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Rand study on USAF pilot retention
- Thread starter UInavy
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Quitter.
I can attest to seven helmet's story as i was there too. That particular det was also just perpetually ruined by poor communication between all parties, one in particular. It was literally the worst 5 weeks of my life. I'm not even kidding. Unrelated to the P-8 scenario, how the marshall stack got put right in the middle of the red tanker track (as if the red actually needed a f**cking tanker in the first place), causing a NMAC of potentially 100' or less......jesus christ, you can't even make this up. And i absolutely don't put the blame on the shoulders of our air ops......there were people ("evaluators" if you will, was never sure exactly whom they were evaluating, much less if they were even qualified to do so) who should have been coordinating this stuff, literally onboard the ship, not talking to them........and then complaining that we didn't coordinate for them, by using information that we didn't have. There is a common theme, and it isn't the P-8.
Getting out of the community for a bit was one of the best things I could have done. But after flying with other communities and talking to other aviators, the grass isn't always greener. It's more "which suck are you willing to deal with."
Lol. Bonus points if they were flying an Il-78 out of Sawyer Int’l Airport, Michigan.
Is It More Cost-Effective to Retain Pilots or Train New Ones?
Instead of relying on retaining its current pilots, the U.S. Air Force could hypothetically find and train new ones. But expanding the pilot training pipeline is costly. What is the best way for the Air Force to allocate its resources and sustain its number of pilots?
In other P8 and 737 MAX news:
www.duffelblog.com
“I think they said it was an autopilot problem,” said Geurts. “No problem, whatever it is it can’t be as bad as our pilots hand flying.”
Navy eyeing discounted Boeing 737s
"The Navy has a long tradition of buying broken airplanes"
www.duffelblog.com
“I think they said it was an autopilot problem,” said Geurts. “No problem, whatever it is it can’t be as bad as our pilots hand flying.”
In other P8 and 737 MAX news:
Navy eyeing discounted Boeing 737s
"The Navy has a long tradition of buying broken airplanes"
“I think they said it was an autopilot problem,” said Geurts. “No problem, whatever it is it can’t be as bad as our pilots hand flying.”
This is what happens when some MBA in the DoD remembers reading about arbitrage in a book...
Is that even possible to mod an existing 737? Seems like that would be more effort than buying new.
If you can get it for $1,400 like its mentioned in the article - yea it's probably worth it. Or were you being serious?
Just a curiosity aside from the article. In theory, an F/A-18F can be converted to a Growler with an AEA kit. I presume the P-8 has to be built as such from the ground up.
Anything is possible with the right amount of cash. In reality, I forgot where exactly the P-8 splits from the regular 737 production line but it’s fairly early on. The regular aircraft systems aren’t an issue and adding the sensors/crew stations aren’t bad either. The biggest hold up I’d see would be adding the weapon bay. But also, we don’t have the windows or dual overwing exists so there are other structural differences you’d have to overcome.
I thought I remembered the P-8 having different wings than a regular 737-800?
What he said. Could they slap on new wings, carve out some of the fuselage and put in a weapons bay? Yea, probably. Likely wouldnt be worth it though. They'd be better off buying them as bounce birds and letting the pilots screw them up through repeatedly crashing them into the ground vice doing it with places that have mission electronics permanently installed...