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The shot is fine, but as the video shows, it could potentially lead to you hitting a guy. If you're pointed beak to beak and you've both got 400 knots, 9000 feet decreases to 0 feet in approximately 0.11 seconds. Not trying to be a dick, but how can you ask that question when you just responded to a statement about 9000 pure pursuit missile attacks? Yes, we fire at the merge. We do it all the time. We just don't do it inside of 9000 feet if we have our velocity vector on the guy. You don't need JHMCS for this - your jet is pointed right at the guy - the radar can see him just fine. If you're asking about actual ranges the missile can fire at -- now you're getting into the classified regime.

Yup - talked to a couple guys yesterday who said it was Columbus. I assumed it was IFF since the tag at the bottom left of the file said 49FS. As I listened it to it yesterday (for about the 20th time) Hoser pointed out something pretty funny. If you listen very closely at 3:01 into the file, you can hear the student mutter very lowly - barely audible - "What the hell is going on?" Question - what is the "9 over 8" check the IP is doing? If anybody wants this file and has an e-mail account that can take a 4400KB file, send me a PM with your e-mail in it and I'll send it to you. [ 15. April 2006, 09:11: Message edited by: Toro ]

It doesn't matter - he had a good deal of aspect and closure at 1000 feet, which drove him inside the bubble (on the first picture) As Beerman mentioned, Training Rules are written so guys don't swap paint. Unfortunately, they're usually written because guys swapped paint. For example, we have a TR that says we can't take pure pursuit missile shots inside 9000 feet and another that says we can't gun somebody if they're greater than 135 aspect. Basically, don't point right at somebody when you're about to merge in an attempt to employ weapons. From what I understand, both of those TRs resulted from this Viper/Eagle midair. In the first couple seconds, you can hear the Viper driver call "Fox II" (fired an AIM-9), then the video skips to about a second and a half prior to the merge where the dude is now getting greedy and trying to gun the Eagle. They impact and the rest of the video is the Viper going out of control and going into the dirt. Pretty eye-opening stuff.

I don't know if the T-38C has a recorder, but this was an IFF AT-38 ride. This is making the rounds through the AF mail (4MB file - I bet the comm nazis love it) and I've received it from three different people in the last week. I assumed it was recent and the 49FS (tag at the bottom) is currently at Moody - has been for over five years. I'm surprised it's that old.

Great video - Columbus Lt Col IP flying with a Japanese exchange student experiences a bit of a language barrier. I have watched it no less than 10 times and I still laugh when I watch it. Turn Off the Heat!

Second baseops.net - don't go with ERAU if you don't plan on staying in the AF. As for herk28's question - you get credit for PIT as well as SOS towards you ERAU masters. I don't recall PIT being 8 credits, though (I want to say it was 4).

I'd also be interested to hear the actual setup and what occurred. Agreed - good on him for getting at least a snap, but it may not be so impressive if this is 6.9 seconds after the Hornet started from an offensive perch setup (which is very likely since he's 30 degrees nose low at 15,000 feet). 183 KCAS with 210 Vc with about a 9 aspect and nose in lead? The Hornet is going to be defensive in about 5 seconds.

While Hacker is correct about the 500 foot bubble, Raptors have a 1000' bubble (at least when we're fighting them). I don't know if it's an ACC Sup to 11-214, but it's on our flight brief TRs.

Evil Eagle, don't know if I ever met you, but I went to two different parties at the Alamo circa 2002. One was a Halloween party with chicks swinging off some rope and into the pool and the other...uh...don't really remember. Anyway, much like the Alamo, five guys from my squadron went in together and rented out a mansion. It was up in the hills outside of the town of Newmarket - very nice little town that was walking (stumbling) distance to an awesome little pub (England standard). It was a wee bit smaller than the Alamo - (only had 6-9 bedrooms and no indoor pool). Even after their BAH, they ended up paying some coin out of pocket, but it was well worth it. Just about every big squadron function we had was there - even had one guy's wedding reception there. As far as I know, dudes from the 492d and 494th FS are still renting it.

