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dream big replied to Clark Griswold's topic in General Discussion

It’s going to be pretty embarrassing for the democrats when Trump beats their female candidate twice. I would also love for the first female president to be a Republican - just to rob the DEI obsessed mafia of that and elicit their hypocrisy.

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Lord Ratner replied to norskman's topic in General Discussion

Create an organization that has no true measurable metric for success. Then imagine the types of officers who are going to excel and advance within that type of organization. Finally, consider the types of decisions that sort of leader will make. It's the inevitable trajectory until there is once again a measurable metric for success.

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hindsight2020 replied to norskman's topic in General Discussion

That is the only language HAF responds to. They have a number. It's a political number, and they won't tell you what it is, but it's the one they find acceptable before at-scale recapitalization of primary and intermediate training is taken seriously. The rest of this exercise is nothing more than your typical morale-crushing regAF practice bleeding/running in place/ people put up with until they too bail for the airlines. Which is why I no longer get my blood pressure up about all the malfeasance, nor the political double speak. Any time people of my age demo have spoken up about this issue, all you get is tone policed and Luddite accussations. The AF has accepted atrocious gaps in basic training infrastructure for decades. The T-38 and the T-7 is the most glaring example, but the T-6 GPS is a poster child example as well, especially in the context of COTS solutions. To be clear, the -6s lack of NAS RNAV 1 compliance dates back to 2009, so they've been scoffing at it for a lot longer than this thread intimates.

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Clark Griswold replied to norskman's topic in General Discussion

If only you weren’t so right… You gotta fight or post on BO . net… like the US Navy “reevaluation” of their basic SWO training programs after two ship collisions, it will take something probably to convince the Bobs Funny how I was thinking about this jumpseating home yesterday, the crew was young but sharp, on descent they trapped an error on approach, I think the FO had been flying the CRJ for a year he said and the CA I think for 4 years, now would in a situation with a dude with only the equivalent of T-6 only been able to back up his CA and trap the error? Maybe but methinks chance favors the prepared or well trained Anyway, to hell with T-6 only direct to FTU…

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ClearedHot replied to Clark Griswold's topic in General Discussion

She got a dead cat lady bounce, but she is still WAY behind in the electoral college math.

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kaputt replied to Clark Griswold's topic in General Discussion

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56516332 Straight from the right wing outlet, BBC, in 2021. These people are absolute clowns. If you believe polls, Harris seems to have closed the gap Biden had to Trump in many battleground states. Simply from being presumptively nominated.

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Boomer6 replied to norskman's topic in General Discussion

That dude isn't going to do/say anything contrary to what his boss says and jeopardize his next assignment/rank. There's plenty of actual studies/data that the AF has commissioned and then blatently ignored. I don't think a bunch of dudes brainstorming common sense ideas on the internet is going to help. Maybe if a C-17 crewed by two T-6 direct to Altus dudes crashes into an LGBTQ+ parade during a flyover they'll 're-evaluate' the training program.

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ConfidentlyIncorrect replied to norskman's topic in General Discussion

What are the chances they send heavy tracks to the T-44 in Corpus again? That program sounded pretty cool for the guys going to 130s.

What's wrong with the Air Force?

HeloDude replied to Catbox's topic in General Discussion

The real question is was the Air Force/DoD this bad over 20 years ago and I just noticed it my later years or has it been getting worse and worse? Either way, it’s not good.

What's wrong with the Air Force?

HuggyU2 replied to Catbox's topic in General Discussion

What's wrong with the AF... and with Boeing? They are supposed to be working TOGETHER on the T-7 procurement, not against each other. The AF never put out a requirement for an internal ladder in the signed contract. And how does Boeing get so far into the development without calling the AF and saying "hey, did you want a crew ladder?" They are (or were) the design "experts". They didn't catch this? Now it's too late and the "solution" is they will carry a portable ladder with them. And apparently, it will lean against the side of the jet because the side rails are not capable of hanging a T-38 style ladder there. How is the incompetence that bad on a $30M trainer? Shameful.

