brabus

In reality, you could have a stress fracture. If I were you, I'd stop lifting (just do lower body) or doing any kind of activity that causes pain in your wrist for at least a week, probably 2. If after that time it still hurts equally when doing those activities, I would go get an xray. I've had similar situations where 1-2 weeks off helped it go away. But, common sense tells me if it doesn't go away in 2 weeks w/o activity, then an xray is the next logical step.

Just wait till UPT, I guarantee you'll "work out" for "180 min" per week. Of course you'll have the time to do that, why wouldn't you?

Definitely a gun. To be honest, I could care less about an "aviation" watch or something similar. I have a very nice citizen eco-drive and have no desire for anything further. Some guys do, to each their own. Now getting a Browning lever action to add to my collection, that would be sweet!

Skydive Arizona doesn't do static, so my guess is no. Also, you need to have minimum of 100 freefall jumps for this boogie...and it's over water, so you probably need a B license, but that's just a guess. Get your A so you can start doing boogies...tons of fun!

Ain't that truth! Of course by local DZ I mean back home and not in craptown here. Shit at this point, I'd take a jump on a Navigator 280 or some crap...at least my ass would be under some nylon. But, can't complain too much now that I'm actually flying. Kind of a random note here...anyone know anybody who'd be interested in a Tri 190 w/ about 85 jumps on it? That was my 1st one that's now been sitting in the closet for 1.5 yrs or so. Probably a long shot, but just thought I'd ask.

I wish...thanks to this shithole place called Enid, the nearest turbine DZ is in Texas. That and the chance of hurting myself during UPT isn't worth it. Oh well, at least in a year or so when I can start up again, I'll have an excuse to get a new toy (cypress expired). Have fun man, I'm sure it'll be a blast.

True to an extent...I know you guys work your asses off (and I don't know much), but I wouldn't lump jounros into the pile w/ celebs and shoe clerks. They have a good purpose to be there...it's their job. It's not like when a celeb does it just to do it. If it wasn't for journos in the cockpit at all, we wouldn't have all the sweet shots we do, and fvck that!

I'm at Vance. Tell me about it...in fact, there's several recent classes (07-xx time frame) with blatant alcohol related patches (like Vance Select instead of Bud Select, etc.) All ours showed was a dude doing a keg stand on a fire hydrant...there's was no blatant alcohol symbols at all...but since it resembled a keg stand, it wouldn't fly. In fact, we had far "worse" designs, but submitted this one b/c it was our least "offensive" patch idea. And it got shot down...un-fvcking-believable. Now our next idea is pretty good...but I have a feeling it won't fly due to "some people might take that as a sexual offense" or some shit like that. I just want go to the OG building and start kicking those fvcks in the junk...if they've even got any balls left that is. Thank god I'm getting paid to fly, otherwise this AF can shove it up their ass. Edit: Here's some examples just from this last year or so AT VANCE... But no, ours isn't going to cut it b/c someone might mistake it for having to do with alcohol. But good thing no one would ever mistake these for being related to alcohol. Fvcking morons.

Enough of this PC bullshit. One of our class patch ideas got shot down because, "someone could mistake that for having to do w/ alcohol." Umm...ok, then why does the comm squadron's little shield thing say "No one cumms close!" I guess it's ok for the shoeclerks to have "references" in their shit, but not us. WTFO?

Bergman - It's not that mustache march isn't an awesome tradition, it's that some ROTC kids thinking they're bad ass for doing mustache march during "big week" is super cool! It's like some ROTC kid walking around w/ the mach tuck in their cap. Just because it's AF tradition doesn't mean everyone somewhat linked to the AF should be doing it, or at the very least think they win points for doing it. But whathever, that's just my opinion.

Weird...b/c one of our IPs (who's a 135 guy) made fun of one of the guys in our class who still had his on. Something to the effect of, "You look like an idiot. Cut that shit off." Seems to support bergman's theory.

I heard of one dude recently who parked his car in a parking lot near the end of the T-6s and left his keys in the ignition. Then on his way back after leaving the plane, he asked one buddy to carry his g-suit and then apparently the other one was looking at something. The guy took off, ran to his car, got in and hauled ass back to the squadron. Of course his two friends had no chance on foot and apparently most of the class was busy simming, flying, etc. so he got back. But I agree w/ Fozzy, it seems lame to be the one guy who didn't get dunked at UPT. I don't know about Vance, or even specific squadron/flight, but maybe *'s situation is replicated here. No idea.

That's an interesting point, and valid to an extent. But, the fact is the AFA produces roughly 1000 officers a year. That's a big amount. I suppose you could say those 1000 a year could just be spread around to other schools, but that's just something that's not going to happen. Maybe it has come down to more a prestige "I went there" kind of thing, but despite that, it stills play a big role in officer production. It's true that good/bad officers come from every source and no source produces better officer than any other, but why not have 3 AD sources instead of 2? And, this comes from a ROTC guy who has no attachment to the zoo whatsoever.

Or you could have buddies send you DVDs, especially burned ones. Then the only way they could know is if they open the mail and put the CD in a computer. Are academy kids too dumb to figure this shit out? I keed I keed!

The best thing you can do is know where all the switches are and link that to the checklists. Get a flow going w/ all the pre-start checks, engine start, before taxi, etc. If you can do those quickly (and by that I mean smoothly w/o missing or just skimming over something) w/o having to look at your checklist every single item, that'll help a lot. But, still refer to your checklist to ensure you didn't miss any steps or do them out of order (not as big a deal in the T-6, but definitely not a habit you want to get into, especially for airframes down the road). A good technique that works for many is to do several steps (6-9), then glance at checklist to make sure you got everything. At this point, that's more important than flying circles.

How retarded it looks aside, they're just plain annoying and get in the way. Why would you want to have to move that thing aside every time you want a pen? Sure it may only take .69sec, but add up all the times you reach for a pen...that could be like, minutes out of your life!

View your profile (easiest is just to click on your name at the top left of the screen where it says, "Logged in as: Hydro130"). Then on the left side of your profile page you'll see a pull-down box for gender. What's wrong Rainman, not a cow bell fan?

C model guard (Hawaii) at Vance too.

No game is going to prepare you at all for the TBAS. Just get a good rest the night before and be awake and alert to take the test. That's the only thing you can do to "prepare."

Haha...well shit if I wanted to make my own notes, warnings, cautions flash cards.

Fvck...I needed some shit right now too. Hopefully it's temp.

I don't know for sure, I've only done it as a cadet. I would think it'd be asspain w/ permissive TDY, having to take leave, blah blah blah. I'm not sure you want to bother you CC w/ that kind of trivial stuff. Just wait till UPT to fly. Yes it'd be fun, but unless you are lucky enough to be in an ops sq that can give you rides, just forget it. Personally while I was on casual, I would not have gone to the sq/cc and asked if it'd be cool to miss some work to go on a trip to Luke for rides. Just technique though. There's a decent amount of people who don't spew. Some people just react better to that kind of an environment than others. [ 31. January 2007, 17:11: Message edited by: brabus ]

Speaking of that, anyone know how that guy's "ride" went? Hopefully he was puking all over the place and just wanted it to be over 10 min in. God, what a chode.

Well that depends on which base you go to. A training base such as Luke, it's a slam dunk. Go to any AD base/guard base and what Dunce said will 99% happen. So unless you're willing to make a trip to Luke, then you're SOL.