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The 787 has a smaller rudder than it really needs but the airplane just happens to be a flying computer wrapped in carbon fiber. Asymmetric thrust issues resulting in control problems only happen if you get slow. Boeing engineers solved this through software that will reduce power on the good motor if you are dumb enough to get slow while engine out. While exploring that feature in the sim, I came to the conclusion the airplane is definitely smarter than the operator if you are stupid regarding energy management and aircraft control. The B-52 possibly has too many 1950s issues to be compatible with newer technologies but auto power reduction to solve control problems might work.

I think I slipped a mental disk or pulled a synapse trying to contort rationality to follow that twisted logic. Unfortunately, there are too many people looking like, with the lack of critical gray matter to match, bobble head dolls nodding in smiling agreement.

I think the KKK has become race and gender fluid and is back in business.

A great example of media partisanship is this MLB debacle. Since the media LIED about the new Georgia law and Biden LIED about the new Georgia law, MLB (whose commissioner has a membership at Augusta) are moving the All Star game from 51% minority Atlanta to 76% white Denver which happens to be in a state that REQUIRES voter ID and all of this is costing the city of Atlanta a cool $100 million dollars. Absolutely stupid woke morons.

I recall hearing there is a highway to hell.

Call me an old guy again and I'll ask you to get off my freakin' lawn!!! I was in CBM 85-01 and unsuccessfully dodged the FAIP assignment. At the time, everybody went through Tweets then came over to the T-38. Our problem students could usually be traced to the Tweet phase where they should have been washed out for basic airmanship. Anything marginal in the Tweet did not get any better moving twice as fast in the T-38. So, most students were washed out in the Contact Phase of training. The most bloody I recall was @ 50% of the class. There were 3 Checkrides, Contact, Formation, and Instrument. I do not recall anyone ever washing out for formation work. Some busted the ride and reflew it but did not wash out. I sent one of my better students to his formation check and the Check Pilot came up to me after they got back in the building, "Uh...did you show him how to do a lag roll?" Apparently my student had executed a lag roll to solve some angle off issues on a rejoin. My reply was , "Yep, how did he do?" "He did fine. Just wondering where he saw it." Anyway, that student was a Reservist going to C-141s but certainly had the skills to learn more so we (I say "we" but I might have been the only one for all I know.) taught them beyond the syllabus what they could handle. My poster kids were pretty much at their limits with the basic formation tasks but I never lost a student due to formation problems. What did change from when I started UPT to when I finished my FAIP assignment: While I was a student in Tweets, there was a mid-air collision between 2 T-38s executing a rejoin from a 4 ship tactical formation that killed 3. So, a decision was made sometime during my FAIP tour that students that were going to heavys would no longer do the 4 ship tactical work but would do single ship instrument sorties. They still did the 2 ship formation sorties and Formation Check which included 2 ship tactical formation work. My concerns is the steadily decreasing amount of air under the seat. All the VR or sim time in the world does not present the problems associated with the real world. In the last couple years, there have been numerous accidents resulting in the loss of aircraft and life and these accidents were supposedly benign takeoff and landing events. WTF is up with that?

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/03/18/kinzinger_finds_himself_a_target_in_gop_loyalty_war_145427.html

A judge in Michigan ruled that the election rules there were not properly followed. Too late obviously. A judge in Georgia is contemplating unsealing absentee ballots there for review. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/03/17/oh-so-now-the-courts-say-michigans-secretary-of-state-violated-the-law-with-absentee-ballot-change-n2586381

"Investigation reports MP1 was heard to say to MP2, Hey, watch this!"

And with the constant complaining about student loan debt and campaigning to get the debt erased, i.e. paid for by taxpayers, is never ending thus validating that a substantial sum of those students getting those loans do not have the judgement to assess what they are signing themselves up for when getting a degree they can't actually make a living with.

We have age requirements for drinking, voting, signing contracts, etc. In recognition of the lack of decision making skills that might prevent you from doing something stupid. Sex change or hormone treatments? No worries. A 4 year old or hormonally challenged adolescent going through puberty has the rational mental capacity to judge a life altering decision.

And how are you going to drive your Tesla (or fly your F35) without the precious metals that make them work. https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-rattles-rare-earth-minerals-113020191.html

I have no problem paying people what they are worth. I have a problem paying people more than they are worth. 130,000 federal employees make more than the governor of Pennsylvania who makes @ $196K per year. I'm sure some of those federal jobs require skills and knowledge above and beyond what is required of 1 of 50 state governors. Let's say we need 30,000 people smarter and more knowledgeable than 50 state governors. Why do we need the other 100,000? @42 of 50 of the highest paid state employees are football or basketball coaches. The other are heads of medical or law schools. Yes, I think it's stupid to pay them ridiculous salaries BUT if their performance brings in $ to the state at least you can justify the cost. Fauci doesn't appear to bring solid or consistent decision making skills to the table to justify his oversized influence or salary.

