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Big day for VSPs! Mine was approved today. 2002 11M (KC-135 WO) UPT ADSC competes 30th of this month. Current ADSCs for PCS, GI Bill transfer, and TA. Figure I'll owe $2250 for TA. Not sure how the GI Bill benefits will work. I transferred one month to the wife and one month to the kid. Haven't used any of it. I submitted at 0000CST on 6 Feb. App made it to BPO on/about 12 Feb. Sat there since. I'm willing to provide any other info for interested parties. For those trying to PC, my buddy at MacDill flying BBJs just had his approved on the 8th. Said the SMSgt at the AFPC PC office told him that they are set up to process 150 PC apps per year, and they've had 700 since Jan and avg 60 more every week. Also said the SECAF sits down every day and cranks thru 8-10 apps per day for waivers/approvals at her level. Take that for what it's worth. Thanks to everyone here. You kept me sane when the stress was mounting. ATP written next Monday! Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

I'd be more upset if the granny was a little older. 65 isn't exactly 'granny' to me. Still a funny story.

Third on the pm. Damn EFBs are a pita!

No issues with foolishness, just with anything that can be seen by millions and lasts forever. Just like how we all say we'd never speak to the media. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

I stand corrected. Where once we were led by men feared but dignified, now we are led by men that want to e our fb friends.

I don't know what this means. Have I reached the age where the internet codes have passed me by?

Part of me wants to agree with you but all I can think about is how embarrassing that pic will be to welsh when it reaches his fb page, cuz you know that's going on the fb.

You know, rereading my last post, I want to apologize for derailing this thread. Tanker Toad, I should have discussed this with you over a PM. I'm sorry to anyone that wasted their lives reading my last. If you need me, I'll be in the dungeon serving my penitence. Please, let's get back to hating on AFPC.

I'm responding on my phone and don't know how to do all the fancy stuff on here. I'll inject my comments in the quote starting and ending with a colon.

Gotta give you a 1 effective. Would have been a 2 if there was an option without ads. Otherwise pretty good.

That sucks. The TDYs out of there used to be pretty great. Souda, Moron, Rota, stateside, Lages, Germany. Good times. I left there about 500-750 hrs behind my peers but I'd put my Mildenhall time against 2k hrs turning left over Iraq or Afghanistan. Sorry to hear (tho not surprised) that this is how it turned out. It may be that your life is meant to serve as a warning to others.

Agreed, and I second point one above... Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

//sarcasm// You must be new. //sarcasm off// Once a process like this has the flood gates open, leadership will fight tooth and nail to keep it open. How else will people get combat desk experience if they turn off the 365s? The same thing happened with deployments out of Mildenhall back around 06-08. We started deploying to help out the super tanker wings cuz AFPC couldn't manage the new copilots coming out of UPT. It was only supposed to last for a year or two because we were flying 9+ lines per day with 12 jets. We weren't manned for deployments on top of that but we did it. Can't confirm but I'm assuming they're still deploying. Too many good opr bullets from deploying.... Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

So odd considering how much emphasis has been placed on palace chase by the current FM debacle. I guess those trying to come in of the street are at the far end I the budget/manning whip. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

Congrats! It means they're sending you to the wilds of San Antonio to unfornicate the VSP/TERA shi1show. Good luck! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm not an airline pilot either, but I'll usually have the ILS dialed in as a backup, especially at night and especially if the field has a black hole effect going on.

FIFY

I guess we'll have to rollex to mustache may...

You're absolutely right. I wrote my post in haste and paid the price. Thx for the correction.

Shack. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Right, but the first step is turning off the powered rudder. It's more powerful (has more throw) than the SYD. It's also a boldface for us. If that doesn't fix the problem then the SYD is the next suspect. Dutch roll can be mistaken for rudder hunting or rudder snaking, both of which are referenced in section 3 in very different areas. If you read thru all the findings, one of them was that the possible rudder malfunctions were scattered thruout section 3. Another finding was that there was no procedure to determine the problem. Unfortunately the fix we got was to turn off the rudder power then SYD. Once the hard over rudder/snaking/hunting has been fixed we're supposed to turn on one system at a time to figure out what the problem was. At this point, for me, if I've got it fixed I'm not turning on shit. I'm landing and Mx can figure out which system broke. That's my take, not TO guidance. I'm not going to give the aircraft an opportunity to go from hunting to hard over just so I can give Mx a better write up. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I haven't read thru the AIB fully. Too painful. I'd had lunch at the DFAC with one of the pilots before they deployed.... That being said, I'm not sure there were enough pieces to determine which system caused the failure. We do know that the crew tried to fix the problem by making the throttles symmetric. Asymmetric throttles, especially outboards, can cause a DR like effect. Add in the fact that 96% of our jets are bent and I can see how a relatively inexperienced crew would start with that as the possible cause. It probably would have been my first look before cutting off the rudder power. But if the N1s were within a percent or two and the nose was still tracking like DR then it's time to look at something else. And that in no way is a shot at the crew. Having done annual sims for 12 years, I agree that we weren't training this scenario properly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm not, unfortunately. That and CFIC are the only two things I haven't done in the tanker. I did sleep at a holiday inn last night. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Thx. And you explained that part better than I did. Words have meaning. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Edited for grammar.

As it was explained to me many years ago: 1) Never use the rudder. You're inputs are never as quick or accurate as the rudder assist system and you'll only make the Dutch roll worse. 2) make sharp aileron inputs in the opposite direction of the roll as soon as you start to see/feel it. Put it in and take it right out, like high school sweethearts. 3) slow down. Dutch roll occurs by having more lift from one swept wing than the other. Slow down to reduce that lift difference. 4) land as soon as possible. DR is nothing to sneeze at. But I guess we've already figured that out. To the crew. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I detected your sarcasm so I thought I'd pile on. Hueys have been around for a year or two. Maybe she's heard of a little operation commonly referred to as 'Nam. They played a small part in that one. Seriously, I knew what a Huey was before I could tell a 15 from a 4. Or an eagle from a phantom. Ba-dum cha!

Shack. Let's wrap this war up, boys. We're done here.