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Very best of luck to you all. Hoping you hear good news soon!

UPT was a while back for me, but I think the basics of taming the fire hose still apply. For me, the most important thing was repetition. Studying written/classroom material, learning procedures, boldface, instrument approaches, contact flying, etc. need to be ingrained to the point that minimal effort is required to recall and use the information. I will say, if you've gotten to the point that you have a college degree and a USAF commission and you don't know how YOU study written material and info delivered in a classroom, I don't think UPT is the place you're suddenly going to figure that out. For me, reading the source material prior to class was key. Notes taken in class can then be correlated with what you've already seen at least once during your reading. If possible, I would then go back and re-copy my notes (cuz I write like shit when I'm trying to follow along in class). This would allow me to cross-check the gouge and source material with what I wrote down in class and make sure the info in my notes is accurate and also allows me to see it all again. Now at least my notes are something I created that I'm familiar with and can be used to study from later. Take advantage of any free time during duty hours to sit down with another student pilot and quiz each other on the rote memorization that is required of everyone. Repetition. IFR rules for clearance limits, min enroute altitudes, holding entries/airspeeds, etc. all will come more easily the more you go over them. Boldface has to become like breathing. However, there's a secondary part of learning boldface that often gets neglected. It's one thing to be able to write them and say them without error. It's another thing altogether to be able to actually complete them in the cockpit. Once you've got the BF memorized, start making your regular pattern of repetition include sitting in a cockpit trainer or even just a paper cockpit and actually reaching for the switches and performing the steps. You're not memorizing BF just to fill a square. That shit is going to save your aircraft and maybe your life. Wind the clock, slow down to get it right and know exactly what each step of the BF is going to require you to do in the cockpit. Prepare for EVERY mission by chair flying it from stepping to the jet until you're back in the squadron. The more you think through every aspect of the mission at zero knots the less you'll have to think about it when you're actually flying. There aren't enough sorties and simulator periods in the syllabus for the luxury of only trying to master everything you need to while you're actually in those training devices. Go through the steps required of you on every mission from the walk-around, cockpit set-up, checklists, engine start, taxi, takeoff, radio calls, setting up maneuvers and entry parameters, instrument set up for approaches, etc. If you have to sit in front of a paper cockpit set-up in your room with some kind of stick and throttle substitute in your hand, then do that. If you can close your eyes and visualize what you need to, then do that. Radio calls you make at the same point with the same information in them on every sortie should require zero effort. Controls actuated and procedures necessary to accomplish a touch and go, closed pattern and another VFR approach off the perch should have no pause to think about what comes next when you're in the moment flying the jet. The bottom line is that if you wait until you're doing 200-500 knots with air under your ass in the pattern, working area or on an approach to think about these basics that are going to happen on every sortie, you probably won't have enough extra brain cells to deal with the new stuff you're trying to learn or any other curve balls that Murphy might throw at you on any given day. Repetition is your friend. Seeing a trend yet? Most of all - enjoy yourself. UPT was one of the best experiences of my life. If it's not, then in my opinion, you're doing it wrong. There's never going to be another time in your USAF career when all that is expected of you is to live, eat and breath flying, show up on time prepared with a good attitude and get paid to do one of the coolest, most challenging jobs on the planet. You will make yourself miserable if you constantly stress about your performance. The more prepared you are, the less pressure you will experience. Don't worry about class rankings or trying to be #1 and help out your bros. If you help your classmates get better, you'll probably make yourself better in the process. The rankings will be what they'll be. If you're a solo dick out for yourself that's probably going to back-fire. It's pretty hard to be that way for a year without people who matter noticing. Use Friday night and some of Saturday to blow off some steam and lower the stress level (whatever that looks like for you). Depending on what's coming, maybe spend some time Saturday in the books and for sure get back to it on Sunday so you're prepared for the next week. Know your weaknesses and do what's necessary to minimize them. I didn't want to deal with distractions. I didn't have a TV, I lived on base and until my T-37 cross-country I slept in my Q-room every night from the first day I set foot on the base to start UPT. Maybe that seems a bit extreme, but it goes by fast and the results you produce will stick with you for life. I hit the club hard on Friday nights, had a girl to hang with after that and maybe Saturday too and kept it simple. I was very lucky to get an Eagle because no matter how well you do there's always stuff out of your control. But I brought my A game, did my best and things went my way. That's about all you can do. It was a blast. Have fun.

