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John Chapman and the Battle of Robert’s Ridge 21 years ago on 3-5 March.

Looking at those videos it seems to me that both are the result of buffoonery on the pilots part. Assuming the animation and radio call timing is accurate (big assumption), UPS 2992 was cleared onto the runway to line up and wait before UPS 2974 is 6 NM away over POWLZ. They’re given a takeoff clearance with instructions, they read them back and are told the aircraft is on 2 mile final aka “move your slow ass” by ATC. After the go around, 2992 is given taxi instructions back to try again and doesn’t read back clearance to cross a runway and 2974 asks what the delayed departure was about. Once again, who knows how accurate the timing is and animations but for a UPS crew, I don’t see how that couldn’t have worked. And the Boston one, the biz jet just takes off with zero comms and clearance (at least that made it in the video) so that’s just extreme buffoonery. I think he was given departure instructions but not takeoff clearance in a call that was omitted from video because he checks in 3.5 climbing 5.0 on a SID. Maybe he just was executing his clearance with zero other calls. I find the animations on this one suspect because it would lead you to believe Jet Blue would’ve straight up landed on the biz jet and went around at 75-100 feet because of ATC direction. I find it hard to believe the deck angle on the 737 is that severe that they couldn’t see that. Additionally, with the weather shown they easily could have seen the runway and the whole airport from FAF. Regardless, buffoonery for sure happened. On the DEI comments, thankfully one diversity hire female made it up to Boston to prevent that crash since the white male pilots couldn’t see it or be bothered to wait to take off when told /s.

1 year from separation (validated) and 2 years from retirement. How they tell the difference…no clue.

Interesting. I’m about as far from working on nukes as it gets, but I find it interesting that it’s MSG and LRS that got the axe. I’d (perhaps ignorantly) assume that would have to do with the ability to deliver missileers to/from or something? It says it’s all classified results, but that just seems odd to me. Once again, well out of my lane so maybe I’m just stupid.

Having sat in a bunch of Ops/MX meetings at Hurlburt, I can see why he drinks.

I guess they figured he already cheated death once. No need to tempt fate with an Osprey ride! (Kidding…kind of).

F-35 ramp strike report released and broken down. Pretty interesting. Spoiler alert…overdid the shit hot break, didn’t have enough power, and similar to the Eglin guy he got caught up with the auto throttle (APC?) thing.

That’s so perfect that the nations leading Mig killer was grounded because his ladder broke and he took a swan dive to the ramp. I bet he got fucked up good falling off Rodan like that.

“That depends” of course but high key is 2000’ AGL and low key is 1000’ AGL so once above those, that’s a better bet. The turn back assumption is you totally lose the motor and don’t have the altitude to attempt a restart. If you’ve got partial power or anything, I’d keep the motor running until it was hurting more than helping. It’s also one of those things where it’ll spit out a number for turn back and the rule is if you lose it below that number, you’re supposed to land straight ahead (or at least in front of 3-9). However, if I’m taking off out of Hurlburt to the north and lose the motor, I’m turning back no matter what instead of going into 100 foot trees. Or if I’m at Cannon, I’ll turn for the crossing runway even below the altitude. Turn back is definitely more of a think about it ahead of time thing than a binary reaction for aborting takeoff.

I think that was actually part of it. Something like you get an extra year with BOP but if they can’t make that happen, they take the year off.

Not sure if that’s the same terminology but this number is an altitude where if you lose the motor, you can feather it and turn back around to the departing runway and land in the opposite direction. It’s affected by all the usual aerodynamic suspects of density altitude, wind speed/direction, etc.

It should probably go in the war stories thread, but I briefed this during the history portion of a roll call as part of the sacrificial LPA. I remember focusing exclusively on the AMRAAM portion but let slip that it was a Viper (which all the bros knew and were waiting) and got shacked, instant justiced, point of ordered, and old/new business into a Jeremiah Weed induced psychedelic journey that I still haven’t recovered from.

There’s no built in reaction times to TOLD to PC-12/U-28 stuff. One very unique calculation is the turn back altitude for if you lose the engine on takeoff. We used to train to that regularly prior to the Demise 25 crash at Clovis Muni. Now guys only get exposure to that in sim refresher training and updated CAP.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-19/iran-nuclear-inspectors-detect-uranium-enriched-to-84-purity?leadSource=uverify wall lovely

Rico got another Fulcrum in Allied Force. All the Eagle kills in OAF were interesting for one reason or another, but Claw Hwang’s 2 Fulcrums are my favorite. I can’t remember all the details, but he basically screwed up everything in the engagement and was given extra TI rides in his 4 FLUG even though he killed 2 migs haha. @Steve Daviesprobably had the details on that. There was another (I think) Mig-25 kill a Viper dude got in a D model while on a checkride with an F-4 wingman. He got a 4 on his grade sheet and EQ on the eval.

This is the type of scenario I’ve got on my hands.

So I’m getting to the point where my kids are needing all the fun and expensive dental and orthodontic procedures. I’m AD and the dental insurance for Tricare standard is not great. Anyone have any gouge for supplemental insurance for this situation?

Thanks. T-6 changes?

Very interesting. How does the syllabus look for T-38 tracked students now? I’m so far out of the UPT loop so please pardon the ignorance.

Both vital skills that enabled a variety of Rip-Its and snacks to be delivered to the forward bases us lowly Draco nerds inhabited. My thanks to the Talon community!

Tank’s inner monologue right now.

Another one up near the border with tankers and Eagles IVO.

That is an extremely niche reference and I know the exact incident you’re referring to. Actually happened twice to different guys. One is a complete goofball and the other is a literal rocket scientist that is also a goofball.

At least Brits value being witty and gifted with oratory (that’s max performing an STS) instead of whatever MTG, Lauren Boebert and the like are going for. I’m not even talking about policy, it’s just annoying behavior. And all these MP’s at least dressed like they belong and not like they’re trying to track down 101 Dalmatians to make a new coat like that moron.