Homestar

Successor to the MiG-28

Yes, but not the problem Trump thinks it is. He’s laying the groundwork for a contested election. I predict a landslide, so it won’t matter anyway.

Haven’t we been talking about closing Mildenhall for a couple years now? Like M2 said, I’ll believe it when I see it.

Spy corner is gone?

yeah, that's messed up. They could probably hit up any tanker or bomber squadron for some sweet, lightly-used PLZT goggles

This is the crux of the issue for me. Too many law enforcement agencies look like SEAL team 6 out there. It sends the wrong message and blends two VERY different missions in the minds and eyes of the People.

Lots of undercover work is done with police anonymity for their own safety.

Reducing military spending relegates the United States to a second-tier world power. Is that what we want? No, I don't think we've spent wisely in wars of the past two decades. I wish we weren't involved in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Syria. But Obama didn't do anything to reduce our involvement there. As soon as Trump started movements to withdraw from the region Democrats fell back in love with war. If modern monetary policy advocates are correct, we can just print as much money as we need to find our social programs. Maybe we should try that and see what happens?

So, you're saying that it might be a little too early to blame UPT 2.5 for this?

Call public health the minute you get into town. Your gaining STUS should communicate that info to you.

Public health should be able to give you the most current guidance for the area you are traveling to.

Depending on your type of bonus.....for example, I have a 9-payment 20 YAS aviation service bonus. After the 5th payment the original contract stopped and a CMS case was automatically opened to begin the second half, or final 4 payments. It took about a month. This is apparently SOP. No idea if this is what happened in your case.

Good money that they will come October.

https://mobile.twitter.com/48FighterWing/status/1272828085285593088 Pilot identified. Kage taught my 9 year old’s Sunday school class while he was a student. Such a wonderful person. Always smiling and always happy. Lost too soon.

From my perspective from sitting in more than a few OG staff meetings where CAPster slides are briefed.... Attitude is (almost) everything. If you can keep your mind open to learning, study efficiently, and learn from your mistakes most IPs will do their best to make sure you have every opportunity possible to make it. CAP is not punitive. It's an awareness program and is designed to get you past your current difficulty so that you can successfully complete UPT. I hooked a bunch of rides in the Tweet. It sucks every time. I went on to DG two follow-on AF training programs and fly all over the world with some pretty awesome pilots on some pretty amazing missions. Keep your eye on the prize though and try not to get discouraged. If it were easy, everyone would do it. Good luck. Also, yeah....don't stare at the VVI.

If CBM has a historian he/she should be able to track it down. Not sure if bases are keeping historians around anymore or not.

Because it’s tan. ......I’ll show myself out now.

What we’ve seen here is peer-review in public instead of in private where scientists usually hack out these things. Usually scientists can hammer away at methods and weaknesses of studies, data, and conclusions in private and then what emerges more closely resembles a scientific consensus. This pandemic did not have the luxury of time and private peer review for better or worse. It’s perfectly normal that experts disagree, sometimes vehemently. We just don’t usually see behind the curtain as regular Joes. Congress will need to form a commission on COVID-19 just as they did with 9/11. And I expect that in a couple years we’ll perhaps manage to create some solutions.

That’s funny because I spend a lot of time explaining basics that are covered pretty well in books that nobody is really reading. Teaching in T5001 is a lot different than teaching in N5107. If you require much instruction in N5107 you’re probably not ready for N5290. That’s as much our fault, I suppose, as it is Stan’s fault.

It’s the innovation flight. Your course flow and training devices will be slightly different. Good luck. Don’t suck.

I guess I don’t know what you mean by this, and I want to give you the benefit of the doubt. My guess is that the average student flies perhaps 30-40 instrument approaches in all of phase 3. Are you saying that they could be proficient instrument pilots with 25% fewer reps? We value different things. Fighters value tactics, mission, and weapons employment. Airlift/tankers value mission and world-wide instrument proficiency.

Fixed it for you. C’mon, you’re not new.

How to tell the other pilot to get ATIS.

It seems to me that the only T-1 instrument flying that has been scaled back has been instrument-only fix-to-fix flying which isn’t really how anyone operates anymore anyway (we can argue the merits of the airmanship of fix-to-fix flying, but it simply isn’t allowed anymore if you can go DIR -> EXEC). RNAV wasn’t a thing when I graduated, so students are coming out much better prepared for RNAV approaches. Perhaps MIF has been adjusted in the first block of nav for some things, and there are a couple fewer sorties, but T-1 instruments is still the meat and potatoes of UPT imo. I doubt the hook rate is significantly higher than it was in the past but I have no data to prove that.

One major update to the T-1 nav check is that it’s done as a local and no low level as part of the check. It used to be an out an back with the low level as one of the legs and the nav portion as the other. When I hooked my nav check in 2004 the low levels were specifically for check rides so you never saw them before check ride day. Before the most recent syllabus change the low level was one of the common training low levels. BLOB: the T-1 nav check is verifiably easier now than it was 20 years ago.