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The North American Blue Falcon (Falco Douchebargensis) is a species pathologically incapable of answering any question in the introspective. You have to be a sapiens to begin to do that. Like giving a book to a chicken, it means nothing to them but it's hilarious to watch.

As you shouldn't. Because the question is moot. The implication behind the wording is he thinks they're going to give him a "sabbatical" from having to man up and schlep his Burger King ass (oops, I misspelled airline pilot 😄 ) to the unit and meet status quo participation/IMR requirements, just because he declared an intention to transfer. Straight out of the Michael Scott playbook. The answer should go without saying, but I guess I'm old now and it needs spelled out: That's not how it works, that's not how any of this works. @brabusalready covered the flybys. The manner in which individual units deal with a member wishing to 1288, ranges all the colors of the spectrum. The usual one, if the "commute" is the hardship, is to do the mark-to-market accounting shtick, and look at quarterly or semi-annual participation, instead of monthly. Make an ETP to allow the member in question cover the equivalent pro-rata participation on a front-loaded basis, as opposed to straight-even throughout the fiscal. Other versions, such as trip bundling (common in my AETC-TFI corner of the ARC world) is also a common way to minimize the travel for the commuting TR. Too many variables to give a unit-specific answer. Kids these fvcking days.... 😄

I'd kill for that kind of lack of traffic. 😄

It's all innovation, son. The powers that be decreed flight time is dinosaur talk and getting in the way of "progress", so VR goggles and CRAFT meditation exercises for you. Those contractors aren't gonna pay themselves after all. You'll be fine, in sha Allah, for the sake of your future crew. I mean, the airlines successfu---oh wait.... 😄

I mean, at least your bone nerds don't get convicted of B&E, brutally assaulting exes in the shower with a lead pipe after a multi-hour out of state drive with body disposal kit in the car; serve nine hard time, with another 40 pending on parole, then get hired by a blue LCC (for a short while anyways), like the buff nerds do. #fightclub

You're telling me. It's in absolute shambles. I'm actually in the process of finding salvage/firesale for my carcass of a plane. Inflight engine issue, got touchy there for a second, long story short, PEL'd that bitch barely back to a runway. thank heavens I was solo, didn't put my family through that stress. An anti-climatic end to a 10 year ownership affair, but I guess everything comes to an end. 2/10 would not recommend again, but I'll always have the family trip memories with me. I'll take a lap for a while, take advantage of the increased savings now that I'm planeless in order to lick my wounds from this loss and bolster my seed money for the pivot. I'll find the right replacement when the time is right, and get back on the saddle. I am d.o.n.e. with certified. 100% EAB for me going forward, more than likely 6a or Glasair 2 FT. done with retracts too. As to Vans. Yup, the interim CEO selected is the guy who did Glasair's chop and spinoff. My money this goes down as Glasair 2.0. winnie the pooh will likely be in the picture now.

yup yup, rumint down here close to said water cooler is exactly as the piece highlights, regret-rape run amok. Given the service's expectation of political expediency when it comes to embarrassing flag officer related disciplinary hearings (as opposed to us lowly scutwork degenerates of field and company grade variety), there's little doubt in my mind the regret-rape will be readily dismissed, and with it any further incentive for the service to proceed with the CM. Homeboi will get his slap for the frat indiscretion, lady 'RR' will have some splainin' to do at her own divorce hearing, if the future ex has any self-respect left and leave her that is. And just like Cooley in '22, homeboi will take his reduction in rank and sweet sweet O-6 retirement check, and bob's your uncle.

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The ones who resemble the remark, naturally.

Indeed I have, as well. The irony of course, when it comes to that insufferable "your entire livelihood...is just my motherhood" attitude, is that the plurality of that demographic's personnel losses rests squarely at the hands of the very mOthErHooD they deride as scutwork. Miscontrol/Loss of control in IMC, spatial-D causal. Statistically far and beyond mechanical causals, to say nothing of a galaxy's worth of separation from anything resembling enemy action causal. But you can't talk about fight club with that crowd without being shouted down with appeal to authority fallacies. Arrogance is made of such ways, wcyd.

I didn't even need to click the link, I knew it was gonna be that guy's channel. I've already had to debunk his Pepperidge farms story about how " back in edwards" they flew 105KCAS final approaches. Internet pedestrians eat that guano up. The boomer may mean well, but his shtick is misinformation by dated brain proxy. The fact he puts up pictures of the CBM Japanese student crash as his lead-in, as a guy with fvck all safety access anymore, tells me all I need to know. BL, there's definitively a demand for youtuber subscribers fascinated by the "10% story" musings of .mil has-beens.

interesting. Is it because of O-5 TIG or some such? Usually folks use the IMA to get to 20 Reserve; the folks who want to manipulate the airline schedule (but we don't talk about fight club) tend to prefer the TR/DSG over IMA as it offers more footprint.

