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Except on every full stop...at least that's how it was at Vance.

...without the EZ pass.

And what I'm saying is there will be zero advantage. Trust me...the best way you can help yourself is know the boldface/ops limits cold. Anything else is worthless before UPT. There's only 2 ways to have an advantage over others in UPT: 1) You just have the hands, flying ability, whatever you want to call it better than others in your class and/or 2) You study a lot harder than some of the other guys and know your shit better. That's really the only 2 ways you can have any kind of an "advantage" over others. Don't be the guy who tries to make a third way to have an advantage, if you know what I mean. Secondly, I think franchise's post puts the kabash on this specific topic. Bingo.

Doesn't matter...check flight trumps the FCIF and says you still have to have the normal paper pubs. So the only thing that E-pubs helps w/ is just printing out the pages w/ FCIF changes instead of having to write them in. At least they're useful for something.

The prop acts like a barn door when you pull it to idle and the speed brake does have a pretty quick affect...so I don't know how fast it's slowing down in the sim, but sounds like it's behaving relatively realistically. As far as the flaps...do you mean it floats a lot on landing at full flaps? The real final approach speeds are 100 kts full flaps, 105 kts T/O flaps and 110 kts no flap (excluding any gust factor), so coming in for landing at that associated speed in the sim should give you a clear picture as to how realistic the flight characteristics are.

I'm just saying, this is along the same lines as reading the Dash 1 before UPT to "get a head start." It really seems like it would help you, but it won't help at all. The T-6 is not complicated...you could go in cold turkey and after about 2 hrs in the UTD you'll be able to go through the entire start sequence no problem...not as fast as you'll be down the road, but you'll be able to do it. Any advantage you'll have from flightsim will be gone in a matter of days during Phase I. Sorry to burst your bubble, but that's the way it is. Buy the plane/sim to fvck around and have fun if that's your thing, but don't waste your money if you're buying it thinking it's going to give you a great prep for UPT...it won't.

Whatever floats your boat. But just so you know, a picture of the cockpit could do the same thing. Not to mention during academics you can always go checkout a UTD sim...looking at a flightsim graphic on the computer is one thing, actually sitting in the cockpit physically flipping switches is quite another.

I like how the SUV in the far left lane obviously sees this dude plow into the toll booth, but just keeps driving through like he didn't see anything. Standard asshat in America. But geez, that's a hell of a stop.

Rocker - 1, Iris - 0. Owned! But to their credit, it does look good. But, it cost 40 bucks! So if anyone is thinking of buying this to "prep" for UPT, don't waste your money. Go buy some instead. It's not going to help you at all.

I'm not arguing against anything Hind said, he obviously has more knowledge on the subject than I do. However, from what I've read, been told by friends, etc., the guard is not a flying club in the way you wish it was. In some ways it is a flying club compared to AD, but you have to to think about some big things: 1) You can't expect to just find a unit that will hire you for UPT in a short time frame. It could very well be SEVERAL years before you find the right unit that's willing to hire you. Yes, you could get lucky and find one w/in a year of graduation, but pretty unlikely. I'm not saying you are guaranteed to have a tough time finding a unit, but it would be smart to plan on it taking a couple years to really get in w/ the unit, hired, med stuff done, blah blah. Then maybe in 3 years you go to UPT. 2) It's not steady flying all the time. Every unit is different. Some may fly more, but don't be surprised to only fly a few times a month at points, same as AD. You just never know...that crap is all over, not just in AD. Not to mention kind of the point of the guard is flying a few times a month...full time positions are very rare. 3) While you may do a few years out of the cockpit on AD, you will probably go back. Yes it sucks/will suck to not fly for a few years, but chances are you are not screwed out of flying the remainder of your career. Bottom line: The grass is always greener on the other side. If you really have a desire to fly civilian and military, then go for the guard, but if you have your heart set on military flying, then not in my opinion, but based on the words of several crusty BTDT guys, start in AD and then move on later if that's what you decide down the road. Just remember, you have a ticket to UPT now, if you don't take it, you probably just added several years onto your chance to go, at the minimum. Maybe that's worth it to you, maybe it's not. The guard is not an easy ticket to a military flying club...it'll take a lot of time and effort to get to UPT through that route (in addition to what you've already done), so to me, that's a big reason to really think about this whole thing.