Negative from MPF Commander & Wing exec here. They’re reaching out to MAJCOM

Try this instructional video.

She was just interviewed on Fox. To her credit she clarified she’s a pilot select and honestly she sounds like she’s got her shit together. Could be far worse advocates for the Air Force that are in the public eye. I think she’ll do well down the road.

I don't know the current situation, but prior to rona, the FAA was starting to crack down on hangars. If the airport had received Federal dollars, they were going through and ensuring that hangars we're being utilized to hangar aircraft. They started forcing evictions of people who were using to the store shit or run unrelated businesses. Here's hoping that is actually happening. Anyway, make friends with the airport owner and you'll get a hangar lol. I'm not joking...he who owns the hangars/airport, controls the list... I had a relatively easy time getting a hangar for my first plane, but it's getting tighter in my area. The guys I sold my plane to are keeping it in my hangar as I sub-let it to them. I'm keeping it for my next plane lol. A group of friends and I are trying to get around all that by building our own grass strip and putting up our forever homes/hangars. Just need someone to be willing to part with the right 30-40 acres lol.

Hey man who's your "friend" that gave you that Intel? Either someone is seriously holding out, or you're just stirring the pot man, cuz nobody else got notified. Sent from my SM-G986U using Tapatalk

Spirit: “…so you’re saying there’s a chance!”

You think the winner of Miss America in this era is based on looks? There's a minimum physical threshold, sure, but after that it's just another organization run by out-of-touch elites desperate to show their "peers" how virtuous they are by "dismantling" their organizations as sacrifices to the non-binary gods of wokism.

Vance 24-06.

LOL https://www.foxnews.com/video/6321965290112

It needs to be interesting to you. I wanted to learn this stuff. Take notes as you read with one and paper, even if you never reference them, writing something down physically helps me remember. Also flash cards. And use your classmates, make study guides together.

The lack of pictures here is disappointing. My how things have changed. (get off my lawn)

Is he a white male? Just curious. Because he should step down in a sign of honor to those less privileged.

The most airline profit/$ is in the mileage programs. Colors of 'money' and a means to seperate operations risk from $....points/SkyMiles/Avios/whatever. Pretty clever litigation and profit management risk-serverance if you ask me. Pts = $ with mostly data management risk, not operations. They sit on your points (aka $) for you, collecting interest as well as deflate their value.

Vlad has reportedly lost over 300 combat aircraft in the fight for Ukraine (I don't think that includes all the helos). He lost 3 X SU-34's in one day (thanks Patriot missile system).

The government will only allow airlines to merge in bankruptcy. You have the dumbest executives in business running the airlines and the dumbest people in the West running the governments. Don't expect anything to make sense.

Oh the timing of that. My base closed for inclement weather (no one knows how to drive in snow). Guess I have to wait even longer then... Good luck everybody

Heard from a friend that WG CC’s have it. Verifying with our group exec, he’s reaching out now. Will report back as I know more. nervously, QUAG

You’re right. I probably confused the original poster. The point I was attempting to make is that if we got a kid who can’t cut it and make the top half to go 38’s, then we’ll tell them to try to find a heavy unit. But there’s no guarantee a heavy Sqdrn will take them. It’s happened before that they found only an RPA unit interested. But Hindsight is speaking the truth, as a guard fighter guy, your T-38 slot is waiting for you. But, there’s been very many people who couldn’t make the cut.

