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Not condoning their actions, but I think they are similar basic airmanship traits. You always check your altitude at the top of a maneuver before you pull through. I wouldn't call a split s very demanding... for a thunderbird! You always put the gear down before you land. There was a lot going on the cockpit the night those guys landed gear up. Task saturation sucks no matter what aircraft you fly. That is why it is called an accident.

Y'all don't have SELCAL?

Damnit

Yep the onside kick was definately odd. But it worked. Congrats to the Saints.

This has always seemed to be the case here. Really really busy and then it slows down again. Seems like really really busy is the current standard.

I would look at things from a different perspective. You could wash out of UPT because you G-Lock, can't pass a checkride, can't fly an ILS, whatever. Don't worry about things that might happen focus on what you want out off life. Realize, if any of those things happen you'll also have a service commitment. Go to the Academy because you'd like to fly and want to be an officer. If you don't want a "free" degree from a great school then you may want to look at other options. You'll never know if you don't try. FYI, there is a guy here at Charleston that is easily 6'8" and is a C-17 pilot, so it is possible.

I bet I can guess who the catcher is and who the pitcher is in this relationship. The good news is there will be one less empty kitchen.

Hacker, how many of the "Pressing West at FRISCO" pics do you have hanging in your house? Do you give them out at Christmas? Seriously though, that's pretty cool to have a piece of art that you are flying in.

So Duke, haven't seen any replies recently. What's your plan? Are you gonna crap or are you gonna get off the pot? Dude, listen to these guys, you don't want to wonder what could have been. Go to UPT. No woman is worth giving up your dreams. She shouldn't expect that of you. She wouldn't expect that of you if she really loved you.

It's been done before. If that is what you want to do, talk to the SOLL II folks in your squadron early. The Major positioning hasn't been that big of a deal from what I've seen. But, you will have to work a little harder than the pipeline Lts.

We all went on official passports. If I remember correctly, there is a higher visa fee if using civilian passports. Verify with the MILGP and EXORD, but I think you can travel on a military ID for BRIGHT STAR (I remember some MX personnel without passports). We coordinated for vans with drivers. Painfully slow service. "They are just right around the corner" equals we'll see you in two hours. I've driven in a lot of different countries and I would never drive there. They drive a lot worst than I have seen elsewhere. The guy that provided the trans service also got us 10 cellphones for us to issue to the different groups of our party. The MILGP recommended the transportation service stating that they were far better than the rest of the services. Apparently, that is the culture in Egypt. So make sure you ask for your trans early and hope for the best. As far as drinking goes we were are G.O.1 for "Good order and discipline." No drinking or gambling at the casinos...Boo. It was addressed in the EXORD.

I went to Bright Star in 07. We had a great time. We stayed at the Marriott in the Zamalek district downtown. The food on the property is pretty good and there were restaurants nearby that were really good. We had enough time to arrange a tour of the standard tourist spots. Very true about the friggin kids around the pyramids. Beware of the camel rides (sts) at the pyramids. They'll charge you ten bucks for the ride and they take you a couple miles out, get you off the camel to "take a picture" then tell you it’s twenty bucks for a ride back. The flying is pretty good. They pretty much leave you alone once you're away from the city. You can precoordinate low level routes with the MILGRP. We staged out of the international airport in Cairo. FYI, they have no idea what an overhead is. Great trip, would definitely go again.

Once a Lancer always a Lancer...Praise the Load!

Awesome...you suspect your boss is fishing for bullets so you teabag a crews life support equipment. You are a big D!CKHE@D. That is the most effed up thing I've heard from a "crewdawg" in a while. Go choke on a big hog dude.

You can also hack a watch to when some DB points out how awesome he is.

C-130, C-17, C-5?

Just did mine with the H&R Block program through militaryonesource. The state filing is free as well with them.

I spent a week in Cairo and I was really impressed. It is the only Arab city I have felt comfortable in. The people are nice and Cairo is very modern. Enjoy the experience.

I wouldn't call it working the system. I call it the cost of doing business. These guys work their a$$e$ off more than most others in the AOR. They carry tools and parts that sometimes require a full size vehicle. They are often staying in two locations at once due to their schedule and will often have numerous calls to their supervisors and specialists to work aircraft issues. I've never known a chief to work the system as you are eluding to. In fact it pisses me off when operators try to make the mission happen and get called on it for trying to ensure they have operational flexability. In stead of calling all FCCs out why don't you focus on hammering the ones that abuse the flexability afforded to them.

I wouldn't sweat one test. One test won't affect your mass score that much. What will affect your mass score is if you get worked up over one test and let it bring you down. It is just like daily and check rides when you screw up one manuever, let the bad stuff roll off your shoulder and press. If I remember correctly from eight years ago, academics is ony 10 percent of the mass. There are in excess of 500 questions (including EPQs) so if you missed 10 questions on that one test you dropped in the mass by 0.2 percent. My #s aren't exact but you get the point.

Yes, Emergency leave is chargable leave. The point of emergency leave is to allow CCs to get you home when they may not otherwise be able to ie UPT, Deployment, too many pilots on leave already. So, if you need to take leave because of a death, illness etc in your family you can take emergency leave. It goes against your leave balance. Good luck SPO.

That was my classes night week in UPT. Woke up to one of my classmates calling me "Dude, we're going to fvcking war. Turn on your TV." I turned on the tv to see the second airplane hit. I called my wife who worked for the Columbus Dispatch newspaper and they had no idea what was happening. Had the wife get home to make sure she could get back onbase. I really wish I were a F-15E pilot that day. What a sad day for our nation.

What happens to all of my music when I get my first ipod? Does it have to be converted? Do I have to start all over? If it is converted can I still listen to it on my computer?

UPT is about time management. If they don't let you go to the gym so what? Take that time your sitting in the flight room and study. Then when you are released at 1600-1700 hit the gym for an hour or two. Don't let formal release be the reason you didn't hit the gym. It really helped me get through UPT. Whatever you do, don't quote some reg that says your entitled gym time. Squash the shoeclerk tendancy, formal release will be over soon enough. There are very few "entitlements" in UPT. Good luck

There are many guys that revert to those formailities in the C-17. You go out with your crew on the road and have drinks (relaxed environment). Everyone goes by first names. As soon as you offer instruction as a captain to another captain in the jet, now all of a sudden it's "yes sir." I'm a captain, you're a captain, don't call me sir!