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Two seaters are so an F-35 guy can ride in the back as a book reader. That, and they need someone to squawk for them at the moment. CMC stated today that FOC was going to be 2015, but every AVPLAN I've seen has said 2017 for the 31st/UDP/Japan move. They're going to be flying throughout...

Yuma's SAVT and Harrier sims are linked. We don't train together in them regularly (yet) but we do joint events during the course. The modeling is pretty decent and they talk to each other fairly well in my experiences. It's a work in progress, but it's coming nonetheless. We also have the...

You shut your whore mouth! /at the rate they're going, it's more like the distant future.

With that attitude, you'll have your TRA Black Belt in no time.

Luckily enough, I'm particularly qualified for that. Now, if it's still available when my (newly-renewed) commitment is up in 5 years is another matter.

Like when you need to pickup jets in another country? /Led that flight

No idea. If you figure it out, let me know. I'm going on 11 years and still have no idea what I'll do when I get out. I'm banking on my experience to count for a whole lot more than my marginal GPA in history though.

-An internal service road that's actually accessible from the flight line. We shouldn't have to pile our flight gear in a pov/govvie and drive off base to drive back on base to fly. I fail to see how a service road to part of base is restricted. It actually makes more sense then the current...

Because you have to leave base to get to it? Because it's a vast wasteland of concrete with zero lighting, so it's awesome at night when it's lit by nothing but floodlights at cockpit-level? Because it's a long ass walk from the buildings/gate in the Yuma summer? When it's RWY03, it's not...

I'm an Attack Pilot, thank you. Yes, we train to multiple mission sets, but I'm no damn fighter pilot - I like women and I know who my parents are.

This has to be one of the most self-congratulatory pieces of mental masturbation I've ever read. If I had the time, I'd seriously consider writing in to the AF magazine and give them my .02, but I have to actually, you know, deploy to combat shortly... again. No one argues that...

Based on my knowledge of just the topics posted in this thread, I am fairly certain that if I were to take an API test today I would fail the shit out of it. /don't even know where the oil filter lies.

While I appreciate the Mediocre Presidents nod, I'm not sure how I feel about that association. :)

408 is 150. I don't know any 406 numbers; never flew a -406 powered jet. /not that old //first FRS class to not fly a -406

There's a 150 KCAS min firing speed for it. It's not so much bleed air as an exhaust gas reingestion concern. Don't want to flame out the motor b/c of muzzle blast.

Yes, the Harrier's gun has a Continuously Calculated Impact Point (CCIP) reticle that uses various methods to calculate impact point. For AG, the most common is to use the Litening pod to derive laser height above target. If you don't have a pod, the radar/gps/arbs/radalt can all do it depending...

Yes, the Harrier's is engine-bleed-air-driven. The F-35's is supposed to be electric, so that should alleviate the high-power requirement for hanging guns. Trust me, if there's a chance we'll be involved in a situation where guns are called for, we'll have the gun on. For example, we're...

For comparison, the GAU-12 on the Harrier weighs about 1000 lbs and has a 7mil dispersion. Additionally, it's canted downward @ 2-degrees, so it's better suited for A/G. /next question.

I wasn't aware inadvertent release of ordnance was reserved for only forward-firing stuff.

Aside from the monetary benefit, the best aspect of flight pay is when you're on a FAC tour and get to explain to the grunts that you're still receiving $650/mo flight pay even when you're not flying anything. They love that shit. Also, what's the big deal? The kid asked about pay/benefits...

Same for the iPhone. Gives an error when you try to open a thread.

That is (or was, but I imagine it hasn't changed) the problem with the MACCS in Afghanistan in a nutshell. You have a DASC located at LNK who can't talk to the RCT COCs and ASLTs co-located with RCTs that may or may not have airspace to control, and if they do, have questionable comm throughout...

It was explained to me as FNG as: "people generally understand the battle space below them better than that above them" and I've found that's usually a fairly accurate stereotype... except for Osprey guys, who can't even understand a compass, let alone airspace. /asshole jet guy

Why? If anything, it's a waste to have a dedicated single-ship demo "team" for a fleet aircraft. They should be the first to get the axe. Fleet squadrons handle the Harrier demos; there is no dedicated demo team on either coast. It's a qual that fleet guys get. If we can source it from active...

Seeing as Career Designation is no longer automatic for aviators, that's more likely than you may think. Getting from 202k+ to 174k means cuts in all kinds of areas.

