PirateAF

Kingpin - You got something against aircrew? Speak up.

Same here - I've heard 25% manning cuts to be accomplished by, I believe 2011, through attrition. Hiring will definitely slow down.

Me and Al Gore are pissed we can't access page 33!!!

Old and busted...new hotness. Nice reference! The word is that if you have a pulse they will send you to CP/AD from Charleston. McChord seems to actually vet their candidates. That might be complete poop rumor and then that might be closer to factual... Are you headed to CHS/TCM or to one of the PACAF squads? (edited for Gnilleps)

Do us all a favor and stay on F-16.net.

It's a baseops.net forum - you don't see me making stupid comments all over your home forum, do you? Take yourself and your "chogues" (?) elsewhere.

I certainly don't. Wing King - are you a flyer? Why are you here?

I just threw up. Tac thanks for clarifying your intended sarcasm. Moosepilieeie... - coherent thoughts will help your Baseops.net debut that you are attempting. Welcome.

Awesome story! Thanks for posting this!!

I'll second that - is this standard C-130 behavior? When a dude has a bad sortie do you teabag his mask? Piss off and die Tac Assclown.

Choke yourself.

Game 2 is history. GO WINGS!

From the AFMAN 11-217V3 - when entering or changing flight levels within RVSM airspace, vertical speeds should be limited to 1000 feet per minute or less. This helps ensure the aircraft does not overshoot or undershoot the assigned FL by more than 150 feet and reduce the likelihood of inadvertent TCAS resolution advisories occuring.

My favorite was "haulin' the mail".

Chuck, Usually you're right on the money - however I know you're off the mark on this one. Allow me to explain... This is NOT the Charleston Stage Ops of years past. You may have heard rumors of ECML up in PACAF but let me flesh it out a little. Crews TR to the East Coast (Dover right now) and fly a SUU/TCM tail for 14 days. When they're done they TR back. They DON'T sit at CHS/DOV to burn time nor do they sit at CHS/DOV waiting for a mission. Everything is planned out in advance so they know pretty much the whole time they'll be flying. The only reason this initiative came about was to reduce empty CONUS prepo/depo legs...the amount of money that SUU/TCM was spending moving empty airplanes back and forth between home stations and East Coast cargo onload stations was ridiculous - we are saving money and crewdogs want to fly these missions! AFPirate

Recently things have picked up for copilots...hours are there for those that want them, but life's not terribly crazy. At least out at KSUU the non-vols have slowed considerably. We are pushing an experimental East Coast Mission Link that returns crews in 14 days with near 100 hours of flying - should normalize within a few months to 80 solid hours per 14 day SRT. Disclaimer: Past returns are no guarantee of future performance.

It's the same story for the 17 as the 130...we are usually reject oriented. Our brakes were made to bring a 500K aircraft to a stop on an ALZ, so it's only on heavyweight takeoffs where we go split markers at the 130s and rotate at 145 or so. We can usually safely reject heavyweight with out worrying about blown fuse plugs up to the 120s. I've got a pretty in-depth C17 rejected takeoff brief if anyone's interested (PM).

Right... Again the question was what mil PLANES don't have TCAS. edited for readability/politeness

Aside from using the web based G2 (link on baseops.net) I don't have any help. But I'm curious to see what you find/develop.

Just out of curiousity, what mil planes DON'T have TCAS? I'm guessing only 130 E/H, A-10, U-2, B-2...?

I'll second that - always follow TCAS, especially over ATC instructions. Google the DHL - SwissAir crash over Germany in 2002 if you need more convincing.

For those of us who had pilot slots going into OTS, you can be sure we did NOT wear a flight suit. Work on your entitlement/ego development AFTER you get to UPT. (edit: spelling)