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and that's the rest of the story...

ditto on what ViperStud said about the ALFA tour option. It might not be exactly what you want to do, but it would get your out of the cockpit and burn less bridges in the long run...and open up opportunities a few years down the road for the potential retrain.

Autorotate.

is bubba houser back from Iraq? You know the Army is hurting for folks when they recall a guy who's been an LSI instructor for a looooong time (well, to be fair, I guess they activated his Guard unit), and send him to Iraq. It was weird running into him downrange at DFAC 4 last year, when we considered him one of the "old farts". It would be like running into Edmunds at some random FOB as we both FARPd at the same time.

the one that crashed was "buried at Duke Field" WTF?

unless something has changed, you won't take the FACT at Whiting. You just do the Navy PT test during API, which is amazingly similar to our current test except 2 min for pushups/situps vs 1 min.

she came and flew with us last year and basically tried to take the A code sitting in the back of the helo, from what I heard. Apparently she got freaked out by a vehicle 4 miles away from where the bird was operating (at night) and caused the formation to lose most of their intended training for the evening when she ordered the flight lead to depart the area. Luckily we were on the other side of base and didn't receive visits often.

was she the ops group deputy at Balad last year?

if you click on "jet pilot" listeners also bought Dos Gringos!

that's not a discussion for this forum. Go ask your intel folks.

U-28 X 6 NSA X 3 In one class? Wow. At least they aren't UAVs....

WARNING WARNING!!! SA LOW, SA LOW! Go read Sneedro's post a little closer.

I just moved. The movers can pack AND pick up 4000 lbs in the same day. I had approx 2500 lbs of stuff, they showed at 0900 and were done packing and picking up by 1430. TMO says to guesstimate 1000 lbs per room, FYI. You can also designate someone else to watch the movers pack your shit, you just need to give them a Special Power of Attorney and notify TMO.

no but I come through KIKR often (helo schoolhouse). In fact I'm here right now for sim refresher. I'll add on to what others have already said: The new building at lodging (22018) has wireless in the lobby, and the rooms are decent. There's also a community kitchen in the lobby area with pots/pans. Chama River Brewing Company (next to TX Land & Cattle @ I-25 and Jefferson) brews some pretty incredible beers. Also hit up Korean BBQ House on Central. If you find yourself up in Santa Fe, eat at a place called La Choza (espanol for "the shed"). Their other restaurant, called "The Shed" is in the downtown plaza and is more for the tourists. La Choza is where the locals eat.

1. Since when was it called Joint Base Balad? Does this mean the AF runs it or the Army? Guessing AF, since it would probably be called JLSA Anaconda if the Army was in charge... 2. How the fvck did they get 5 53s in the air at the same time? Those must be the last 5 waiting to go to DM...

Best quote about the CSAR-X I've read in a while: https://www.military.com/features/0,15240,1...C=airforce-a.nl second best quote, found in the discussion forum linked at the bottom of the article:

there's no such thing as using a half day of leave. If your leave starts at 1200 on Fri (i.e. your flight is late enough that you can be at work until 1200 then leave from work and make it to the airport), then your first day of chargeable leave is Sat. Then Sat/Sun would only be charged. Also, your CC can authorize you to go into negative leave. Which, if you had a flight before noon on Fri you'd be at -.5 for all of five days until you got your Oct leave. Permissive TDY does not count against your leave balance. It's like a TDY in that you aren't charged leave, but it's like leave in that you aren't reimbursed for your expenses.

Lockheed Martin, teaching academics/sims and possibly doing some flying. They wear desert flight suits. L3-Vertex would be in the same vein, just a different company, not teaching, just doing FCFs when the aircraft break.

there's "talk" aka a rumor of standing up a reserve associate unit with the 512th for HH-60 IPs to help out with the schoolhouse. I don't know that's it's gotten much past the "talk" phase, so if anything DOES come of it, it's probably at least a few years from fruition. But I bet you could get a job with LM as a brown-suiter! I've heard from reliable sources that they're looking into some of them becoming flight instructors in addition to all the ground stuff. And don't discount the whole FCF thing with L3-Vertex out there. Have no idea if they've got openings but it's a thought, and it keeps you in the cockpit. The next closest Reserve units flying your airframes are down at DM. The 305th flying 60s and I'm not sure about the HCs.

one of my IPs at UPT (A-10 driver) was named FLAPWHEL (######ing Lied About Pickling With His Elbow).

I agree, but at some point I wrote it in my personal logbook that way, and looking at it the other day it didn't seem right. So the question becomes, during my MCIQ, any leftover time in the sortie not logged as instructor time by the IP would be SIC for me, with regards to the FAA? Or should I just do the math and make it all Dual time, up to the point of my Qual check and then go with the "leftover" SIC time after that?

since when? This would be news to me. My credit/debit card was what I used almost exclusively at any of the BXs I stopped at on my way to and from OIF. Has the policy changed in the last 4 months?

xerox. I have no idea what for, but maybe you should be buying the beers for all of us, a la a roof stomp? ;)

h'ok, resurrecting an old thread... situation: HH-60 pilot (MP) updating my logbook into Logbook Pro (great program, btw). I'm to the section where I'm about to enter all my FTU time from MC IQ. All my UPT time (T-34 and UH-1H) I logged as dual except for my solo flights. At the conclusion of UPT and after getting my wings, I took the mil comp test and got ratings for Commercial ASEL and RW, as well as Commercial Instrument ASEL and RW. Then I went to FTU at KIKR. I'm looking at my civvie logbook right now, and it appears I logged some time at KIKR as Dual and some other time as PIC, in the same sortie. I'm not sure if this is correct or not when it comes to the FAA, but it's what was on the 781s (dual figured from how much IP time the IP logged in the sortie, which didn't always equal the sortie total time). Since I didn't have a Form 8 yet, can I log PIC time? HH-60 is a dual-pilot aircraft. I read the above discussion about MC vs MP and PIC vs SIC; I'm not too worried about how the airlines will look at my PIC/SIC time and if I had the A code or was a co or AC at the time as an airline job isn't really in my future as a helo pilot. I just want to know if I have a Commercial RW and Instrument rating from the FAA, can I log PIC time before I get my initial Form 8 or should it all be Dual? If the answer to the above is that it should be logged as Dual time: Once I get my Qual/Inst checkride, can I log Dual AND PIC time after that while I'm still at the FTU (prior to my MSN checkride), i.e. portions of the flight that aren't TAC and the instructor doesn't log IP time? PIC time being the sole manipulator of the controls in the cases described above.

You can't see what's going on the back of the helo when you're up front, unless you slew the FLIR around, and even then you'd only catch the second or two it would take for the PJ to enter the screen and leave the screen as he slides down the rope, or jumps out (free fall), or whatever. I have been in the back of the helo and seen some fast ropes. Looking at my profile would answer your question.