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  1. zippy

    Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 Decompression

    Eat less bread and crew meal desserts for next time…
  2. zippy

    FNAEB outcomes

    Maybe not in VFA/VAQ but in VP it was a thing. Thats why there were plenty of guys who were qualified but didn’t sign for the plane. It was less headache for the command to pass them and bench them. My second deployment there was a pilot who was coming on their time limit qualify as PPC. The...
  3. zippy

    FNAEB outcomes

    Sounds like the DHs didn’t want to deal with the headache of opening the training program to the scrutiny of a FNAEB, or didn’t have the vision to see you be a successful Naval Aviator. Either way their advice was not in your best interest and the path you chose was much more work for the...
  4. zippy

    Inter-service relationship (Navy and AF aviators) can it be done?

    Honestly, there’s about zero chance of colocation outside of initial training, obscure shore tours (for you) and if you both get assigned to DC at the same time (around 15-17 years from now). Your best bet making things work long term is both being in the same service.
  5. zippy

    FNAEB outcomes

    There is some gamesmanship involved for people who walk away post wings and commitment to get out early. For DORs and Med DQs, it involves them making an attempt to redesignate into another community and not getting picked up. I know three that have gotten released from Active Duty in this...
  6. zippy

    FNAEB outcomes

    If this person is getting FNAEB’d vs flight school attrited I’m guessing they have wings, being a winged military hour reduces requirements for an ATP for military pilots to 750hrs TT. Somewhere in the FRS places them around 250-300hrs. OPs profile placed them in intermediate jets so that means...
  7. zippy

    FNAEB outcomes

    I mean if the dude‘s stick monkey skills weren’t cutting it for jets and he wanted to prioritize tactical relevancy for the remainder of a career, ANG robot pilot isn’t a bad choice. The times I’ve been at the gym and seen that some high profile asshole got whacked, usually one of my drone...
  8. zippy

    FNAEB outcomes

    FNAEB won’t be an issue long term for flying commercially.
  9. zippy

    Can Whiting/Corpus determine selection.

    Yes. It has happened (at least to Navy selectors) occasionally in the past due to budgetary constraints when it come to PCS orders. No/Low money for the remainder of the FY has resulted in selectors going to advanced pipelines that don’t require a PCS to other bases. Really wouldn't worry about...
  10. zippy

    P-8 overshoots runway in K-Bay

    New MPRA patch…
  11. zippy

    P-8 career advice -shore tours, sea tours, & more (oh my!)

    The VPenis detailers got upset when JOs started using the public billet list against them to negotiate orders so stopped posting them. Your first 6-12 months in a squadron usually determines your career path (no later than PPC). From there, your shore tour options will be made available for you...
  12. zippy

    P-8 career advice -shore tours, sea tours, & more (oh my!)

    Unless the mindset has drastically changed, anything non traditional will require you to not be too competitive FITREP wise, so that could be an option for you. Saying you want an overseas gig easily can get interpreted into meaning you want to go to Misawa, or Bahrain so be very specific when...
  13. zippy

    Maintenance at a civil airport?

    Whichever TRAWING MX is closest goes on a road trip.
  14. zippy

    Rejoin after DOR 5 years later

    Look at the Army WO program, you might be young enough. Or maybe the guard? Or you can get into a cadet program just go slug it out at the regionals and go to Delta like one of the SNFO DORs (who got the same code) I used to work with.
  15. zippy

    P-8 overshoots runway in K-Bay

    Of course it is relevant to the future of the mishap aircrew. Community vibes will influence the career trajectory of the crew in question (FITREPs, orders etc).
  16. zippy

    P-8 overshoots runway in K-Bay

    As was I… I’ve flown with dudes who’ve killed people in mishaps in .mil who fly airbuses now… There is an extreme forgiveness for military mishaps in airline hiring (at least since 2015) provided the mishap pilot can articulate lessons learned and now they grew. On the other side of the coin...
  17. zippy

    P-8 overshoots runway in K-Bay

    Nope. Military mishaps aren’t deal breakers for the airlines… I know of several people who totaled airframes with AA employee numbers, as well as some at other airlines.
  18. zippy

    P-8 overshoots runway in K-Bay

    Firing up their American Airlines applications…
  19. zippy

    Anxiety Attacks-Possible NPQ

    Agree with all of the above. Flying right now isn’t the important issue, getting your mental health back into your control is. You’ve recognized that and taken steps to address it. Thats a huge win. Early recognition and seeking treatment pays long term gains. I’ve got a buddy who had mental...
  20. zippy

    Flight Training

    The big leverage of wings +8 used to be that it was very tough to get a flying job that made financial sense without being flight current (100-200 in the last 12 months). However, that hiring environment has changed and airlines are adapting to the annoyance of Wings +8/ +10 (Air Force) on their...
  21. zippy

    CMV-22B Osprey Rollout

    Well, they have been plagued by various issues over the years and they get more attention because of their checkered past and tendency to kill a bunch of people when they do fall out of the sky. New Development? The prototype first flew in 1989 and IOC was 2007. We’re well past new...
  22. zippy

    P-8 overshoots runway in K-Bay

    Looks like it’s in pretty good shape considering… I don’t know much of anything about aircraft salvage but I have full confidence that if there’s an obscenely expensive way to repair compared to purchasing a new one cheaper while having a greatly reduced service life with limited use (first 65hr...
  23. zippy

