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No kidding. The FAA is just starting to allow WiFi to be used in front of the cockpit door due to safety concerns and folks think we're going to be doing single pilot or autonomous aircraft ops in the near future.

I am a believer in never say never but I think there is a long, long way to go. I've been flying the 787 for just over a year now and it's a fairly advanced and sophisticated commercial jet. That being said, glitches are common. Some are just irritating like having to do multiple resets on the datalink to get it working prior to departing the gate. Others are significant like the FMS dumping the whole freaking route over the middle of the Pacific. This is highly entertaining when sleep deprived.

Autonomous ops with pax? Sitting in an aluminum tube conveyor system with nobody onboard with your best interest in mind or skin in the game is going to be a hard sell. Also, weather, fuel load, and alternate practicality is divorced from reality on too many flight plans due to laziness and penny pinching. Somebody on scene needs to have the hammer and call bullshit to stupid ideas.

With this dude pouring millions into keeping things stirred up to foment hate and discontent so he can profit off the pain and suffering, I don't think we are going to see the end of this for some time. https://www.city-journal.org/html/connoisseur-chaos-14954.html

There is a Dave Ramsey course for High School kids. Our kids did it through home schooling. My 23 yr old already has 10K in a ROTH.

With money left over in the Clinton Foundation and an unopposed run for a New York Congressional seat, there is a possibility of the virus Clinton 3.0.

The problem is how many other programs were affected. Most effective would be a complete disk erasure and reload the OS but don't see that happening. Here's some of what might happen to start the restoration process: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/314991-trump-team-prepares-dramatic-cuts

I think he has been giving us the middle finger for some time. Now, he's waving middle fingers on both hands yelling FU!!

But what about training costs and currency requirements? Long haul flights have 3 or 4 pilots and how does that affect who is qualified and who is not to fly the trip. Smaller airports might have lower landing fees but I doubt they have the passenger traffic to generate the requirement for a wide body jet. And finally, the current generations of twin jets can fly half way around the world so instead of using a tanker to fly further, why not just go the other way around the planet?

IP in Hawk, taught Academics for a time, Squadron Exec for the Student Squadron, and then T-38 Class Commander for 88-01. I worked for Terry for a short period of time before he went to the Flt/CC gig. A couple days after the flyby, a picture was published on the front page of the local paper. It had a band dude in the foreground and a very tight looking 4 ship in 15-20 degrees of a left hand bank that didn't look that high over the band dude. Details such as panels and markings were clearly visible. I watched the 4 ship come up initial after the flyby and thought the weather looked a tad marginal for the overhead but figured the picture was a function of photographic trickery with F-stop or editing. The "story" was they knew the weather (both ceiling and vis) was marginal but doable. Setting up on a south to north run-in, they departed the hold on time. After they started, the lead pilot (all were IPs with the Sq/CC in the pit of the lead jet) spotted a brightly lit area he thought was the stadium to the left of their track and made a correction. As they neared the lit area, he either saw tennis courts or picked up the stadium well right of course, don't remember which but he was suckered off course by the tennis courts. He initiates a very large correction to the right and is making a correction to the left when they went through the stadium. It was during this course correction with the less than distinct horizon that he descended. Yes, they almost hit the water tower on the north end of the stadium. So, shortly thereafter, some guy writes a fan letter to some higher HQ for "the best flyby ever" and all these HQ dudes show up to investigate. Everyone had "the cool flyby picture" under the glass on their desks and those were promptly removed. All involved pleaded quilty with remorse and nobody suffered careerwise.

I was in 85-01 at Columbus and ended up as a T-38 FAIP. I heard those same rumors but I'm pretty sure it was fiction, just like the grease mark on the canopy. The highway in the rumor was I-55 which I'm pretty sure had been built long before. The craziest things that happened that got command folks worked up was a 5 ship low level since we didn't do any formation low level and a fly-by at Mississippi State Univ that went THROUGH the stadium. The former event got lots of folks in trouble, the latter was blamed on bad weather, dim lighting conditions, combined with a mea culpa so no careers canned.

Hey, during a mass squadron attack on a large target array, I had the largest miss at 330 meters. Wish that had been un-scoreable. (In my defense, I was #24 across the target array and there was considerable smoke from BDU's, smoky SAMs, and flares along with some low cloud cover. I did a level delivery and couldn't see squat so I went TLAR relative to where I thought my specific target should have been but was just a tad short.) On the up side, I did return home with the same number of engines I started with but was justifiably chastised in the mass debrief.

How about a compromise and I lose just a little money chasing loose women?

Un-scoreable at ?

I'd say you are putting the cart in front of the horse but you don't even have a horse, yet. Opportunities to buy cars come and go but your shot at successfully completing UPT will only occur exactly one time.

Some great tweets out about that. "ISIS claims responsibility for Maria Carey performance."

I understand how the occasional panel falls off and maybe an errant released chunk of ordnance but how does that happen?

It's been a while but I was a runner, maxed the fitness test every time I took it. Did 7 G's in the centrifuge without a G suit and 9 with. Had to work at it more than the 5 foot, built like a fire plug, 2 pack a day smoker with high blood pressure, however.

I did 28 years with 21 years of flying, 16 in the A-10 with a tour as a T-38 IP but that was a while back and things have changed. I can say the first 10-12 years were an absolute blast with experiences that few have. I think a lifetime medical career might be a better bet than rolling the bones hoping for a couple years of military flying.

Heads up on the GI Bil if using it for your kids college. They will need to sign up for their own account on the Veterans benefit site so a Certificate of Eligibility can be generated. If you get this done early, it makes the financial wickets easier to run.

IMHO: Cockiness. You have to believe you can win and you will win because the other guy(s) suck. Controlled aggressiveness. Push the rules and the jet right up to, and maybe a smidgen over, limits. Go full throttle. You have to go "all in." There is no room for half hearted efforts on the range, in theater, or in the books. This can and does get carried over into life outside the squadron which "The Right Stuff" does capture well.

Didn't feminists say men were evil, penises were rape, and patriarchy was yesterday? Yet, somehow, those top concealed carry gun rights. Liberal logic has failed to make sense once again.

Booze in space. A history. https://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/08/an-anecdotal-history-of-space-and-booze/

Buy a roll of black felt and some cheap poster frames. Cover the cardboard with the black felt, apply velcroed patches to the felt, put into cheap frame. Hang on wall. I've got 3 dozen + patches in one frame.

Among the international airline crowd, T-Mobile is very popular. Works in China, S. America, and Europe. I've had Sprint for a long time and would like to change to T-Mobile but T-Mobile coverage outside of urban areas is poor and connections are difficult to make. Sprint just added free International data and texting but do not have coverage in China. I'm using an iPhone 6 which does wifi calling so, if you have wifi, you can make free calls from anywhere.