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Clayton Bigsby

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  1. Hey, if you want to retire to a foreign tropical country, retire to the big island in Hawaii. You can find cheap shit on the Kohala and Hamakua coastlines. You can even have some guns...
  2. Recently on the no fun list. They were all illegal features, then were made legal by the 10-rd fixed magazine and 'bullet button' tool-required mag release, then recently made illegal again. So glad to be out of CA and not have to worry about the knee-jerk effect. So...how long until FrankenFeinstein starts back at it again?
  3. It might have more to do with long-term orders and dual billeting. There's a provision for those on long-term orders to help out people who don't live in the immediate commuting area (whatever that definition is), where BAH is paid for the home of record, and billeting is paid for around the base/activation area. Since base billeting usually kicks people off-base with a non-A letter, and off-base hotels get expensive after more than a week or two, it is considerably cheaper for the AF for the individual to rent out a furnished apartment or house or something like that. Since you're technically TDY the entire time, you get per diem as mentioned...at even $30 a day it adds up over the months. You could see how people would want to jump onboard and how it could be abused.
  4. Well Great Falls or Helena would be a lot closer and a lot less shitty choice of towns driving from Calgary than Butte. And all along I-15. But I hear ya. Hey, you could join the legions of Albertans buying all their shit here in Great Falls!
  5. Why? It used to happen all the time, with -135s out of Incirlik. We (C-17)'d be heavy going in or out and needed the support, or a pit stop somewhere.
  6. I'm just curious why the fuck you'd want to go to Butte?
  7. I imagine it also has to do with less ass-pain/red tape for cargo movements. Ref Turkey and how they were. I'd also guess A/R support for airlift between Afgh. and Ramstein/Spang.
  8. Yeah I think it used to be different, that number definitely sounds familiar. I believe the classes were revised recently when the 'Super' category was created, previously A380 and An-225 aircraft were considered Larges. But it's plain as day in the 7110.65 aircraft specifications index at 300,000 lbs.
  9. ATC guy here. Any aircraft with a possible max gross takeoff weight of 300,000 lbs or more is considered a heavy regardless of payload. It's a wake turbulence thing, more separation has to be provided for smaller aircraft behind a heavy. For wake turbulence aircraft are broken into a couple categories, Small, Small Plus, Large, Heavy and Super (A380 and the An-225 are the only two in this category for now). It all depends on possible MGTW.
  10. I talked at length to a MT ANG Mx guy this last weekend, and apparently there is an influx of money coming along with the mission change that will buy new facilities like hangar space to house C-130s, additions to their ops building, etc. Supposedly there should be an aircraft or two arriving from LRF soon to help orient personnel, but most people should be at the schoolhouse this fall and winter and hopefully there will be enough back and aircraft on hand to start some flying in the late winter/spring timeframe. It's gonna be a ghost town around the airport for awhile. We have some of the transition schedules up in the tower and it's been a bit of a kick in the balls. The slowdown in flying from the F-15s (used to push twice a day, now just one go) has affected our training a fair bit since it was one of the few things we could reliably plan for. As for the Super Es...field elevation at GTF is 3680, and I've seen it as high as I think 97 this summer. Launched an MD-88 today and watched him eat easily 9000 to 9500 ft of a 10,502 ft long runway...so temperature and weight can be an issue. Is the heat comment an air conditioning thing, or an aircraft performance thing?
  11. ^ Montana works ok too... ^
  12. Local po-pos around here have Tauri, they do look pretty badass, so...yeah it's possible.
  13. I think it looks alright. The new Total Recall was great, and I've heard good things about Dredd, so it's possible...
  14. Would somebody tell the Japanese to go fuck themselves sometime soon?
  15. Saw an E-6 doing pattern work at Idaho Falls during my drive up when I was PCSing here...thought it an odd location to pick out for some touch and goes.
  16. Here's a couple pictures from the crash site.
  17. But they lead the way in uniform compliance! Be an AMC leader today!!! Always hated that sign.
  18. The X3 also looks to be able to slice potential passengers into mincemeat once they get out, unless they wait for the blades to stop turning.
  19. Guessing that's at FJDG? Hey at least salty corrosive air won't be a problem while they fix it... Did they ever get that B-1 out of Guam? The one that was in the hangar with the tail sticking out a couple years?
  20. THUNK. Two C-5Ms down?
  21. Is that stuff corrosive?
  22. Why didn't they do this 8 years ago???
  23. Unless you have a big in into the agency, expect a lengthy delay in getting hired by the FAA once separated from the AF. Hiring freeze in effect at the moment due to sequestration, and without any freezes in place at my time it took almost two years to get processed and hired. Best of luck tho and hit me if you have any questions.
  24. Not the first time that's happened with that part...at all.
  25. This, sevenfold.
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