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Ah, still a little jealous beyotch, gotcha.

Left winglet= F/E tombstone Right winglet = Nav tombstone.

We all can't have them bolted down. At least you can fly as fast as my supercub.

https://www.history.com/shows/american-restoration/videos#american-restoration-planes-and-flames

Can you access https://www.e-publishing.af.mil/ ? A breeze through the below is a start. Don't get too wrapped up. AFI11-202v3 General Flight Rules. AFMAN 11-217v1, 2 and 3 Instrument Flight Procedures, visual and supplemental flight procedures. Weather for Aircrew AFH11-203v1 and v2

RMOAS, Initial cadre old head C-17 guy busts AMC ASEV boldface for comma vs. slash right after the universal A/E Boldface overwrote all the MDS boldfaces. Lost that battle to the O-6 ASEV chief. Law of primacy didn't matter, neither does the comma vs. /. Felt the dumber for being in the room. I know how I give an EPE and a checkride, and it's not changing.

BAMF! This link just worked, don't know how long it will stay up, good video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT1DhcQg0Os

I don't know any owners, but the folks that rent them, love them.

Nothing says you cannot get some help and put into the Board for the Corrections as Huggy said AND let you chain of Command and IG know that you are going to your Congressmen for an inquiry request. You do NOT have to let the IG and chain know, but it is polite. They may ask you to wait on the Board, they may even help you with the board submittal. You do NOT have to wait for the board process. The more that do this, both at your installation and in general, the better.

Nice barrier trap. Takes the 1-wire. you can drag into :20 from the start.

C-17 hosting domain changed in that timeframe. Your Sq should have updated links for the Herk.

Having done the airshow gig just a bit as both military and civilian, I'll throw in .02. I suggest the competition aerobatics start if ever asked- The Int'l Aerobatic Club/IAC, part of the EAA, was a blast in the mid to late 90s. It is much smaller now. You get picked apart by the judges and your peers for a little wooden plaque that costs at least $30k if you've bought a whole airplane yourself and trained enough. Then, you move on to the FAA designees from the ICAS that give the low altitude waivers. It takes a real open schedule to fly enough shows per season to move down from 800' to 500' then to 300' and surface up, I think 10. At this point, you can just make noise and smoke, or you can try and fly your most precise execution each outing. Spent the last weekend shuttling kids through a static display while enjoying Sean Tucker's ever-progressing capes and demos. The Canadian F-18 demo is pretty sick, they actually kick in a boot of rudder on their turns off the show line and it looks like most of a snap roll. It's away from the crowd, hope there is little risk of departing. The USN had a 2 seater demo, it was great, just a bit more tame. Still a nice contrast to the Blue Angels later. Did the C-17 demo 4 times back when every wing had some crews in a Sq that were cert'd. It was a decent show if you kept it as a demo and didn't push the actual limits of the jet. Pretty good way to show the tax payers their $ at work, but as many times as not, if they ask a few questions while standing in line for an hour to see the cockpit, they may get most of the same impression. Does it help make future pilots better than mom and dad having a good shot of the kid in the seat smiling w/ their hands on the controls at a static? Dunno. Between my first airshow at age 6 or and first airline ride, I knew this was what I wanted to do, so I'm an outlyer in the statistics. I'm not past both hands yet, but well into them counting folks I've flown with that we've lost from accidents. It is worth the reflection.

Thanks, you made my point. I tried to keep steps out of it. The pay O. vs E and A.D. vs ART is not well balanced. Then others assume you will make up the $ with mil duty. Time off is valuable.

what is a ridealong? LOSA? Just getting to/from a deployment? Just curious as it sounds valid as an outside MWS observation. What concerns an outsider may not apply, or could help the other culture.

KDPA or KARR might support you. Why not KMKE? Many years since Glenview and MDW stops in the C-9 were std. KORD, suggest not. Been there plenty in civil & mil jets. edit: Since Landmark is red/closed in airsea, you could see if the others have ramp space, all should take the card. When I was a kid, lots of a/c parked on the ANG south ramp on the weekends at MDW. UGN has Landmark listed as contract.

