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Congrats Man!! Best of luck to you!!

Him... Him. RIP

Ginger, I have to disagree. I took my DC ENR headset straight from the -130, plugged in the adapter I got from DC, and it works fantastic. The ONLY draw back I see is that the cords are already long enough to move a bit around a big cockpit, and adding the adapter made it even longer. Not very useful in a Cessna-172, so I just tuck the extra in wherever I can (sts).

Gotta agree with busdriver. Lets say you have a bunch of (water) waves hitting a shore, and you want to cancel them at a certain spot. You put a wave generator off shore a little bit and tune it to the same frequency but exactly out of phase. At the point on the shore you wanted, there will be no waves. NOT twice as many waves. If you hear less noise, there are fewer sound waves, period.

Delta Delta Delta! May I help'ya, help'ya, help'ya! My wife hates that one...

I just commissioned 3 months ago through that program, it's a great deal and good on you for applying. PFT looks good, just do your best on the AFOQT. Remember, no lost points for guessing. If you get to a section you don't have time to finish, one strategy is to look at all the answers you already marked in that section, make a guess as to which letter shows up the most, and mark all the remaining with that same letter. Worked for me... It's VERY good that you're starting this early. I did the same, and made a point of trying to do at least one thing every day towards finishing the package, there's a LOT of stuff you have to do. Apply to your school as early as you can, and get a hold of an academic advisor as soon as possible. You need to have a complete 4 or 5 year (whatever) plan for what classes you're going to take every semester to graduate when you say you'll graduate. Its NOT set in stone once you actually get to school, but you have to have the advisor AND someone at the Det sign off on it, then mail it to you for inclusion in the package... it takes a while. I hope you're looking at the AFOATS website every day, and making sure you're doing everything it says TO THE LETTER. One of the things they look at at the board is, "Can this person follow instructions?" If you have any more questions, let me know!

The problem is the impedence. Mil headset mics work at like 16 Ohms while GA works at 8 Ohms (or vice versa, I can't remember). The DC (or generic) converter not only splits the signal for the double GA plug in, but converts whatever is needed to set the imepedence correctly. No extra amplifying is neccessary. As a side note: Before shelling out the big bucks for the converter, I tried swapping mics out, going from a mil impedence to a GA impedence mic, and it didn't work. This approach DID work for a non-ENR DC headset, along with a $7 pig-tail looking plug to go from 1 to 2 plugs, but not for my ENR.

I haven't heard about them damaging your hearing, but I have heard that they are just not made for use by a military crew-dog. I guess they don't stand up to the wear and tear like a DC does. I love my DC (sts) so don't see a need to shell out the BIG $ for a bose. My $.02

Yup, I've got the exact same headset and used it to get my PPL. I had to order the converter plug from DC themselves. It was like $130 (ouch!) but well worth it. Everything worked great after that!.

I'm pretty sure this was talked about a few months ago (In fact I know it was, but I didn't really care to search), but I certainly don't remember the photos here. Its work-safe, just her personal web page. In a nutshell: 2d Lt stationed at Little Rock, Miss Arkansas, competing for Miss USA on Friday, HOTTTT! Gotta love the Air Force...

I was wondering about that! So, are they going to have their own AEF cycle now? And where would they go? "Hey honey, I'm sorry, but I'm being deployed for 120 days... to our basement. I'll write every day... to ask for more beer." This could get good!! Anybody else have any ideas on what a cybercommand deployment would be like?

So, on average, how many hours do the 'typical' new Herk Co's get per year right now if the 'typical' Barney Co's are getting 400-500? If you jump on a ton of locals in the -17 community, does that restrict you from getting to go on the road when those trips come up? Basically, do they try to get all the Co's the same amount of flight time in a month, whether you get it from 2-3 locals a week or one long 8 day (or whatever) trip? I don't have a problem doing the 'extra' jobs at the squadron, I did plenty when I was aircrew, but I also don't mind flying whenever I can, to include every $hit flight on the schedule. I'm asking because I'm 2 years from graduating UPT and am keeping an open mind between my top 2 choices: -17's or -130's. I'll take any and all opinions and information I can!! What do you think? Thanks!!

I did notice that! So what gives Doc(s)? Anything out there to help the current (or soon to be) fliers?

Is it really that big a deal?

At the KC airshow with a Herk on static display: Man pointing to Fuse Tank: "So is that a nuclear bomb?" One of our crew: "Sure is, we take one to all the airshows and let people walk around it and bang on it!" ************************************* Man pointing to the IFR refueling hose/drogue we pulled out of the pods for static display: "So, how do you take off with them hoses hanging out?" Us: "We have the new anti-gravity levitators on the drogues so the just float down the runway behind us." Him: "REEAALLY? I didn't know that had those!" Us: "Sure, they just came out last year!" Him: "Coooool!"

Anybody know what Bond was driving in his new movie? I couldn't really make it out.

So this bomb girl, was she like an airman over there or is it just some hottie the USO had over there for a photo shoot?

So, at our joint military ball this semester, one of our cadets brought her boyfriend (now husband). During the posting of the colors and during the National Anthem he stood there with his hands in his pockets, pretty relaxed looking. I thought I was being too much of prick for being pissed off about it, and never mentioned it to anyone. From what I hear on this thread though, I guess I wouldn't have been out of line to mention it. What do you guys think?

I lived there for two years. Had a BLAST. I'll tell you the same thing I told every newb who checked in: If you sit in your room drinking beer and playing X-box, you'll hate Okinawa. If you get out there and do stuff, you'll love it. I got into SCUBA diving (it's CHEAP compared to the states) and I shipped my motorcycle over there. Every weekend I was either riding or diving. Those were my big things, find your own, and you'll have a great time.

My buddy was in ROTC with me. He just applied, had to wait like a year, and got it. It might have helped that the Colonel at my Detachment called whoever was in charge over there. Sorry, I don't know any more.

Catcher- Unfortunately, you really need to use the search function. Your question of "How do I become a fighter pilot" is in fact the number 1 most asked question on this board, and the #1 most answered. I'll be nice and give you the quick version though. 1: Get your citizenship. I have a buddy of mine from Liverpool who just graduated Nav school and is going to be a B-52 Nav, so it is possible. 2: Get a degree 3: Talk to an officer recruiter from whichever service you want to fly for, write down everything they say, then do another search on this forum to make sure it's the truth. 4: Do everything the recruiter told you to do that was the truth. 5: Get accepted to whatever service you want to go into's version of Officer Training School and pilot training. Like I said, this is the short short version, do a search and you'll get the details.

Amen to that! I'll be the first to admit, I didn't join the Marines to sleep in a fox hole and run through the jungle with my M-16, I joined to get some discipline and see the world. Bootcamp and the other schools took care of the discipline thing, as well as just being a Marine, but there's no better way to see the world than aircrew. I still have some great friends I flew with, officer ad enlisted alike. "Swingin' with the Wing", as they say in the Corps, is a bit different from being a grunt. Officers and enlisted are much friendlier to each other, and it's more laid back. Its pretty much the difference between: "GOOD MORNING SIR!! YUT YUT... KILL!!" and "Hey, what's up Sir? How's $hit?" You still have the respect, you just don't walk around with a 2x4 crammed up your arse (extreme case).

Probably a dumb question but... What's a 'lag roll'?

Wow, bitter much? You can hate or love anything, its all about the attitude. I was in the corps for 7.5 years and loved every minute of it. The only reason I came over to the AF was because it was easier to get a scholarship and to fly the plane I wanted. I'll love the AF too. Like I said, there's good and bad to both, it all comes down to attitude.

That's all I need... another standard!