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.....and a lute. Also, what are the odds that our badass will be able to play the damn thing.

Witchy Poo?? Is that you? Can someone post a damn picture of her - I can never get pictures to work here.

We're using Airwatch version 4.9.1110 at FedEx with our iPads. I don't have anything to compare it to, so I'm not sure what kind of feedback I can offer. Generally speaking it works pretty well. You can view the various pubs/manuals using it or open them up in some other reader you prefer. The app sometimes just quits working and closes during updates and you have to restart.

"Clem, grab your video camera - I'm gonna go lay some pipe with that cow over there and I'm gonna want it on tape for later." "Well, alraht Enus. Hey, you got the jello?" "Shiiit, good think you done said something...... I almost forgot." Truly....W T F....... jello?

Come on!! It's so simple, maybe you need a refresher course. Playbook section 3.2: When you have clearly demonstrated that you are unqualified to hold your current position, you are failing on a regular basis and your policies are harming the country and citizens......... play the race card.

Clark, Is that really "just a bit" of risk or is it Bob Uecker in Major League - "KY ball, juuust a bit outside" risk?

I'll play along too, Pajaro: I'm guessing you're 39-40. I left active duty at 34 and finished my 20 in the Guard. When I was your age, I think my net worth was a little more than half of yours, so good job (not that I'm some kind of valid benchmark, but still, good job). I'm now 49, on my third airline and thankfully have recovered from what has been a pretty colorful transition to civilian flying. Low 100K income in 2001, 2002 and 2007-2008. Mid to high 100K since 2009. Married (wife 1.0), 3 kids, 1 at USAFA, no debt other than mortgage (15year 3%, with $207,000 to go). Owned a house since 1995, current one since 2000. Never carried any credit card debt. No family money. All funds came from USAF, Guard and Airline. Did the "DINK" thing with wife (USAF nurse) for first 4 years of marriage - so 2x O-3 pay helped establish a good base. Wife hasn't worked since 1995. Net worth: about $1,322,000 487, 000 in taxable brokerage account (7 mutual funds - diversified across equities, bonds and cash) 120,000 Roth IRA 132,000 Wife's Roth 216,000 Traditional IRA 21,000 Wife's Traditional IRA 159,500 401K 66,500 (state 529 college savings plan) 10,000 cash 5,000 UAL stock 105,000 equity in house I max out my IRAs every year (had to start putting back into traditionals because my income level precluded any more contributions to my Roths). Max out 401K each year. Invest about 25-30% of monthly take home pay into my brokerage portfolio. Donate 10% of annual pre-tax income to church/charity.

Aunt Mary?? I've heard it with "Uncle Jimmy" or "my Dad"........ hard to picture Aunt Mary wading through gooks with a machine gun. Just a thought.

Two guys are wrapping up a long night of drinking and are discussing their personal lives. "Let me ask you something..... do you talk to your wife after sex?" The other guy thinks for a second and replies, "That depends, am I near a phone?"

. Good point, Herk. I've got a 3 day layover there in 2 weeks. It's gonna be AWESOME!!

UFB - I'll bet this guy appreciates the kudos.

I'm not sure what you mean by "complete automation". In the video, the Captain is the pilot flying and is actually manually flying the aircraft. He has the auto-throttles on for a while, eventually turns them off and the landing is not "automated". What is a little strange is the F/O appears to be holding the stick too during the approach. Maybe to use the radio button on it (although not necessary as there are others he could be using). I've never seen both pilots holding the yoke or stick on any aircraft while it's being hand-flown. The Airbus aircraft take both inputs from both sticks and sort-of averages them unless a cut-out switch (take control) switch is held on one stick or the other - so definitely not a good practice to have two sets of hands on the controls (kind of common sense in any aircraft).

So, as a former USAF pilot and someone still flying professionally, do I have the option to contact a local AFB safety office, sign an NDA and get access?

As an old retired guy now, I obviously don't see these. What's the official criteria for release of an SIB (never really paid attention when I could see them) i.e. who is allowed to read them according to the applicable AFI?

