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Also, another plus for experimental and home built aviation aside from the cost is that you don't have to deal with the FAA every time you want to change the battery in your airplane. I guess it's what Vick is getting at: You don't have to buy from the certificated list, and as long as you...

Right now there is a lot of time between TBS and API, and the MOC at MATSG (enough acronyms for ya?) will give you leave pretty much whenever you want it. So for that reason, yes it would be a good time.

Yeah, I've heard of the sparrowhawk, and Perlan is back on track after the death of Fosset. (Some guy tried to break his and Einer Enevoldson's record out in Hawaii, but crashed and was killed in the attempt). It's nice to see a new company, but we'll see if he can compete. The lawyers drove the...

On the same note as how aviation is hugely over expensive now: my father and I were recently going through a bunch of my recently deceased grandfather's paperwork (he kept everything) and we found some old flight receipts fromw hen he was learned how to fly in the 50s. in 1959 it cost $8 an hour...

Yes sir, it's in the T-34 NATOPS. I should have specified.

Pray tell, did they teach you about Marine Air in Navy OCS? Or at Amherst?

NATOPS only prohibits night forms. TRACOM says that it has to be the same type of aircraft. We aren't even supposed to get an airborn gear inspection from a T-6 in a T-34.

We had 3 guys get dropped from our TBS company because of Rhabdo. One was an air guy who lost his contract because of it. Good luck.

+1, I said to myself," Damn, these guys have to be sim instructors at Whiting."

Do you really want to spend what little downtime you have from TBS doing more school work?

This has been my experience in other places. The company doesn't have the equipment to handle the number of connections in your neighborhood. I complained enough in Quantico (along with my neighbors) that they installed an additional 2 switches (I think cable uses them) in the neighborhood to...

I had good service with cox when I was in Pensacola.

Use good form with your arms and you're golden.

Whoa, a dirty Air Force jet! I didn't think those existed.

Some guy my grandfather knows (knew? grandfather is dead now) in Yuma is part owner in an A-37 that flies out of Deer Valley in Phoenix... Though the FAA records say that it may not be in flying condition anymore.

Do you really have an issue with a sharing a cockpit with a woman? Or having a woman on your wing?

"I think the queers should stay out of the military! I wouldn't be comfortable around them, you know, with them wantin' me and all!" Get over yourselves. And so what if a dude (or a chick if you are one) hits on your or asks you out on a date? "No thanks" is all you have to say. Gay people...

Didn't you guys have a couple of 2nd Lts from MATSG on the float with you?

There was/is a privately owned one that some guy in Yuma has. And I think some South American countries still fly them.

"Well Lance Corporal, I would probably make sure I knew who I was playing gay chicken with."

I got hit with the survey. So did my wife. It showed up in the mail one day; you went to a website, entered your login and took the thing. Had a lot of questions. I remember one question saying something to the effect of "Would sharing a berthing space effect you, your job... etc" with a bunch...

I want to say there is one with Marines painted on the side (I could have sworn it was parked out as a preflight bird) but I'm not sure. The lettering is so small you have to be right up on it!

So when do you start UPT for the unit that picked you up again? ;)

Looks a lot better than the 2 tone paint job on the T-6s at Whiting. Navy and Marines should be bigger on the sides though. I wonder why they are so small....

No. There is yelling. But there is no 20 step process to follow when you eat. You just eat quickly. And you will learn to get creative to maximize your caloric intake.

Graduated TBS 6Nov2009. Started Primary ground school 1Nov2010. 9-12months may be quick.

If I had a brown leather jacket I would wear the hell out of it. Still waiting on supply to give me mine. My green jacket is a freaking large when I need a medium, but it was either that or no jacket at all. So I look like MC Hammer if MC Hammer was an SNA...

I haven't seen anyone wear the green jacket with anything but a flight suit.

How do you know? You aren't married. If you marry the right person I think it makes things easier. I come home to someone that I don't work with, that has something to talk about other than work, and genuinely cares about how I am doing. My wife helps me study, (I made her EP cards; she will...

I'm not sure what you are trying to say. You want an OCC air slot. The OSA has basically told you that the OSO either A-doesn't have any, or B-the few that he has are already filled. You aren't going to bump a guy from a slot that was awarded to him. So what next? You wait until next year, or go...

Going to TBS as a winged aviator (and possibly a Captain at that). Wow, the possibilities... My company CO was always telling us he was the only pilot in the company. I can see it now, from the back of the room comes a lonely voice: "Actually, sir, I earned my wings of gold..." He would be a...

You made it home to fly another day. I'd say the airplane treated you pretty well all things considered.

That would make sense. I'd say plus those numbers up a bit for attrition, as we are bound to break a few over the years. It's going to boil down to whether or not we (as a Marine Corps) want to continue to have a presence on the carrier. It will be interesting to see what happens with the...

Right, but the USMC wants it all off of an LHA/LHD, not a carrier. That is the major issue here. It has to do that job, AND do it from an amphib...

Apparently Adam Savage (the guy from Mythbusters) got through the screener with 2 twelve inch blades on him, TSA didn't see it. Did the imaging machine not detect it or did the TSA agent fail to do their job?

So again, I guess the big question is that if the F-35B is more than we can chew- What do we get that can fulfill the needs of the Marine Corps? As much of a shit sandwich the F-35B may turn out to be, where else do we go? We can't replace all of our Hornets and Harriers with 100 total...

Touche salesman.

I agree with the stealth argument, but what fixed wing CAS asset can we have that can fly off of an LHD? Our options are pretty limited. It's more like: we have an airplane that can do deep strike and anti-air (for both of which stealth is a plus right?) and can take off and land from an LHD, so...

Eyes are checked the same way for both longs and short forms.

Have you done a flight phys with NAMI yet? If not, expect a long form. (May be different for Navy, but Marines who didn't do a flight physical with NAMI had to do a long form with them, those of us who did one down here previously only had to do a short form with the clinic)

Here here!

WAAAAAAAAY too much. Beer= Cool. Ladies=Cool. Airplanes=Cool. Anime= That weird guy that dresses all in black and lives in his mom's basement. Do you want him in YOUR squadron? I think not...

Super Hornets don't support a MEU so well... Fixed wing aircraft off of an LHD(and it's sisters) require stovl. We either buy the F-35 or develop something else that is new (and costs even more money). We aren't going to develop a new CAS airplane that isn't stealth unless we get on board with...

Why stop there? Our artillery officers already go to an Army school, why not just get rid of Artillery too? Think of the savings!

After being around the Sikorsky guys at Whiting I am pretty impressed. They know their shit. And to be honest when a guy whose been working around and on the PT6A engine and the T-34c for 25 years tells me that it's going to fly and work as prescribed I really believe him. I wonder why Corpus...

Holy shit dude don't get him started! It's like the jumping into the lions den wearing a steak necklace.

There is a former IFS instructor from AMS in Milton who got a Guard C-130 slot and is at AF IFS.

And every time I see the video. They must have showed it 20 times in API, and another few times during any CRM training.

Does everyone in the Osprey pipeline go to VT-35?

At least you are to a flying part of the syllabus! One CPT a week.... 6-7 weeks in ground school when you should be done in 2.5....