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Make sure you steal a bicycle as soon as you get there.

And.... you all are missing the point. As long as you have the right cover sheet it doesn’t really matter. I mean, you guys do know we are putting cover sheets on now, right?

As I told a young engineer just the other day, sometimes the easiest way to a 75% solution is to just half-ass the job twice. /the only thing better than engineering humor is math based engineering humor.

And if I had known you were waiting for me to die, I’d have ordered my coffee from an English major.

Thankfully I was able to check my spelling before I passed on to my reward. Surely history will judge the Preview button kindest of all.

Glad I could help you out with that.

So now I’m curious having not heard of either of these incidents - how did either crew get from those issues to doing full autos? Or did they do power-on autos just to get the deck as fast as they could?

I’ve heard that if you fly low enough, you can actually tie the record!

Assuming this is service connected, don’t rule out the VA. Their physical therapy actually tends to be pretty good.

Huh. So a plane did take off from a treadmill. Everybody hang on, I’ve got another thread to resurrect...

I spend about half my time in Seattle (our offices are right across from King St station). The Sounder is a great deal and makes commuting easy, so you can look further out than you think.

Judging by the rest of the self-indulgent garbage he wrote, I’m guessing he’s already doing that in front of a mirror each day. Some free perspective for our kill chain artist: when you show your ass like you have in this thread, a lot of people are going to pile on you. At that point...

The technology already exists for brownout/IMC/sea state, etc. under “normal” conditions. The software can already pass positive testing with no issues. The problem is defining the requirements for negative software testing, and setting the requirements for choosing between two sub-optimal...

Contract maintenance is more expensive, but is a different pot of money now, with the hope of controlling some long term costs 15-30 years down the road.

It used to be that an NCM was a standard EOT award for LTs who were leaving with an EP (both at my first squadron and at the RAG). I think that changed in the early 2000s?

Well, you have to have BD - you can't let the engineers talk to the customers...

Am I mistaken, or is this an article in an industry blog, driven by quotes from a new business development type guy, about an RFP that hasn't been released, for something that isn't a program of record?

I always understood it to be an inrush current issue, not an overall load issue. Edit: link for the unfamiliar

So when I read some of these suggestions I actually thought they were too dumb to bother commenting on. Zero useful thought was given to manning, O&M, or a dozen other gaping holes in the concepts. As a side note, every time I see this thread title I read it in The Bobs' voices.

There have been a few mishaps over the last couple years associated with high-speed flight tests in new designs. It has prompted a number of organizations to re-think their approaches.

The paperwork you signed has only the costs from the MY contract. The price as quoted above has development costs rolled in.

The reason replacing one pilot with an NFO in the -60 keeps getting rejected is that it couldn't make enough savings over the life of the airframe to cover the upfront costs. A much-improved AFCS (among other things) allowing a single person cockpit could save more than it cost eventually, but...

Changing to a 9 point scale will allow a lot more flexibility for COs in maintaining their averages, while also allowing greater degrees of breakout for above average ratings.* * I'm assuming comparing trait averages to the CO's average will be even more helpful in understanding how a CO really...

Yes the math works, but you'll notice the article glosses over developing the factory at 140k feet.

That's a great read - good find. I've always felt this has played a part in a lot of Navy mishaps, particularly in the old HC community.

Too lazy to look it up, but I thought the 3-star had to waive it (NAVAIR did it for my crew).

I don't think this is true for everybody. I did very bad things to my back and was on opioids (of gradually decreasing strength) for over three months. It kept me relatively functionally and probably helped me get into physical therapy sooner. After the obligatory YMMV disclaimer, I would maybe...

Unless you don't want to destroy the Rose Garden. Then there could be a downside. Integration costs would be equally painful to any other platform, as well.

An interesting read, but it misses the bigger problem. The issue isn't just his "COL Toxic" example failing in his brigade command. The larger problem is the number of mini-mes he created in his own image that are still being crappy leaders long after he's gone. O-6 is way late to recognize...