The BA crash was due to a fuel/oil heat exchanger problem unique to the Rolls Royce engines on the 777. These Asiana birds have Pratts. Tails probably tend to do that when you slap them on a rock breakwater short of the runway. I'm not a safety guy but what's more likely: An error flying a visual approach after a ~12+ hour flight when you probably use an ILS on 95% of your landings or something catastrophic in the last 200' of the same12+ hour flight that causes the tail to fall off?

Glideslopes for both 28L & 28R have been OTS in the NOTAMS since 1 Jun. Possible poorly flown visual approach?

This was awesome! Made me laugh out loud.

Have a child by 35 - not a problem (assuming you find someone to make it happen with). Keeping them in one place? Highly doubtful unless you end up in the Guard/Reserves. "Normal family life" is very subjective. Does that mean home every night for dinner and weekends off for family activities? A full 20 year active duty career as a pilot usually has highs and lows of "normalcy". You may spend a 3 year tour teaching at a UPT base or your aircraft's "schoolhouse" and have opportunities to be home for dinner most nights and off every weekend (if that's normal you). Other times you may be deployed or TDY (on temporary duty away from home base) more months than you are home. There are 1 year remote tours (unaccompanied - i.e. no family with you) that could drive things far from "normal". If you serve your UPT commitment, get out (probably around age 35 for most who start UPT after college) and go full time Guard/Reserves, you might be able to swing more “normalcy” out of life in general. That is, unless your Guard unit changes aircraft or closes. Don’t go to the airlines – no normal life there. Generally speaking, the military lifestyle is full of sacrifices. Starting things out with a line in the sand over certain sacrifices you’re unwilling to make probably isn’t realistic. Plenty of families make it work but it’s not completely painless. Trying to predict what choices you may have ~15 years from now is impossible for most people – never mind a future military pilot hopeful who has no idea: if he’ll finish ROTC, get a pilot slot, get wings, what aircraft he’ll fly, etc.

I never flew with Gork but I overlapped with him at PSAB back in '97 while he was commanding the Mountain Home C-model squadron. Seemed like a good commander then and appeared to have the genuine respect of his pilots. Hopefully he avoided the flag officer lobotomy.

Possibly configured on the left side of cranium for a user who is a "righty", thus allowing a clear view and unrestrained right arm movement during the money shot?

I know I've always heard it in the last part of "Dear Mom"... Dear Mom, your son is dead. He bought the farm today. He crashed his OV-10 on Ho Chi Min's highway. It was a rocket pass and then he busted his ass. Him, Him, F--k Him How did he go?----Straight In What was he doing?----169 Indicated? It’s also the last line to the Skydiver's Hymn - Here's to him, to him, to him Here's to him, the best of him all. He eats it, he beats it, he often mistreats it, Here's to him, the best of them all. Him, him, ###### him! Fighter Pilots TDY somewhere: Pilot #1: "I'm missing church today." Pilot #2: "Aw. Let's all sing him a hymn." All: "Him, him. F--k him"

"Oldness" has officially set in. Graff was one of my students in the Eagle at Tyndall.

I'll be the fourth. It definitely happened. One of the shooters was in my Guard squadron and I've heard him tell the story at least twice. At the time, he was flying with the 58th Gorillas out of Eglin. When you hear the story, the actual strafing comes across as very impromptu and unplanned. They saw the targets of opportunity and gave it a try. I'm pretty sure he said they coordinated with someone in the command structure prior to rolling in. Although, I doubt anyone was spring loaded to say no to much at that point in the war. There are some comic moments when he bottoms out of his pass below a ridge and can see some guys with AK type weapons shooting down at him as he blasts between a couple of building on the airfield bouncing flares off the ground behind him. I got the impression that the feedback they got on the whole risk/reward aspect of the effort was not real positive. Maybe something like the Coach in "Major League"....... "Nice catch, Hayes, don't ever ######in' do it again".

Unless something has changed in the last few years, all we have is a depressible "iron" sight. No HUD symbology for A/G gun. Hacker, Does the E-model have the same 2-degree up-cant on the gun as the C-model? If so, doesn't that make strafe quite a bit harder?

Not as long as they come in and vote democrat.