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  1. SurelySerious
    Isolating all other factors, if the goal is to be available to a major as soon as possible, then a two year ADSC for PCS to UPT isn’t the way to go. At a regional you can give two weeks notice.
  2. SurelySerious
    Sounds like you’re still in an AD Bone squadron.
  3. SurelySerious
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media Social media is a broad term that by this Wikipedia definition, does encompass baseops. Interactive? Check. User generated content? Check. Profile? Check. Connecting one user’s profile to other users? Check. It doesn’t have to be a viral app of teens posting selfies to be social media…your early days of posting on studentpilot were social media before the term was coined.
  4. SurelySerious
    Senior AF leaders imagining a “modern” cockpit Every GA plane owner with $3k to burn
  5. SurelySerious
    Worse, because it’s a vindictive sting operation; if you’re a commander and you’ve got enough time to do THAT much note taking on things that don’t make your squadron run… your focus may be off.
  6. SurelySerious
    Nice work creating an account just to troll the entire forum with broad baseless attacks at everyone with “links to science” as your background while getting into your defensive egg anytime someone has a valid critique.
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    And your point is? That doesn’t change that our electric grid and most other infrastructure are just as vulnerable. In 2003 a software bug at one control room took out electricity for most of the northeast US and Canada.
  8. SurelySerious
    You can’t compare the US federal gov’t to US states, but you can compare the US gov’t to two nearly homogeneous countries with pretty different governmental structures/limitations than the US. Right.
  9. SurelySerious
    Until they hack the grid. All of our infrastructure is shockingly vulnerable.
  10. SurelySerious
    There are contract civilians teaching in the IFF squadron, but not the contracted out UPT referenced above. The IFF guys are previous fighter IPs and function in the IFF squadron like a normal IP, just with beards and/or long hair.
  11. SurelySerious
    AD is enough pain in the ass in my neck of the woods to not even make dodging qweep just to fly worth my time, which is why I’m taking my talents to the part-time force.
  12. SurelySerious
    And that’s exactly why I’m going to stomach a third of the pay for a while: the ability for my duty to be just flying. It’s not the most exciting flying in the world, but there aren’t any ADO qweepdoms. But that’s what will work for me. YMMV.
  13. SurelySerious
    Similar boat, and I essentially decided I disliked AD so much I built myself a bubble that I’m going to work with while at the regionals. Probably going to be some lean times, but I’m going to make it work.
  14. SurelySerious
    I don’t care if they fly a LOC or LPV, but radio navaids in the NAS are a dying breed, and 6-9 times out of 10 you get an RNAV SID/STAR you can’t comply with or find a field you want to go to that isn’t compatible. “Unable, vectors to final” sure, but complying with RNAV stuff would be nice.
  15. SurelySerious
    As much as John McCain did in his time, he was a loud voice against a lot of military compensation. “we didn’t need this kind of money to be patriotic back in my day” is what I took away from his position and lobbying on all those items.
  16. SurelySerious
    It’s not for lack of trying; maybe the BUFFs need a new plan of attack (other than R), but USAFE was not game for it the last few times they were in the UK.
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  18. SurelySerious
    The AF is 100% still in RNAV 2004
  19. SurelySerious
    With the second seat, they probably have lots of capacity.
  20. SurelySerious
    Allegedly the airframes are at the end if their service life, so maintaining that fraction of the per flight hour cost would require acquiring a new airframe.
  21. SurelySerious
    Let alone making a case to Congress to increase the maximum amount that was set in the, what, 1990s?
  22. SurelySerious
    I took it more to mean aircrew are not the only people who run the engines, but yeah let mx do mx runs.
  23. SurelySerious
    Or the maintainers propped it up there after the crew hopped up inside. It’s happened with a mx laptop in the wheel well of a different global strike platform within the last few years.
  24. SurelySerious
    It seems to be the only political stance she has keeping her afloat.
  25. SurelySerious
    It’s the charging time, that’s the impractical part.
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