sputnik

Anyone know if continuation has been offered in recent years for Capt's passed over to Major? Hadn't heard it....but haven't been paying attention either.

I've only seen continuation offered to 20 (or 24), I can't see it for less. Why wouldn't you get sep pay? Everyone I know in that situation was given it (so long as you didn't write to the board). Ok....I didn't know folks who got offered continuation, so I don't know what happens in those cases. You get booted ADSC goes away. Haven't got much by way of answers. But that sucks man, hope it works for the best.

Same, Completely beside the point, the island seemed too weird to be totally made up. Some google-fu later: https://gakuranman.com/gunkanjima-ruins-of-a-forbidden-island/ Be fun to spend a few hours wandering around.

What happened to that guy anyway? I was really enjoying his insightful posts

I feel like I'm missing something, the numbers don't look bad. 67% take rate is lower than last couple years, but not by much, and seems pretty in line with historical norms. From all the po'ed folks I hear from/about, this isn't the mass exodus I'd be expecting.

Please please don't ban him, this is the most fun I've had in a while. Candid camera on the internet.

They would if they read the paper.

Thanks cadet

A scholarly look at why this happens. https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/long-live-the-fong/Content?oid=2414434

WTF are you talking about? The Dean (who has no control over any of it) sent an email with information about something that happened last week, which some idiot auto-forwarded to AF Times. The Comm stated that what happened was unacceptable, and told the cadets to derive a way of doing this in the future that doesn't require medical help. Nothing was canceled. Speaking of which, as far as most of us recall, the tradition was the 4 deg's slaughtering the 1st Shirt. Making it an all class hall brawl event is somewhat new. This wasn't a giant fight, it was 40 simultaneous medium-sized fights, in which 20 odd folks got hurt, 6 of which required visits to the ER. And we don't have an ER on base. You want to see blood, watch intramural rugby. If the entire wing participated in 20 rugby matches the butcher's bill would have been a hell of a lot bigger.

Ever get the feeling you're in the wrong place?

No one bit anyone, someone's arm swung back....into someone else's teeth. My guess, it was worse for the teeth owner. As faculty what is often annoying about being here is that no one tells us anything--unless you hear it from the cadets. So this time the Dean actually tells us something, and some ass clown instantly forwards it to the media. It was a hall brawl, who cares?

Wait....I thought she never fired the gun in anger? Or at anyone, at least. Am I wrong?

Interesting, I didn't have that experience as a Tweet FAIP. What I had was a bunch of guy who'd never flown an airplane before (T3 grounding) and were talked into attending UPT by an O7. We had one class where 7 dudes SIE'd the first month of Tweets. Which has nothing to do with the topic at hand. For the morons you mentioned, I'd be curious what their graduation standing was, the implication was that the bottom 100 out of USAFA did poorly in UPT. In my time we washed out an MIT grad, and I saw guys with PE degrees from schools I'd never heard of fly the hell out of the jet. I concluded college performance had little to no bearing on ability to fly an aircraft. For that matter I've never understood why you have to have a college degree to be a pilot in the first place, but that's another subject. I've got some quibbles, but as both a grad and an instructor, I can't argue against his criticisms. Just my opinion. I find his proposed solutions a little bizarre, but it's a conversation worth having. And no one [who matters] will. Self-licking ice cream cone.

Any data to back that up?

I'd say "goofy" is a matter of opinion. And stipulate that since you have flown a few zillion more aircraft than me, your opinion is probably worth more than mine. I was referring to the springs in the pitch axis. For a given amount of force the plane is far more responsive in roll than pitch. Keep in mind I fly zero time guys in a 9 ride syllabus. With the springs, it takes a little more force in the pitch axis, which makes it a little more difficult to learn to flare (compared to say, the DA-40 which you could easily land with one finger if so inclined). Small sample size, but in my experience it's taken longer to get guys landing in the Cirrus than the Diamond. I think we were ~50% solo rate in 40, it's way too early to see what the Cirrus is like but so far looks to be lower. I blame what I like to call the goofiness in the pitch axis. I know roughly zero about general aviation but we try to solo people at about the 12-13 hour point, I get the feeling that's pretty aggressive but again, don't really know. None of which is a criticism of the plane, it's extremely cool. If it takes a ride or two more than a Diamond to solo, so what? From what little I saw of last week's incident, I'd say it's a pretty robust aircraft as well. Keep in mind we bought the smallest motor, and have a two bladed prop. High on my to do list is flying one at sea level. I don't think they're BSing you, I think it's more a courageous decision to refuse to allow a complete lack of knowledge or experience prevent them from making authoritative statements about things they know nothing about.

I "got" to hear a radio interview with him when I was at gym yesterday. Yup, he's something. Also, good news, he's available for signatures this weekend

Lighten up man, the guy just got passed over for O3, you really need to jack him up?

Considering there were exactly zero cadets who flew both airplanes I wonder how they came to that conclusion. There are pluses and minuses to each. Personally, the Cirrus is far more comfortable and stable, but I thought the 40 was slightly easier to fly. Cirrus flight controls are goofy and that makes it a little harder to learn to flare, but we're soloing cadets so they're figuring it out. Both planes suck at high DA, I can't tell a difference between the two performance-wise and doubt anyone else could unless they were running a test card.

Hey, at least they landed at the right airport. Been flying it for 9 months, never knew it was called the Kadet 2. I learned something from AF Times

Anyone ever been to Wrangell? Me neither, but I flew by it. I think if you wanted to piss off all the Jihadi's, then go hang out somewhere safe, that'd be a pretty good choice. I feel a little bad for the next Arab-looking tourist that shows up in town.

Huh, instead of quote I hit like. Which I didn't mean to. I meant to say, for someone who's life is so great you seem pretty bitter.

Your second point is true--and so what? Who wants to wear blues? Your first point isn't, they've been aligned with blues Monday/ABU rest of week for the last several years.

Behold the awesomeness hopefully not coming to a base near you: (This is camp USAFA) ______ DF Family: The Superintendent will issue further guidance very soon, but I wanted to provide awareness on an impending uniform policy change for AY 2012-2013. On a date to be determined (likely 8 or 9 August), uniform of the day (UOD) Monday through Thursday will be BLUES, and will be ABUs on Friday for our cadets and permanent party. More guidance to follow. Thank you for your “leadership by example” and accountability support for this policy. ___ Excuse me while I head to the uniform store

Warning: sarcasm indicator inop It was a less than impressed reaction to the fact that she explicitly, painfully and repetitively mentioned number of below the zone promotions. 4.