What I was told by an IP (who's an A-10 MWS guy), is that some dudes are FAC qual'd, but don't necessarily fly that mission all the time. So one day you could have a FAC mission and the next day you could be doing the standard CAS mission. They fly the same jets, just loaded up differently. So I guess if you are FAC qual'd, you could technically say you fly the OA-10.

I've heard of guys only flying AD 1.5-2 yrs after UPT, then palace chasing to a guard/reserve unit. If you're really up on flying in the ANG/reserves, then that's the best way to do it at this point. However, I wouldn't be surprised if you decided AD flying was the way to go for at least a while. You're putting way too much thought into this whole FC1 thing, don't worry. Do exactly what amcflyboy said...I honestly think you'd be making a huge mistake by doing it any other way.

Well just b/c you "have trouble hearing tones" may not mean anything bad. There's obviously limits beyond which you'd need a waiver, but you may not be as bad as you think you are. I would think this is probably not a huge issue unless you're hearing is massively horrible, but hopefully one of the docs can give you the straight answer. I just wouldn't start worry a ton quite yet...that's all.

As Tertle said, don't give up and try every avenue/work your ass off to get a slot. But, this is a huge roadblock. I'm not certain of this, but I think previous suicide attempts, being hospitalized for near suicidal attempts, etc. is a show stopper. You have to understand, the AF is not very willing to let someone fly one of their multi-million dollar aircraft if they think the dude has a high risk of just planting it in the ground b/c his girlfriend broke up with him or something like that. One of the flight docs here can give you an accurate answers based on the medical perspective, but I have a feeling it's not going to be in your favor. Good luck w/ trying to get the slot, but just realize there's a lot going against you.

VN as best I can remember...I'm sure I'm leaving a few out C-17x6 (5 to Dover, 1 to Charleston I think) RC-135 KC-135x2 (Kadena and Mildenhall) KC-10 Travis

I know at Vance anyways the OSS/CC's wife had a spouse get together the 2nd week of UPT or something to give the wives info on UPT, etc, etc. Definitely a good idea. Gives everyone a good time to hang out and meet outside of the endless hours of boring briefings, CAIs, etc. Plus it's a good way for all the wives to meet I guess.

This is what I've been told and have done several times: If you work a half day on Thu, then take off (regardless of flying/driving), you don't have to take leave for that day. My Flt/CC's through UPT have been cool about just writing us passes for such an event and we didn't take any leave. If that doesn't happen to you, you still will only take leave Fri-Mon. Plus, unless your boss his a huge douche and actually determines what "half day" is, you could really just peace out late morning to give yourself enough time to get to the airport, etc. It shouldn't be a big deal.

Hahaha, awesome. Even better would be some high school kid getting an algebra test back or something w/ a huge red F- at the top..."Finance: we've been waiting for you."

I think the dinner is 20-30 bucks a person, depending on drink/food choice. So, it doesn't matter if you have 2 coming or 15 coming, either way you pay per plate. I don't know if there's a max you can bring, but I've heard of some studs having like 20 people come. There's the "red carpet" sims on Thu afternoon/Fri morning/early afternoon so family/friends can fly around a bit and people usually show their families the squadron, the jet they flew, etc. I'm pretty sure all of this is alloted during Thu/Fri, w/ most of the sim times on Fri (I think). That's about as much as I can tell you at this point for Vance.

Geez, CH has no mercy.

Griffin...you mean 700/semester? It was 500/semester when I was in ROTC, so I'm sure it's 700/semester and not per year.

That's what I thought too, but that was what I heard. So, don't take it for 100% truth...I can't validate it, just heard it.

Haha, very well then. I still motion for the AD beer fund. I heard books went up to $900 from $500. If that's the case, either the AF is just that dumb or kids are that dumb and actually buying WAY too many books. Unbelievable that someone would really need $900 for books while getting a bachelors.

Agreed, but it is possible that a Det CC may take into account major when he does the class rankings. Regardless, that's still not a good reason to do engineering over basket weaving. It honestly is NOT a smart idea to major in engineering unless you WANT to be an engineer or plan on using the engineering degree after retirement/getting out of the AF. If you're dream is to fly, why the hell would you do all that extra bs for no reason?

It didn't even take .69 sec for Dave Brog and Red River to come up in google. When will posers learn that spouting names, squadrons, etc. that take a tenth of a second to find on Google will not gain them any kind of credibility and only prove further they're not who they say they are. Not only are people like this ginormous losers, they're also about as smart as Miss South Carolina.