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The AF gutted itself, it isn't any fault or cause of the airlines.

ICEMAN - The Later Years - watch more funny videos Seriously, this is all I could think about reading this thread.

I'm sure it'll attract the best kind of Mil IP: former CC's who've been blacklisted from the majors by the former people they shit on during their career.

I found a problem with your plan.

Nerd

Come fly the mighty Viper with the 175 FS in South Dakota. Applications due end of April. https://www.114fw.ang.af.mil/About-Us/Careers/

Don’t underestimate how long it takes to get your app complete and polished. Start interview prep now.

A WIC-level discussion on the HDG bug, awesome. Oh well, here goes. When I was flying the KC-10 I felt like I was the only guy who wasn’t trying to constantly center the heading bug. On oceanic crossings, fucking with the heading knob had the very real possibility of inadvertently entering Hdg Hold or Hdg Sel, both of which will easily cause a GNE over a 600 nm leg. I know a guy that did just that and got schwacked. Watched a copilot do the same thing. To turn it faster than “click click click”, you have to push it in a little. A little farther than that is GNE mode. Sweet. I say if your OCD says you must bug some heading, choose the most appropriate divert field. Gives you the ability to instantly be headed in the right direction while forcing you to keep tabs on your divert options.

Bye Bye Bone. B-21 is going to Dyess (sometime in the mid 2030s) https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/main-news/dyess-afb-to-be-the-home-of-the-new-b-21-pending-congressional-approval/970100807?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KRBC_News

Yep, I was getting out. Airline hiring boom or not. Once I clearly realized that lots of guys dumber and lazier than me managed to buy nice houses and feed their families just fine, my AD days were numbered.

Have all agreements reviewed by a lawyer...

Of course.

Once you make an agreement there ain’t no going back, so long as it is covered in the agreement. If something is omitted, who knows.

Man I miss the days we were all talking about cool stuff like killing bad guys and how WSOs aren't real people. Now we're all airline pilots and this is our life. Ugh. With that said, it was explained to me by a CKA while flying down to Managua is that on the 737, when LNAV fails it reverts to HDG. That's fine, until you're in the low altitude environment flying a STAR around mountains (Latin Terrain specifically) and LNAV fails and the aircraft takes off hard left or right while you're trying to figure out what just happened in the weather and at night.

Piss off, junior, and get off of my lawn. Ram... get me an Ensure now!

Why no one other than the left listens to the left: “If you don’t think Trump helped the Russians hack the election you must love Russia and Putin ”..goes with..”you want a secure border, you must hate Mexicans”..or..”you are against illegal immigrants, you must hate all immigrants who ever came here”....”you didn’t like Hillary, you’re sexist!” I’m middle of the road, don’t like the dems or GOP diehards, but the left has gone full retard all over the map whereas at least my GOP friends were predictable in their “Obama wants my guns” argument.

RF-4C 1. Ops tempo: Outstanding. Best kept secret. Basically a flying club. As a 1Lt it's your airplane with great responsibility; "All we ask is bring it back in one piece." Flying is mostly low level single ship to where ever YOU and your WSO decide to go that day. Not flying, review your film from previous day, do a tour in the RSU, perhaps a little studying in the vault, shelf check at the BX. TDY's and deployments minimal and considered a good deal. AAR training every couple of months. Night AAR is always scheduled with a full moon. If stationed in Germany always save a little fuel for the fur ball with whomever is trolling along the Rhine. 2. LIfestyle/family: Could not be better. Home every day by 5. No working weekends. If stationed in Germany most have a rental Swiss chalet for the winter skiing months. 3. Community morale: Excellent. Surprising amount of fellow pilots UPT DG's. Some turned down fighters to fly Recce. Everyone works and pulls together. 4. Advancement & Future of Airframe: Terrible, once Recce always Recce according to MPC although I managed a 4 yr OA-37 assignment to DM. (another flying club). NO future dedicated manned Recce airframes. 5. Preferred PCS locations: Zweibrucken, Alconbury, Bergstrom. Oh crap, just got up from a nap. Dreaming it was 1977 and not 2017! Sorry guys, you missed a great time in the AF. 10 years AD then off to a legacy airline.