AFRC Air Reserve Technicians (ARTs) are growing some of the move up or move out pressures from active duty. You won't PCS as much as active duty, but you will sign on the line that you are willing to relocate. GS-10 is about Capt pay, GS-13 is NOT LtCol flyer's pay parity or even later Major. You are on step increases with locality rates, not BAH, some areas have better balance than others pay-wise. You will work full time, then work your Reserve job. Chance for more income, but lots less time off. If you cherish your weekends when not TDY, AFRC would be a real change for a full-time job. Unless Azimuth is a mid-grade captain, I don't think he's talking effective dollars per hour. If he's speaking to a 22-28 year LtCol that is about to convert his points to an active duty retirement, he'll get a much different flavor from a flyer that has 2500 points and hasn't found MWS flying orders in two years for any length of time, despite his/her willingness to serve This is where you need to break out your LES and calendars and logbooks, then compare your goals, looking forward and back. The Reserves can give access to lots of work. I've seen that drastically reduce in the years of CRAs and drawdowns from OIF and OEF. The discussion would contain many unknowns when it looks forward and looking back is only good for war stories over beers. My angle is that we may see a decrease in flying that keeps pace with the loss of those reaching their mandatory retirement service years. From here on out those converting to an active duty retirement from their Reserve points will be the rare exception. There really is no "average" Reservist or "average" active duty flyer. A busy reservist can fly 2x what a active duty flyer logs. I've logged almost 500 annual flying hours as a Reservist, did not break 350 on active duty, even when timing out in 30 days in OIF stages. YMWV Maybe AGR will make a come back, I doubt it for the Reserves in a tight economy. Been at it since 2007 in AFRC, been traditional and a Technician, both are on the slide. I won't attempt to speak for the ANG. I will say that many flyer slots in the ANG are based on Majors/O-4. AFRC slots are typically LtCol/O-5, with a 28 year retirement point.

BDHI/DME too... edit to add, they are right above of your outboard knee. Pretty handy. Probably didn't feel it needed to be in the HUD back when designed. I love VFR, properly applied.

Hauled the 33rd up for Tng w/ local bases, in exchange got some DACT. The local Combat Camera folks rode along. This was circa 2006, Russ Cooley got lots of the pics from the sortie published. B roll had lots of keepers. Gotta use the expired MJU-10s somehow. All briefed and blessed.

We were not getting lost this day...

Not a customer to fall short, sts, with: https://www.theatlant...s-quotes/19387/ 16 Most Hair-Raising General Mattis Quotes Max Fisher 38,272 Views Jul 9, 2010 Newly appointed chief of Central Command General James Mattis did not get where he is today by being polite and mild mannered. Mattis, who has been nicknamed "Mad Dog" and "Chaos" and was portrayed in the HBO Iraq War drama "Generation Kill," has a reputation for blunt speaking. Really blunt speaking. Here are some choice quotes collected by the defense writers who so admire him. "I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you ###### with me, I'll kill you all "When Gen. Abrial arrived to relieve me as the supreme commander, only don’t ask, don’t tell kept me from hugging and kissing him" "Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." "The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event" "I were to sum up what I've learned in 35 years of service, it's improvise, improvise, improvise." "I don't get intelligence off a satellite. Iraqis tell me who the enemy is." "I would also add that [Al Qaeda] was dumb" "You are part of the world's most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon." "no war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.” "Marines don't know how to spell the word defeat" "Demonstrate to the world there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine. " "An untrained or uneducated Marine...deployed 2 the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment...than the enemy' "It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's USMC COIN: "a country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida "Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down." "In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while

LM is welcome, often not available, and should not be needed. With the equipment available and basic adherence to the tasks, not needed. Fatigue, either pilot, co or both, should be the threat. Sharp crew can handle plenty of curves, using all the crm won't pull your tush back from a collective loss of S/A. I worry about CFIT, didn't think biting off on the wrong airpark on the visual would make the news. MPD didnt help the current generation. I fear folks are not staying far enough ahead of the jet. Is this the Monday morning lesson? Again, they are welcome, but a band-aid on a bleed-out if needed. I too brief them into the leg's threats and chart reading lessons at least give some shared skin in the game.

Brief an approach, dial it up, then decide if the visual works. Always doing that might help when fatigued, muscle memory is real. Helps keep the s/a. Others covered the rest. Wonder if the departure crew got more than a TCAS TA from the news choppa. Visuals can save 6-9 minutes and a ton, literally, of gas. Surprised they weren't highly suggested mandatory fun by AMC, 'til yesterday...

Little late to the punch, newb, but a real knee slapper. You must be a trigger pulling snake eater, no?

Since the military demo airshow budgets got cut, is there a new program for doing a random assault demo? Messier-Buggatti-Tracer make some hellacious brakes!