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If you're inverted at the final approach fix...do you call "Gear up?"

Actually, that's "Fear, Sarcasm, and Ridicule"

The difference is noticeable, but not the 'kick in the pants' you might expect. There was actually a pretty good discussion of the 220/229 difference in the past couple days at the Strike Eagle forum with input from myself and maintainers. 229s are at MO and LN, 220s at AK and SJ.

caliiceman328, Use the search function for these questions and you'll find plenty of previous posts. Short answers - it is possible, you need to ask early, and you won't know any of your follow-on training dates until you get your assignment (a little over a month prior to graduation). What does this mean? Pretty tough to plan wedding dates around non-existent training dates. Either get married prior, do it over the weekend during at your UPT base, or wait until you're at your Ops unit and done with MQ training. Leave after UPT isn't much easier than during since you'll have land + water survival, possibly IFF and the centrifuge, then FTU.

The amber visor is high-contrast and I found it to be a lot more useful when low-flying. The problem was that it made everything brighter as a mentioned and I didn't have the two-visor do-hicky thing on my helmet. Rather than re-attach my visor on sorties, I just wore the shades.

Looks like you won't be getting any rides from the Langley jets either (D models). Langley F-15s not moving for Ophelia Since AF Times articles are often blocked, here's the text.

Mach 1.2 and change.

Officially, the dorms have a policy that say you're not supposed to have 'overnight' visitors. I have neither seen of nor heard of the policy enforced. Two of the four Italians in my class 'shipped' their girlfriends over for 6-9 months of our year long class and nobody ever hassled them a bit.

Yeah, this was brought up in the documentary. Also turns out he was born in England and was a strongly influenced by the American presence in WWII. He joined the US Army during Vietnam, which eventually allowed him to gain citizenship. In Vietnam as a 2Lt he was adamant about not losing any men. Despite his efforts, he still lost six or seven men which, according to friends, haunted him for the rest of his life. A lot of his friends speculate that those losses from Vietnam were what drove him to ensure that he would lose no more people in the WTC.

A good majority of SJAFB's Strike Eagles are out there, but they left a lot of the FTU types like myself behind (I think to avoid getting too far behind the timeline). I imagine if you make your way to the most popular brewery / night spots in Dayton you'll find quite a few of the aircrew. Your chances of getting a ride are zero - we're not doing any local sorties while we're there.

One other that was on - taped it and watched it this morning - was 'Grounded on 9/11' which was the events of the day as told from the perspective of the Air Traffic Controllers. Imagine watching a plane's transponder code dissappear, then see it do a 180 and hear that it just crashed into a building....then another...then another....then another. Within three hours, ATC throughout the US landed/diverted over 3000 flights. None an enviable job that day.

Shack, BigIron. I will say that I watched a couple interesting specials on the Discovery and History Channel last night. 'Ground Zero' detailed Flight 175 (first flight into the Towers) from shortly before takeoff to impact. It was a reenactment based off of handwritten instructions recovered from the hijackers and cell phone calls made by the flight attendants. I thought one of the interesting things was that the hijackers intended at one point to make an announcement to the cabin telling everyone to be calm, that they had taken the plane and were returning to the airport. However, he keyed the wrong mic and actually made the call to ATC; the call was heard by not only the ATC controller, but by the crew of Flight 93 (the flight where the passengers revolted against the hijackers). 'The Man who Predicted 9/11' was also on the History Channel about Ric Rescorla's increased security measures in the towers after the 1993 WTC bombings. The steps he took in the eight years prior to the 9/11 attacks and even that day saved hundreds of lives - eventually at the cost of his own. And finally "The Flight that Fought Back" on Discovery channel (mentioned by C17) was about the Flight 93 passengers who, after their plan had been hijacked, got word through cell phones that the other planes had been flown into the WTC Towers and decided they would do whatever it took to stop the hijackers. It was done in a similar fasion of "Ground Zero."

Geez....here comes this whole argument again...

Standard fighter initial is 300 KCAS. Tactical initial (with wingman in 6K' line abreast) is 350 KCAS. The whole deal with airspeeds below 10,000 feet is waived due to tech order airspeeds (up to 350 KCAS for fighters). In combat you're cleared weird for Tac Initial - I came up Tac Initial at Incirlik at 600 KCAS on one sortie.

Yeah, my wife told me that after I had been throwing them in the dryer for several years. Toro - "Where'd you hear that load of crap from?" Mrs Toro - "It's on the laundering instructions on the tag." Toro - "These things have laundering instructions?" According to the instructions you can actually throw them in the dryer, just on low heat - doesn't have anything to do with the fire rating. They say not to use bleach, starch, and fabric softener because it will deteriorate the flame resistance. They also say not to iron it because then you are a tool.

Again, Hacker would be the definite authority, but I doubt it. At IFF, the only thing that makes a Viper guy a Viper guy is the fact that he chose that assignment at the end of UPT. When he begins IFF he is generally no different than the F-15C, F-15E, and A-10 guys that show up. Even by the end of IFF, the different syllabi don't make a huge difference. If a bunch of guys washed out of FTU, I would question the UPT or IFF system for letting them through, not the group of students. That being said, I've never seen or heard of a 'bunch of guys' washing out of the FTU. Minor point - it's FTU now, not RTU.

John Glenn did rebuke Senator Howard Metzenbaum's statement, but he didn't make the speech about Iraq - it's something that's been floating around for quite some time. Always check Snopes when you get things like this forwarded to you. About 69% of the crap I get isn't true and the site debunks the urban legends. Here's the John Glenn story

I've seen it done a several times in conjunction with spouse appreciation day, both at Seymour Johnson and RAF Lakenheath.

Concur on the hobby shop.

He does not need to be there to supervise the movers - at most all you should need is a written and signed letter from him saying you are able to supervise (I've never even needed this when my wife was accepting the household goods). A general will cover everything, the problem is that some places will actually ask for specific POAs.

There are also financial POAs - these are particularly helpful if your spouse is deployed and you need to do something for him/her with regards to the finance office. The legal offices I have been to try to discourage General POAs because they're so all-encompassing.

TankerWife, Excellent topic...golden words. If your base legal office is worth anything, they will be proactive during times of deployment and come to your squadron. When my last Ops squadron was tagged for AEF, the legal office called us arrange POA/Wills for anybody who did not already have them. I was impressed by their incentive - I recommend anybody in the AF, whether you are a Mission Qualified student ready to deploy or a UPT student in Phase I, take full advantage of the legal office.

I don't think you're going to find any SQ/Group/Wing CC's on this board. The closest you'll find is old farts like Rainman, Snake, or MadMax. I would take their advice along the lines of what I would take from any SQ/CC.

Agree with nearly all of what was previously posted here. We had a crew roll of the perch for their full stop and didn't realize -- until tower / SOF told them - that they hadn't put their gear down. Both received commander directed Q3s and were grounded.