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    T-38 landings

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    Jesus I was in high school when this thread started.

     

    T-38 is fairly easy to land, it's just hard to land well.  They also used to fly a lot slower in the final turn...hence all the reading material in the "road to wings."  Just wait, AETC will get the TX and ACC won't want to buy it so we'll inherit C models and fly those for another 50 years as CTP and ADAIR.        

    Information on PIT (Pilot Instructor Training)

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    21 hours ago, Standby said:

    Probably exposing myself, but both the wife and I will be going through PIT which presumably means double the monies for lodging.  Can anybody recommend a crashpad or short-term rental that has a garage and an outdoor freshwater source?  Hoping we'll get a chance to do some fishing out of Corpus and cleaning fish blood becomes difficult when living out of a hotel or the like.

    Not sure about the joint-spouse finances...from what I can tell it's become a worse deal over the last few years with the cut rate per diem and lack of non-availability letters.  I'm in the same boat, headed back there this summer and looking for housing.  Plenty of PIT pads out there these days, but that typically means roommates.  I'm seeing furnished houses and corporate apartments rent for 2.1-2.6ish per month, which is above the 60/night rate the govt will pay.  Also looks like the per diem is now 48 dollars per day.

    I'm sure a PIT pad would be willing to put you guys in a master bedroom and those houses often times have garages, big backyards and lots of square footage.  Trying to convince the wife to live with roommates is the difficult part.  "Don't worry babe, I know it's called the "Bro-lagio" but it's really nice!"

    Information on PIT (Pilot Instructor Training)

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    Like anything worthwhile it starts with a grassroots effort.  It took us a year and a half just to get commercial Wi-Fi in our squadron. I'd think AETC would have more motivation than anyone to modernize.  Hire a bunch of nerds from Apple and Google, put iPads in everyone's hands, develop apps...you could be filling out gradesheets and 781s on a TIMS app when you're taxiing in.  Throw up a playback of the flight on an Apple TV in the debrief. Tons of ways to leverage technology to make us better.  But no...we're going to keep paying millions of dollars for f*cking ePex!  But I digress.

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    U-2 Crash

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    1 hour ago, MooseAg03 said:

    Stripes is saying the MP eventually graduated and is now flying U-2s, is that true?


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    He recently completed his 3 acceptance flights...currently in U-2 training.  Hail Dragons.:beer:

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    Information on PIT (Pilot Instructor Training)

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    AFGSC is full up EFB for their T-38s.  We recently started using iPads at Beale but they're not labeled as EFBs, we still have to carry paper.  ACC is working on a command wide EFB program, it falls into the "I'll believe it when I see it category" but at least they're finally on the right track.

    iPad and Stratus puck is now part of my personal MEL.

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    U-2 Dragonlady info

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    8 hours ago, Majestik Møøse said:

    AZ Wildcat: was Huggy's guess of 1800' MSL correct or were you guys lower?

    :beer:

    Pretty close :)

    4 hours ago, Huggyu2 said:

    Just spoke to one of the two pilots that flew the photo op.  Great story... great support by Beale PA (again)... and hopefully they will release some great photos in the near future.  

    I'm officially the Doubting Jackass of the Week.  Foot inserted into mouth, and humble pie has been eaten.  

    Actually you're partially correct!  The photographer on the beach (just happened to be in the right place/right time) used to work on base and was familiar with the U-2.  When she saw us fly over she had to grab another lens to get the shot and wasn't able to time it perfectly with the jets over the bridge so what you're seeing is a "layered" imaged of two photos that are a few seconds apart.  Still...we had great luck that day. 

    Here's some teasers...Once all the official photos come out I'll work on getting the cockpit video edited.  The 2 seater also had a 360 camera in the front seat (where you can watch it on your phone and tilt around to see all angles).

     

     

     

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