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Too hard to get ATIS >and< fly?

AMC would be healthy on pilots if they could have back all the people dragooned into MQ-9 GCS's. I'd have stayed in the Air Force if I was still flying KC-135s. Now, I'm happy as a contractor. I can't imagine the amount of money it would take to get me to come back. Probably about the same as what you'd have to pay me to remarry my exwife.

Man, in retrospect the juice was really not worth the squeeze on that one. I wonder if the idiot who thought of TAMI21 understands how much long term chaos was wrought for such short term gain.

Tami-21. Solved all of the generals problems. Maybe we should have a Tami-22. What do you think that would look like? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

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Maybe we shouldn't have cut so many mobility pilots back in 2014.

It still beats the option a lot of little Island countries currently have of driving toward the engagement in an Alfa jet or similar and then trying to hit the guy with unguided rockets. I know those on the site used to what we have would be disgusted by the idea of a "fighter" that would have trouble keeping up with an ME-262, but in all seriousness this is an airplane built for countries who are putting stingers on helicopters because they can't competently expect any sort of air defense. So anybody that can bring a missile better do it, because it's the air equivalent to a bunch of barely armed settlers circling wagons to repel the Indians. Any while yes the fighters from big countries with big missiles would eat its lunch it would at least give pause to something like the a Heliborn air assault or paratroop force being put in with a bunch of Hips/Hinds. That's the more likely reality for those nations.

We're back to the annual T-1/T-38 dick measuring. Having flown both aircraft there's no argument that the T-38 requires more stick and rudder skills, but that wasn't the point of the T-1. FWIW, this disagreement will be moot in the next decade though because there will be another T-X buy to replace the T-1 and we're going back to Generalized UPT (GUPT). That's the official name. After T-6s some guys will go to Rucker but after that there will be an advanced phase track select.

It's called a canopy, actually. Windows are for passengers and aviation via committee. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

If you're gonna get hitched anyway, do it ASAP and enjoy the extra pay.

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In the T-1 no, but remember we're training them to fly much larger, more complex airplanes where you have a crew and autopilot to delegate tasks to.

Someone already made a site some time back with ALL units (Reserve + Guard) that are hiring. https://afpilotjobs.com No need to pm anyone or exchange emails.

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Cool, thanks.

Oh, don't worry since the plan is to build back up to 350k active duty...all is well, there is nothing to see here. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Still no 12B bonus, though.

Depends on which phase of training. In Trans (first category after track) it is exclusively hand flown, even at cruise. The student hands off aircraft control to the IP in order to get ATIS, run TOLD, brief approaches, etc, but that's it. Trans sorties consist of MOA work (TP stalls, vert S, etc) and VFR patterns for the most part, so it's stick (yoke) and rudder work anyway. Nav they cruise with the A/P on, but aside from GPS approachs (where the intentional emphasis is how to use the automation to fly approaches) all instrument approaches are hand flown. Holding and procedure tracks/turns may be flown with the autopilot on, but only in heading or roll mode, so the student still needs to figure out where to point the nose. Mission Fam is a mix. Wing work is exclusively hand flown, even in cruise, but lead is about 75% A/P on, with the exception of on LLs, which is hand flown at all times.

This is not meant to have any connotation at all so keep everyone's panties unwadded. I'm asking because I'm curious. In the T-1, how much of the flying is done on the autopilot for the students?

Yeah, I always consult the SOF about where to point my jet, the checklist I'm running, and which tactic I plan on using. GMAFB, dude. As for wingmen, yeah...it's just a big fukkin peyote drum circle up there where we talk out our feelings while slinging missiles and killing shitheads on motos. You bet, champ. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Like a SOF, or wingman?

I haven't seen many selfies, so it's already a step up from the last one.

Like any airspace where they can't see their home base out of the window.

Well, if Toro says so... I put it on our website, so you can find it there. https://www.howtobecomeafighterpilot.com My intent for our website is to provide some value and answer questions to help dudes along the journey in accomplishing their dream of becoming a fighter pilot (probably applies to all AF pilots not just fighters, but that's the niche I know). That being said, Baseops.net is the best resource out there. I'm a prior F-16 Guard guy, so if you have any questions along the way, feel free to hit me up. GEKO

And they have a long track record of stellar decision making.

It would be tough - read impossible - for Scorp to intercept anything but a recip or turboprop but that's not its bread and butter. This hypothetical capability would be as a second echelon or compliment to a true fighter. Real fighters cost too much to buy and operate, they carry prestige but often can't be procured in relevant numbers or the fleet is not nearly as available as needed due to MX costs. This is the case for a lot of our budget conscious partners. Providing them an option that lets have some A2A capability but gives them a lot of ISR and Light Strike can fill a niche the F-5 used to. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ya, as a direct replacement for the UPT and IFF T-38 only on a 3 to 5 buy ratio, hoping to cover the gap via reduced attrition. The T-1 will be around well into the 2030s. Some of the more amusing calls I fielded as a T-1 Flt/CC were from my T-38 counterparts trying to poach my gunships/C-17s/AFSOC/etc in exchange for their E-3s and such. That's all well and good if it helps my guys, but the phone was quickly set to the "go fuck yourself" position when those guys tried to imply that because their students were flying the T-38 they were inherently better than my T-1 students and would have aced the T-1 program and finished ahead of my guys anyway. The fact of the matter is it is a myth that doing well in T-6s is an automatic identifier of future performance. It is frequently a result of either prior flying experience, or being a faster learner within a given medium. I saw guys who aced T-6s, chose T-1s (to the wailing and gnashing of teeth of the people who though they should go 38s) and then finish bottom 3rd in the T-1. Conversely I saw guys finish dead last in their T-6 class, come across the street to me with an apology note pinned to their lapel, and knock T-1s out of the park. So implying that students that track T-38s are inherently better than students that track T-1s is quantifiably bullshit. There most certainly are people who bottom feed the T-6, and then bottom feed the T-1, but there are also students who kill the T-6 and are gone from the T-38 before their first checkride. I'd be willing to bet those 38 washouts would have been T-1 washouts all the same. The T-1 and T-38 [programs aren't so different in terms of difficulty, it's just the nature of what is difficult. The T-38 is fast moving and demands precise and rapid decision making. The T-1 is complex, operates in a complex environment with limited to no outside decision making help (Sup, SOF, wingman, etc), and requires a lot of dynamic task management. The product of each program is different, but I wouldn't say one is better trained than the other.

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Hopefully you'll have them better prepared by the time they bail for the airlines.

Back to the main theme of the thread, you are getting distracted, and that plays to their hand. Bottomline, Fingers listened to the problems (like Boomer before him), and decided it was easier to go around the identified problems and ask Congress to take action to make every pilot less marketable. A big GIANT FU to those that serve. I will not address the issues that make you want to leave, I will simply ignore your complaints and take external actions that will make it harder for you to find a job on the outside. Anyone else want to vomit at the hypocrisy? It was the same thing from a former MAJCOM/CC, a guy I used to respect, who said "they will stay out of patriotism and if they don't we will just make more" Good luck with that one...of course he was a Nav.

Airwolf could do over the mach and had turbo boosters instead of stupid looking props. I'm not impressed.

The worst fighter pilot is better than the best heavy pilot. Duh