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I hear all of the pointy-noses guys saying T-38 training needs to be more relevant to what they do. I imagine circling isn't a big priority in F-22 and F-35 real world ops. Probably not in the B-2 and upcoming B-21 either. There are only so many bananas in the UPT syllabus. Save circling for FTU if needed But bring back formation landings, you pussies!

Meh. Get below the weather, look outside and make it happen.

I didn't even need to click the link, I knew it was gonna be that guy's channel. I've already had to debunk his Pepperidge farms story about how " back in edwards" they flew 105KCAS final approaches. Internet pedestrians eat that guano up. The boomer may mean well, but his shtick is misinformation by dated brain proxy. The fact he puts up pictures of the CBM Japanese student crash as his lead-in, as a guy with fvck all safety access anymore, tells me all I need to know. BL, there's definitively a demand for youtuber subscribers fascinated by the "10% story" musings of .mil has-beens.

This is a good observation and also a great reason to generally ignore ignorant student protests. It's a tale as old as time to be against "the system" and "whatever your parents think." Literally every generation since the dawn of time has done this, and predictably most people become a bit more reasonable when their brains finish forming.

As the saying goes, “Liberalism is a mental disorder”

Not rational enough to be responsible for student loans, but responsible enough to steer the country...

Exactly. Conservatives thought for decades that they didn't need to engage with this nonsense because it wouldn't survive a week in the real world. The business environment would crush whatever college nonsense the students had picked up. But it didn't work that way, the students forced their nonsense onto the corporate world, and now every major corporation in America has a DEI department. The pendulum is starting to swing in the other direction, but only after a complete takeover of the political and corporate world by this neo-marxist nonsense. I'm still a little conflicted on Bill Ackman jumping into the funny farm and going after the job offers of college students, but it might be the right amount of punishment for some of the absurdist shit that college kids believe they are free to say with impunity. If anything, that's the biggest lesson they need to learn, that opening your mouth almost always has consequences. I used to complain a lot that high school doesn't set anyone up for the real world, but now that college has just become high school part 2, we're sending 22-year-olds out into the world with absolutely no idea what they should be doing, as opposed to just 18-year-olds. The entire education system needs a reboot.

Amen! And you never forget your first time. I know it gets to be normal ops but I will never forget my first formation landing in the 38. I did NOT want to screw up and I was extremely focused (probably holding the stick so hard I had no blood in my fingers). About halfway down final I distinctly recall having a near out of body experience and thinking "man this is so fucking cool, I wish I could do this...WAIT...I AM doing this!"

I definitely think it's valuable training, regardless of the training aircraft. Being able to control your altitude in a dirty configuration and think ahead enough to set yourself up to land is a challenging skill. In my 20 years of flying, I've had to do exactly 2 circling approaches for real. Both of them were straight out of the sim where if I went 10 feet above the MDA, I was in the weather. I've probably practiced it 690 times so I was well prepared, but it's definitely a valuable skill to have.

Power dynamics. The entire liberal philosophy has been pushed aside in favor of a simple hatred for hierarchies and those at the top. Since the top of most hierarchies (most, not *all*) in America are white Christian males, then the reflex is to side with whoever isn't one of those. It works great until you get into conflicts between two groups that are both lower on the totem pole. Sometimes it's easy to tell who has more power in the match up, and therefore who is the villain: Man vs woman - man bad White man vs White woman - White Man bad White woman vs Black Man - white woman bad Black woman vs Black gay woman - black woman bad Black Man vs gay Man - uh... Hmmm. Muslim man vs lesbian woman - well... It's... Trans woman vs lesbian woman - oh boy. But once you realize the foundation of the philosophy is simply "power bad," you start to understand it, and you can predict the position they will take with perfect accuracy. It's a philosophy built from jealousy and guilt, but remember that the jealousy is always stronger than the guilt. That's why wealthy liberals will decry school voucher programs, but still send their kids to private school. Well I'm not going to let my kids fall behind while we fix the problem......

