Everything posted by FUSEPLUG
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Promotion and PRF Information
They're probably just having difficulty divvying up the 179/365s amongst the new selects.
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Leadership at the 'Deid
If it’s not on JQP then it’s fake news.
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Leadership at the 'Deid
Cleaning rotaters is the #1 mission of the 8EAMS? I would have sworn it was sleeping on the sidewall seats while red X’s were left unattended.
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Palace Chase info
^ This needs its own thread! Very comprehensive and sound advice. Like he said, wipe out the debt and plus up the savings account. It takes a few paychecks into your second year at an airline before you start to feel comfortable again. Oh yeah, and fuck TAPS. I’m an adult. Let me opt out.
- Rumors on the 457th moving back to Scott AFB?
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
- T-6s Grounded; More OBOGS Issues
The use of the word “pause” pisses me off. You GROUNDED the fleet. I know that word sends the wrong message to the public, but the message you are sending to your IP’s and students is one of obfuscation and sugar-coating. When bad shit happens to an airplane or pilot, you GROUND it. Just call a spade a spade for Christ sake. These mind games from our senior managers are becoming transparent and tiring.- T-6s Grounded; More OBOGS Issues
Serious questions since I’ve been out of UPT for 12 years now - but do you guys run ORM before each T-6 sortie, or is that some bullshit only the MAF does? Based on what I’m reading here, I could easily come up with enough points to drive my ORM approval up to a level just shy of the SecDef.- Pilot Shortage Deepens, USAF is SCREWED.
As soon as I blow some tires on the 73 I’ll post it... pending the NTSB investigation.- Pilot Shortage Deepens, USAF is SCREWED.
My biggest concern is that these "lower quality studs" will be my FO in a 737 in about 12 years (or less when the next VSP happens).- What's wrong with the Air Force?
- Pilot Shortage Deepens, USAF is SCREWED.
Funny... not a single $ in any of those COA slides. Good luck competing with the airlines.- The new airline thread
Yes. Publish now and don’t forget to factor in terminal leave.- "Center the Bug"
I just do it because it’s a good way to kill 1.5 seconds of a 5 hour transcon.- The new airline thread
Had a similar occurrence a few weeks ago regarding parking reimbursement. My company will pay for close-in hourly parking when a reserve is called in with less than 3 hours to push. I had it happen twice in December so I used my credit card to the tune of about $110 - no big deal. Fast forward a couple of weeks and I had some time to hang out in the lounge so I submitted my parking receipts to our base coordinator with nothing but my name and employee number written on them. Within 10 minutes I had an e-mail pop up on my EFB saying the request for reimbursement was submitted. The money was in my account 5 days later. It made me chuckle to think of how this process would have worked in the military. Meanwhile, on the Guard side, I still haven't received payment for a 2-day off-station trainer I did in November because of some fuck-up in DTS that was beyond my control. Citi-Bank has already mailed me two notices of non-payment and somehow I haven't lost a bit of sleep over it.- T-6s Grounded; More OBOGS Issues
I bet 90% of those parked in the desert would start right back up. You’d just need to have someone there to bounce on the wing a couple of times during engine start.- Taxes, the Deficit/Debt, and the Fiscal Cliff
- General assignments questions
”Artful”- Flying Videos Thread Part 2?
Based on the color of those trails, it looks like they were spraying the mass sterilization compound that day. Fine choice.- Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
Our ANG unit has started rectifying incentive pay in a very haphazard manner. As an over-12 traditional, I'm slowly being made whole for the $1000/mo. figure from back in October and November, but they are still paying me the $650/mo. for AFTPs/UTAs worked last week. It's very random how they are paying out the differences too. I'll get $11.66 per period (or two) worked one day but nothing for the next day. All I can say is track that shit!- More Uniform Changes!
Every time this thread revives, I come back hoping they're going to allow us to wear black t-shirts and boots again.- Chances of Being Deployed Nat'l Guard
So are these taskings going to full-timers? Part-timers? Either?- Finance Problems
I’ve been getting that too. I thought it was just because I haven’t had a pay period in a while, but that didn’t seem right. Glad it wasn’t just me. It must be tough to maintain a website that hasn’t been refreshed once in the 13 years I’ve been in.- The new airline thread
On another note... SWA app window opened this morning. Numbers from the training center have been 750 to upwards of 1000 for 2018. I think the lower is the most recent estimate. As always, subject to change.