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    Mass Shooting in Aurora Colorado

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    Someone's been reading too many Vince Flynn novels. You're not Mitch Rapp, old man.

    You're in a crowded theater with tear gas, people panicking, and a heavily armed assailant with body armor and a rifle.

    If you start shooting from concealment, odds are you're going to hit or clip one of the people running for their lives. I seriously doubt there was a clear shot, especially not in a dark theater with the guy wearing all black and throwing tear gas into the room.

    If you try to approach, you're going to get mowed down. He has the advantage of line of sight. Everything is in front of him, and you have to descend (more than likely, unless you sit all the way in the front of the theater). He was picking people off going for the exit.

    Everyone's a keyboard cowboy, but odds are you would have been just as ineffective in this situation as everyone else. But please, tell us more how you would have single handedly disarmed and stood down the threat in the midst of chaos.

    Look obviously none of us were there and it's easy to armchair QB the situation after the fact but come on man, you have to agree that a lot of these outcomes could be drastically different with just a handful of people willing to put themselves in harms way and take the shooter down. Forget concealed carry for a moment, just tackle the guy. Reference the Gabby Giffords shooting. According to reports this guy was walking down the aisles and stopped to reload multiple times...and they found him in the parking lot by his car! Nobody did anything. Disgusting.

    Again, I and I think everyone on here feels terrible about this tradgedy but it's my humble opinion that people are all too willing to be slaughtered in mass rather than stand up and defend themselves. Point is you don't even have to have a gun to make a difference. If you can run for the exit, stepping on injured people as you go, you can just as easily run for the shooter.

    Low Levels in Colorado

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    A couple of problems with your post.

    1. You have to be in radio contact in Class C, and you must accept those vectors/altitudes. But its only 10nm in diameter. You don't have to participate outside of it. When I arrived VFR at Laughlin a few trips ago, I got radio contact at about 12 nm from the field, with them acknowledging my callsign. As I blew inside of 10nm, they got audibly agitated. When I landed, I was told to contact the TRACON. Long story short, I dared them to file a violation on me. "Bring it" I told them. They backed off and said they "would let it go this time"

    2. When you depart the Class C, call "terminate" and your flight following is done. You can go through the MOA all day long and not talk to a soul. But if you are VFR with flight following, you still have to accept controllers instructions. Don't want to follow them? Ball's in your court.

    Caveat: If you have an incident, and you were not getting flight following, expect to have your nuts crushed.

    Ya I'm just talking more from the perspective of a local T-6 flying around, Obviously we're expected to play ball and follow local procedures. There's all kinds of things going on as to when you're IFR, VFR, MARSA, etc. Add a few international solo students and some transient U-2 drivers into the mix and it gets fun.

    wrong. the purpose of a MOA is to seperate IFR traffic from non-hazardous military traffic. Joe Schmoe in his C-172 can blaze a VFR trail through your MOA any day of the week, without even talking to anyone, and it's completely legal. And stupid. At least the sectionals include MOA freqs now, so Joe Schmoe can choose to check in if he wants...

    Right, happens all the time here. If it's a clueless bug smasher we'll usually go fly circles around him and chase him out of the MOA. Not that a solo student in the T-6 couldn't be described in the same terms.

    500' over unpopulated areas (everything in South Texas is unpopulated), 250 kts below 10K (though we come in for the break at 350ish, maybe faster if it's Friday). Though we really don't get too low. Lowest VFR I've been not inside the initial is about 1500', and that was coming back from the outlying field after doing carrier type landing practice to stay under the weather.

    The impression I always had was the Navy was more into the "make up your own low level" game vs flying published MTR routes, I don't know how much truth there is to that

    Low Levels in Colorado

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Uhh, you're VFR...unless it's in Class B or something just tell them to ###### off (in better terms of course). Unless of course you've accepted TRSA, but then that's your own damn fault.

    You would think....I've heard some pretty good arguments between approach and people who were supposedly "VFR". Laughlin's just class C but they'll happily vector you and assign you altitudes if they feel like it. Either there's some reg somewhere for local aircraft or nobody's had the balls to tell them to f^ck off. Unless you're a 172, then you can fly right through the heart of the MOA at any altitude you please.

    Me - "Cancel IFR"

    Approach - "Roger, IFR cancellation received"

    69 seconds later....

    Approach - "Descend and maintain 5,000, fly heading 160

    Me - "F^ck off"

    Approach - "Standby...uhhh unable"

    Low Levels in Colorado

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Perfect reason for LATN. VFR+1200+avoid some specific airspace...don't let the man hold you down! Thank God for none of this bullshit in Asia...I hate the FAA.

    I know right...I try that trick at Laughlin now and then, they still find me and give me vectors.

    Seems like scheduling routes is a PITA so far. So I take it that it's fairly common in the AF world to do the LATN thing and skip the MTRs all together? That would be pretty awesome.

    Especially if you're a Randolph training squadron...I've seen 4 T-1s flying circles over one another because nobody signed out a f^ckin' entry time. That's funny to watch.

    Low Levels in Colorado

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Just be careful when you're exiting those IR routes up there, typically you can't get a hold of center until you've climbed a few thousand feet but they get pissy if you do so with out talking to them (technically you're only cleared up to the highest altitude of the last low level leg). It's a catch 22, so just squawk 1200 and climb to a VFR altitude until you can get a hold of them. Also, filing can be a bitch if you're taking off from a civilian field. Center also whines if you don't have entry/exit times on your flight plan and Duats won't accept them and weather brief won't put them in for you either. At least that was our experience. SR or VR routes are no biggie. Still a blast. Enjoy.

    WTF? (**NSFW**)

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

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    SEATTLE – Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn says he's making an emergency declaration allowing police to confiscate items that can be used as weapons following violent May Day protests that left storefronts and car windows shattered.

    Police said officers made at least two arrests after hundreds of people marched through downtown Tuesday afternoon. A 23-year-old man was arrested for vandalism and a 19-year-old man with a knife was also arrested.

    Protestors dressed in black clothing smashed windows of retail stores and banks, and spray-painted parked cars, reported Q13 FOX News. Niketown, American Apparel, HSBC, and Wells Fargo were among the businesses protestors vandalized.

    McGinn said protesters were using items that looked like flagpoles as weapons. He said his order would enable police to take those items away from people before they are used to cause damage. McGinn said his action would help protect public safety as protests continued into Tuesday evening.

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.c.../#ixzz1tfX76tJ6

    Fvcking hippies! Time to break out the firehoses...

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