    War in Israel

    Or you know, at stop giving them money…
  24. zippy

    CMV-22B Osprey Rollout

    Marine Corps MV-22 had a mishap rate of 3.16/100,000hrs in a 10 year lookback as of 2022. They get the reputation for being dangerous because they’ve killed and injured a lot of people riding in the back over the years. It’s not like the hornet community plunging one into the ground, killing...
  25. zippy

    P-8 overshoots runway in K-Bay

    TOLD absolutely gets calculated off aircraft for normal operations in 121 land. Not manually by dispatch though. Usually it’s part of a flight service package, takes into account individual airport characteristics, weather data, aircraft load out, configurations and performance limitations...
  26. zippy

    P-8 overshoots runway in K-Bay

    That’s the intake for the caterpillar drive… ?
  27. zippy

    P-8 overshoots runway in K-Bay

    This link goes into the details of the Jax accident better than my memory… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Air_International_Flight_293
  28. zippy

    P-8 overshoots runway in K-Bay

    A ways back a contract 737 flying into Navy Jax couldn’t get in to the main runway in shit weather so decided to take a tailwind on the wet, short runway and ran the plane into the river instead of Jax international.
  29. zippy

    P-8 overshoots runway in K-Bay

    The Navy contracted with a bottom of the barrel company and got what they paid for. Those pilots were fucking morons. Landing on the short wet runway with a honking tailwind during a storm instead of flying 5 more minutes to JAX. They’re lucky they only got everyone’s dog killed…
  30. zippy

    P-8 overshoots runway in K-Bay

    Just a guess- the 737 optional front door slides/rafts are an extra maintenance cost for something that is overkill for the crew size. They’re probably fine with a .mil version of the overhead stored rafts in the ceiling.
  31. zippy

    P-8 overshoots runway in K-Bay

    Welp, on the bright side, now they’ve got a P-8 for a front gate/ air park somewhere…
  32. zippy

    War in Israel

    You’re just gonna have to push the “I believe button” that it is. No one should be talking about it in any level of detail.
  33. zippy

    The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??

    The Unions usually do.
  34. zippy

    Feds bust “ high-end brothel network” used by elected officials, military officers, others

    The studies are still very new, but it seems that being an Incel is a symptom of underlying mental illness...
  35. zippy

    Feds bust “ high-end brothel network” used by elected officials, military officers, others

    I said otherwise an Incel. In this particular case short, loud mouth, borderline personality disorder, which makes him (by his own admission) completely unable to get past the first date with women even though he wants a family. From what he’s told me over the years, banned from the big name...
  36. zippy

    Feds bust “ high-end brothel network” used by elected officials, military officers, others

    Historically, there prostitution usage by USG was okay overseas but not so much CONUS. 3 letter agency guys used to be cleared to do so as long as it wasn’t close continuous contact (aka not the same prostitute more than once)… not sure if that changed within the last 5 years… Only once secret...
  37. zippy

    U2 Headed For Retirement

    Tell me you own Boeing stock without telling me you own Boeing stock…
  38. zippy

    Feds bust “ high-end brothel network” used by elected officials, military officers, others

    Oh man, I’m pretty sure know a couple of their clients based on the media’s description of the screening process and what I was told about it from an end user. if not, there’s definitely more than one of these operating and used by dudes at the Pentagon.
  39. zippy

    The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??

    Apparently PSA started one for UPS too…
  40. zippy

    High Finance or Aviation - Fearful of making a choice I will regret.

    I know a couple of dudes who started out in finance after college and became Marines. One is still flying. I also know a dude who left finance in his 50s to become an airline pilot. He’s a airbus captain now.
  41. zippy

    The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??

    On top of everything criminal, he’s facing immediate revocation of all of his flying certificates. He’ll have complete HIMS and then attempt to regain an FAA medical first and navigate all the psychiatric condition/depression/drug use/ drug abuse as well felony charges and criminal convictions...
  42. zippy

    The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??

    Sweet! I hate mushrooms… vindicated! Now if they would only stop putting them in the crew meals…
  43. zippy

    The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??

    I know a guy who knows a guy who talked to this guys wife… apparently was a “good guy” and “snapped”.
  44. zippy

    War in Israel

    Arab-Israeli conflict has been pretty much a side show since 9/11, especially after the invasion of Iraq. Other than the Intifada almost 20 years ago, the conflict has been a series of smaller length skirmishes that didn’t really stand out against the back drop of the war in Iraq, Syria...
  45. zippy

    War in Israel

    They’re often worn on necklaces… you can get them on Etsy these days.
  46. zippy

    P8 NFO Lifestyle

    The only thing worse than a Navy doctor is a Navy dentist…
  47. zippy

    War in Israel

    And the hope of not getting thumped by the IAF…
  48. zippy

    Navy Helo to NOAA/USCG FW

    There’s an app for that these days… but here’s what they’re currently looking for. https://www.omao.noaa.gov/noaa-corps/news-media/article/noaa-corps-offer-direct-flight-career-path https://www.omao.noaa.gov/noaa-corps/eligibility-and-benefits
  49. zippy

    Will's

    Probably not technically, depending on state and status of the executor. You really should contact a local attorney where he resides to get their take on it. Either way, be prepared to expect financial institutions that wish to see copies of the will question whether or not that is it is the...
  50. zippy

    What branch should I join?

    Coast Guard is a great gig, you contribute while doing your job often vs training for years at core competencies you’ll never use beyond exercises that show how fucked you’d be if you ever had to use them in a contested environment.
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