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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.

we had a casual who turned down his pilot slot a week before class start date to go become a CRO. The AF tried to kick him out for turning down his UPT slot, but he prevailed and is damn good at his job these days.

we're an LDHD assett. Without getting into details, we deploy approx twice as much as a traditional AEF rotation. No we are not at Army posts.

my 2nd chamber was at Pcola. I was playing pattycake with a German stud sitting next to me, and the whole thing was being video taped. About 2 and a half min after removing our masks at FL250, I just started tapping my helmet with my hands over and over again, i.e. only doing that part of the pattycake (the high five/ten and hand clap being the other parts). 30 secs later the tech came and waved his hand in front of my face. No reaction on my part. All of the sudden I hear someone tell me to put my mask on, so I do. Didn't remember that 30 seconds at all. Us helo types only go up to FL180 for chamber refresher these days, not that an AF 60 could EVER make it that high. My three chambers rides, I didn't get the same symptoms. First time (peterson) I got tunnel vision and nail bluing. Second time (pcola) was just euphoria. Third time (tyndall) loss of color vision and feeling cold.

3 years ago at Moody our Wing King was a 130 Nav (Heithold). He got his star right after he PCSd up the road to WR.

we're doing spouse flights this Sat for all the Ops and MX Group Spouses. Crewmembers and spouses cannot be on the same aircraft at the same time.

interesting news about how the funding will work for the CSAR-X: https://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=350...c=AME&s=TOP

out of the AMCI24-101v9: out of the v1: out of the v6: Ok, so where is this AMC passenger and cargo schedule? Or an ATOF personnel who has the reference on how to construct an appropriate 12-digit mission identifier?

I want the ACC codes, that are contained in the document maintained by AMC. The AFSOC codes are also found in the same document, which is titled the same as the title of my original post.

without getting into any specifics, for someone here who knows what I'm referring to, please PM with a link or point me in the right direction on where to find this document. Apparently my unit has been using the AFSOC codes for a while and I'm trying to figure out if ACC does the same thing, but I don't have the parent document, just the pages from it about the AFSOC codes. These are used to come up with the Mission Numbers that go on Flight Authorizations... thanks for any help.

oh come on! Helos play in Red Flag too. They didn't do that just for the movie, that's actual Red Flag. How they actually employed, however...that was definitely just for the movie. It's not like we'd actually launch with 5 birds and have them all in a nice stacked hover in the LZ because it looks pretty. Though I found it kinda funny the same helos that were "hunting" the pilot down (aka red air) were the same birds that turned around to pick him up. My brother, who knows nothing about the defensive systems of our aircraft, asked why the A-10s kept popping off flares, because it seemed like a bit much. It was quite humorous...

no, it's not a low need, it's been a bottleneck at the schoolhouse for a long time (Kirtland). But now that's starting to change for the better. The AF is actually in great need of helo pilots, and starting soon the class sizes at Rucker will be increasing. Helos were my first choice, and I was lucky enough to get them. Haven't regretted my choice once since I set foot at Rucker. As to 60s at Moody taking back seat to the pointy jets, where'd you get your info? We actually get more range times these days than we EVER did when the 38s and T-6s were here. We do SARTFs once or twice a week now, which is great. And our Wing King is a 60 driver. We definitely haven't been pushed to the backburner, and I'd be the first to admit if we were; I'm a scheduler.

I thought all Nav training was getting consolidated to Pcola?

worked like a champ, thanks! Also, who knows who sings that song? Google didn't help, and the only band I can think of that might fit the bill here is Flight of the Concords.