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s What type of aircraft, and what timeframe are you referring to?

I don't know about the Navy, but there is no way an AF T-6 would get worked on by anyone other than a USAF-qualified T-6 maintenance person.

Oddly enough... these aren't the filthy animals on the plane.

Lululemon for me.

Agree with Brett. Granted; the AF is a different culture, but we've been through this issue and it made no difference to anyone, from my viewpoint.

Holy Navy acronym hell.

I hate "mom jokes"... but this is hard to resist.

Wrap technology has improved. You can do some great graphics.

They are happy because they have received their new, white ascots and are waving them proudly! Congrats to them! So glad to see the Navy finally embrace this ancient aviation tradition.

In the AF, most pilots I know don't list any language skills, so they can avoid a non-vol to a language related job. I have a friend that was on the career fast track, and his fluency in Arabic helped get him a key job working for a Flag officer. So yes... depending on what you want to do...

Really?? "Reconnaissance plane".

Have you taken private pilot ground school? If not, why not? Have you taken flying lessons? If not, why not?

It's only a matter of time before someone will file suit because they didn't get a free extra seat because they were discriminated against for being too skinny. #skinnyshaming The whole Pre-Board thing should be an indicator of how people will manipulate and abuse this.

Well, for starters... I will.

Today, at the big airshow convention in Vegas, they did a 1 hour moderated session with Dan "Yank" Pedersen... who led the creation of Top Gun... and Darrell "Condor" Gary, one of the original 8 Top Gun instructors. Jim Kidrick from the San Diego Aerospace Museum was the moderator. You hear...

Call the AF bases around you and get the number for CATM... Combat Arms Training & Maintenance. Those folks should be able to point you in the right direction if something is available.

It's only my anecdotal and observed opinion, but the transition is much more common in the USAF. In fact, my daughter just got her USAF Pilot wings last year after 6 years as a Nav/CSO.

Amen. Col Borman was our neighbor when I was growing up in the shadow of the (now) Johnson Spacecraft Center. My brother and his son Eddie carpooled to school. I recall he had a P-63 King Cobra in Las Cruces a number of years ago. Rare. I wonder where that plane is. In any case... him...

Opening act is "Point With Your Elbow". Sort of a Zamfir tribute band. Who doesn't love Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71_(band) https://hellcats4.bandcamp.com/track/heavy-metal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viper_(band) Sorry... but I'm not aware of any rock bands named "Fighting Falcon".

The fat lady hasn't sung just yet.

It's an unanswerable question. Only you can decide. The Finance career path sounds miserable to me.

A year ago, I had lunch with a local pilot group and was introduced to a new guy. He was almost 62, and had taken the early retirement for SWA. What was he doing now, you ask? He was a United new hire, and was in the middle of his initial 787 qualification.

I met a Horizon captain while jumpseatikg in Aug 2022. After 30 years, he was heading to Envoy. I think he was 59. They were offering him ~$425k to come to the dark side. I don't recall specifics, but he was making the move. Great money. But I've turned down a shitload of "good money" for...

Not OTC, but there is a lot of support for professionals using this to treat PTSD and other mental health issues.

Brett, In Hawaii, do you go primarily with mushrooms, or do you prefer the local Maui Wowie, and native Kava-kava plant?

He was taking mushrooms?! Well, that's just dandy. Thanks, Mr Pull-the-Firehandles. I expect we will now have to tell Flight Medicine everything about our mushroom usage before flights.

Something is very wrong in the news reporting. It's not making sense. He was in the jumpseat... and couldn't kill the engine switches without them stopping him?? And then he just left the cockpit when told to do so? How about this: he could wait until a trip he was flying, wait for a...

If you go into Naval Aviation, your kids are not going to grow up near family in your hometown. If your hometown is within 30 miles of the naval base to which you get assigned, then disregard my previous.

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"Yo... welcome to Delta, bitchez! I'm Tom Fuckin' Brady. No autographs. Pay me."

After his track record as a "strategic partner" with FTX, I can see why they hired him.

I don't know how you do it, MIDNJAC. When I take my gloves off in the jet, I'm almost guaranteed to get poked by a wire, cut by a sharp piece of sheet metal, etc...

Is this a rule only on the ship? On a land flightline, are you supposed to have your gloves on when walking to the jet? I tried those Wiley X gloves above, and couldn't get a good fit at all.

It's 22:1... so about 37 nm for each 10,000. A touch less with the pods on the jet. Get into the jet stream and you can go far... or nowhere. Takes about 90 minutes to glide down with the engine out.

They landed back home after a short flight... and got full pay. And may have had their entire 4 day trip cancelled with pay protection.

No, they are done by a professional wrap company.

Like BikerBoy said, we do a lot of "low" stuff (below FL450). You also may be surprised to know the AF has dedicated SAR Wings, using the HC-130 and HH-60. They can effect rescues over 1,000 nm off the shore... much further than USCG air assets can (or so I'm told). CA ANG has a wing at the...

Some parts of the Air Force do. They even carry a raft, wear an orange pressure suit, and fly a lot of their missions over water. As for the helmet, I'll stick to mine.

I haven't made the time to watch it... but giving an interview while the lawsuits are forming seems very ill-advised.

I hope he doesn't lose his job... because he doesn't have much of a backup career as a lumberjack. But seriously... the guy had a real axe to grind over some issue. Seems like a real hack.

For accuracy, that's not part of the Operating Limitations for an Experimental aircraft. You can take pax on normal day-to-day flights in most circumstances. However, if operating in "Waivered Airspace" like you have at an airshow, it is only "essential crew". Now, I can definitely see a...

Yes. United's last vacancy bid that closed out a few days ago had 85 unfilled Captain vacancies. I've seen plenty of posts from NB Captains waiting for their 3-year freeze to end so they can bid back to a wide body FO position. Under the current contract... and based on my seniority..., I...

Copy. Carry on, shipmate.

Weird. I was randomly in the I-Bar about 6 weeks ago and met a guy there named Jack McCain.

To paraphrase what a Marine I know wrote on another forum I'm on... The Supreme Court made a Constitutional decision. Biden didn't like it and wrote an executive order that says "fuck you" to SCOTUS and tries to do an end around. Tuberville has decided to do what he can do to counter this...

"Indeed, 11 percent of active component and 8 percent of reserve component enlisted personnel hold an associate's degree as their highest level of education, and 8 percent of active component and 12 percent of reserve component enlisted have earned a bachelor's or higher degree (DoD, 2017, pp...

This is great news. The treasures that were in Trader's are an irreplaceable part of Naval Aviation. First time I went there was around June 1995. Place was quiet and I got to meet and talk to Jon. I was pretty blown away by all of the stuff in there and just walked around and soaked it...

Yes... which is exactly the point I clarified... knowing that if I didn't clarify it, you would reply. Of course, I knew you would find a way to reply anyways. This post of mine is a waste of everyone's reading time. As is the one above mine.