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Agree, and a great reason why we shouldn't lower the voting age to 16.... as one of the parties is trying to do

Circling approaches are more dangerous than anyone realizes for reasons not mentioned in the video. First at least from my corner of the world there was generally very little thought into how to execute the maneuver ie: fly 30 degrees off runway heading for x seconds to obtain proper lateral distance for final turn. I generally assumed this to be because the PC-12 airframe is pretty versatile. Second the ROC for the MDA puts you pretty close to the obstacle if you have even a modest deviation from the minimums and any sort of altimeter error. I never understood why the U28 V2 stated Q- for any deviation below the MDA even if momentary after AIS I finally understood. Second the ROC in the FAA remains constant irregardless of Circling Category vice ICAO where the ROC increases the higher your category is. Cat A ICAO = 300. Cat D = ~394 Third in the FAA, TERPS criteria uses a floating scale from 25 at A to 22 degrees bank at Cat E whereas ICAO uses 20 degrees bank. With 75 feet of altimeter error and a deviation of 100 feet from the MDA you could be within 125 feet of the obstacle you really don’t want to contact. It’s not a dangerous maneuver when planned correctly and when you are aware of the risks but it’s seldomly trained to or executed in that manner, it’s a bean. I have heard from bros who have gone to the airlines circling is almost treated like an EP. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

T-38 circling....pish posh, try a summertime single-engine pinto pattern right after takeoff in Del Rio.

Looks like they could only muster up four queers for that protest. Most of the people behind them appear to be confused muslims. This. Its fucking comical how predictable the left "protesters" are. Its like a bunch of children doing the exact opposite of their parents to be "cool". They have no idea how much they love freedom. Try that shit in the Middle East.

with all the clamoring for a cease fire in gaza why no appetite for cease fire in ukraine?

Is suing her in civil court an option? Seems like it should be…and he should take her for all she’s worth. False accusations should come with a minimum 10 yr sentence. They’d stop real quick if a few women went to prison for it.

Having known people who have had false allegations levied against them, I'll hold off on my judgement of Maj Gen Stewart and see what the investigation comes up with.

I remember my first, and also one of nearly my last. As a student on the wing of the OG…he decided that leaving the power back at 80% post-correction while on ILS glidepath and hard IMC was good for formation integrity. I was having a hell of a time staying in position but didn’t have the SA to cross check my airspeed. Apparently my IP, and lead didn’t either. So off we went into an IMC, fingertip TP stall at 600’ AGL. That was just enough altitude for us to fall away from each other and break out of the weather. Lead was about 500’ in front and landed about 3k down. I didn’t keep the burners lit as long and touched down 750’ down, 30kts flared off. Good times.

To state the obvious, the implication is that there are "Biden impersonators" walking around wearing some kind of mask to appear like the president. This NBC clip shows the video this pic was taken from. I'd like to think I'm a reasonable person, and would previously disregard such things as just so much ridiculous nonsense. Just more flotsam and jetsam bobbing around on the internet. But then you look around, and reflect on all of the strange, ridiculous nonsense you hear every day that is actually happening. Arguments over who is a man and who is a woman, and other such absurdities. Somewhat more mundane, but no less absurd, the fact that the prices of staples like milk and eggs have inflated out of sight, yet have gotten no more than a passing mention on the local news. I just don't know anymore. I've had some limited experience with those at the higher levels of the corporate and political spheres. Like anything, it's interesting to get behind the scenes and see how the sausage is made. One consistent takeaway has been that, the higher you go, the more of a laser focus there is on the stated goals. All other considerations (morality, decency, etc) fall by the wayside. Some say that the higher you go, the more Sociopathy you find. Perhaps that's the case. All I know is, taking into account the absurdities I see all around (both in the news, and in daily interactions in my neighborhood), I no longer discount such things as "man in mask impersonating the President." While such things sound absurd, they also sound entirely possible. Perhaps even plausible.