it's a big effin club...and we ain't in it! The serious answer is the sclerotic FAA FSDO side is ruled by certification folks, and ops is generally considered to be woefully understaffed and underrepresented to said management, so they're forced (in their view anyways) to defer to the DPE side just to not let the airman certification sausage to grind to a halt and cause a panic in Congress (airlines mostly). So DPEs runs amok, FSDO ops is captive audience because their management (generally Certification background folks) want them tethered to the office catching up with all the gargantuan metric ton of paperwork that job is renowned for. Which exacerbates the DPE malfeasance. As a career Reservist, I'm intimately familiar with OPM and the ART world, which is to say I'm familiar with inefficient onboarding processes. That said, I don't know what's the prevailing dynamic as to why the FAA is so incapable of just properly staffing their FSDO Ops (ASI) numbers. Perhaps it's said FSDO management sabotaging the office. Similar dynamics have been claimed by CBP Air Marine folks when it comes to their frictions with their internal hire Border Patrol background management/supervisors.

I know this place is a conservative echo chamber, but rhetorically imputing disloyalty/impurity in a fellow service member's reason for choosing to serve, absent a dismissal or dishonorable discharge, is not good optics. I know it's the internet and all, but we all come from different backgrounds, very different backgrounds in fact. It's one of the things I have most appreciated about my time in the military, vis a vis what I've always considered to be, a banal conglomeration of rather insular and nativist regional cultures of the continental US. The irony of which does not escape me. At the end of the day, we are all guilty of disagreeing with 6-9 things that the State does which we tacitly support and get called baby killers/sympathizers/Empire-facilitators/bystanders for, by virtue of merely putting on the uniform on a voluntary basis. Given that political discourse non-starter, I think we could do without the true scots fallacies coming from our own side of the proverbial trench. Happy anal eclipse, er, annular eclipse! 😄

AD and Diet-AD would have NJP'd them for violating social media policy. (check go pro mount left side). tsk tsk.

apropos of nothing, this "legal vs moral" debate reminded of a skit with ol' billy Burr, about people remarking it's legal for stay-at-home prospectors to financially scalp high earning spouses in divorce: a woman in the audience smugly throws the rationalization: "well, that's what the law says!" and Billy goes : "yeah? 100 years ago I could beat you with a broomstick for backtalking! ....tHat's wHat tHe lAw sAiD". May not "win" an argument in nerd debate club, but he's a winner in my book 😄

good ol' geopolitics. There'll never be peace in that god-forsaken (pun very much intended, as a secular humanist mind you) infertile soil part of the Levant. As to Hamas' angle, my bet is they're making an accelerationist (poor bet) play to get Israel to carpet bomb Gaza, and get all the critters to come out the woodwork. It's already started in the Golan Heights, again. The neoliberal west is pretty much in lockstep with the israeli status quo apparatus, so I think the guerrilla overplayed their hand, even from an accelerationist pov. Non-state actors tend to be short-sighted like that though. In the end, the apartheid will persist, the bystander pawns will perish on both sides of the border, the status quo will prevail. The Israeli/Palestinian chasm makes Anglos' handling of the Native American "question" seem courteous in the macro. Yes, I'm being slightly incendiary for effect, but it's not too far off. My 10 year old asked me where that was going on, while I was listening to it in the car. After I explained where the Levant was and a 5th grade explanation of the history of tensions, he promptly said to me: "oof, good thing we live in place where bombs are not falling on top of our houses". Small and salient observations thru a kid's eyes, for what many in the Americas take for granted indeed. I promptly and simply agreed with him. I certainly don't take his assertion for granted.

The linked document doesn't appear to contain a timing ceiling, only a floor, unless I missed it in some footnote. In this case the floor appears to be "greater than six months" from completion of active service. (see 6 and 7). Matters not to me, as they proceed to by-name exclude AGRs from eligibility in the very next chapter anyways. At any rate, I was curious about your source about Delta allowing 24 months out of available date applications. They have the one junior BES that'd fit my preference/life circumstances post .mil.

Yeh, ol' Patty has always been a ham hands (and a mean drunk, but I'll stay on subject). Lotta hype on these cliques/sub-cultures, prima donnas abound. 😁

Indeed. Book of Exodus, Chapter V. Still salient.. 2,500 years later. But inNovAtiOn 🤡s rather "dinosaur" ad hominem everybody who disagrees with their specious arguing, future afterburner consultant shtick, than acknowledge what was already self-evident to illiterate bronze age goat herders.

Looks good to me. Wholesome piece of Americana.

Typical FTU-centering mindset, always trivializing what goes into the undergraduate output, yet never wanting to pay the bill for the deficit they argue they know better about in the first place. BL, I still go back to the more neutral, actuarial argument. FTU thinks they got the ab initio code cracked? By all means, slide those first-500 to the uber-expensive right of the PL asset continuum, and fvck around and find out.

In my opinion the benefit of white jets is actuarial in nature. 500 hours. First 500 is where the first spike in accident risk of the bathtub (the other one is the experienced/complacency spike, which we also have good historical precedents for, even recently). When you move more of that window to the zone where the preponderance of your iterations will be done in the expensive jets, well by all means fvck around and find out. That's it, no RAND study needed.

hot dayum you bois are spicy playa hatas. 😅