JimNtexas

I recently went on TFL. Based on my experience with my November very expensive knee replacement followed by months of PT, I'd say TFL is the Golden Ticket for American insurance plans. One other note. If you are on TFL, but your spouse is not yet on Medicare then you have to pay $12.50 a month for their Tricare. I'm really grateful for what I have in the way of insurance, now that I'm old enough to really need it. I tire of the other old geezers who whine 'I WAS PROMISED FREE FREE FREE' about having to pay a minimal amount for great coverage.

I would expect a significant increase in domestic passenger flying by this summer. Especially if the J&J one shot vaccine gets out there. It seems to me likely that international passenger flying will take longer to pick back up, because a lot of countries, including ours, will continue to be reluctant to allow a lot of international visitors for a while longer. My grandson is begging to go to Disney World, and I'd like to take him before I'm too old and decrepit. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only random dude who is itching to get out of the local area as soon as I can.

I got the first Moderna shot a week ago. Zero side effects.

I was a mere nav, but we did have standups at was then called UNT. We had one guy in class who told us on day one to call him ‘Diamond Jack’. He was from some yankee state, wore lots of jewelry and like to wave his Amex card around while telling us how rich he was. He got stood up on one of our first flights. I don’t recall the question, but I have vivid memory of him shaking like a leaf, stuttering, with a deer in the headlights look. He washed out very quickly out of what was in retrospect notthat tough a course.

That seems so wrong, but I’m prejudiced. My EW school was almost six months long after nav school. What good is a WSO who doesn’t know what a prf is going to be to a growler squadron? Such a person would be almost useless in a Weasel or Raven squadron back in the day.

I had this happen to me in a Cessna 182 at Willy Post. The airport unstuck me with a couple of large airbags.

United States-Trained Afghan Fighter Pilot Is in Hiding After Being Denied Safe Passage

My sister is an RN at Fort Sam. She got the first shot earlier this week. Zero side effects.

What racing God did Bottas offend to have so much bad luck?

Covid vaccines are two or three weeks away from distribution. The economy is still strong. There is no reason to think that private sector hiring including aviation won’t be back by mid-2021.

My brother has had two reversals, one each for wife #2 and wife #3. As far as know they went fine, no more traumatic than getting the original vasectomy.

For heaven's sake, take the first pilot slot you are offered!

Give that C-130 crew medals! And new underwear!

I wonder if Big Air Force is thinking that the current downturn in airline hiring will continue forever? Because a Senior Airman new pilot, who works really cheap, would certainly save a lot of bucks. If O-4/O-5 tend to go airlines at the first opportunity, how tempted would an E-6 pay grade be? Unless of course every day is economically like today forever.

I guess flying rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong isn't such a bad deal after all.

Excuse me if this has already been posted, but when I read this the thought occurred to me that if prior flying experience is helpful to new UPT students, perhaps the same concept might apply to post-UPT students as well. “What the study found was in line with what we value already from the PCSM, in that the AFOQT scores, number of previous flight hours and any potential previous aeronautical ratings most positively relate to a successful student,” Dillenburger said. https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2020/02/21/air-force-confirms-effectiveness-of-a-pilot-selection-tool-even-though-it-may-hinder-diversity/

I will say that when I moved from the F-4G to the F/EF-111 I noticed that the Vark WSOs, and the Vark Pilots, had no clue about BFM. I was no air to air God by any means, but I had at least a rudimentary idea as to what to say if I saw Red Air diving down on us from four o'clock. We did DACT with F-5s in my F-4 B course. I had no clue whatsoever what was going on at the time, but once I got to an operational squadron I was taught at least the basics. All any of the Vark crews had was a few hours of BFM 101 at IFF. So you can't really judge people in an activity for which they have never trained.

You are mistaken about that. Trump was acting derisively in January 2020 while Nancy Pelosi was dancing in crowded alleys in San Francisco and Biden was bitching that it was 'Xenophobic' for Trump to restrict travel from Wuhan China. Operation 'Warp Speed' is a real thing, something the Democrats would never have thought of. I tracked this from the beginning. https://consolidatedopinions.blogspot.com/2020/04/covid-19-time-line.html

As a retired EWO, while it does bother me a tad that we'd cripple an F-15EX by flying it with a mere pilot, I have to admit that for intercepting Bears coming down from Russia one guy in the airplane is sufficient.

I wonder if between forums like these and the Movers of the world that the Air Guard is no longer the best kept secret in the country, as it was in the pre-internet days.

Boy is that 10000% true, at least in the IT World. The notion of showing up for a meeting you called on time with your visual aids ready and at least a vague idea of how the meeting should go is almost unheard of in the IT world!!!!!!! I've retired from IT now, which is a great second career. But geeze, there you have guys and gals with an IQ of 200 who have no concept of how to communicate efficiently with other humans. Used to drive me nuts!

As a retired WSO/EWO I suggest pilot or bust. It is really tiring to have to work with people who are eaten up with sadness and jealously towards the guy in the front seat.

Some of the best pilots I flew with in the Air Force were guys who didn't really have the aviation bug at all, they mainly joined AFROTC/OTS to avoid the draft*. Perhaps not having all their hopes and dreams tied up with being a pilot made them more trainable and balanced in a Zen sort of way. In any case, nobody cares about what you did at your last assignment, your peers and chain of command just want to see you serious about growing where you are planted. *Ok - I just dated myself.

Any Growlers any more?