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Why don’t we let Omega buy the -10s in the boneyard and just contract out our Strat refueling capes. What could go wrong?

Gangnam style!

Much like gun laws that we have and just need to enforce appropriately.. the primes need to be held accountable. Financially and probably criminally. The primes may have a monopoly on the product, but the US government in many ways has a monopoly on consuming the product.. time to start exercising that monopolistic power.

I’m not superstitious.. but wow things come in 3s.. civ: DCA RJ, Philly Medevac, Alaska mil: DCA -60, Alaska F-35, San Diego Growler

It doesn’t really matter if the RJ had TCAS or ADS-B In or Foreflight.. the helo should have had that stuff. I have no first hand knowledge of their equipment.. but it sounds like the standard Army 60s don’t have it. These 12th AB/VIP 60s should, especially if they are flying in that airspace. And if they don’t have it, they shouldn’t fly in that airspace til they do have it. And.. even worse, maybe they do have the equipment, but fly with it disabled because of IMHO blown out of proportion OPSEC concerns.. which is what AMC is doing. Drives me nuts that I fly my Herk around busy Class B and C airspace with ADS-B off because.. China. It’s a crock of shit and we will have a mishap one of these days because we aren’t using equipment that could keep us safer in the non-tactical environment.

The MAFFS aircraft fly with a standard crew loadout, no one extra. The Cal Fire Herks fly with two pilots and and an engineer.

From a friend: “Jerked, when they should’ve jinked. #gonavy”

The next Top Gun poster is released:

I think California may have gotten them. It seems like the perfect platform, so what if we have to restart/recreate a production line. The plane is super simple, even Boeing couldn’t screw it up and it could be a much needed win in their portfolio..

Anyone know why the OV-10 wasn’t chosen for this?

A toast..

Can they both lose? Or is the only option on the table: we all lose?

700’ = 0.11 NM What a twat

Sounds like a win for the military industrial complex!

Not an airline guy.. forgive the elementary question. Why is there no ability to exclude the GPSs? Or ability to remove the bias introduced into the INU? Inflight alignment? What do you do if you lose power in flight and have to reboot?