You've probably seen the original 'Chuck Norris' list - well here are some new ones straight from the source document for all you Tactics guys. Excerpt from CNTTP 3-69 (Chuck Norris Tactics, Techniques and Procedures) (UNCLASS) 1) Chuck Norris executes a banzai gameplan regardless of awareness and AMR. Short-skate tactics are for the weak. 2) Chuck Norris is always in the “advantageous element.” 3) Chuck’s commit criteria is JFS Start. Mr. Norris doesn’t need avionics or a weapons system to be lethal. 4) Chuck Norris once had a wingman call a KIO for a PTO shaft failure. Chuck said he was “rejoining chase” and subsequently gunned the guy for being “worthless and weak”. 5) If Chuck Norris is conscious he’s inside your turn circle. 6) Chuck Norris does not jink. Under any circumstance. Period. 7) Chuck Norris once had a wingman go blind. Once. 8) Chuck once decapitated a SEFE for telling him he was in his 4th Month for a Mission Check. 9) If you’re an “W-Prefix” don’t let Chuck Norris get wind of it. If he does, QC your last will and testament 10) Chuck Norris doesn’t do SEAD. The word suppress is not in his vocabulary. 11) If Chuck Norris is airborne, ACM is one-role by his mere presence. There is no 2 vs 3-role argument. 12) If you fly with Chuck Norris, do yourself a favor and don’t brief a shot doctrine. As a matter of fact, don’t brief any contracts, except killing. On second thought, don’t brief that either. It’s assumed. 13) Chuck Norris’ right eye has 4 times the acuity of a Sniper Pod. 14) Need an EA plan? Try having Chuck Norris hum the 2nd verse of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.” 15) Threat criteria . . . . . . not with Chuck! 16) Don’t use the term “Ten Chucks” during the adversary coord brief when Mr. Norris is around. He just doesn’t like it. Shortening AA-10D to “ducks” is fine. 17) Chuck Norris guides all LGBs with a standard Life Support issue fingerlight. It’s still unclear how he does it but he uses continuous lase as a general rule. 18) Chuck Norris refuses to do any GP delivery except a 90 degree DB, thus completely negating the need for CWDS. This attack should normally be flown as a direct pop. 20) JMEM weaponeering does not apply to anything employed by Chuck Norris. His normal SSPD is 1.4 regardless of target composition. 22) The F-pole of a Chuck Norris employed AMRAAM may vary by up to 6nm based on Chuck’s mood. Just something to consider when you “build your numbers.” 23) Chuck Norris was once told to “retrograde” by OCA escort when he was a striker. Chuck killed the entire blue OCA escort 4-ship, then banzai’d into 6 red-air groups inside FR. Since this took a few minutes, AWACs subsequently asked if he needed a TOT extension. Chuck kamikaze rammed the E-3 and proclaimed “Chuck Norris on guard, picture clean.” 24) Chuck Norris maintains the Link-16 network using an abacus, a 30-minute hourglass, and 8 two-way CB radios. That’s all you need to know. 25) Chuck Norris will be supersonic south of the Mormon Mesa whenever he wants. 26) Chuck Norris only operates under Type 3 CAS as Type 1 and 2 imply some reliance on someone else. Tomahawk FAC-As use caution. 27) Chuck Norris is the GLIB I. 28) Chuck Norris does not float, action, loft, crank, WEZ deny, take second shots, abort, or notch. I think you know why. 29) Chuck’s ownship position is always bullseye. 30) As a general ROT, Chuck Norris is able to VID at TR + 5, thus completely negating the need for a PID matrix. 31) Chuck’s MESL: 32) Chuck Norris dug Groom Lake by hand at the conclusion of the Vietnam War. 33) Chuck Norris’ controlled ejection altitude is -6 feet AGL. 34) Chuck Norris has never in his life been denied GPS acquisition. 35) Chuck Norris has never left anything to the RTO. 36) Ronnie did not leave the Tomahawks for a better “job opportunity.” He was killed by Chuck when he entered the wrong takeoff time into PEX for a Chuck Norris 4-ship. 37) Chuck Norris noise abatement procedures: 2 strafe passes with 20mm on anyone golfing on Shadow Creek’s 7th hole.

What if you were to legally machete someone to death in Nairobi? The question doesn't ask whether you did it somewhere legally, it asks if you've ever done it.

Cinco de Mayo....perfect.

Call the Honor Guard at your nearest base. They should have them and may lend them to you. I got a set of them for my wedding from the Columbus AFB Honor Guard. As for the etiquette, I just had my guys wear them in their mess dress when the ceremony was over and as the bride and I walked out, somebody gave a "Present Arms" call and they raised them to form the arch with the traditional slap on the ass by the last guy.

You are re-f***ing-tarded and this is the WRONG answer. Cessna, do a search on security clearance and you'll find a lot of good info. Primarily what you'll find is that the security clearance questions are looking to find whether you're trust worthy. Now, if you sat around and smoked pot of a Honey Bear container for weeks on end, you're probably not trustworthy. If you took the occassional toke of a bong in college and fess up to it as being a stupid, immature mistake -- you're probably okay. If you lie and they find out you WILL NEVER GET A CLEARANCE. "But how would they ever find out?" you ask. They will talk to people you would never expect. On your clearance paperwork they will ask for names, addresses and phone numbers of your friends and all your past addresses. Then they will talk to your friends friends and your neighbors. I had a guy whose contact info I didn't even have give me a call and tell me that the investigators had called him. This all is coming from a guy who smoked a little weed when he was young and dumb, admitted it on his paperwork, and has been in the Air Force for ten years now.

Everybody has different wings - pilots have different wings than WSOs. It's a different rating.

Thread revival to bump this back to the top. All good ideas, just looking to solicit any others that guys might have since we're just over a month out for our guys' assignments.

