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Duck, I could have swarn that I saw it updated at the end of the month to say early to mid Jul, which we all know that just means some time later but expect it to shift again. But I'm off now and my gaf factor is about pegged with this now since they have been dragging their lovely feet on getting this out to us.

I think Four Fans is saying that he will miss the tactical flying. That is what most of us will miss.

Not surprised at all considering the shit show of announcement of the one back in Feb of 16. That one rolled a while.

Do you have the reference for this? Cause I would love to start wearing mine out in the deployed location north of Vegas.

They do have dets at these schools. My class if I remember correctly maybe commissioned one my year. They just are not getting them to stay in the program which was a problem at my det.

Hispeed, you are correct if I am also reading it the same. Sounds like they are going to try and make it like OHA which doesn't work out so well for us overseas. Housing is going to get all jacked up. Might as well give us a utility allowance also to help pay for some of the bills now that our bah is getting reduced. Unless they keep raising it baised on rentals in the areas, but I doubt it.

The herk community has similar briefs and good luck explanations in the 3-3 about this. How to use the bud to know if you are going to clear a ridge and the bank vs ground impact charts are very import when flying the bigger planes.

Not just with the RPA's. I've seen guys who look good on paper suck at most everything including their primary job of flying the mission. Just refuse gov qtrs and quote the jtr's.

That is true if you are in a normal squadron. But if you are in training they won't/don't have to give you the time off. Now if you have free day then go get the car. I only say this because I have had it happen both times I was shipping/picking up my car from the VPC's while in training.

I am doing something similar to this, OCONUS to CONUS with a TDY enroute. They don't get per diem while you are TDY. They should be on your orders due to the pcs w/ TDY enroute. As long as they are you can get a TLF and have it paid for. As for shipping your car, you should get the letter saying they will ship it to Seattle, which should be the closest port to Fairchild. From there when you drop off the car you can tell the VPC that you would like it shipped to Dallas, or where ever since Seattle is the farthest and going to cost the most. I did this and they had no problems with sending the car to Dallas. Now if you can send it early to have it waiting on you that would be best, due to the fact that you probably won't get any time off to go get it and rental cars ere aren't cheap for long term. As to the unaccompanied baggage. I hope that TMO will give your family the weight allowance. TMO at ETAR wouldn't due to they said they aren't on my TDY enroute orders, which they were. I ended up doing a small household goods shipment to the TDY locale with the stuff we needed due to the baby coming and that stuff wasn't allowed in the unaccompanied shipment. Plus my TDY is long enough where my stuff is in long term storage versus sitting at my pcs location then getting put into storage. Also if you are shipping alcohol then you will need all the paperwork, but you can't put it in your long term storage. Which helped out with me sending it to my TDY local with the small household goods shipment. You will get the BAH 2 rate till you check in to the new base to get that BAH rate. Hope this helps.

You will be offered continuation due to all pilots being critically manned now. Since we all didn't see the writing on the wall well before AFPC.

I can answer your last question. You keep on moving up at the new rank and you can punch at 20 if you want. I knew 2 guys that got continued as Capt's, both made Maj, and 1 even made Lt Col. Granted they were nav's and not pilots.

I just finished my ATP at TCC also. I'll second what Jango said about TCC. After talking with the chief pilot Robert, which he has been pushing for a second plane, their best bet is to have guys who went through tell the school they need a second plane. He could keep his planes and instructors busy with just the ATP guys till the end of July. There is a second Seminole across the ramp that they will rent if their's goes down for mx when guys are there if it's open. But supper easy and Jennifer was great to check with. Pm me if you want more details, they have openings from Feb on currently. I was the first guy they had book almost 2 months out. But they are starting to book up. No wait list yet like Memphis but I expect it to get busier as the time gets closer.

For the guys who stayed at Las Ventanas, did you just refuse quarters on base and have something set up with them? Also what did you do for furniture? A couple of the places I have found who sublease out from them are charging an arm and leg for it. As to where the 75% periderm wouldn't even cover it. Thanks

The form that HD is referring to is an 1881. Just put the dates on it and the required info stating what chapter is is under and submit to your local friendly finance office.

I just stopped by Pops today. They are still working on the location. No time frame yet. I'll see if I can get more info soon. Update to what's going on. They are still planning to put a store in the area. They said that they want it close to base so ktown it out. Just working on the German permits to open the store and have people come over to work. It is planned to be just a retail store. If you want some custom work it will be atleast a 15 day turn around. They did tell me that if it goes well and they can expand they might bring a few of thier backshop workers over to do custom work or make some stuff. The current time frame would be summer at the earliest.

The crew of the Challenger had their final go for launch 29 years ago.

Not trying to be a total smart ass, but did you tell him that we have to do at least a Take off, instrument approach, and landing each month to be current?

We use unblock-us.com. It's 5 bucks a month and it allows you to stream Netflix, Hulu, amazon, pandora, all the network apps work just fine. All you do is just change the DNS settings, the only down side is you can only use it on one device. But you can change the settings in your home router and you can use multiple devices once they are connected to the router. They have easy to follow directions.

Well it looks like AFPC had time to recruit new members for this years TIB reduced tour. http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20140418/OFFDUTY02/304180048/Tops-Blue-returns-gets-visit-from-Sinbad

Like most have said get your iphones (the ones with sim cards not the verizon ones) unlocked before you get here. We have the Tmoblie flat three pay as you go and it's good. Plus some providers don't work out in some villages which is good and bad if you have a work phone. I know they just switched from Tmobile to vodaphone on the blackberries and it doesn't work out in mine. Some folks just get new ones on base at the mobile store. As for Internet if you can get a village or town with Kabel Deutschland then your set. It vast cable and doesn't take for ever to get it hooked up. But there are other options for Internet if your in a small village. But like some have said there can be a limited number or ports in the village. If you end up going with a realitor they can and should help you out if you rent one of the properties they are listing.

No there is a apply through dates button when you are editing your entitlements. Just click the calendar and make it go through your return date. Then put the amount in as you are good. The calendar is in the top left part once you are editing your entitlements. Sorry if its not clear but I'm not sitting in front of dts, however I am drinking a German beir in my lazy boy.

Panch don't worry. That's required reading as well for one of the ACSC OLMP captains courses. If I remember it was in a leadership class.

An interesting read from avweb about the new ATP and the proposed costs of the required training. http://www.avweb.com/news/features/The-New-ATPA-Brief-Window-Before-the-Sky-Falls221453-1.html I was already thinking that I better have my written done before the end of July so I can still get in under the current ATP PTS. After reading this it really puts some things into prospective about getting it now under the restricted type.

They must have put it in during the later CSO rewrites