The Harriers, on average, are newer than the Marine Hornets. The last Harrier rolled off the assembly line around 95/96.

I finally got the rifle I ordered while on my last deployment... 24" #7, M852 throated, threaded barrel, Nanners T4 stock, Leupold Mk4 6.5-20 TMR, Harris bipod (already had it). I had it built by Tactical Rifles while I was gone (they take forever) and it showed up yesterday. They guarantee it...

First they take my nice cotton cammies, then they take my jungles, and now they take my sleeve rolls. If they get rid of silkies, I quit.

Yes, well there you go using common sense to try and decipher a Marine Corps decision. You should know better.

The reasoning was uniformity. Some bases would go sleeves up because it was hot, or sleeves down when it got cold. For example, going sleeves down in Yuma in November it was still hot or going sleeves up in NorCal and it was still cold. Some people took offense to the lack of uniformity...

WTF?

Heresy! How can you possibly be safe unless you assign a letter to your flight?!? You couldn't possibly plan and brief to your audience without labeling the flight a VL, L, M, or H. SAFETY VIOLATOR!

Toward the end of my first tour, our squadron briefly dabbled in ASAP. When I say briefly, I mean it was mentioned at an AOM, people did one or two, found it annoying, realized that since it was anonymous, there was no way to tell if you'd done it, and filling out another report to say "nothing...

Negative. And that was more of the nose gear coming out under G than a true overspeed. Wingman's jet did in during the Saturday demo on a 7.5G pullout. Went back up fine. We pressed.

Well, that was fun. 5 days, 7.5 hours, lots of sun, booze, and not much sleep - how it should be. I think I prefer manning the static vice actually flying in the show though. A bit more supportive of the lifestyle. From what I saw of it, the show was pretty good this year. MAGTF Demo Harriers...

Garmin 60CSx. Best hand held GPS I've used. It's got colored map capability, a micro SD card you can load with all the map data you want, WAAS, and a simple user interface. It's was reviewed as having the best antenna out there. I've successfully used it inside helos, jets, and MRAPs...

https://airworthiness.navair.navy.mil From a CAC-enabled computer. For all your NATOPS/NTRP needs.

Serious question... After two MEUs and watching chopper TACFORM briefs a few times for personal amusement, why is such an administrative thing (at least to TACAIR) treated as a major event in rotor-land? We don't even brief TACFORM outside of "be in _____ (formation)." How to make the turns...

Tupac wasn't from SD. /what's an ILS?

I thought it was "I like my women like I like my bourbon... 18 years old and all mixed up with coke."

Yep. Taking a jet and flying in the MAGTF demo. At least that's the plan.

That would get in the way of steel beach, captain's call, section PT, and GQ drills on the flight parade deck. I hold out hope for when the F-35 gets out there. Hopefully it will get the bigger, stronger Hornet mafia involved in LHD ops and bring some change about. We, the red-headed step...

I agree in that regard. The service that can break a rubber mallet is not the best suited for a low-observable, high maintenance platform that is compromised when the paint is chipped, so to speak. I've heard all kinds of rumors about maximum time in chocks before you have to get it to...

I see you don't know anything about CAS (from either end of the radio) or CAS platform capabilities, but please, do continue. It's fairly entertaining to those of us that do. Is a LO platform the ideal one for the USMC if it sacrifices survivability, and more importantly, maintainability...

As someone who bought in August 2006 and is about $70k upside down, any slide right would be a blessing.

Because they make a ridiculous suction/pressure pair of boxer briefs for that now. /saw that at Norfolk swim qual //PMA-202: "look at all this cool gear your PRs can try to order, but will never receive or will be laughed at by higher before they deny your request"

Bring back the UDTs!

What he said. From my experience, the Wynn beats them all. Plus, they have XS, Tryst, and a pretty good pool. I stayed at the Aria my last trip and I wasn't impressed.

I paid $150 for my Oxford jacket when I visited their shop in Osan in '09. Very nice quality. It's a bit bulkier than the issue jacket, but the useable pockets and zip-out liner are awesome. I just wish I could quickly break it in so it's on par with my issued one in terms of flexibility and...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43866314/ns/travel-news/t/some-flyers-may-not-see-savings-expired-taxes/ Some are, yes. Of course the 'some' happen to be the two shittiest airlines in America. No surprise there.