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<shrug> Whatever floats your boat. Never mattered to me, except how some of the IPs handled things like this. I was always amused when IPs from the varied MWSs would get their panties all in a bunch about a minor point (like this) and say "that's not how my MWS does it!". Well, whoop de do. IFF is there to teach basics. IFF really teaches admin and the "tactics" are just something to do in between the admin. The fact of the matter is that there's nothing tactically in the T-38 that applies to anything done in any of the MWSs anyway! They're going to have to solve the BFM problem differently when they have a multitude of all-aspect weapons anyway. I couldn't care less if a kid is getting training on what his future MWS gunsight is going to look like if he can't have SA on where the floor is or where his bingo bug is set. The latter, unfortunately, (and other basic stuff) was the major source of problems with blue jet studs.

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It changes depending on how the wind blows. With the initial software suite in the T-38C, there wasn't a funnel so they taught LCOS pipper in IFF. With the software change circa '04, they added the funnel and that became the standard because it was easier to teach kids to assess range and it was accurate at any range without doing any math. Circa '06, there was an influx of new IPs at Moody (most of whom came from light grays, interestingly) who had a hardon about the LCOS pipper, saying "that's what they'll use in the gray jet!" and scoffing the funnel. They wanted to have Eagle students use the pipper instead of the funnel. I left the jet before they had enough experience as IPs to fight that battle so I don't know how it turned out. Wouldn't surprise me if they use a different pipper depending on what jet the student is going to.

None, it's just different. The point is that the blue air needs to be exposed to different types of aircraft which look different and perform different.

Recommend hopping RyanAir out of Treviso (about 20 minutes from Venice) to London, then picking up a return flight to the US from London. If you buy in advance, the flight from Treviso to London can be purchased really cheap.

Get the ASA guide to the Private Pilot Oral Exam. http://www.asa2fly.com/Oral-Exam-Guide-Pri...1_product1.aspx

The real question is, is the "heritage" still proud of the unit??

I urge all of us who fly military airplanes into the state of NY to absolutely inundate Chuck Schumer's and Mike Bloomberg's office with calls notifying them that we are going to fly in their state. Make it part of the standard WANTS check.

Wow, this has got to be a BaseOps first....quoting from the USAF change of command script. Anyone for quoting 36-2903, just to push this thread into "classic" status?

http://www.globenewswire.com/news.html?d=162962 The 50th anniversary of the first flight of the T-38 occurred earlier this month. Before any of you non-fighter dudes jump on this little statistic from the article, I'll go ugly early on it: Obviously this factoid neglects training under SUPT and everyone who has tracked to a TONE, UH-1, or T-44 since 1993.

Yes, that's correct to the best of my understanding. I've used the "K" word off a no-lock gun track as a Smurf bandit plenty o' times and never had to pay $5 because the shot couldn't be validated. I just wasn't sure if there had been some change to shot/kill that I wasn't aware of and that you were referencing.

Since when was MIL sizing not a valid way to validate a gun track? When you don't have any method of active ranging, that's the ONLY way you CAN do it.

Pretty asinine statement, actually. Bravo to you.

Sounds like that guy's standard.

You've got to love the kind of ideology that, on their "2 years of the Islamic State" celebration page, one of the featured images is blindfolded guys on their knees getting shot in the back of the head. Something to be proud if, isn't it?

The root is in a Korean-war era USAF song, "Save a fighter pilot's Ass". That song is an adaptation of some American traditional song that goes "place a nickel in the drum, save another drunken bum", referring to putting money in a Salvation Army donation can. So, the "grass" word was just changed to rhyme with "ass" in the fighter pilots' adaptation. Other than that, there's no special significance. At some pilot, pilots started taking the song lyrics literally.

Actually, no.

I first heard it at Mountain Home in '93 from some EF-111 turds. I was a ROTC cadet on a base visit and found it pretty funny. They also did elbow pointing and "deceased insect", all of which was a pretty foreign concept to a ROTC punk.

Of course it's always the chick's fault. That siren obviously couldn't hack it on her own, and needed to go for the offer of the knobber to get the EPQ questions, right?

Unless you have a really significant amount of civilian time, such as being a former Part 121 pilot, then most airlines will only want to see your AFORMS printout.

You guys don't let the facts get in the way of these good stories, alright?

There's a hilarious thread on the GWOT name change over at AirWarriors. More specifically, they're addressing the fact that DHS no longer sanctions use of the word "terrorism" because, according to the Obama administration, it is too related to the former administration's "politics of fear". So, the thread offers alternatives to to the new administration term, "man made disaster." My favorite is "man-made negative outcome event," although there are many which are actually more hilarious than that.

It just sounds better than "resurrect".

Great thread necromancy there, just to make that kind of "yeah, me too" comment!