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What do YOU mean by "what do you mean by black jets"?

If the BIT is post-IFF (and they're single) send them TDY to fly black jets for those months. No begging required.

Meh, gotta entertain ourselves between track/assignment nights.

https://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/1048679/af-selects-shaw-afb-as-the-preferred-location-to-host-a-new-rpa-unit.aspx Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

The Air Force is a bureaucracy. The one truth with any bureaucracy is that it seeks growth. If the MSG/WG/CC posts $XX,XX3,### cash flows one year, posting $XX,XX4,### cash flow the next is a feather in the plume. QoL, strategic need, and stewardship can all be damned. See also: Joint Basing. ETA: anyone who thinks that RPA CPIP, 11F retention, or Sq re-vitalization are anything but min-run eye-wash initiatives is deluding themselves. Exhibit A: Shaw MCE Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Already cresting the horizon in black jet AdAir. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Haha, having visited both Robins and Beale in the last year, all I can say is,...well, at least they're not Del Rio by the Sea. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

CG: what locations did you have in mind? Our current UPT locations are specifically located under sparsely traveled airspace, leaving plenty of room for MOAs. I'm all about what you're suggesting, and I've been vocal here about the colossally stupid basing decisions in the RPA community--those could be installed in any office building/base/location--pretty much anywhere you can build a SCIF . Not so with trainers or any MDS that needs some form of range space. Best example is RND, where the daily struggle with San Antonio approach and Houston Center creates real production impacts. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Uninstall, reinstall FTW. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

You asked so, yeah, you're out of line here. Comm officers don't do the same work (danger/personal risk//length/duration/intensity of training) but they also don't get flight pay or the bonus opportunities you have. Does current flight pay/bonus structure cover the value difference of the two jobs? No, I don't think so. But I also don't feel the need to undercut the value position of a career field that I think is dangerously undervalued in terms of emerging threat horizon either. Our position stands on its own merits. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

9mm: 115 FMJ for plinking 147 HST otherwise. I shoot a mag or two every few trips to the range just to keep the supply rotated and test functionality. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

I dunno, man. I got the joke. I thought it was balzy as hell, but I got the joke. Responses seem unintentionally SNAP-ish, compared to the clumsy attempt at humor. Maybe my brain just works that way. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

True, but if it had turned out to be a pure, no-exceptions 1500 hour rule, that would have been a clean kill. Ironically, 1500hours probably would have worked in the AF's favor. Pilot careers would have been: -OPS assignment with plenty of "broadening"...~600 hours -RPA/ALO/365/etc -Maybe, if you're lucky, another ops assignment...but probably not. If you're lucky, 1300 hours -back to a desk/dumpster Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Agree with all, except the matinee ticket is 750 hours, not 1500. Still a substantially different problem to solve than the previous standard (or lack thereof), but credit where credit is due: the ERAUs and UNDs successfully lobbied themselves out of the hangmans noose. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

It will be interesting to see what their proposed solution will be. They could set up a robust 141/142 training program, and that could qualify their graduate to get an R-ATP at 750 hours. Graduating as a Comm/CFI would happen at ~250 hours, without applying Ponzi economics, the CFI puppy mill itself could get that graduate another 200 hours. Still 300 hours that need to be bridged somehow before that graduate can produce revenue in the right seat of an RJ. Airline subsidy with a contract term? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Tonnage Coming up with metrics is easy. Metrics that matter, when it matters is the hard part. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Just to cage your sight picture: If all of this is true, and Congress were to humor Fingers' request and eliminate the ATP requirement for 121 ops (It's not a 1500hr req, btw, but an ATP req, which is what drives 1500hrs), and we go back to the good old days of 250hr wonders in the right seat of RJs. You wouldn't be directly competing against those 250-1000 hour pilots. Imagine the market as one of those beer cups at the ball park that fills from the bottom. Those 250 hour pilots would flood the market--from the bottom--and the top of the market at the majors with 2500-5000 hour RJ captains. Right now, the civilian flow is stifled by a historically high barrier to entry. The CFI route--historically the biggest civilian pipeline--is chilled by lower demand as prospective pilot wannabes are daunted by that barrier and the murkier path forward. Pipeline patrol, sky-diver-driver, and other commercial time builders all pay waaayyyyy worse than even the regionals, and don't have near the capacity that the once thriving CFI puppy-mills could boast. But again, take away the 121-ATP rule, and you aren't directly competing with those 250hr wonders; they are just buoying the boats of the graduating RJ captains, who would increase pressure on your demographic.

This has been a problem for a while; just getting around to squaking code-2. I am only able to open ~1/4 of posted links at most. They neither open in the app, or push over to another browser. So if I'm really curious about a link, the fix has been to open up BODN in Chrome. Any fix within the app for this? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Who said that any of them were permanent members? Rove, Jarrett, Emanuel, Axelrod; none of them were statutory NSC members, yet they all participated in meetings and discussions as Bannon is now. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

You don't like Bannon. Got it. Neither do I for that matter, but this doesn't pass the sniff test, unless your indignation applies across previous administrations as well. Do I need to name names? I could go back to at least Reagan off the top of my cranium, but I'm sure the Google machine will help me find earlier examples. Copy: the WH has been running the first few weeks like a rally car race, with fender scuffs to prove it. The article that you provided was that at the end of the day they are adults and found their designated lanes. Like the author said at the end: a tie.

Maybe that's the case, but it's kind of irrelevant. U2s come from all walks and fly 38s. That's why there are dedicated IPs. But at the end of the day, you're probably right. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Creech AFB: just...why? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

It's not about longer hauls. Pilot requirements would not change. It's about hauling cruise fuel off the rwy and up to altitude, not about range. Confusions aside, this idea is a flying car in every garage. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Alice Springs > Creech Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

[Waiting for the next Reading Rainbow to chime in with "but who wants to sit in a 777 for 21 hours!?!?!?"] Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums