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  1. Hacker
    It has been a couple years since I've been lectured by the SARC and the SJA, but I believe that what I've been taught is that you are, in fact, a rapist, and you violated the UCMJ and sexually assaulted her simply by looking at the photos.
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    Do a little searching on this site about she-who-shall-not-be-named (cha-ching $$ !) and you'll gain some tremendously important insight. The "story behind the story" with her is just as important as whatever you know about her currently.
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    Yes, all of the multi-ship demo teams use the sing-songy (and what appears to be somewhat loose compared to other mil flying) comm. It originally started with using the voice cadence to indicate the onset of G or roll rates or the pacing for other maneuvers, and it has sort of morphed into what it is today. If you go back and look at the Blue Angels "Threshold" movie from the early 1970s, you'll see a much tamer version of this same thing in Navy-speak. I got a couple rides with the Red Arrows in practice a few years ago and they had even more intra-airplane talking, even with pilots joking shit-talking each others' maneuvers during the performance using this same type of comm. Except with British and Scottish accents, ol' china.
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    I'll put the question back on you: what kind of time would you be trying to log? The hitch is that you'd be trying to log time under FAA part 61 rules, and 61.31 requires anyone who "acts" as pilot in command of a turbojet-powered airplane (e.g. a WSO flying a Strike Eagle from the back seat) must have a type rating. Since many military aircraft do not have civilian type ratings available, the FAA considers the AF's instrument-checkride Form 8 to be the same as a type rating. So...since WSOs don't get an instrument check F8, how would you explain to an FAA inspector (or someone interviewing you for a flying job later on down the line) how you were qualified to fly the thing under FAA rules? The bottom line is, as Toro mentioned, these days there's no pilot logbook value of WSO time. Now, most employers will see back seat time as important airmanship experience, and will consider that strongly to the benefit of you as a pilot, but the numbers won't count toward any required pilot experience.
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    Back several years ago, probably 2008-ish, a CAFB SUPT student got picked up in one of these stings, too.
  6. Hacker
    "Lt MonkeySex". Loved that one.
  7. Hacker
    What a lot of people -- apparently yourself included -- are missing is that the letter was "fighter standard" straight-talk, despite what Killer's public response to it was. As a fellow Strike Eagle dude when this all went down, I can tell you that 99% of the bro network thought Toro's reply was right-on, because that's how we talk to each other and how we keep each other on the straight-and-narrow when we stray outside what is acceptable behavior. So, it is no surprise to me that Toro made O-5, and had a fine career afterward, because he's a damn good officer, aviator, and instructor, and the vast majority of his peers and leaders knew that, too...as well as not thinking the email was some wildly-offensive douchey move.
  8. Hacker
    Peacefully enjoying the scotch-of-the, er, check-of-the-month club, yes.
  9. Hacker
    http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7101
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    No. Airlines consider PIC time as time in which you "signed for the airplane", so there will never be a time that the 'pitter's name is in the FP/MP/IP column on the signout sheet at the ops desk. You might hear about WSOs and RIOs from back in the day being able to convert their back seat time into pilot time, but those days are unfortunately long gone. If you want to fly professionally after the Air Force, either buy an airplane and fly on the side to build hours, or hit up the Aero Club.
  11. Hacker
    The Mayor has lost control! The Mayor sucks!
  12. Hacker
    As said, not at a "career" airline, no.
  13. Hacker
    Nice ascot in the official photo, tho...
  14. Hacker
    If you're gonna get hitched anyway, do it ASAP and enjoy the extra pay.
  15. Hacker
    Which '17 is it going to be?
  16. Hacker
    Use the company EFB to surf porn.
  17. Hacker
    Bottom line, humans are on board the airplane for judgment and decisionmaking when things do not go as planned. It will be a long, long time before machines will be autonomously capable of that.
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    The "indefinite detention" language needs to come out of the NDAA. It amazes me that anyone who has taken the oath to the Constitution that we all do could possibly vote for such a thing. It is one of the most repulsive things to come out of Congress in decades (that is unclassified, at least).
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    As with everything, "it depends". It depends on a lot of things that are entirely out of your control. If your Convening Authority is given a list of choices to offer, the CA may pass that option down to you. The CA also might not...and you would never know, since you aren't part of the communication process for the FEB or the Waiver. Some CAs may even make you accept the Waiver first before even telling you what might be in the hopper for a follow-on for you. Some might tell you beforehand what airframe they're going to recommend for you. In my opinion, there is rarely anything to be gained by not taking the waiver and going to a full-on FEB. Occasionally, when gradebooks were poorly documented and maintained, a good attorney could get a student reinstated....but more often than not guys end up at the same place they would have if they'd just accepted the waiver, months later down the road and perhaps $ thousands poorer in attorney fees.
  20. Hacker
    Time for whales humping!
  21. Hacker

    Sleep Apnea

    Hacker replied to a topic in Aviation Medicine

    I was diagnosed with mild-severe OSA that was not related to weight or any other lifestyle factors. I had three procedures - a UPPP, a tonsillectomy, and a rhinoplasty - to correct the shape/size of my nasal passages and throat, which was identified as the cause. The overall process took about 9 months from initial diagnosis, to evaluation down at Brooks by the USAFSAM, to surgery at Wilford Hall. I was only medically grounded during the surgery and healing period after the surgery -- about 4 months. I had a post-surgery evaluation (read: "astronaut physical") by the neuro-psych guys at Brooks (I understand the office has since moved up to Wright-Patt) before I was issued a waiver to get back in the cockpit. My waiver had to be renewed every 3 years, and it was a simple base-level process that was evaluated/recommended by the Flight Doc who performed my PHA. When it came time to get my FAA medical, it was a one-time evaluation of my USAF records and waiver by the docs in OKC. On the basis of that evaluation, I receive an unrestricted First Class medical every 6 months with no further examination or reporting.
  22. Hacker
    This is a solution looking for a problem.
  23. Hacker
    Dad never finished the story, which is that you lose 50% of the value (of your income) on each trade-in.
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    Maybe. Not that I ever really remember in 1500 hours flying the jet.
  25. Hacker
    Just curiosity -- I'd always heard about USN and USMC 2-seaters not having controls in the back seat, which is different than the USAF where all the 2-seat fighters have had full dual controls.
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