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Arkbird replied to norskman's topic in General Discussion

The AMP upgrade was great. Brought it to modern standards and we could do LPVs. I loved it. That's what I asked about because that's what we were doing in Columbus but he said it was completely decertified for use. He said they could only use it back at Laughlin or del Rio international but other than that, not even day VMC. He said this is recent.

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polcat replied to Fly4five's topic in General Discussion

You read it correctly. "MP did not utilize a helmet visor, and the MOSO did not utilize an aircrew helmet or gloves."

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SurelySerious replied to Fly4five's topic in General Discussion

Well sh*t the author is a nav. Hadn’t considered that.

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Sua Sponte replied to Fly4five's topic in General Discussion

Have you seen their MC rates 😂

Pilot watches

StoleIt replied to a topic in General Discussion

I use this on the road: Timex Q It's cheap enough I don't care if it gets banged up or stolen. But looks nice enough from 20 feet away...and, added bonus, is useful with 3x time zones (home, zulu, and then spin the dial for local)

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Flev replied to norskman's topic in General Discussion

There's no reason USAF shouldn't have GPS approach capability in a primary trainer. As far as airmanship, I agree with you; flying an LPV can be done by any stick monkey who's practiced enough ILS or non-precision with arcing, etc. But in a primary trainer that's expected to teach students about versatility and ADM, taking away RNAV takes away options from the front and back seater. That's a lot of fields that you can't go to in IMC. Personally, its more about giving those crews options.

The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

guineapigfury replied to tac airlifter's topic in Squadron Bar

I'm pretty sure Brown Sugar is about interracial sex in the antebellum South. For reference here's the first verse: Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fieldsSold in the market down in New OrleansScarred old slaver know he's doin' alrightHear him whip the women, just around midnight

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DirkDiggler replied to Fly4five's topic in General Discussion

Question for any B-1 bros; is ~2K hours about average for an 18 year B-1 pilot?

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Danger41 replied to norskman's topic in General Discussion

So not to be that guy but if you can track a CDI to a final approach course, you can do a LNAV/RNAV. If you can track a localizer and glideslope for an ILS, you can do a LPV. And the buttonology in whatever follow-on MWS is different than the T-6 or T-1. Therefore, I don’t really see the problem with not having RNAV approaches for the training value. My $0.02.

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Danger41 replied to Fly4five's topic in General Discussion

I noted that he mentioned there were a large amount of interviews that showed similar answers. Also, didn’t one of the WSO’s not have his helmet and gloves on prior to ejection? I saw that being hammered on but wasn’t sure if I read it incorrectly.

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Clark Griswold replied to norskman's topic in General Discussion

Yeah but I’m describing it to persuade that SES, CODEL, HAF staffer lurking in this thread that the insane COA being proposed is just that insane I’m not sure if MAF GOs have Stockholm syndrome and are just trying to placate the ACC GOs but this is fundamentally insane An institution principally built around manned flying aircraft and the aircrew that fly them is trying to lessen the actual flying training for the pilots that fly billions of dollars of planes and thousands of lives and the fleet of aircraft that make us different than any other Air Force in the world, our global air expeditionary capability Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Lawman replied to norskman's topic in General Discussion

Think of how much better prepared we will be for the denied PNT environment… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Things you should listen to drunk while on BO

Biff_T replied to Clark Griswold's topic in Squadron Bar

This is not a good tune for those loyal to the crown.

The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

Biff_T replied to tac airlifter's topic in Squadron Bar

Phil Collins, otherwise known as the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. David Bowie had a black wife. For a long time. They were still together when he died. Brown Sugar, by the Rolling Stones, is about heroin. The person who wrote this article is retarded. f*ck the person who decided Sgt Peralta wasnt the right kind of dead when he was destroyed by a grenade. f*ck them to death. If you (said non combatant) ever reads this, PM me. Im serious.

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Tool of The Man replied to norskman's topic in General Discussion

You realize you kinda just described SUPT....which this leadership (and previous) killed.... We had the infrastructure in place until leadership decided everything was broken and had to be replaced...VR, innovation, CRAFT, PTN....once they decided those were important, cut funding in legacy programs to prove your point. Get promoted and leave a mess for the next guy...