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As a 20+ yr fighter guy, I’ve learned more reading this thread than at any academic session or training on how MAF works Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

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Where is the place to look for app windows to open? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Can someone help me with airline pay math. I hear stories about the pay beating down USAF badly but there must be something I’m missing. Let’s take a 5th yr Southwest airline F.O. Making $150 an hour. At 75hrs per month that’s only $147,600 per year. I make more than that without a bonus. Do pilots generally fly more, is there hidden pay etc? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Dude. Listen to yourself. Article 15 for not wearing a mask? “Yes Major ###, your career is done because you didn’t wear a mask thus putting yourself at a .0008% risk of being unable to accomplish the mission.” Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

As of 9 April that’s alllll true, RPAs are at 50% though!! Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

How many vacation and sick days does an airline pilot get per year? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Me too. Another thing funny to me is he many people I’ve worked with who are staunchly anti-abortion but don’t even shrug when they drop a bomb or strafe “bad guys” Because the bad guy doesn’t subjectively share their religious views...never mind his wife and 3 kids were just orphaned and he was just in the wrong place/wrong time. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

This is a stupid Bodn argument. If we found a blade of grass in the universe it’d be life. This is a subjective moral dilemma. I ask my religious friends where in the Bible it talks about abortion...the conversation goes off the subjective rails from there. Not all life has value and value is a subjective opinion. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Anyone know the company name of those contractors? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

White jets get a bad rap for no good reason. After ~20 yrs of flying jets all over the spectrum in awesome places, my 3yr punishment tour at Laughlin was a great time when on paper it is ha far the worst jet and location of my career. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Are any pilots at UPT contractors yet? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Delta hiring, AA hiring, Cargo never stopped hiring...I shouldn’t be looking fwd so much to the FY21 ACP numbers but I am. At this rate the USAF should try to screw up the bonus and see if by luck they get it correct. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I’m satisfied with the UPT product. Are they overall as good aviators as 1990....maybe not. Do they need to be? No. It’s a different game. UPT standards over 30 years don’t mean much. I taught t-38s a decade plus ago and we washed kids out for stuff that isn’t even deemed relevant now. I was in my first B course 18 years ago today. Little to none of it applies to what I’m doing now. What took 12 jets to go back then, I can do with 4 today, safer and faster. Lots of old people decry change. I welcome it. Oh, and the T-1 is a huge reason we lowered attrition. Turns out KC-135 pilots don’t need 4-ship tac formation....no sh-t....!!!!! Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Anyone remember the market of 06ish and what happened during the correction? I had a ton of friends underwater on mortgages when the market corrects. No biggie if it’s your long term home...pay for a place you like. It’ll suck if the market corrects and people need to PCS and sell. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

If China wants Taiwan, China could get Taiwan. The question is what price are they willing to pay for it. Right now the price is too high. Even with America out of the picture, the price might be too high. I’d give Taiwan some self defense tools that keep that cost too high for China and trash the notion of US carrier fleets stopping the attack. Eventually as China gains power, Taiwan might see more benefit in alliance with them than us anyhow. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I hear the sq/cc got canned Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I was having too much taken out and when it hit 19.5 it auto stopped. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Poor Italy Their public doesn’t support them. Their jets are 100% for photo ops and show. The coalition asked their Eurofighters to pick up sone DCA caps over Syria...unable. They were there to take pictures. Imagine using a €100M A/A fighter to do the job of an RPA. Wait, never mind, just following our lead. Except they can’t afford it. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

The German Eurofighter is pretty much combat irrelevant. Their community is a mess as well. Germany as a whole is barely a military ally. This photo is pretty indicative of our NATO allies as a whole. Some allies do better photo shoots than others, but pretty much all of them are paper tigers Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

This bonus pretty much says: “Hey, we know the people taking the bonus were probably going to stay anyhow. Maybe a few took short term bonuses while they built hours and polished up their guard/reserve/airline apps but that’s not what we want. We’ve (USAF) lost the battle for retention. We will reward those who after their 10+ year commitment, sign on to finish a career. We want loyalists, pilots who will do our will guaranteed to be at our whim until they retire. We are not interested in pilots who wish to ‘keep options open’ by failing to commit long term.” That’s how it reads to me. If you are unhappy with your options: quit. I wanted a short term bonus, of course I think I deserve it and the USAF is f-ing me over just like everyone else not getting it. It wasn’t offered. I’ll sport bitch but at the end of the day, if I don’t quit, I’m just bitching because I’m entitled. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I’ve been pulled over for BS reasons multiple times. A as couple times the cops admitted off-record to profiling. I didn’t blame them...suspicious as hell. As a white dude, I was always 100% respectful and cooperative never expecting a free pass. Apparently I could have just showed them my privilege card and kept driving. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Try having to teach the B-coursers stuff they should have learned at IFF all for the bargain price if $50k per flight hour. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

My liberal cousin even digs your act. Keep it up! Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

A super typhoon would cost more than an F-35 with a fraction of the capes. Might as well stick with F-15 or F-16’s. A block 70 F-16 would crush a EF2K in present form. EF2K has awesome power and maneuver but it’d be dead far before it can use them because it’s innards are 20 years outdated. I laugh when I think of the euros talk of a 6th Gen fighter. In reality it’ll barely be 5th Gen. The EF2K was what Europe designed while the US made the F-22. They are decades behind. The Gripen is another example. I was in Hungary when C-models were there. The Hungarians I talked to were shocked looking in the cockpits at the steam gauges compared to their glass cockpits...they were equally as shocked as to how outperformed they were and I’m sure our 15’s weren’t playing full up. Europe should buy vipers. Anything more is a waste for their needs. As for a coalition to kick down the door...we’d be doing that. Maybe a little help from the Brits, some support from France, 2-ships from our N Europe allies, then when things are safe, everyone else will show up so they can take some credit. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app