My medical records disappeared at ~ the 5 year mark and it really wasn't that painful (and this was 20 years ago). NAMI should have all your waiver info, and your squadron doc should be able to help you pull together all the different pieces of your record that have been stored somewhere else...

Some of the answers you got to this are a little off base. Silicon Valley companies are much more accepting of people who just want to do their job and don't want to go on some management "golden path."*** *** Which isn't meant to imply that the Silicon Valley culture doesn't have its own...

The people advocating for optionally manned have no idea what that costs in money, weight, or space (fundamentally interconnected concepts based on usability/habitability/survivability). I'm as big a critic of military acquisition programs as there is (retired as a 1510 but I choose to work...

It is very difficult to get the PCLs - I'm not sure I'd have managed it if I hadn't started before the nose broke - and simulators can't prepare you for how fast the nose will snap on you at takeoff power with an actual drive failure. I've advised people to make sure they know what to do if a...

It can also vary by which OCONUS spot you are at in particular - Guam in the 90's arbitrarily deviated from the policy you quote ( and nope - I have no idea why) and awarded sea service deployment ribbons instead. Policy in 7th fleet in the early 2000s was to not allow carry over months from a...

It isn't fair to only show him the good times.

Well, if you can't trust a blog quoting the WSJ quoting a Russian state arms manufacturing company executive, then who can you trust?

The paper in the link below is a good read at an absorbable level (relatively speaking, anyways) if you are interested in the challenges of modeling ground effect. https://etd.ohiolink.edu/rws_etd/document/get/osu1149869712/inline

Try this: https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/helicopter_flying_handbook/media/hfh_ch02.pdf Page 2-10 for ground effect, page 2-19 for translational lift.

You left out what they saved on taxes by depreciating it (along with any other deductions while it was a rental), the mortgage deduction for any time they lived in it, and the rent they collected. I'd try that math again.

Just upgrading the engines might not get you much performance gains unless there is already room for growth baked in to the rest of the dynamic components. That can mean the xmsns, heads, blades, etc. It can get very expensive very quickly.

Still around, but I comment less as the shelf-life of my experience dissipates. @hscs, I heard the video was taken down, a quick search didn't find the video anymore, just local news reports. The aircraft is flying again (fixes got delayed multiple times due to sequestration, so it took way...

Too lazy to see if this is a repeat of somebody else's points, but make sure your math is considering the mortgage interest deduction as well as any other deductions you can add if the mortgage interest makes you new to itemized deductions.

My info comes from working the board, so not a guess. Could have changed since then, though, so I would read the message if I wanted to know for sure. APCs used to be automatically calculated for boat school types on graduation, and for others when/if they applied to a program that required...

The only way classes would make you more competitive is if they are needed to raise your APC above the minimum. An advanced degree in engineering wouldn't hurt, but also won't overcome weak FITREPs, missing quals, or most especially bad timing. Your window for TPS can expand a couple years if...

I don't know if you still can, but you used to be able to challenge the MTP course. They were talking about that going away so it may be gone by now. USAF H-60 civilian gigs also require it.

Quite a few things go into calculating the limit, structural loads, the actual aero, FLM, what they are willing to test to (which = $ and time), torque limits (especially for stoping the rotation), what they think you need to be able to do, and what they think a fleet pilot is capable of doing...

They attributed it to a massive hydraulic flight control failure (to translate to H-60 think primary hydraulics, not boost). If you look at the maneuver they were trying to perform, he could have been stuck at not enough power to HOGE power and some left pedal. Ugly either way, but if it was...

That's on the extra-modified Cooper-Harper scale.... Seriously, it was embarrassing to deliver that to the fleet.

Seriously, PCOSI with the force stick was complete dildos. That was easily the worst of all the iterations.

Go here. You can automatically generate the letter you need. If you can't log on or have some other issue, you can probably get what you need at a VA center or hospital.