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Ahem, AFI-69.69 CO-PILOT UNION BI-LAWS 1.4 CP DUTIES. The CP is a valuable and integral part of any crew aircraft has many responsibilities. These include: finding sweet hotels when TDY in close proximity to speakeasies and houses of ill repute, AC ego maintenance, operating the landing gear, operating the flaps (some airframes), bailing other aircrew members out of jail, entertaining the crew with witty banter, quelling any navigator uprising and ensuring LMs stay out of the ACs box lunch. Under no circumstances will the CP, have to play wingman for a navigator (on crews with two navigators, they will wingman for themselves, preferably at a different bar from the rest of the crew) or take the fat chick (this is a loadmaster duty described in detail in TO XXX-1). EXCEPTION: Crews with radio or boom operators make delegate him to take the fat chick.

Raiders fan, explains it all, those bitches are crazy.

The way she pronounced "La Guardia Airport" made me want to stick a hot butter knife in both my ears.

I hate him too... to the pilot.

Huggy, my question should have been, "How beneficial is this program at getting cadets into and through IFS/UPT." It just seems unnecessary to me since we all go to IFS, just looking for some opinions from the Academy bubbas. No doubt it's fun and a motivating activity, but I didn't go through it and it wasn't an option when I was in ROTC so I have no idea how beneficial the program is. I guess since it's the Air Force Academy, might as well have some shit going on in the air.

Haha. I'm not interested in turning this into a ROTC VS USAFA thread, but I guess then the question is applicable to the ROTC guys to went to Airborne, CST, ect. But since you mentioned it, it would take a shit ton more than 10 hours in a DA-40 to replace the fun I had in college .

Can someone explain the need for these programs? What is the point of Academy guys getting jump wings, or 10 hours in XX aircraft? Edit: stoleit asked it first, but still waiting for an answer.

FTW

Oh yeah, I'm sure he was just a LASIK procedure away from being a PJ...let the Navy have him, they use the enlisted dudes that work at the brig as piss test monitors instead of casual UPT studs, should be a step up for him. seems appropriate...and I thought that the honey buckets were "For Women and Co-pilots Only"...at least that's what was written on the toilet seat of the first Herk I flew at the Rock...

Thanks Gents, One more question for FG. Can lodging somehow void my non-A after I have it in my hands? I got an email a few days ago from lodging that had all the dates of my TDY in one column, and another column that said something like "Entitlement Rate" with a $0.00 for every day. Can they dick with the accounting code on the bottom of the Non-A slip so that if finance audits my voucher, it looks like they never gave me a non-A? So sick of this...btw I'm the only one of the several guys who got a non-A to get this email.

Gents, Checked into Kirtland on Tuesday. They gave me an 11 day Non-A and then made me a reservation at lodging. I did not leave my credit card or give them orders. I did research, went back the next day, different person, showed them the JTFR and got a new non-A for my entire TDY period from day 1. Got a call today saying that "my orders say I am not approved off base lodging and need to move to base after my original non-A expires." Called the chick back and quoted the JTFR again, and she said it didn't matter because my orders didn't authorize me to live off base. Then she put me on hold for 10 mins before I hung up. The remarks on my orders say, "Student must reserve on-base lodging. Should the student be placed on off-base lodging, he must check daily on availability of on base lodging...and if available move back within 24hrs IAW AETC Sup 1 to AFI 34-246." After reading this thread it seems that this remark on my orders is directly counter to what the JTFR says. Can I tell them to go pound sand or will this somehow come back to bite me? I think that the chick at the desk who gave me the non-A must have gotten ripped by someone above her because once I got my non-A extended I told 3 other guys about it who had shorter non-A. They all went back and got new, longer non-As. Also, I never gave them my orders so they just must be going off of orders they have seen before. So bottom line, is it true that the JTFR overrides the remark on my orders? Is there anything I can do to cover my ass? If I have the non-A in my hand can they even do anything? I have an apt and a lease so no going back. Thanks and I'll spread any info to the other guys here.

The line that says "Any Guard Unit" is for the dudes who have been sent to UPT by their guard units. It doesn't mean that as an AD guy you can go to "Any Guard Unit." There's a couple of exceptions like Cheyenne and C-Springs. There's probably threads about each of these units. The NCOs know how the process works, ask them if you need more clarifications but: Everyone in your class fills out a dream sheet ranking their top 5 prefs by Location, then aircraft at that location if there are multiple. Then the NCOs and officers in the AF office work on the drop. On your drop day you'll be with your class in a room, with no knowledge of your rank in the class. They'll call the number 1 guy in and he'll go into the other room and pick his assignment from whats available. If there are 5 studs in your class, there will be 5 planes with locations. You just go down the line and remember that they combine VT-31 and 35 for the drops so there will be more studs in your class than you realize. Good luck.

I posted it to add context to arg's F-16 comment. ~$3K for a go-around in a 747...dang brah.

Nope, all the options you have are on your dream sheet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Ramp_disaster

Zing! Edit: Last two movies I saw were Hanna and Insidious. I thought Hanna was pretty good, lots of action and a decent soundtrack (lots of bass and pumping electronic). The first half of Insidious was really good, but the end was just too -way the hell out there- to be taken even semi-seriously and this hurt the scare factor.

"Aborting" a landing....nice. Edit: words.

64 cruise missiles? Maybe the Brits should bring just one of these back...

or "That !$@# Hannibal, got us taking a $*!#% circus over these #$#%! mountains. " Edit: and there's this gem... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aynjd00np2I

-"How are we going to get rid of racism?" -"Stop talking about it." Amen.

Wouldn't, would, wouldn't, would.

You might also try asking on Airwarriors.

Future Nav? I keed. edit: Had to add this one, what a spoiled shit head. "I'm only 3,003 tokens from the choatic crossbow!"

Sounds reasonable...

Failure of aircrew to stay current on Information Security CBTs.