SurelySerious

Yeah, but the AF never met that requirement. Even with UPT before syllabus cuts, guys were graduating with less than 200 hours, and going out to fly heavy transport category aircraft. Hell, there were many ACs (and IPs) that got certed before meeting ATP mins (other time excluded since the FAA doesn't count it). Very true, the AF is self-certifying but part of that justification has been the quality of the training program. Also, remember UPT in FAA equivalency is only a commercial multi engine license. Lots of actual flying at that phase in a civilian pilot’s life, not sim-only. Edit: part of the disparity is the risk acceptance. The FAA is severely and understandably risk averse towards under-trained pilots flying passengers. The greater the number at risk, the greater the aversion to lack of flying experience. So the AF calculus is different.

Right, but several incidents later, and the FAA upped the requirements... Edit: I also think it’s difficult to look back on a phase of training and say when you learned X, Y, or Z skill that is now so fluid in your routine you don’t notice it. There are very few things where I look at a complex skill and go, that’s where the lightbulb was. So asking the experienced dudes which phase of training was important to their development may not be accurate.

But, a legit critique of this, “big airlines do all sim training, so that’s what we’ll have T-1s do,” is that to get to an airline you need a couple thousand hours of actual flying... I think they forgot that part or conveniently ignored it.

It’s almost like the thing that makes you a more experienced pilot that is better at flying tasks is...more flying.

Absolutely everything about Covid has been an unknown, as evidenced by the wildly differing recommendations, forecasts, and results. Oh, don’t forget the disinformation China was running that helped obfuscate the threat. So yeah, plans to fight a known enemy you practice to and specialize against with intel channels on is a terrible fucking analogy. Show me anyone who would have made better decisions about Covid in that office, and I’ll show you someone who got lucky. You don’t seriously think Joe Biden would have somehow magically stopped it at patient zero, right? NY did more damage by sending those senior citizens back into nursing homes instead of appropriate care facilities than any national policy, terrible self-centered communication style or not.

Our primary mission sets are pretty well known things we practice for and singularly focus on learning TTPs. That’s a terrible analogy.

You know what kills small businesses? States like California continuing to shut everything down. Edit: oh, and rioters and looters, if you want to go there on your concern for small businesses.

Shamelessly stolen from a MAF corner of the internet.

FIFY. The enemy’s best comm jamming system.

They probably were both arguing over who gets ATIS.

Dude, what if the fighter that launched that drone didn’t have to be the one controlling that drone? Like via some kind of network, information from another airplane could be passed to the drone? Nah, won’t happen in our lifetime.

FDNY is the only data point within the last few years so far, and he is significantly less (about 40-50 as 2020 pointed out). Otherwise, agree, it was pretty constant from your 1989 to about 2012 ish based on available data.

You’re also just an idiot if you have been around airplanes and can’t look at a CRJ and an ERJ and know one from the other.

In 2009 I had just under 190 flight hours for UPT.

Are they potential threats the Air Force pays you to know?

They’re not buying it for units whose primary mission is night 1 or S-400 territory; their primary is defense of the homeland, where F-35 is quite overkill. Augmenting expeditionary is second.

They’re out to lunch. The EX is pretty good replacement for what the stateside ANG C models do. They want to use F-35 for something the 35 would not be necessary for. In the end, I disagree with their analysis it will be more expensive. Did LockMart pay them to write that?

Treaties and agreements fall on legislative branch, no?

Nah, just messing with you at that point. Even with Merc it’s interesting when Bottas is on vs inconsistent. And the driver variability is super interesting at Red Bull, although some of Albon’s confidence was probably destroyed both time he was top five and got bounced by Hamilton. I’ve enjoyed the McLaren/Renault/pink Merc.

Nah, Merc is factually boring. The midfield is fun. Get over it brah.

Frankly one of the largest money losing ventures of the USPS is this...courtesy of the UN still giving China 3d world nation postage discounts: As U.S. Postage Rates Continue To Rise, The USPS Gives The Chinese A 'Free Ride'

I’d say it just adds to the list. Some Lt Gen just sent me another survey to fill out; I love more material. I actually think the cultural “only pilots need to know if that’s a Russian airplane” is equally disturbing.

Should have done their research when they had the chance.

*super angry that a 14N can’t tell a USAF single engine from Russian twin-engine*