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All valid, but I'll take this opportunity for a side quest: our NOTAM system is garbage. Why can't they be in priority order, succinct, typed with human grammar, and void of strange acronyms requiring a decoder ring to grasp?

RIP

Wade Boggs got nothing on SocialD!

Listen, in my defense, the flight attendants poured them strong and often on that flight. But in all seriousness, like so many urban legends, I bet this story is 0.69% true. There are two reasons we're not allowed to drink on a DH anymore. One is they want the have the ability to reroute you into a flying leg (not legal per our PWA anymore) and they want to save money. Everything else is bullshit.

And that’s a wrap. OSH is a lonely place on Sunday evening!

It appears that way. And the 28th is not the only squadron with them, they’re just the ones who have had the most recent, significant mishap. When I’m around the AD, it’s down right scary what is being allowed to occur in some squadrons. The “Gen Z mindset” combined with flaccid leadership who don’t hold them accountable (generalities, not everyone) will get expensive shit destroyed and people killed. And if you’re a Gen Z guy who isn’t like what you know I’m alluding to, then be a leader yourself and present a positive example for your counterparts to follow. You can hold your peers accountable, just do it.

Cool video and walkaround of the A-37 at Oshkosh this year.

T-6 line IP here, please submit the AGEP surveys (or whatever they're called now...) to actually document the noted deficiencies from UPT grads. Thats the only truth data the Bobs will take at face value to increase the hideously slim amount of actual flight time to earn wings.

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Just like the KC-767, the common wisdom was that buying something that already exists should’ve been a clean kill. Requirements creep destroyed that dream. FWIW, everyone wanted the T-50 because it was already in service, but our acquisitions process would’ve messed that up as much as the T-7.

I get it, the AF has 69 other issues but this is more important than it seems, it’s not just training officers to fly but training, evaluating and forming the mind set of who will be the leaders of the AF, if we phone it in for AMC, AFSOC, part of AFGSC, AETC as I guess some of these T-6 only studs will be FAIPs we need not be surprised when as we push thru the mass of studs thru this process, some of which will not be like the hand picked strong swimmers for these small group try outs, the likely problems we encounter Why is the Navy not giving up on an advanced ME trainer? The Army for their fixed wing qual is not cutting back hours. Why are the mins staying in place for ATP and other civ tickets? Even though they have more access to more and likely better advanced training devices, because flight hours matter, getting thru multiple phases of training matter, proving your skills in at least two different platforms matters Choir preaching and I know you understand the problem of half assing things If we really are this behind and don’t have the money then contract everything but a T-6 program to figure out who’s going single seat or crew. Get the big flight training programs like UND, ER, All ATPs, etc… close 1 of the SUPT bases, you’ll either save X millions and still get a better product than T-6 only or kick the hornets nest for Congress to come up with supplemental funds or allow the AF to divest programs to fund I’m all for out of the container ideas to do it better or be additive to UPT ref the program the Lt attended but ultimately it is about a year of training, X hours of flight and simulator training and academics, no matter how much advanced tech we throw at it, the studs today are about the same as the studs of the past in terms of intelligence and skills, they’re going to absorb it at about the same rate and you’re gonna need to observe them going thru about the same number of events to see if they’re who you want flying AF iron, we can teach a bit faster individual tasks but the overall building of airmanship still requires that time in the air Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56516332 Straight from the right wing outlet, BBC, in 2021. These people are absolute clowns. If you believe polls, Harris seems to have closed the gap Biden had to Trump in many battleground states. Simply from being presumptively nominated.

Cool! Now do Miami….

Conveniently not mentioned in the report is how Ellsworth’s ILS, TACAN, PAPIs, approach plates, displaced thresholds, and taxiways have all wildly fluctuated from operational, to 28 BW use only, to INOP, as the airfield gets turned upside down for B-21 construction in the months leading up to the mishap. But it’s probably a culture problem in the squadron that just successfully did three deployments, a red flag, and the longest combat b-1 sortie in history all in one year