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Hey guys, I know everyone here wants know what happened and how to fix it which is expected from folks like us. However,First let’s drink a toast and morn the loss of two fellow aviators. I knew one of them personally, trained and flew with them down range Family and friends are being notified. outstanding officers and experienced aviators. God speed......him him him

False! The Guard has much better and more plentiful bonuses like being able to spend time with your family, being able to purchase a house that you won't move from just as you get comfortable with it, no 365s, etc, etc, etc. The same pay is only the beginning! But I know what you meant.

Anyone know if the Makos decided on a Feb or Mar Board?

Very excited to let you guys know that we are rapidly expanding the states we are licensed in so we can better serve your needs. Let Jon or myself know if we can do anything for you. Thank you for the loyalty and trust you've placed in us! It's truly an honor to serve such an amazing group of service members! Marty

Just for some kids that don’t know math: 1999 bonus and cap were introduced: $25,000, which it’s been in some form or fashion for a while, though it took far too long for big blue to realize that not just fighter pilots are important enough to offer a big bonus to... 2019...it’s now $35,000 Inflation says that 1999 $25k should be >$38k in 2019. Apparently flyers were more important in 1999 than they are today. Let that sink in.

Airline Pilot Central has pretty accurate numbers. 2023 you'll be catching the the wave just as it's about to crest. The next few years after will see 900+. Sent from my SM-G960U using Baseops Network mobile app

Not an issue if your office is in the FL Panhandle...we have a few folks from lower Alabama working for us...problem naturally solved itself👫

Just spoke with Blanks a few days ago and they decided to push the board out to the Fall.

Little bit of a gouge here for you. This was briefed at Vance a little while ago: UPT 3.0 is going to be with the T-7. That's planned for a 2021 takeover. With the T-7, they're going to be giving wings BEFORE entering that airframe. IE, if you want to track fighters, then you're going to be in a T-6 for 8ish months, get winged, then hit the T-7 for like 6-8 (undetermined now) months then go to a shortened B-Course. UPT 2.5, which is the "Banzai" classes they keep doing, is going to become a real thing come this June. It's essentially going to be the shortened syllabus with more practice in the beginning and tying it all together towards the end of UPT, with the early "track select" while in T-6s so you do more nav for T-1s, form for T-38, etc.

We are losing over 6,000 pilots due to mandatory retirements over the next 7-8 years. Barring some sort of devastating economic recession, hiring will continue full-steam ahead for at least a decade.

The defense rests. Don’t take the bonus.

Speaking of Tulsa...anybody have details for visiting this weekend. Have had bad luck contacting Hooks

Alternatively, experience could lead one to conclude that with so little conclusive information during a time while our people can look up at their puck board and go, "I don't know if this bro is still alive," these aren't good conversations. Without further info, you can't have a productive conversation with respect to increasing aviation safety. There is no definite thing you could point to as your dudes step out the door from what we know of the incident to refocus their crosscheck to increase their chance of success. We just know that we've lost two of our own under unknown conditions.

I'm also very curious to know what happened. As a former flight safety guy, this one really surprises me. The aircraft is fairly intact, resting on flat terrain and I'm not aware of an airfield anywhere nearby, at least not one that the BACN would operate out of. RIP to the crew...I've known a number of guys who've deployed to do that mission. It was often seen as an easy, "nice" deployment where one can rack up flying hours. Tragic that this happened. And to the users on here trying to get into a slap-fight with fellow forum users for merely wondering out loud what could have happened...so long as no one is revealing OPSEC info or being disrespectful (as stated before), so what? It's a military aviation forum. Go find other things to feel important about.

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Lightweight Vr I'll believe. With 132k of stuff in the back, low level, in turbulence? Not so much. I'm not trying to discredit the paper Clark linked, but when they assume 100kt retardant drop speeds, it makes me question the rest of their assumptions.