretty sure I am intimately familiar with DTS, more so than half these finance "troops." How do they not know what a C-130 is, especially considering it "brings them their mail" while they are slaving away, deployed, working in air conditioned offices from 9-3 with a one hour lunch break?
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I met him while I was on ops air force as a cadet (go ahead laugh,) when he was the wing king at Misawa. Stand up guy, invited us for dinner and drinks at his house. Best mentoring session ever.
He is now the three star here in Japan, everyone seems to like him.
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The continental connection aircraft that landed at Cabaniss field is still a funny tale at NAS Corpus Christi. Cabaniss, in fact, is not abandoned, but used for transition work to declutter NGP.
Back in January, a Delta Connection CRJ almost landed at my airfield, mistaking us for Albany Int'l Airport. I had just finished my airdrop check ride, and we were taxiing off of the runway when my F.E. noticed an aircraft on short final that looked rather odd, plus we were still turning onto the taxiway. All of a sudden we hear, "FLAGSHIP ON FINAL, THIS IS SCHENECTADY TOWER ON GUARD!! GO AROUND!!!". Aircraft raises his nose, sucks the gear up and makes a sharp 90 degree turn towards ALB Airport. My Evaluator and I, both airline pilots, just shook our head in laughter. There's a reason why you back up all approaches with an instrument approach!
I am from Schenectady and I must say , buzzing around there in a 172 , if you mistake the two airports for each other, you have no business flying an airplane.
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Same as everywhere else. You hand in a dream sheet, AFPC sends down what they need filled, the IPs give their inputs, and STUCON pays the bill with the available students. If you want helos, let that be known ASAP because STUCON will have to find you one. If you want T-38s or T-1s, put it on your dream sheet, keep your mouth shut, and let the cards fall where they may.
Also, understand that if you get T-38s out of whiting, you may be behind when you start 38s at Vance. In most cases, you will not have flown for several months while your air force counterparts would have just finished their last T-6 flight when you join them. They have also done double the formation flights (a significant portion of the 38 syllabus) you had done at Whiting (unless the Whiting syllabus changed,) and have been flying under air force rules for six months. Can you catch up? Absolutely. Several Whiting guys end up at the top of their class at Vance. Just realize it is an extra hurdle for many.
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This is not to debate the merits and/or lack of merits, of a possible war with Iran. If we get drawn into another war this fall, with Afghanistan still ongoing, is it worth it to you to keep pushing toward the 20 year mark in your career, or would you pull chalks?
If it meant I will have the opportunity to actually help employ my herc in combat instead of being voluntold to plan parties and ceremonies because it will "look good on my OPR" then I would absolutely stay in.
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Was curious if the current C-130 ops tempo is still 4 months on 8 off? Also if anyone can provide an idea for the tempo for AC,HC, and MC. Thanks!
Yokota is pretty calm, you might fly 5 hours a month and you will have to fight for a 2 month deployment , which may happen once while you are here. You are probably gone a few days every few months. Just FYI incase you were pondering base choices for 130s.
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Good quote from one of my UPT instructors:
"yeah you can use the EGI to determine your runway offset, or you can be a man and just look outside the canopy"
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Interesting, in a time where the air force is being asked to slim its' budget down.
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FIFY, IMHO.
Perhaps... I have yet to lie on a training report, especially because the only reason I do fly is because I have beans left. To clarify, other copilots are sometimes told by higher ups they fly with to pencil whip their beans being told "this is the way it is done." To some higher ups, on paper, as long as we are beans complete we are "qualified." Maybe we should show some balls and refuse to log beans we didn't fly but we must also walk a fine line between being honest about our training and stepping outside of the "dumb copilot / Lt do what you are told" stigma that some of the higher ups in the sq create.
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I both agree and disagree with you at the same time. Masters and xmas party planning are bullshit excuses. If you're burning yourself so bad that working on a masters causes you to land at the wrong airport, then you don't deserve to have the A code on any flight. If I told my DO that I need to cancel a high priority mission because I was working on my damn masters, he would tear me a new asshole. How is that any better if I just don't tell the DO and go land at the wrong airport? Totally on the PIC.
