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You aren't talking about that new laser program? The Forward, Reliable, Interservice Close Kill, free-Electron, Night-capable (FRICKEN) laser? I heard about this a little while ago.

Consensus among whom? SNAs? Here is the future of the HMLA: https://www.aviation.marines.mil/portals/11/2019%20avplan.pdf Start on page 78 and go to the chart on 82... BTW- you get a below in headwork because I've already shared this document once with you. If you want to know what the plan...

To be fair, Fulda Gap was never about anything but slowing the Soviet advance, at the cost of all of our A-10s and Apaches.

The Air Force is going towards something they call "CAPs" - Critical Action Procedures. You don't have to spell them out to get them right, or even say them verbatim, you just have to do them when presented with the scenario in the sim (or in a flight). Seems like a good change.

I'm trying to figure out how to post an MP4 video that I have. You see these guys disappear into (really behind, but it looks cool) the black smoke, you see a water drop, and then you see the helicopter emerge from the smoke on the way back to pick up more water. You also hear everyone on the...

Don't go spend money on getting those rating and endorsements unless it's something that you genuinely want to do and you're doing it to have fun, not to think it will give you a leg up in Primary. Prior flight time and ratings can help, but both of the former airline dudes in my primary class...

Took some photos yesterday of the SAJ CH-47 from Billings doing some water drop ops. They were doing some great work, and it was cool to see them pull water out of the golf course- but they ran out of daylight. Their website says they can hold 3000 gallons of water in their tank- they had...

https://www.aviation.marines.mil/portals/11/2019%20avplan.pdf That document has all of your unclass answers you seek Page 39 has a chart.

Looks like it. That's the beauty of experimental.

Now that you mention it, I remember seeing his name around MAG-14. Interesting.

From the article, "His first step was to find the plane’s best glide speed, the optimum speed at which a plane should travel to obtain an even glide. “I hadn’t gotten to that point yet in my syllabus, so I had to guess,” Tibbo said." So did he not have a PPL?!

Also make 69 part of every procedure and brief you'll ever do.

The AF really likes groupme.

On the ground side, PEDs are a real threat- and it's an uphill battle for leadership to keep LCpl Timmy from bringing his cellphone to the field so he can make his cool tiktok videos while they're at a big exercise. Want to know where that platoon or company is? Just turn on a direction...

Do as little work as possible, drink as many orange crushes as possible, participate in as many shenanigans as possible, work out as much as you need to in order to stay in shape, don't volunteer for anything, don't answer the phone, but if you're asked to do something and it's your turn- do it...

Bummer. But if you're doing stuff similar to what the CAP guys at March are doing, you're going to have a lot of fun and do some pretty cool stuff.

I didn't fly it, the old man did, and that jives what he told me.

When I was a sailing instructor at the marina on the Navy base in Norfolk, we were right next to HMM-774, a reserve Phrog squadron (they've since Ploptered up). There were a couple of pilots, 1st Lt types, there who were fresh from the FRS. This was in like 2004, well before I even intended...

I remember the old man telling me that the F-16 (and I think the A-10) had AoA indexers, but they worked opposite of how the Navy ones do. Navy ones tell you what to do with the nose, AF ones point to whether you're fast or slow.

No, I didn't. And that's why I'm voting with my feet. What got me in at 22 doesn't keep me in at 32. Generals and Admirals seem to not be able to understand that.

Is there more to this story? Not trying to be a dick, I'm very curious as to whether they have been successful doing this to someone. I got the advice early on that if I ever got a number to call, only ID yourself by your flight's callsign, and then call dad to let him know that the FAA may...

They don't. The military investigates their own mishaps.

That's very.... Air Forceish. And then the stud's head explodes when they hear something that wasn't on the script. People still gawk at me when I tell them that you don't use a checklist to start a Hornet.

WTF is a "Hollywood Checklist"?

Corpus Christi has the best sailing and windsurfing conditions in the USA. And I miss cheap avocados, and fresh made tortillas made by the local grandma at the HEB. But I'll never, ever, no matter how much money you pay me, live in that fucking piece of shit godforsaken redneck texan part of...

