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Are your posts an attempt to break the stereotype?

Bro, that remark in the parentheses is over the line.

I had a phone interview last week that mentioned interview invites may be sent out this week. I haven't heard anything since. Hope this helps.

Holy Monday morning f'ing quarterback. 1.). If you are a USAF pilot and haven't flown an F prefix, read your post, and think carefully if it applies. 2.). If you are in pilot training, just punch yourself in the balls and go back to the correct forum, not this one. 3.) If you have never flown a USAF airplane, read your post, delete it, punch yourself in the balls, and realize we don't care, a few of your FARs are trumped by our -1's. (not that you know what that is). 4.). We don't know who is right or wrong in this situation, we will not know for about 30 days but will never share that info on this forum. The AIB and NTSB will come up with something and hopefully it is close to the SIB, but this forum will never know. Back to guessing who killed Kennedy.

Booze, big watches, lifted truck, fast cars, and female coeds* *N/A if you're an Eagle driver

Being an RPA pilot sucks a big floppy donkey dick. Will the USAF honor a promise to send them on to a manned aircraft in 3 years ... maybe. The last bunch of UPT directs escaped, but some are being nonvolled back. Why these filthy noobsauces should get a ticket out while those of us who earned a better life in UPT and were pulled into this nightmare second assignment are stuck forever I do not understand. I should have joined the fucking Navy.

Indeed, I wonder why ATC didn't suggest it. I read through the script again and it looks like the controller should have advised a northern heading with a climb in order to get both vertical and lateral separation. The controller said to turn left heading 180 immediately, and the Viper began a turn to the south but that only seems to have put it right in front of the Cessna, whereas a right turn to 360 would have put it further away. One could say that when ATC told the viper that the traffic was passing below at 1400 feet, the viper should have climbed immediately since it was only at 1500 feet, but the collision occurred 2 seconds later so who knows, might have been too late. Either way the altitude readings were off, maybe a fault on the Cessna's mode C or an altimeter setting issue. Frankly, the vector to the south with no altitude increase is very strange. I guess maybe if the viper banked 90 degrees and did a 9g turn to 180 it would have avoided the Cessna, but a northern turn with a climb would have made a lot more sense, especially since the Cessna's track was 110 (slightly south). Edit: To clarify what I meant about the 9g turn, ATC said turn 180, and the viper made a total of 45* of heading change (from a 260 to a 215) over the course of 18 seconds, which is just 3 seconds slower than a standard rate turn of 3* per second (probably 3 seconds of looking for the Cessna) which is normal for instrument flight. 18 seconds might seem like forever for a 9g capable aircraft to turn just 45 degrees, but he was flying instruments and being vectored by ATC, not performing an airshow.

As a "filthy noobsauce", I understand completely the crap that former RPA pilots have to deal with. The number 1 issue is breaking through the stereotype.

Question: Where do these crappy pilots go when you close the UAV pipeline? Do they just go away? Or do they go directly to your squadron? If the UAV pipeline is open, at least these "bottom feeders" arrive at your squadron with 3 years of experience in a squadron under their belt. Also, many of these "$hit bags" have actually employed weapons and killed for their country unlike c-130 pilots. (except for the occasional paratrooper who lands on his face)