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I googled it. Apparently that was my zip code once upon a time. I can't imagine voluntarily living there, especially if my pension topped six figures.

Either he's slumming it, or you're in debt up to you eyeballs.

It's not a separate instrument. It displays on the HUD and any of the heads down displays when you bring up a primary flight display (attitude indicator, et al) on them.

I think we can officially call this one a crash. Hard landings don't rip off half the wing and start a fire.

No. I'm guessing it some kind of fire suppressant chemical. I don't know of anything actually on the J that would do that.

You don't even have to be in a stack. Just be on the boulevard when a B-1 has too much gas heading back to the 'Deid. I swear I got an RA one night 30 seconds after a Bone checked in at a waypoint that was 75 miles behind me.

They're probably required to react to a TCAS RA by company regulation. Airliners full of pax are a lot less comfortable getting that close to other aircraft than military guys on a training line.

Have you heard of an AWACS hard landing that destroyed the aircraft after shooting the ILS to a 10,000 runway in CONUS? How about tankers scraping their engines on the runway?

Are flight engineers going to flare the aircraft now? I thought their job was to make sure the gear was down and they are at the right runway.

My thoughts exactly. This is a total win-win. Let them keep going and see if they can pull Iran and Egypt into it somehow, too.

Please send her to the C-130 when she's done being a FAIP so she can please demonstrate to me how to use the autopilot to fly a tac arrival to the assault zone. I don't think anyone has figured that out yet.

Having flown C-130s with and without an engineer, I can honestly say that nothing would complicate the CRM on a J-model or C-17 like an FE. At least a nav knows when he's unnecessary and will STFU. The C-17 community just needs to pull its head out of its collective ass and get its shit together. The C-17 drivers I've met that have crossed over to the J care way more about their careers than any Herk guy I've ever met, and could give two shits whether than can fly the plane well. Also this "fix" you keep referring to of adding an extra pilot has nothing to do with backing up the pilots flying. It's because C-17s fly insanely long duty days. J-models have not and will not add extra pilots just to back up the pilots flying the jet because that is completely unnecessary.

Wait, his payment for beating her was that he got to bone her?

How many attempted bailouts have there been? My guess is zero, but I could be wrong.

The assumption that was made that started this whole discussion is that the plane broke up in flight. That is usually a very sudden and violent event, not one that allows you to go get a parachute on. Even if you happened to be wearing one, an in-flight break up at .94 Mach would not be survivable, with or without a chute. So wear them for a few missions when the war kicks off just to make you feel cool like somebody's gonna shoot at you, then pack them away and save AFE 5,000 man hours a year.

Those should be in the WTF thread. You pay $250M for a jet and then scrimp on your method to secure the load it carries. How much could a few 25K chains cost?

Once again demonstrates why I always check weapons at the door when I host a three-way.

Understand, but I'm guessing no tanker crews have actually worn them in flight in 30+ years. Hence why they took them off. This is a terrible yet, thankfully, very rare tragedy. Godspeed boys.

There are very few scenarios I can think of where a heavy crew would need parachutes and also have the time or ability to get to them. I doubt they would have helped these guys. The lack of any evidence of a fire on those pics would support the idea this jet was in pieces before it hit the ground. Prayers to the families.

That's what I thought he was saying. In other words, don't sign the next 5 years of your life away based on what some schmucks on an Internet message board said.

My QoL when I'm there drops every time I pass the AFCENT Band Practice Faciltiy.

I wonder what the boss would have to say about the AFI that is about to turn every bit of the flightline inside the fence at Little Rock into an Industrial Maintenance Complex, thus preventing 2/3 of the parking spots used by flying squadrons from being used by POVs.

It's my understanding that the Japanese government pays for a significant amount of the costs of the US bases there (housing, base facilities, etc.) Thus, you can keep those troops in Japan for a fraction of what it would cost to have those same personnel on Guam or Hickam, because the US would pick up the whole tab. I'm guessing there is a similar agreement with Sourh Korea since we are providing a huge chunk of their defense.

Last time I checked, having 30K troops in South Korea lets us keep an eye on more than just the guys on the other side of the DMZ.

And exempt them from PT tests, or just let them test under female standards.