Bigred

I know a quite a few helo types in the regionals, only a couple in the majors. The dudes in the majors now spent a good bit of time flying regionals, and one was a contract ISR bubba after helos.

Using the weather example above, if a PIC says no to flying with 300 & 3/4 when the mins are 200 & 1/2, I’ll back up his decision and he doesn’t fly that day. I’d also recommend he lose his PIC designation and needs to go through requal.

Hiring message out from AFPC. I hear they’re even taking old rotor trash these days!

Ah, I think I see the disconnect, as I actually agree with you. I’m not saying don’t hold them accountable, if someone is a piece of shit then fire them. The way your previous post read (to me, at least) is we should fire people if they don’t exactly adhere to their bosses vision. One of the biggest failures I’ve seen (in two different branches now) is an unwillingness to tell someone they suck, and to actually document it. Instead, they write them a glowing evaluation and send them on their way.

That’s a slippery slope. Fire someone beneath you for not ‘following your vision’ is, to me, the very definition of intrusive leadership. Give a vision, give an intent, and let your people loose to figure it out.

Considering the cost of flying helicopters, that sounds like a good deal.

I read this as ‘go learn to fly a helicopter’ Solid advice for everyone!

Why not just send it back blank? They can’t force you to fill it out.

That’s not how it works. The expenses reduce the taxable amount, you’re not reimbursed the expense cost outright. Without weight tickets there is no amount to be paid and then deduct expenses from. I worked admin for several years with weight and I don’t ever recall someone not having weight tickets. From what I can recall of the JTR, the only option I can think of is either reweighing everything or just deducting it from taxes.

To expand on this as I can't edit my previous post. I misspoke on the HP and complex as part of the commercial. Complex is required (I believe 10 hours), but HP is not to get a commercial ticket. However, all that is required to fly an HP aircraft is the instructor endorsement. The IP literally endorses you to fly the T-6 solo prior to soloing so it meets the intent of the FARs for HP endorsement. Hence, he can log the solo time as PIC.

He didn't ask how to report PIC time for the airlines, just if he can log PIC. He said he has a CPL which I assume is his commercial, so he can log PIC a multiple of ways. To reiterate, he can log PIC as the sole manipulator of the controls if he's flying while the instructor is in the aircraft, and he can also log PIC when he is soloing since he already has a ticket. And having a commercial ticket means you can log time in a high performance, complex aircraft. The only caveat would be if there is a type rating associated with the aircraft, which in the case of the T-6, doesn't exist. To echo Brabus, airlines don't dictate how PIC time is logged, the FAA does.

If you hold a private or higher FAA ticket already, then you can log PIC/SIC like any other aircraft. Solo and dual received are only for student pilots.

That’s the key takeaway. How much more work is it to get that extra few %? It seems like all the new UPT programs are to capture that extra bit, and is the juice worth the squeeze?

Bad counterpoint. SOF units wouldn't be caught dead with a non SOF commander. Also, the dude leading the guys on horseback was an operator. He wasn't some logistics dude that said "peace out, tell me when it's done".

Pure speculation, but for tanker bubbas it may involve ‘deployments’ to other areas. EUCOM and PACOM haven’t slowed down so from the AR side of AMC, it’ll still be busy. Just not hours over suckistan busy.

From my understanding that’s correct. The storage, if kept in a commercial facility by the moving company, is much more expensive. My storage is done as part of a DITY NTS while I’m OCONUS. The commercial rate for my 5k lbs of crap is almost $300 in the San Diego area, and I pay $90 to do it myself.

It’s gonna depend entirely on how much stuff and where. I rent a 10x10 for roughly $90 a month and I have roughly 5,000 lbs of stuff in there. I rent my unit in San Diego and when I was looking I found a range from roughly $90 to roughly $160 for a 10x10, based purely on where the storage unit was located.

We rail against the AF for not giving us $100k a year bonuses but as you know they are restricted by what Congress authorizes. I remember a certain senator from Arizona had a big say in that. 🤷‍♂️ What I do think is totally f’d up, beyond belief, is that the AF doesn’t max out the bonus for every pilot to the $35k allowed. It’d be pennies on the dollar in their annual budget.

I’m not sure if it’s obvious but a mil doctor doesn’t get their super high pro pays until done with residency. They get an intern/in residency pay that is akin to flight pay. They also aren’t eligible for the massive retention bonuses until all service commitments are complete AND also residency complete. Right now service commitments run 10 years for a dr that goes through USUHS and year for year on the HPSP. The HPSP has some weird quirks in it too about payback. For comparison, my roommate from the Academy went the medical route, chose orthopedic surgery as his speciality, and wouldn’t be fully qualified till about 11 years after graduation. He was also already planning to get out. That said, once fully board certified in their specialty mil drs get some serious money, it just might not come until much later in their careers. The dr bonuses are actually geared more towards drawing fully qualified doctors into the service.

The irony of the B45 issue is that where it’s supposed to really shine over the B40 (approach and landing phase), it can’t be used. Although, that said, a lot of old guys swear the B40 sucks doing a couples approach but I’ve never had problems with it.

It is, but it’s not guaranteed to get a DP from the MLR.

At my base, we got zero DPs for this O-5 board. So, the flip side is how to you rank the #1 guy from a base who had zero chance of getting a DP vs someone from another base who got one? In this example, the #1 guy with a P did in fact get selected for O-5 this board.

Learning has occurred, I misunderstood it to mean the NDAA mandated the 5 years.

That’s an excellent point. The NDAA authorized the 5 looks, but if it conflicts with DOPMA, which takes precedent?

The way I understand it, yes, if you accepted continuation to 24 your two ADSCs remain. If you didn’t they don’t. If you are actually in this situation please verify with MPF/etc. This was the case last year so I don’t know if the rules changed.