LookieRookie

But then we couldn’t cut training and lie and say we’re innovative and agile. Instead of just saying, we want to produce more pilots, senior leaderships has determined this is the ALR to produce more pilots with resource constraints.

The Air Force is trying to divest whole airframes. There wont be another trainer. The best to be hoped for is congress stops the t-6 divestment, forces a full ARP, and we go back to GUPT.

The one positive is if a T-6 only FAIP fails PIT it’s an automatic FEB waiver and they get send to the MAF

Only MAF allocated T-6 FAIPs are T-6 only. CAF T-6 FAIPs are still T-38 trained. (Read better pilots) The last AETC/A3/6 signed a memo authorizing it countersigned by the HAF/A3T.

The T-6s have a lot of life in the airframes. AETC just needs to do the ARP to the entire fleet.

A ENJJPT IPT CONOP was briefed/being briefed to the latest steering committee meeting. I haven’t asked the guy what the outcome was. I know there has been some “talk” about how the T-6s are all owned by the USAF, so if we get rid of them, tough shit NATO has no choice. They are also the last base to get the T-7 so they would keep their T-6s last too. To your final point, this came up in 2020-2021 at the HQ AETC level. Air Staff stated FTU/Ops is a separate issue, pilot production’s job is just to produce 1500 pilots, it doesn’t matter how long follow-on takes. Or AETC cuts the syllabi to produce more wingman/copilots.

There will be a second buy. Boeing is going to no lube us on the prices. As of now the total syllabus (including employment) is just under 90 hours. Non-CAF tracked studs will get around 40-45 hours.

Obviously you have no clue what you’re talking about. IPT is just the part 141 portion of FUPT. All students still fly the T-6. Tanker/Airlift/SOF/Recce/MAF FAIPs students then go to their FTU or T-6 PIT. Fighter/Bomber/CAF FAIPs will go fly the T-38 and be the first to fly the T-7 at IOC. CBM is MOB 2. When the T-6 sunsets, everyone at that base will fly the T-7 at FOC..

That’s not what he’s implying. He also lead the charge to get rid of the instrument approach (waiver) out of the T-6 fundamental checkride because SPs already learned to fly instruments at IPT. He’s removing items that provide data that doesn’t support his “SGTO”

Well Leard is wondering why T-6s have specific go around procedures or why SPs get graded on it, because he didn’t do it that way in the C-17. He wants “military pilots,” not “T-6 pilots.” He has never done ab initio/undergraduate training so he’s out of his element Donnie.

It’s not about smaller plane, biz jets can fly higher and faster which makes their sensors more useful. Also, Boeing is terrible at producing aircraft now.

Yup, get a Bombadier/SAAB Global Eye or a E-37B. High/Fast

CBM wants to setup a pre-IPT or post-IPT immersion/seminar. the SPs are having a really hard time transitioning to military flying because the ESA 141s basically have no standards and don’t have the same rca/rm decision making/debriefing/briefing/checklist discipline.

So for the whole 1500 pilots a year thing, that was airstaff under Welsh or Goldfein. The AETC bobs did bring up FTU absorption and were told, it doesn’t matter, make 1500 pilots.

exactly what i did. yellow ribbon makes it much more valuable

oh and Leard wants to cut instrument approaches from the T-6 FUPT checkride because “sps have instrument ratings.” The waiver was signed and then pulled because the 14th didn’t have a real chance to non/concur on it. All the GOs in AETC decided to do it without SME input. Anyone from the MAF have personal experience with him? He seems to only want data that confirms his decisions. CBM isn’t doing SGTOs because this is going to scale with no way to fail and TexanWorld at CBM is sounding the alarm. Feedback from CBM is the students are being short changed.

they don’t. they are ESAs right now. the actual ipt scale contract hasn’t been awarded

cliffs, the clowns kwast and cucklord wills destroyed the upt enterprise

aka even more so the t-38 bubbas are the only real, historically tested pilots

Ehh, he was the one who acquiesced to Kwast to fuck up AETC and 19 AF. Shredder Sears (A2/3/10) refused to delegate his A3 authority because Kwast wanted him to focus on “force development and competencies” BS. So Shredder was sidelined and sent to the new A5/8 and Punk signed all the authority delegation memos as an O-6 deputy. Sears got his second star because Kwast was fired.

Anyone contact Latoya recently? Edit: I just emailed her

all the punks are on reddit and tiktok now

The doubling down on nothing being classified is insane.

Oh look aircraft availability is in the toilet, better give billions more to Israel and Ukraine. https://www.defensenews.com/air/2025/03/06/air-force-aircraft-readiness-plunges-to-new-low-alarming-chief/

UKR is the acronym