Plenty of dude do just fine and get jets without any prior time. Plenty of IPs around here will tell you that by the time your grades matter, everyone is pretty much on a level playing field with each other.

I don't see a scenario in which ALPA would support single pilot or autonomous ops either. To quote Han Solo- "But who's going to fly it, kid?"

Dude I went to TBS with was married to a girl whose father was a Colonel in the KGB. (He was prior service and met her while on MSG duty) They gave him a choice of either keeping his security clearance or staying married. He chose his wife. He became an Admin Officer, and I think came back to...

For UAV you have to be able to fly the Air Force IFT/DA-20 syllabus in Pueblo. It's 45 hours of flight time. As of about a year ago the Marine Corps is unwilling to waive this requirement. (Three guys in the past were waived, all three failed out of the RQ-21 FRD). Type A doesn't mean...

So why do you want to keep doing this? Your brain is literally shutting your body down when you're in a benign flying environment.

Wait... you're so incapacitated that you're losing consciousness?

Everclear, Bacardi 151... There is only one reason why a person would buy something with such a high proof. And yet the exchanges still sell it (even in states where that proof isn't legal).

Curious as well- especially since a large portion (more than 50%) of the forested areas of Ca are federal land and not owned or controlled by the state.

You indeed have to have a way to enforce the standards. Even with random urinalysis and barracks duties, we still have issues that pop up every so often. While the college campus dorm culture exists and is tolerated and selectively enforced, we do have to have a level of military discipline in...

UAV guys are still required to get the full 45 hour syllabus at Pueblo... For now... This has been a hot topic, but aeronautical experience and decision making is tough to teach as is in such a short course. RPA types show up to the FTU with about as much experience as a Primary student who...

Some of that exists already, some doesn't. The trick is to have the right kind of sensors to do what you want it to do, and the right kind of maps loaded so it knows where it is. If you can load the right level of DTED and CHUM, you don't really need much in the way of ground avoidance tech...

I think K-Max would be a better platform for water drops than MQ-8 would be. FWIW, all of the Ca ANG MQ-9s are doing firespotting and tracking. They're really busy fulfilling their Title 32 mission. And the Ca NG helo dudes have been doing some insane evacuation missions.

I think these two are related. I don't care what Airman, Seaman, or LCpl Timmy does in his off time wrt alcohol or pot or whatever have you. But I don't want him high while he's at work (just like most every other job out there). We can test for alcohol, but I'm not sure that there is an...

So you spend a lot of time at a resort in Jamaica? :D

Here's the thing man- Marriage isn't easy. But you can't really control who you fall in love with. The best you can do is get married and hope that your relationship can survive the distance and stress of being Naval Aviators in different squadrons. There are plenty of other jobs in the...

Sure, but Army Air Corps = Air Force. The differences were the same back then too. And the AF definitely derives their culture from their time as the AAC, before 1947. They have many of the same units, and all.

Why would you think it would be any different now? The Navy and the AF as a fundamentally different today as they were 100 years ago. Don't base your decision on the intricacies that can and will change by the time you get to the fleet. Base your decision on what service you want to be an...

Go to the Guard. Get an AGR job. Don't look back. You're welcome.

So they treat it in a similar way, but it's not necessarily the same (though a "bad" year is considered a break in service). Because I was completely separated from the USMC, and not affiliated with any Guard or Reserve unit for 4 months, I'm considered to have a break in service in my initial...

Okay- getting started here. The Joining Process. I'm at the MQ-9 FTU (FRS) doing a TX-1 (CAT Other) course at March ARB. Not a bad place to spend the next five months. I joined the Mi ANG, and I'm with the 172d Attack Squadron in Battle Creek. First thing is first- no matter what happens, no...

You're not wrong, but there is a fraternity for almost everyone. It might not be the airplane you want to fly, or the place you want to fly it, but the Guard does a really good job of putting like minded folks in the same place. Unless you've been blackballed because you're not a good person to...

I am. Life happened. But now I'm TDY to SoCal for a few months, so time came back.

Fair enough. Perhaps relevant would be a better word. There will always be one more!