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Prior to late 2014, if you heard a flight of two with the callsign HUGGY in the Western US, you can be assured that flight lead did all of the paperwork, coordination and such to make it happen. Absolutely!. No way he would just file that every time he went cross country without having run it through the AFI wickets.

For locals, we could just make them up. Dude flew with FURLO last government shutdown. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk

Bad Elf plug-in will work fine with ForeFlight. I'm assuming your iPad doesn't have internal GPS. What you're "allowed" to do is dependent on the MAJCOM, aircraft, unit, and syllabus if you're in training. Generally speaking though, the Bad Elf is certified as legal carry on equipment.

327 Airlift Squadron (AFRC) Our patch is a hand holding five twos of spades. Originally, we were the 2nd Combat Cargo Squadron, the cards represented the five flights of the squadron. In the game of spades, after the jokers, the two of spades is the highest trump card, therefore the five flights represented by the cards were Winners. Fast forward to when our unit was stationed at Willow Grove, an unofficial motto emerged around the patch, "if you can't win...cheat!"

I'm with Brabus on this one, that's how we've always operated. In this type of thing, you can never go wrong by following "the process." Sadly this is almost never efficient and often an extremely painful experience. We've recently added numerous callsigns for our local and XC flying. Then we followed up with going through the process of making it official. Guess what, the world kept spinning and anarchy did not take over. The old bossman has already told us to not blindly follow ridiculous rules...do what makes sense then work on getting it changed (note: the latter being an important step). I'd say this falls squarely into one of these situations. This is especially true in this case since the manager seems to be following an reg that is no longer applicable. This change will not harm anyone and if it's truly based off heritage, it seems like a no-brainer. I mean some bases use the pilots callsign as their flying callsign...it's not like we're redesigning an arrival/departure procedure. I get there are some battles not worth fighting for, but this seems like an easy kill that can only help with espirit-de-corps.

It will work without the app, just plug it in and go. It can take roughly 30 seconds to a minute to get its position the first time you plug it in, but after that it'll be solid. You can also run a micro usb cable into the side of it to charge the iPad while you're using it. I would, however, recommend downloading the app if you can for firmware updates. If you can't download it on your EFB, then do it on your own iPad/iPhone. Just plug the Bad Elf in, open the app and it'll tell you if a firmware update is available. The newer firmware fixes some glitches with acquiring a position.

Let me get this straight... So what you are telling me is that the Air Force wants us to get rid of irrelevant AFIs, but since every AFI is critically important to the bureaucrat nonner that wrote it, then those AFIs can’t be irrelevant and we can’t get rid of them? You got it! That’s some catch... It’s the best there is!

Of course there is an AFI on callsigns and a random nonner enforcing it.. Aren’t these the kind of irrelevant regulations the SECAF and CSAF told us to get rid of?

Ya I would say to file whatever you want, baseops and tower aren't going to care. Just file the paperwork/PMR with the callsign assigned to the line. Found it much easier to do this and no one cared. We flew under several different call signs in my old plane depending on the profile that day. Found it so much easier to just file whatever made sense for that day. Getting the paperwork through the official channels was a asspain, and that was for callsigns that were already approved. I would probably do as people advised above, do the unofficial way while you let the official way play out. let your CC know Incase it comes up and he not blindsided, and hopefully he has a sack and if there is pushback can say you are awaiting the official change.

In the late 2000s at Yokota, the 5 AF/CC would occasionally fly the Herk. Probably still does. The Sq/CC is always KANTO01, and the NAF CC didn't want to use that, so he chose SHOGUN01. After he returned from flying under SHOGUN, Japanese ATC already had multiple calls to the base, confused because the SHOGUN callsign he arbitrarily chose was listed as a diplomatic callsign, normally with Japanese government officials aboard. Everything went back to KANTO after that IIRC.

If it's for locals only, you can do an LOA between the wing, local AF ATC, and the ARTCC. just can't duplicate anything on the master call sign list or being used within the ARTCC already. That also allows you to use abbreviations in your callsign.

The real question is how a guy with no military flying training get into a Mirage and fly it. Sounds like the story of a Marine Crew Chief who applied for a commission and pilot training numerous times and kept being denied. After his last chance he said screw it stole his A-4 and got some stick time, went to the brig, discharged and had a long successful career as a civilian pilot. There are numerous Enlisted maintainers who have to go the simulator to stay engine run qualified once a year, after emergency procedures especially if it's a heavy and the mx guys have a ton of experience we got through our requal quick and spent the rest of the time flying it (E-3). Some guys were awful and some guys had the talent to land it every time. One guy was real good at doing AR's, pretty good with no formal training. There are a bunch of enlisted who busted their butt to get a degree, do all the paperwork to apply but are in certain career fields the USAF deem critical and are stuck and get denied. I can guarantee the first time a young kid goes to an air show a dreams it is not about being a Crew Chief. Being nearsighted I was forever denied the chance to have a future of getting paid to fly, now to all the rated guys here pray to your creator for thanks that everything fell into place to have those wings pinned upon your chest.

Libyan Air National Guard - what are my chances Hi everyone, long time lurker. It’s been my dream to fly the Mirage F1. I’m 45 years old, been flying KC-135s for the last 15 years. Hearing shift, slightly overweight, decent AFOQT and PCSM scores and even better Microsoft Flight Sim scores. What are my chances to fly the mighty Mirage F1?

Madison upcoming board. Applications due 5 Dec for January 2020 board. https://www.115fw.ang.af.mil/About/Careers/Pilot-Training/ Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app