Things that you have to do that are actually required such as your desk job, nonflying deployments, and PME (although that one isn't really "required" in practice), then I believe both the AIr Force and the PIC share the blame. The PIC needs to not be a ###### and push back, and the Air Force needs to back off of this culture where pushing back pretty much stratifies you as the bottom 5% of your peer group "problem child". It also doesn't help that, at least in the heavy world, upgrades are completely based on career progression, and are pretty much becoming a joke these days. It used to be that having a K code meant you get some respect. Now, it's a crapshoot until you actually fly with that person.
But ultimately, it falls on the PIC. If you're too overstressed and overworked to fly a sortie safely, then it's your responsibility to ######ing tell somebody. Why the hell do we even have officers in these aircraft if they're too afraid to take responsibility and call bullshit or push back when it's warranted? Personally, I think we have too many pilots just trying to have everything and do it all, unable to realize they have differing limits, and blaming their Air Force for their plight instead of taking a much-needed introspective look to figure out what their priorities are. I personally find that plenty of people would gladly trade safety for a good shot at making rank. Maybe I won't make Major. But I'm sure as hell not landing at the wrong airport.
I think another problem alluding to the post about additional duties is that in a lot of squadrons, we just don't fly much. Copilots in my squadron are averaging 5 hours a month. Yes 5, that's one training sortie. A lot of people are forced to log beans that they didn't fly so that they can be "current." I would kill to fly as much as possible, deploy and become an "expert" in my airframe. I just study the pubs as much as possible (on top of masters, pme, etc) and hope that when our time comes something like this (or worse) won't happen.
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I made the corn without jalapeños today
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Like THAT would ever happen.
Oh yeah...
Don't forget, you primary job is running the Mongolian Immigrant Appreciation Day luncheon.
Hey now, Mongolian BBQ is kick ass.
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Just an update..
The C-130 squadron is almost 60% overmanned. Guys are averaging 5 hours a month if they are lucky. 3 UAVs just came down to our squadron and two of them went to brand new copilots who got here just a few months ago. On top of this, they are denying extensions for everyone, some people had their extensions taken away (which means single guys will be here two years and married guys three instead of three/four years respectively.)
Drunken nights in Tokyo are great but in terms of flying, grim outlook for any pilots coming in.
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At the risk of sounding even more naive and disregarding the self-identifying one-off transgressions that have been admitted thusfar on this forum, do aircrew partake in this organization?
Only when they are voluntold to...
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Actually there is a disadvantaged American group these days : "White American Male"...
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And you're measuring that how?
It's 'Mercian !
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Elmendorf was a cool assignment, but not a whole lot of wimminz in Alaska.
Sarah Palin!
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You will do phase 1 and 2, as well as single ship ops on the flight line. The only thing you won't really do is formation. You will get most formation training at Kirtland.
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2. Reading BaseOps doesn't help with that either but the wealth of knowledge here is worth it.
3. As a LT, these forums have been invaluable pieces of information through my first few years in the AF. I take the negative with a grain of salt, focus on the positive; focus on what I can change, and not worry about what I cannot change.
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I would highly recommend living in Pensacola and just dealing with the commute. Governors gate apartments is where a ton of student pilots (and hot, spoiled college girls if that's your thing) live. Or, room up with some friends closer to the beach. Governors gate is about 35 mins to Whiting, 30 to NAS Pensacola and only 15 minutes from downtown. While you're AF counterparts are enjoying the wonders of Columbus, Enid, Del Rio and Wichita falls, often being stuck in the dorms- you get to go to pilot training in an awesome beach town and all the spoils that go with it. Live it up!
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For slick aircraft commanders who cross flow into the gunship, do they upgrade faster to an AC once in the gunship? Or do they spend significant time as a copilot learning the new mission?
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A buddy of mine who was going to go to the MC-130W but got his assignment changed to a papa model since apparently the whiskey is going to become an AC-130W. Is the whiskey really going to become strictly an AC-130 now?
Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
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Just like their AWACS are not equipped for airshows!