T-ODP stands for Transitional Officer Development Plan. Wasn't a big fan at first, but I kind of like it now. Any active duty AF can access it through the AMS website. It uses primarily drop down menus to select your assignment preferences. First page asks real general stuff - are you considering Developmental Education? Are you eligible for command? What type of instructor would you want to be if tasked? Do you want Join Spouse? Next page gets into specifically what you want to do in order of preference. I've got stuff like F-15E Ops Pilot, F-15E FTU Pilot, Exchange Pilot, Flying Staff Officer, ALO. Below that you have special duty preferences which you list even if you don't want - these include mostly non flying jobs. Next page is desired locations - list up to your top ten along with whether you desire an oversea short/long tour. The last page is your comments page where you include specifics on what you want to do for your next assignment, and what your overall career goals are. Your reviewer (commander) throws comments in like "this guy needs to go do XYZ because he's $hit hot" While they only technically need to be done as you're facing an assignment, the recommendation is to always keep them up to speed with your future plans in case (as mentioned above) AFPC pops up with a tasking you might actually want.

If you're already there, my recommendation would be to just drive north up the highway (been so long, I can't remember which one it is) and you're bound to find some good stuff. I never drove an ATV, but me and a couple buddies would mountain bike on the off-road dirt trails. About 45 miles north of Del Rio there was a real nice area that we went rock climbing - I remember it having dirt trails wide enough for cars, but I don't remember how far they went. Baseops.net was there, he may have some info.

Drivel removed - FNG stands for F***ing New Guy. The T-ODP is going to be a little different for a new guy, especially if you're preparing for pilot training. You've pretty much got the next few years of your life laid out for you with respect to what you're going to do. Obviously that's in a general sense (UPT somewhere, then survival somewhere, then FTU somewhere, then operational somewhere), but it doesn't much require a T-ODP. When the T-ODP really starts to come into play is when you're up for an assignment that you have some say in. Definitely when you get to your first post UPT tour, have that thing filled out. AFPC could come up with a short notice tasking, and while those normally aren't real desirable, there is the occassional winner. About three months ago, AFPC had a very short tasking for an Italian F-18 flying position. The original candidate had gone long term DNIF and they needed to fill his spot within a matter of days. The first thing they do is go to the masses of T-ODPs and look at people who have things like "Foreign Exchange Tour" near the top. There was a guy in our squadron who was prime for the spot and wanted to go, but his wife was like eight months pregnant and he didn't want to pack his crap up, sell his house, and drag his ready-to-pickle wife over to Italy.

I don't know about the Bone, but FAIPs who go to Strike Eagles can upgrade to Flight Lead with less hours than everybody else. AFI 11-2F-15E Vol says you need 300 hours to enter FLUG, or 200 if you're a prior FAIP. It's not about knowing the mission, it's about having prior experience and airmanship to lead a 2-ship around.

If you're talking about the issued survival vest, their isn't a whole lot of room in there, but there is a lot of crap crammed in there. GPS, signaling mirror, flares, water, water purifier tablets, radio to name a few. Oh, and there are condoms that apparently they want you to use for 'collecting water'. If you're talking about a no-kidding personal survival kit, some guys will add a couple items to their own kit, but again, there isn't much room in there. At Seymour we have to wear them when we are flying mountainous low levels or when we fly over the water at night. Knife, yes: lots of guys fly with their own personal knives either tucked in their boot or in their G suit. Sidearm, no: You're only supposed to carry the issue 9mm. In the Gulf War, though, a lot of F-15E dudes didn't want to meet the Abis face-to-face with the (at the time) issued six-shot .38, so they went out and bought their own 9mm before they deployed.

True - just like if you left down Friday and returned to work Monday you would have to take four days of leave to include Saturday and Sunday. I don't know for sure on your UTA question, but big picture - if your leave brackets the weekend and you're not actually working on the weekend, then you should be charged leave for the weekend. I went to UPT at Laughlin - went to San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Houston, - never took a day of leave.

If you earned them, wear them Unless they look like that

I had something similar happen to me at Lakenheath. I was clear and a million flying a PAR by request from ATC for training. I started out just fine and the left/right was fine, but as we started on what looked like a normal glideslope, the controller told me I was slightly above glideslope. I dumped the nose and increased my decent and the next thing I know I'm above glideslope....then well above glideslope. I could see the runway, so I knew he was screwing up, but I continued to do what he was telling me - as I'm approaching DH much further out than I should be. Finally he directs me to level off and tells me I'm well above glideslope when I'm at DH. When I ask "Do you want me to level off, or am I well above glideslope?" another voice takes over and tells me to level off and that I'm well below glideslope. The second voice finished the PAR and when I pass DH and tell him I'm visual I ask if he wants feedback. Response - "Nope, we've got it covered" I happened to be talking to the RAPCON NCOIC a week later and it turns out he was the second voice. He said the controller in training was decertified on the spot.

Today the B-course Lt who runs the squadron snacko closet sent out the following e-mail That was followed promptly by this 'Reply All' from the Squadron Commander. Solid support from the boss for the snacko. Strong.