In a similar vein, the book "The Billion Dollar Spy" is a great read regarding the gathering of data on Soviet radars, etc. from an Engineer in Moscow. Describes some amazing spy work and how they did it.

He is the top paid Federal Employee in the government and I have no idea why. Seriously, you could pay me half of what he makes, which would be half of $416,000, and I'll make stupid decisions and save the government money.

That intake forward of the nasty sheet metal damage is the pack inlet but not sure how far inboard the ducting goes once you pass the inlet. I've been wondering what all was damaged by that flying debris and I thought the cowlings were designed to contain fan blade failures. We'll see what the investigators find.

Did the T-38 IP thing for a few years and performance varied with the guys with flying experience. One of my better students had @1500 hours with a Commercial Instrument rating and did great. Formation flying was the only thing he had not seen but adapted quickly. Other guys with flying time who thought they knew it all with their 200 hours in a 172 and would not adapt got hammered. Air under your butt in anything is always great training, just know you MUST do it the AF way because they care nothing about where you came from.

I'm looking for Iron sights for concealed carry. Trijicon or Ameriglo seem to be fairly popular.

Any recommendations for handgun sight upgrades?

We can play "whatabout" tennis all day long and just keeping knocking that ball back and forth over the net. Lord knows both sides have enough material to volley. Some polls are showing 36% overall of the population and 70% of Republicans lacking confidence in our voting system which translates to @ 50 million people. Do you have any suggestions that might solve problems with faith in the election system going forward? Or, do we accept the lack of confidence and let it fester?

Yes, there were folks way out at the end of the spectrum that said some stupid $hit so true statement. But that has been true ON BOTH SIDES for some time. Nothing surprising. Also, the media has always had a left leaning bent but that veneer was taken off in the sheer hatred of Trump. The long list of "mis-reported", some might call lies, allegations over the last 4 years is quite lengthy. Trump said some stupid crap but the errors in reporting from anonymous sources lean one way and press credibility is in the dumpster. Trump engaged the press while BIden hid. Trump was asked and he answered a ton of questions, mostly hostile while Biden was asked piercing questions about his choice of ice cream or the media commented on his socks. And then there was tanking the Hunter Biden story by the press to defend their candidate. So, again, a large part of the population of our country has a reason to not trust the media or others in DC and wouldn't be surprised cheating happened. A fair and impartial media would go a long way to solve that problem. No accounting for those former members of the Intel community making bogus claims of Russian false information in the Hunter Biden laptop case or the Trump Russian collusion fiction. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/13/hunter-biden-probe-politicized-intelligence-commun/ Media tanking the Hunter Biden story. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/12/14/hunter_biden_news_should_shame_dismissive_media_outlets_144837.html Politicians lie, say stupid crap, and get involved in money making schemes. It's been going on for some time and we have survived it. However, what scares me is the media, both news and social, have now taken deliberate steps to control information through commission of spreading false stories or the omission of reporting on stories deemed detrimental to one side. I'm not sure we can survive if only one side is held accountable.

The left already did this when they lost and spent the next four years denigrating the election process attributing collusion, Russian interference, Russian hacking, etc as causal factors to their candidate losing. We have swapped positions with the right now expressing doubts to the legitimacy of the system the left spent tearing down. Media consistency would go a long way towards repairing faith in the system but their blatant left leaning bias isn't going to let that happen.

Worse was the bike test years ago. The intent was to get your heart rate up to some benchmark and hold it there. I was a long distance runner with a very low resting heart rate. I'd get on that stupid bike and start pedalling. Heart rate barely increases. The dude doing the test increases the resistance. Heart rate increases just a little. This sequence repeats itself for a while and by the time I get my heart rate up my legs are tired but I pass. The squadron bacon powered pudgy guy gets in there and his heart immediately increases, hits his target heart rate, and he is done. Made no sense at all.

"If I see one more aircraft picture, I'm going to scream/throw a hissy fit/get triggered/collapse into the fetal position" said no one ever on this site.

I can't remember what all is required to bring this up in the HUD on the 787 but on a visual or instrument approach a dashed line at 2.5 or 3 degrees ( don't remember that either) is displayed. If your flight path marker isn't near that line, it is very easy to see you, or the other guy, are screwing up the approach. With all that being said, the runway and approach are always loaded in the FMS for backup and confirmation .