Hearing... great, no reason there cannot be reasonable accommodations for office jobs. Severe intellectual disability? That is absolutely absurd. When is the left going to realize that it is not the right that put Trump in office, it was a knee-jerk reaction to BS like this.

correct and i agree w/ most of what you posted above. HOWEVER i think the post WWII LIO has been brutally corrupted by globalists and forces who DGAF about the west. they care about money and power. mostly power. i'd submit as evidence the WEF. run by a brutal authoritarian klaus. they have infiltrated every western government and are the biggest threat we face.

Correct, there is no threat of being involuntarily assigned to the RPA track for performance issues as a Guard/Reserve 92T0. You can CR out of UPT as a Guard/Reserve guy, and go home wingless, that has always been a possible outcome.

That is incorrect. Guard Reserve students have a MASS score calculated, but it is never used against AD peers for eligibility to track -38s. I think what you may be confusing for policy, was that it was colloquially understood that sponsoring units wanted to see upper-50% relative performance. But none of that is neither written, nor procedural in the tracking of the trainee to phase III. What does exist, is the discretion for the sq/cc to provide feedback to the sponsoring unit of either (i) non-T38 (frankly very rare) or (ii) non-IFF recommendation (much more common). AD does not pay for the billet, AFRC does (yes, even Guard bureau slots are centrally managed by AFRC now), so it's their [gaining unit] call. In fairness, the sponsoring unit can and usually does concur with the retread recommendation to heavies or bombers. Seen it happen many times, with (ii) being more common in my experience, through 13 years in the AETC TFI AFRC (that's a lot of letters lol) business. If you performance meets the CTS for T-6s, you will track 38s are a 11f bound Guard/Res guy, regardless of your relative ranking in your class, unless your gaining sq/cc concurs with a non-recommendation from the upt sq/cc. He is incorrect. AFRC buys the billet, the kid owns the T-38 slot, not AD. When he was sent to UPT, he went in with a centrally funded class allocation for T-38 from the jump. AFRC footprint does not change the AD calculus. I know the whole "different color of money" stumps some people, but AD cats nervous about tracking 38 need not look at their ARCF/ANG classmates as anything but guys who for all competing purposes, are there just "auditing the course". They're not your problem, nor your competition, just like internationals.

It’ll be swept under the rug immediately, and you’ll be a racist, ______phobic, etc. if you bring it up. Just like every mass shooting when the shooter is trans, minority, illegal alien, etc.

In Soviet Russia Operation Secure’s you! Beers for the guys at Raytheon. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't have a problem with a bunch of my deserving contemporaries not getting sent to fighters when the war needed pilots to fly other stuff. I think institutionally we need to get away from the MWS tribes and gate keeping and realize that what you get out of UPT shouldn't define/exclude your career the entire time. If you want to see some funny stuff, look at some of the UPT grads scores that went non-fighters from the 07-09 year group and then compare it to a guy in the mid-teens that did. You'd rather take a guy who's sole talent is fogging a mirror into a Viper than a thousand combat hour U-28 kid that had the misfortune of bad timing? I know it's more complicated than that but that's always bugged me.

Badass disc golf course...lol. You from Colorado? 🤣

His desire to rebuild the USSR/Russian Empire?

I found the Cliffs Notes version of Osama's heart warming letter to America. Here it is:

5 years? Methinks more like 2-3… https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/16/be-ready-for-war-with-china-russia-iran-and-north-korea-warns-uk/ BO Generals and SESes… say you have 3 years to get ready for a coordinated series of aggressions in multiple theaters around the world. Some allies will respond and assist, some will be trying to grow their capes prior to the ballon going up, some will be neutral and allow passage thru territory but no landing or basing in their territory, a few will block access to their sovereign territory and try to placate aggressors… the majority of military, economic, informational, technological and industrial effort will be from the USA, say 80% to put a number value to it. You get in the 3 pre-war years DoD budget increases year over year of 5% over inflation and the authority to reprogram, divest and acquire capes equalling about 15% of the budget. Congress is getting out of the way to a degree. The objective is to stop aggression and preserve the antebellum territorial borders, SLOCs and deter/prevent further expansion of aggression. What do you buy? What do you grow? What do you divest? What kind of force can you shape or hone from its present state in 3 years?

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