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I actually agree with you. Our prolonged presence there was a mistake and to think any withdrawl under any administration would look any different is a mistake. I'm personally okay with being done with that shit hole forever. However, it won't be long before we bomb that place into moon dust...

Yes to both questions.

Labor costs are not the breaking point of airline financial decisions. The money they pay highly qualified and vetted professionals to do a particular job may seem enormous but pale in comparison to enjoying the public passenger's piece of mind. Any time there is a significant loss of life...

I feel like this very excellent pun was lost to some.

If there are still inquiring minds out there, Corsair (and also Hellcat and Avenger) is a multi-faceted approach to leverage many things in an attempt to modernize flight training. There hasn't been a significant technological improvement to Navy flight training in over 30 years and for the most...

You sound about as knowledgeable about this as you did COVID. Can't wait for the fucking charts and graphs to start ? If you're as smart about everything as you think you why aren't you in charge? For fucks sake dude, what aren't you an expert at?

Well, I'm pretty good friends with a guy who knows a dude who met a guy who runs Corsair and I disagree, but let's all just keep shitting on the program without any actual real knowledge of what's being done or changed. As far as MIF and CTS, I've never had any issue using it as a grading...

That's just flat out false. These programs are designed to replace and reform ground training. In essence, no one wants to bang through 40 hours of computer slides anymore, especially when project Avenger gives you the ability to do them from home. Just to be clear, none of these programs are...

In short, yes. The Navy is doing all the same things.

That's Pungo to most of us

Agreed. No one uses base ops anymore. We file electronically and it goes in the system. Everyone moves on.

Yep.

We don't use DD-175 anymore either. The DOD has shifted to -1801s

They also issue them in Meridian. Along with your free Foreflight account you also get access to every pub, FTI, MCG, and a cool PCL that's tabbed so all you have to do is select the emergency and it goes to the correct page in the PCL. It's in its infancy but it's pretty useful. No more smart...

Sometimes you get screened and they can't even tell you what they are screening you for unless you get picked. It's obviously good to have a skill they need especially if you can do that skill in a different language.

No.

I wouldn't ever describe anything about the USMC as functional, especially its leadership.

By this logic we should keep people in jobs they are incapable of doing just because they are nice. Being nice doesn't mean you can land on the boat at night just like being "bad" doesn't mean you can't. Not a great comparison.

I don't necessarily think either one of those things precludes the other.

That "somehow his coc dislike him" leaves a huge gray area doesn't it? It's also so grammatically screwed up it hurts to read.

Sailor B isn't even eligible per the 1420 so I don't think it's a mind boggling scenario.

If the best sailor in my command had an NJP and was up against five other sailors who were also qualified, my recommendation would go to my best sailor, period. Assuming the required three years had passed to make them eligible, I'm not even sure it would factor into my decision.

I did it, so.....I know at least one guy.

Wow.

I wouldn't necessarily equate working at DEVGRU with kicking in doors and being Mr. Sneaky Man. Lots of gold wingers have positions within their command structure. One of my COs did a tour there as a fires liason officer post DH. He got the opportunity go to jump school and some other stuff but...

It depends on the thrust to weight ratio and how quickly it can get energy back as well as how quickly it can spend its energy to get to that particular maneuvering regime. Another consideration is what kinds of weapons it's carrying and how quickly they can be cued and fired. If you're going to...

Haha, this isn't that kind of thread buddy.

COVID has essentially given every airline an opportunity to not necessarily renegotiate labor contracts, but to at least renegotiate how much those contracts cost. Pilot contracts alone generally represent 30-40 percent of an airline's fixed operating cost.

That's a real solid write up my man. You've paid attention.

Some of those illustrations are going to make great memes

I dove into that a little studying for the MILCOMP CFI test. It's certainly something that should be addressed at CNATRA is quite frankly is not. I also appreciated the text explaining how people experience things and until they experience something themselves they have little capacity to fully...

I'm not sure who does that. We don't do it in Meridian aside from comm for the startup and shutdown.

I'd argue that much of aviation is in fact scripted....especially when it comes to start up procedures, course rules, basic instrument procedures, landing patterns, taxi procedures, and ground ops (i.e., FTI, SOP, etc). Once they can show they understand that stuff I'll put them outside of their...

I'd be interested to know what methods you would use to institute such a baseline.

Well luckily they have an IP to help guide their decision making. Of course they are going to struggle when presented with scenarios they've never seen before. It would be extremely difficult for them to envision certain "off-script" scenarios with zero baseline experience. Very few people are...

You have to remember they are starting from zero. Scripts are important to lay a baseline foundation for procedures, especially in the sims, which are nothing more than a procedures trainer. As the student progresses it's up to the IP to present situations that test the student's foundation of...

Obviously at NAPS, duh.

In the Navy?

Meh, I think if someone wanted to be that malicious they could just as easily jam any RF based navigation system.

Not sure exactly how it plays out. I think the FAA maintains the VOR system but if you wanna install a CAT III ILS so you're attracting the G650 crew to your golf courses then that's on you.

Like WAAS, GBAS uses surveyed ground reference stations to provide error detection and correction for GPS signals in order to provide the required accuracy to shoot an approach.

It's very simply a function of economic impact. If the FAA mandates one certain type of approach system then it's up to the local airport to upgrade the system using its own money. If the airport refuses to upgrade then pilots have to accept higher minimums, less approach capability, and/or the...

GBAS is Local Area Augmentation Service renamed to match ICAO standards. It fills in the gaps and provides error correction signals where GPS and/or WAAS experience dead zones or anomalies. As for interoperability with ILS, one ground based GBAS system can support multiple approaches to multiple...

The FAA operates a minimum VOR network and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. It's literally called the VOR Minimum Operational Network.

If you have an EP from your sea tour you'll be fine. I made O-4 after being on my shore tour for four months and getting a P.

I wonder what will last longer, the virus or you guys arguing over the virus.

FWIW, the F-22 is awesome but it isn't perfect. It does its specific job very well. The F-35 does a different job, they are not the same plane nor is the F-35 designed to replace the F-22. There is some overlap in both of their capabilities but there are some things the F-35 brings to the table...

I'm not sure the ANG guys are as proficient as you may think them to be. For the fighter side, the most successful units are the A-10 and F-16 units who's primary mission is A/S. I have never worked a DCA lane against a peer threat with any ANG dudes. In any case, ANG units possess a ton of...

I feel like I disagree with most of this reserve premise. The amount of reps and sets it takes to be lethal across the VFA spectrum of missions is a full time job. In no way would I advocate for moving to a part-time capability. If anything, we need people to come and take over the collateral...