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When I was in Pensacola, I was a fan of saying I used to be a lawyer but then got into some trouble with the law, so I was currently working as a youth hockey coach as part of my community service. And then just basically seeing how deep you could go before she realized you were telling her the...

40’ for takeoff is your “everything is fucked, time to get out” alarm. In the pattern, guys generally set it to 450’ or 500’ for the 90 or 370’ or 450’ for crossing the wake. No puckering involved unless you’re hearing it on downwind.

Fair enough. I checked the flight schedule and the skipper has authorized mirth.

I haven't seen many tactical briefs done with Powerpoint, with the exception of the mass briefs for larger events. But that's certainly not an 80 slide situation. And I'm not much of a Kool-Aid drinker, but it's just not possible to adequately brief our more complex flights in much less than an...

I’m all for making fun of the Air Force, but I’m confused as to how we made that turn here.

I agree that the rhetoric wasn't helpful at all. Trump's supporters will say that was his "mad man theory" of foreign policy and that it brought Kim to the table. I'd argue that it was more likely his junior-high level of emotional maturity, but honestly it's probably impossible to prove either...

Hey, we're at least a step or two further from war, and that was not a given going into this thing. So I'll give the administration credit for that, and for being willing to try diplomacy. Those are good things, no question. That said, I don't see much concrete progress coming out of this yet...

Another jet thread derailed by fucking helicopter minutiae that no one cares about. Hey, when are you guys getting that CAG?

Where did anyone get the idea that the LSO says "in close"? And do these guys have any idea what max trap means? Does the sim give you 904s? So many questions.

I didn’t necessarily think he was advocating that course, I just wanted to put that out there because I’ve heard more than a few people make similar statements in defense of waiting, staying in, and/or trying other things before the airlines. And I think people who don’t have regular contact...

True, but over the course of a career, the average quality of life for someone hired today will be dramatically better than for someone hired in 7 years.

I would say I hope nobody wasted too much time prepping Trump’s Nobel acceptance speech, but based on the administration’s demonstrated competence I’m gonna guess they’ve spent the last couple months just furiously masturbating to the Fox News chatter about it.

Also, literally your every move on the flight deck is very closely controlled, so if your alignment with the shuttle is jacked up, there's a good chance it's the yellow shirts' fault and not yours. It's not like your taxiing up to the cat and eyeballing it.

The OV-10s belonged (and still do) to NASA, and were loaned to the Navy and flown by active duty Naval Aviators. And it wasn’t Afghanistan they deployed to. But I agree it’s not really an example of a platform being resurrected - it was two aircraft with no practical ability to bring more online.

I don’t see many people talking about Reserve options when it comes to this decision. Reserve retirement is still a pretty good deal - you have to wait a little while for it, but it’s still a decent chunk of money and maybe more importantly, affordable healthcare later in life. I’m in the...

Fact. Flying FA-18s sucks, can you shoot me a PM about lat transferring? I really want to be more kill-chain-centric.

Appearing on the SA page doesn't mean they were in the link. I think the whole thing is pretty interesting, primarily the fact that there was a special access program to look into such reports - the most credible of which I always would have assumed could be explained by our own...

Absolutely the former. My experience seems to the be exception in the VFA community, but I've worked with a handful of OS controllers who were VASTLY superior to any E-2 types I've ever come across. One of them did happen to be a multi-tour N7 instructor and the others were mostly people he...

You just responded to a 7 year old thread with advice that someone look into a program that has been gone for almost 25 years. Your gouge was almost 20 years out of date when this thread was new. This place is amazing sometimes.

I didn't even know until now that duck billed platypuses had venom. I must not have paid much attention in API.

Yeah, this was the show in Little Rock, North Korea.

So aviators still selected at 16% below the next lowest URL designator? How's that glitch fix coming?

A friend of mine just made O-4 out of that situation. Can't think of anyone else I know that ever has though.

Those are some interesting thoughts I hadn't considered. The survival of KJU's regime could be the ultimate testament to the value of nuclear weapons, and a successfully limited nuclear exchange could nearly destroy the concept of deterrence...So nuclear apocalypse is our best option? We're...

Two other things regarding unmanned fighters in a war with a peer or near-peer (or in some cases, even lower than that): first, it's difficult to imagine a situation where any of these types of threats can't significantly undermine any technical advantages a UAV might have, especially because...

Is this supposed to be a Yoda impression or are you implying that it's common for other Guard/Reserve units to find room for all of the people displaced by one transitioning out of its platform? Maybe that's true. I'd be surprised. That wasn't my point. I was trying to point out that if you...

It's also apparently possible for a squadron to go to no airframe whatsoever. I know one person who was in the process of applying to the 111th Fighter Wing, an A-10 unit at the time, and was told as an aside, "Oh by the way, you know we're losing our aircraft, right?" The 111th now consists of...

The Guard doesn't land jets on boats. Now brace yourself for a dogpile of "use the search function!" responses, and possibly a repost of an old letter if someone is feeling charitable.

Well NOW there's a retention problem.

That's a cool view of what happened just prior to the splash but I think the impact looks cooler in color. And yes, very appropriate ATO.

I'm not sure what kind of dog you have, but odds are he's at least as dangerous as a Su-22.

Yes, single seat. Pretty interesting video and situation.

To make the gray Eagle drivers extra butt hurt, it was an F-15E. And the Fitter shooter was apparently an E, not an F. Long time no kill for the F-15C.

Well, he claims that "M777 and M142 HIMARS have maximum effective ranges out to 40,000 kilometers and 70,000 kilometers, respectively." If those aren't just typos and he actually thinks we can shoot artillery/rockets distances greater than the circumference of the planet with 10m accuracy, that...

To slightly change the subject, I don't see why the services don't recognize that the current airline hiring boom is a serious factor but a limited window. There are any number of reasons why guys may think the grass is greener on the non-AD side of the fence, but none of that matters nearly as...

There's also the fact that a VT tour is a real bad draw for a jet guy, so there's a decent chance (though absolutely not a guarantee) that the ones you do find there are either people who weren't well-regarded in the community or are good dudes who got screwed and are justifiably bitter. Either...

It's not very common for an aviator to go to jump school and it's not something you can just go do because you want to. However, there are at least some unusual tours, usually in the disassociated window, that might require it.

I strongly suspect that the vast majority of no shows are for missed connections and not passengers just not even arriving at the airport. Anyone know where to find stats on that?

Color me skeptical.

Yes and yes.

No.

I took a FALANT this morning as part of my flight physical.

I can't pass the Ishihara test to save my life, but the FALANT is no problem, and I've never had any trouble with my color vision in flying.

Paying a significant amount of money to avoid a 1 in 10000-20000 chance of an inconvenience for which you'll be well compensated is idiotic. If you want to avoid these "catastrophic" consequences - which, in the vast majority of cases is absurd hyperbole - you already pretty much can. Buy a full...

Bookmark this for the next time some 15 year old comes on here asking how he can be a Navy SEAL, a fighter pilot, and an astronaut. You can accomplish anything you put your minds to, kids.

No, I'm saying that 1 (or 4) people chosen randomly to be delayed is better than the hundreds of people affected by a flight being canceled for lack of crew. And "skeds trying harder" is not going to fix this. Surely you understand that unexpected things happen in aviation ALL THE TIME. And...

That's not a good comparison unless the failure of that executive to get a room is somehow going to result in hundreds of other people who have paid for a room not getting one. That's the situation here - flight crews need to get to their flights or many more people are affected. I don't know...