Dead Last

I'm gonna be perfectly honest, I read not one response to this thread but the title intrigued me... for a couple of reasons 1) I'm sure it says something to the effect of; what degree will get me my pilots slot if I go to ERAU? I thought the same thing when I went to Embry Ridiculous 2) I ended up going to Ridiculous for a year and getting my a$$ kicked by the academics there/lack of time to concentrate on each subject, the excuses are plentiful... 3) I transferred/switched degrees and STILL got my pilot slot with a NON-TECHNICAL degree, that was in 03, and have been flying the Herk since 04 and wouldn't change a damn thing. So my opinion, from someone who's done the ridiculousness that is ERAU and a state school and the tech vs non-tech degree... I would do it the same way I ended up going minus the 1 year brain fart I took at erau, hell I would've saved myself a metric sh!t ton of money if I had completely bypassed that place to begin with. Anyways I'm on tdy and am drunk posting... cheers

Great find, thanks for the site... Burned the better part of my afternoon/evening looking over the sites. cheers

Also which Guard Unit? Fighters/Heavies? Not that it really matters but you may be considered biased towards the JSF at your unit and LM, then again I have ZERO back ground in the engineering/contracting/guard. either way good luck cheers

Back in a previous life my crew and I had to pick up a broken airplane from the Deid and fly it back to Balad, and we were actually looking forward to getting back to Mortaritaville, it wasn't worth the 3 beers that we got due to a rolling etic and an ultra decisive AMD and the unnecessary ass pain of in/out processing the Deid and dealing with the REMF's. cheers

As of June there were strong rumors of an Alaska Reserve associate at Kulis(Anchorage). I could be and am probably wrong. cheers

The question is how are you going to get around the whole, no thumbdrive/external hard drive issue? If you have found a way please pm me. cheers

I agree with Bender on this subject. Everyone starts out wanting fighters, believe me I did... Talk to all of your instructors about their previous airframes(Sorry FAIP's) and go into it with a very open mind. Look at me, started out wanting A-10's(and would still like to fly one someday, just to shoot the gun) went Herks and haven't looked back. Overall in order to really have "a say" in what you want there is essentially one thing you have to do... Don't Suck, oh yeah the positive attitude really doesn't hurt cheers

I agree with you on everything except the picture... I almost threw up when I read ske/vis/balad. Been there, done that glad to have come to the darkside. DAMN IS IT :30 yet???

I bring a couple cases of beer for the EP and rest of the crew during debrief, you know a crew save is a good save... Worked for me so far. Cheers

The 130 also has more options to transition to other 130 variants, MC/AC/EC etc... Personally if I could do it all over I'd go Herks again. Corpus was the same in 04 when I went through, if you show up knowing your shiite the flight would go well even if you screw some stuff up, if you didn't know your stuff it wouldn't be a fun flight. There is/was no stand-up or shotgun prior to flying, usually a couple hour pre-brief followed by a very EP intensive flight; example... just after rotate the IP pulls an engine on you. I felt that the instrument training was hands down the best I've had, I'm not sure how they are doing it with the T-44C(glass cockpit) but the actual partial panel stuff in the 44 with the God Box was great. And as slacker said it was a very big boy program much like the rest of the 130 community. So choose wisely, you can life the life of Strat air and see the worlds prime locations, or go Tac air and have a much better chance of actually getting your hands dirty and seeing the stuff you never hear about. cheers

Never RON'd there but flew into Speicher more times than I care to count... Have fun with the ARMY. cheers

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DUHH!!! I completely forgot about the 41st... I was thinking e/h's cheers

So I'm a Capt, been one for a while and am now at a new squadron/base/command and say "Hey Sir How're you doin?" to a Major. He says don't call me sir, Noted. New Lt Nav's straight out of the schoolhouse working in a shop, I walk into said shop and they say "Hey Sir" me "Don't call me sir"... Whatever cheers

At LRF with 3 AMC squadrons worth of people, and no more E-Models in the AOR(Thanks Gen North) the rate had been slowing down before I left for the dark side. The J's were taking over the Deid and the rest of us bastards were up north. As a basic AC you were guaranteed to deploy every 6-8 Months, it just worked out that way, but on the positive side we were getting more TACC msns and some other fun stuff. Pedaler, since you're not even rated yet I have some Co-pilot buddies back at base x and could put you in touch with them and they could give you a heads up on what you are about to get yourself into. Anyways gotta go set up my Blues... cheers

You know this A$$hat is politicing somewhere... God forbid having him as SECDEF and Obama as potus!!!! Not enough to keep me sane I know I just jinxed us...

Yeah so instead of having one type of engine on an airplane to replace when it breaks, the mx package will have to carry twice the amount of engines/props etc when they deploy. I think it's a way of forcing the potential customers to have to buy more equipment. Oh well the Herk's done it the old way for the past 50 plus years and it seems to be working that's all I care about.

I like the strong engines, though I don't think Airbus learned the lessons of two different engines on the same aircraft as previously mentioned... Speaking of which has anyone seen the new -15 Vmca!!!

I have to agree with Tac Airlifter, some of the best training and flying you'll ever do in the herk... They force you to fly fast on a compressed timeline, but you'd be amazed at what a crew can do after the first sortie or two once you learn what you can really do with out(mission planning wise). We had a class b up at St. Joe after we went duck hunting with the airplane, saw all 4 oil pressures go to Zero on the LLAT, flew vis formation (tfm included) with the German C-160 and pushed the 63 E model to it's limits!!! Luckily we didn't have any 17's in our class and we were day only, no NVG's in they syllabus. I'd do some pretty nasty things to be able to go back up there and take the class again. Cheers

Sorry I re-read my post and need to clarify what I meant by VN. They did phase 1-2 aka tweets/t-6's then at track select time they went down to Corpus...

A buddy of mine from the WYANG and one from an East Coast Guard unit were in my class at VN, and then both went C-12's in Corpus so yeah I think it's a slot available thing. cheers

Only a couple more weeks my friend... for everyone I'll be a happy day in the 61 when that happens, those going to the 53 are lucky, the CC and DO are awesome guys.

I did the ceremonial first salute at my commissioning, and I also did the no shiite first salute at Vance. I carried the coin around and the first non-gate guard that saluted me got the salute, a coin, thanks and a handshake. cheers

With a good Snack-O you shouldn't have to pay for much... Cheers

We would have taken so much s#!t from our fellow classmates if we didn't say "Tweet Complete" that unless you know you hooked you said it... cheers oh yeah I had a tear in my eye when I read the article, it was a fun damn airplane