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To be clear, I mean no disrespect toward the incident on the Bonhomme Richard. As someone who has zero knowledge of how naval ships operate, I was somewhat fascinated... tragically... that we lost a warship in port. To those who fought to save the ship, I toast to you. My comment was aimed...

Apparently not.

Until recently, both branches have been doing pilot training pretty much the same way for 60 years. I have to wonder if the USAF and the USN have pilots cross-talking on what they are doing... actually integrated in each others' pilot training development process..., using ideas (both good and...

Another funny story. We had a U-2 pilot that physically touched an RQ-4. Shortly after that, it crashed. Months later, he touched another one while overseas. That one crashed a few days later. We tried to get him to walk the Beale flightline and rub every RQ-4 on the base! He wouldn't...

Are most of you aware an RQ-4 was "inflight terminated" by accident over the Edwards Complex many years ago? As I recall, a different Mission Control Element at Nellis was doing test, and during that process, someone "flipped the switch" to test the inflight terminate. Well, they hadn't...

A toast to y'all.

My friend Jerod flies Skyhawk 518. Beautiful TA-4. Two seats would be great! I think it's still for sale too. https://m.facebook.com/skyhawk518/

Caveat: A handful will go through TPS at Edwards AFB. I believe they may even send a small number to Boscombe and Istres. 7Helmet?

Chuck, Well... I used to go "FSDO shopping" until I got the result I wanted. I hear that's not as easy anymore though. 🤷‍♂️

From a good friend who teaches part time at a flight school. "I don’t have a TSA account but I had to do the TSA CBT to instruct at the school. It’s a 5 minute see something-say something brief. I did it when I did my CFI rehack. "

Yep. This is before I gave up and cut the tips off my Sparco's.

I spoke to Outdoor Research today. No plans to offer anything for a few months. I don't understand how gloves are "seasonal". However they said if we wanted to do a bulk order, we should contact their "tactical suppliers". I'll just buy the Sparco gloves I normally use and have a seamstress...

The only ones I can find that have the 3 fingers exposed for touchscreen usage are the Wiley X. They fit like shit. I'm not the only one in the squadron that thinks so, either. I use Sparco racing gloves and have cut the fingers. However, I'm curious if there's any other companies that make...

If it happens to the Captain, the FO should yell "Get the fuck out of MY seat!" Yes there are SOPs for this. And no one dies inflight, normally. They are "incapacitated". In a nutshell, get them away from the controls. Get the pilot out of the cockpit to render prolonged first aid. This...

They stick just about every commercial airplane on there... just in case. I cropped it out, but there are also a bunch of Regional Jets on that pay chart, at the bottom.

Here's the 2026 hourly pay for rates for United. If pay is $125/hr, expect to earn $125,000.

Just imagine the confusion had he stated he was a Coastie!

What percentage of people that buy this tend to get jets?

You're spot on, sevenhelmet. Very few avoid the left seat because they are intimidated by the workload. For me, moving to NB cappy from WB FO would mean a pay cut. And a lot crappier schedules.

Funny story... My wife is having breakfast at the Navy Lodge lobby and so were a lot of VFA-27 aircrew that are TDY here. There was also a couple sitting near her. They were probably in their mid-70's, and my wife could overhear their conversation. A couple of VFA LT's walked by and the...

Yep, you're absolutely right, Brett. There's a ton I don't know. A friend is the Vice at Beale and I learn how much I don't know about his job on a regular basis. This boat wreck is just kind of neat and interesting to me for some reason, and I wish I knew more about it. Anyways... all of you...

From what they told me: yes, GS can do it. Just show your CAC card. For details, call front desk at 619.435.0191, ext 4. Ext 1 is reservations. $185/night. There are some seriously easy and cheap things they could do to dramatically improve them, and things tend to be broken... but I...

Being on vacation with my portable super computer, I did some light reading on boats left to deteriorate in the surf. Looks like some toxic chemicals can be released as it breaks down. Now, I don't know shit about boats like the rest of you, but this thing either has to get hauled off before...

True. Getting a boat to float onto Cannon AFB would be an f'in miracle!

Thanks. I was curious if there was something like the old "Wednesday night" at the Miramar O'Club... back when that was a big thing. For those are not familiar with that, there's an old movie with a good scene from a Miramar Wednesday. In reality, the Club was better than the movie...

I'm on my annual pilgrimage to the NZY cottages on the beach. Question: what's the story on this boat? It is beached right in front of the cottages, and appears to have been here a number of months? With the US Navy being the experts in boat recovery, why has this remained here so long that...

Calling SevenHelmet... (Yeah, I know you're not a Rotary Guy... but you have a lot of Nerdology knowledge, I figure)

I was on the arrival into SFO at 1040 this morning, and heard GUCCI 10 check in on freq. End of an era.

... is tomorrow, 26 Sept, from Travis AFB. A little surprising to me to find out they have all been parked. I hope the KC-46 doesn't suck.

Congrats to LT Evan "Squints" Goss, who was announced at the show today as the 2025 West Coast TACDEMO team lead. VFA-122 is a class act, and I enjoyed getting to interview their Skipper, CDR Findlay.

Central Coast AirFest in Santa Maria CA is this weekend, 21-22 Sept. It's right by Vandenburg SFB, and the best warbird airshow in the nation. Two of the only 5 De Havilland Mosquitos will be flying in formation... the first time that has happened since 1987. The F7F Tigercat just cancelled...

Two years ago, the Navy did this. https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7420604/happy-birthday-us-air-force I'm curious if it was a joke or not. Either way, putting a Canadian Hornet in there was... different.

Uh huh. OK. I see a lot of Dept of Navy aircraft refueling off of USAF assets. i rarely see the opposite.

Air Power. Live it. Love it.

Air Power. Live it. Love it.

What he said.

You have got to be shitting me. N... F... O. It's an easy decision. Go work "supply", "logistics", or whatever when you're older, if you're so inclined. For now, go live "the life". You're welcome.

Ding, ding! We have a winner.

First-world problems... Make sure you say hi when you walk by me as I'm sitting in 2A, sipping my boarding champagne. Peasant.

I'm currently on a trip with some senior FAs. One has 55 years with United. The other is 50+ years including time at PanAm. As a general rule, I find many of these super senior ones to be the best when it comes to looking after the crew.

Agreed. My last ~10 years on active duty, I went all over the CONUS with the T-38. Once I was out of range of the Beale TACAN, my callsign for the entire weekend was HUGGY02. And I never heard one peep about it.

It was probably just a misunderstanding of having "Captain's Mast" that lead to this.

As a guy who never did air refueling, that looks sporty. I got to sit through A2A refueling on my S-3 orientation flight. Holy shit, that was memorable!

You aren't even commissioned yet? You are WAY over your skis. Focus on something a little more "near term" Answering your questions is a waste of time for you... and the person answering them.

Three weeks ago, I did meet a couple of Navy T-6 instructors that were assigned to Vance AFB.

If I can drive to my domicile, I wouldn't leave for another job where I had to commute.

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Yes, it happened.

Buy a backcountry-capable plane, move to Idaho (or similar), and start flying. Between that and hanging out at the airport, you'll meet some nice folks.

Tony created a well read website called JQP years ago, and later left it. Agree with him or not, he is an excellent communicator. Former C-17 squadron commander. https://radarblog.substack.com/p/solution-in-search-of-a-problem