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Executive order 9877.

HH-43: the original Pedro! BTW, your sense of scale is waaaaay off. I'm not sure how anyone could confuse an H-21, CH-47, and HH-43. This is an H-21: This is a Chinook (CH-47): edited to add photos

Col Graff has been the Wing King for a little over 24 hours. Talk about a job welcome.

Yup, word is he's ok. The local WX guy just showed a return over the location where the jet went down and threw out his theory about how the jet may have been flying into the wind...

you would think the early votes would have been counted well before now.

there are a bunch of A-10s at AMARG...

It lives! Been renamed CRH (Combat Rescue Helicopter). The FedBiz link lists a timeline of proposals in to Wright-Patt 3 Jan 13, and a tentative award date of 28 Sep 13. https://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123323178

Is that Kitty Baumgartner?

Fall CORONA was a week and a half ago (it's always the week of the home service academy football game).

one data point: my class had 862 graduates. 6 of these were not commissioned, there were 7 foreign cadets, and a total of 7 who cross commissioned to another service (3 USA, 3 USN, 2 USMC). There were 561 pilot slots given out that year at USAFA, which equals 65% of the total class size (67% if you don't count the 20 who didn't enter the USAF).

fixed.

took test 1 cold today, got an 84. Hope I can get at least one more test knocked out before I get forced into 6.0...two tests if I'm lucky.

just caught the first few minutes of the speech, and Gen Welsh just made fun of himself and the uniforms worn during the transition ceremony.

interesting read. A couple queep points [nerdy safety hat]...the SIO went to the trouble of having his final message be in Tab T format, but he still screwed it up. Three things listed in the factors section were concluded to not be factors, so they should have been down in the NFWODs section (since they were worthy of him discussing in multiple paragraphs). And I know Findings and Recommendations are not required for Class E mishaps, but seriously, if you go to that much effort to write your analysis and then not have any recommendations, that's a bit absurd. I can think of at least two recommendations I would make for this event (and having to scroll back up to the narrative to figure out where the causal findings were was annoying). [/nerdy safety hat] I still want to know how the conversation went with the O-10 once they told him they had not, in fact, landed at MacDill.

anyone catch his speech at today's AFA conference?

what new CRM SII? Haven't seen it yet...

first pilot = AC. Any FP time logged is AC time. #4: no, the ones I've known to go to white jets always came back to the community when they were done with that tour (I know of at least 4), or got off active duty.

rucker then kirtland, at least the ones I'm aware of.

if you are an instructor, you can mil comp your way to the CFI

you should go find his USAFA speech from when he was Commandant. He's wearing a flight suit in that one (for vis recce of the right videos).

13,500. I don't think I went this high in the T-34...it was for some PJ HALO jump currencies. ha.

"VFR On Top" is for aircraft on an IFR flight plan https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/atc/atc0703.html "VFR Over The Top" is for aircraft who are NOT on an IFR flight plan https://www.risingup.com/fars/info/part1-1-FAR.shtml (scroll down to the definition of VFR Over the Top; the definition for VFR on Top can be found by scrolling up to "IFR Over The Top") https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/publications/tp14371-rac-2-0-2599.htm#2-7-4

Privilege has NEVER been automatic. When you provide a written statement, you sign first you understand that you are giving a privileged statement, or giving a non-privileged statement. If being verbally interviewed, you read the privilege or non-privilege statement out loud. The only reason a statement given under the promise of confidentiality can be released is if it's determined the individual lied in that statement.

flew 3 Southwest Airlines legs this week, and every single one was a VFR approach to the airport (LAS, ABQ, and TUS). Established downwind leg turning base to final, and none of them under or overshot final. Had a copilot a few weeks back when we were flying VFR cross country who didn't know "nee odd sweeven" (but both the FE and gunner knew it).

yes, they are.