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Interesting how much focus is on her specifically (implication is she’s young and a woman, therefore causal). We’ll see what the NTSB comes up with, but my money is it has little to nothing to do with her (maybe a comment on CRM breakdown in the ADM process leading up to the event?) Either way, sad all around. Don’t fly through T-storms guys (and here’s proof it can happen to anyone at all experience levels - the why will be the interesting part of the investigation).

So far the only thing that I can see affected by her age would be how extraordinarily difficult it would be for a 20-year-old FO to tell a 55-year-old PIC that he's a moron for trying to climb over or through/close to a thunderstorm. Hell, I'm 41, experienced, and largely unsocialized, and even still sometimes I have the internal debate over telling the dipshit in the left seat that 20 miles from any thunderstorm is the rule, not a suggestion. Some of these guys act like they are charged a fee for every degree to the left or right that they deviate. Sometimes it feels like it would be easier to just say nothing.

Maybe he matured? I didn’t have any issues with him as commandant or as a group/cc. That said, every GO in my book is a “prove to me you’re not a spineless yes man” guy - regardless of who they were previously. Time will tell on how he is when he’s in the seat (eventually, probably…)

It's like when Skeletor was CSAF and they have a one-size fits all model. The science says something completely different. Crusier seems like his clone, why is it always the Eagle clowns?

Will get killed if the wife sees this

I don't trust that picture immediately because I can see the left wing simply from the paused video.

Laughs in DSG. Still once a year for us part timers.

The once a year test for >90% is gone.

Man, was I the only class leader in UPT that bullied (OK, convinced) the Flt CC to let my guys go work out during the 12 hour days that were JSUPT? Once N,W&C are done...you can talk them into a lot. The only time I oversteped was when there were no IPs around, but we had nothing to do and we were tired, so I sent them all home. I took an ass chewing for that one, but it was sooooo worth it.