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honestly I was 100 percent ready to accept what you said prior. i could see the military reasoning that UPT IS your signing bonus lol

say whaaaaaa?

ahh yes the falcon eagle..... with all the cunning of the f-16 falcon, and power of the f-15 eagle....

because thats how things work man... get used to it because when you do get picked up you are looking at potentially a year before you even go to UPT

so ill try to find the article but it was basically about force structure and how downsizing active duty while increasing ARCs will allow the air force to weather financial storms better. What i saw was that they viewed the ARC as stepping up its role, with the benefit of mobilizations and then be able to stand down the units in times of financial constraint almost like how the airlines furlough pilots... seems like right now is a good time to go ARC

i think the big issue they never touch on but was covered by rand, is that because the f35 is not as stealthy and cant carry as many weapons, when pitted against a near peer, they are simply overwhelmed by their lower numbers... now the issue here is not the kill ratio of the f-35, which will still be very good, it has ALWAYS been about the tankers, overwhelming the fighters and cutting the head off the tankers will prevent follow on sorties.

just read a national geographic article about the incident and they were talking about the abort system. ill watch to see if maybe a faulty system was at play.

i believe earlier in the thread it was stated that it ws USERRA exempt. I had questions about that.

this comment lol. what Gravedigger said is correct. I was reading an article that was saying that the rockets was off trajectory. Unfortunately the media just spams us with "Those damn soviet engines Putin sold us in the 90s are shit" rather then what is actually going on with the investigation

Why would they send teh FTS after explosion ;)

Does USERRA explicitly state what orders are and are not exempt (honest question, im a newb) and can guard guys really say no to mobilizing

From what i understand was that the ground crew initiated the abort but i cant find the article now...

that 38 watch looks slick, those bremonts are pretty tops

FYI 146AW is having a board in May 2015, Packets due in April

dude if youre going to be such a big shot bad ass why dont you come out from behind the keyboard? if you think these forums should be only viewed by officers then man up, identify yourself and why you belong.

USAFpilot, so like a good young buck i was going to keep my mouth shut and just read and learn what NOT to do but seriously... creating a facebook page bitching about this has got to be the most childish thing ive ever seen. be the man and officer you claim to be and take the higher road. taunting and instigating make you look petty and pathetic.

this is exactly the stuff i was looking for, thanks for the insight! its very interesting that in the Bone these issues are not as apparent

Ill throw in my two cents, went to high school with the guy, played sports with the guy, hes a good bro and like others said he's teflon man. never seen that guy anything other then ice cool no matter what is thrown at him and always a class act.'

will do, thanks guys i only brought this up because of incidents with CAS on the A-10 and B-1 platforms i was interested if anyone has done any studies on platform efficacy

All good points, i understand in a crewed aircraft that no one person is just focusing on themselves, i also know that the pilots are not simply just handing everything over to the other guys. i think i may have worded it wrong so let me try this: because of the separate but overlapping jobs in the cockpit, in combat does this lead to a better SA then a singular person with information overload? how does this affect mission success rate? reduction of collateral damage or friendly fire incidents? i was wondering if there were any actual studies on this, also not slamming single cockpit guys, because i understand they have a similar dynamic in that they are usually in a multi-ship formation. The bone is unique in that is is very far away from what is was originally designed for and seems to be doing a very good job

I guess im just interested in the fact that the two pilots up front (from my understanding) are delegating threat detection to the Defensive officer, and then taking directions to the target from the offensive officer and whether that added link in communication is critical time lost, or that the synergy of allowing someone to focus all of their attention (or a hell of a lot more of it) on a specific task makes up for/exceeds any time lost in the communications relay Just to clarify, in my human factors classes at school most of my studies focused on cockpit design and ergonomics and the SR71 was an interesting study in that the navigator was in a separate compartment from the pilot with no primary flight controls. His job, from what i can remember, was to solely focus on navigating (important task when traveling at mach 3). I was wondering if the reasoning was similar considering this aircraft started out as a strategic low-level strike role.

Crew CRM and human factors stuff were more of the things i was interested in from a flying perspective, not necessarily specific mission related details.

oh i agree 100 percent, i just was simplifying the comparison vs say the WSO in a strike eagle that actually has flight controls. I second di1630 in wanting to know more about the delineation between the roles

that russian article is interesting when it talks about the F-4 and the gun pod and over reliance on BVR. I also remember during Vietnam the Navy having bad kill ratios till implementing top gun. if memory serves the navy had a kill ratio on the order 13:1 after top gun, where the USAF hovered around 4:1. granted i wasnt alive at the time

is it not correct that the pilot has no input on the weapons systems, ie the WSO commands the weapons from target acquisition to off the rails firing? vice versa, the WSO is in the back with no visual SA and can only relay command to the pilot to execute (ie flying the plane/mission)