Napoleon_Tanerite

Didn't she lose her primary? How is she still "running"? Independent?

The C-210 pilot probably read the term off of a military pilot's morale patch.

McChing?

Automation is inversely proportional to pilot skill. The more your jet does for you, the less able you are to do anything. I long ago lost count of the number of blank stares I got from C-17 guys when asked to calculate timing based on ground speed or how to enter a hold. If the box doesn't tell them, they have completely lost the ability to do it mentally. Trim? What's that?!?

It won't form a perfect seal to your face unless it is fitted properly. If you have a freakishly shaped face (like me) it can take 6-9 trips to life support before they can get it set properly to the point where the bridge of your nose doesn't bleed after a 1.3

When you say "primary duty" surely you can't mean "in the jet". I've been very clearly told MANY times that what I do in the jet doesn't mean one damn thing. It is assumed that I am doing as good a job as literally every other pilot in the unit in the jet, and the discriminators for promotion were only your office job related queep. The only time "in the jet" stuff is looked at is when you are being vetted for upgrade.

Not even that, just "simple" taskers like slides for the boss's latest project, or O/EPRs, decs, all that queepy shit.

No, the intention is to do distance learning from home station similar to the existing correspondence course, but to do it in the 2ish weeks prior to heading to Maxwell. They seem to think you wont be tasked by your home squadron while you're "tdy" at home station.

This is part of the blended learning horseshit they were talking about when you and me were at shoe flag a few months back. Stand by for guidance on "in place TDYs" and the impending DISASTER those will be.

The Libya mission was an absolute blast. Flying productive sorties, then returning to our Mediterranean getaway afterward to get blind drunk. Not an E-9 in sight, and nobody gave a damn about anything other than getting the mission done and having a good time. Deployments don't have to suck.

Ron, is that you?

Oh good, a movie to speak to this generation of JROTC and Civil Air Patrol cadets!

AMU is $925/class

Any particular reason? Was the LOR really that bad?

What do you do all day that you find gems like this?

And the bad news... Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to buy all those F-22 electronics from overseas....?

You are SEVERAL days behind the times

WHO CARES? How about a story about how the Air Force is taking steps to un-fuck itself away from this PC corporation it has become? Now THAT would be real news!

I suggest you pull it next opportunity you have. You don't know what real power is until you feed a T-6 NAWSSSS

Readily identifiable by the APC seats in them instead of your standard MB seats. They're a LOT lighter than the MB ones, and all the space savings allow for the NAWSSSSSS bottles to go under the seats.

There were more problems with the E-10 than just funding. That many trons in one place tends to have a lot of interference issues. You're right about the 707 parts problem. There are a bunch of 707-320s at DM that the Air Force bought for parts, but most of them have been stripped of the "common" parts. The 707 platform just isn't going to be sustainable for much longer without an astronomical increase in the cost of parts. Most factory made parts are drying up (or have long since dried up) and thus there will be an astronomical increase in cost as these parts need to be re-engineered and fabricated from scratch.

We'll see what happens now that the final decision has been made to not buy the 737 that the Navy is buying as the P-8. They were taking a hard look at buying that to replace the 707 based JSTARS fleet. Anecdotally I heard through our XP shop that they could have bought 10 new 737s ready to go to war for the cost of re-engining the 707 fleet.

Got to experience this fun just this past Friday. A few airmen from another squadron in the wind decided to go out and get drunk (underage while they are at it). The result-- wing wide 0500 recall. That'll fix it.

Who let the intel chick on the jet? No way shes a MX troop.

Same story. We got as far as OT&E on the test jet, but to my understanding the program is zero funded currently. Somebody has to pay for those F-35 over-runs.