SurelySerious

Trend since 2011 at least in that community, unfortunately.

AETC/AFPC as another RPA dude figures out their plan to meet the timeline by eventually reducing the syllabus to Mavis Beacon.

True, but some afman nazi would still try chiefing you for using them.

Limey.

I’ve got both side by side in my closet and the only difference to me seems to be the hue. Same material/makeup. However there was an AF wide materials test for new bags about a year ago. Unknown outcome.

I’m pretty surprised that all of Biden’s strategy so far has been “At least I’m not Trump” (which is about the only paraphrase I can make of his speeches) after Hillary’s lack of success with “But I’m not Trump.”

So if having anti bodies doesn’t necessarily help, why are we waiting on a vaccine?

There was a blog post on SIPR about it. Needless to say it was more complicated than being reliant on missiles. Well aware, have actually read the data...just making a top gun joke.

Agree. The public policy end game of what is our strategy and how does the mil fit into it has been confusing since roughly 2002. Someone older will probably say it goes back further.

When you do watch the vid, you’ll probably think the Navy needs a school to emphasize fighter maneuvering and dogfighting because they have become too reliant on a-a missiles. disclaimer: not qualified to throw spears but what if they had that...

They gave him 3 years over which to make the cuts, and he screwed the pooch by making them all in the first year...which then made us short people a year later when surprise the needs changed. That was unsat.

Eff it, I can’t read good.

The IPUG I went through deleted all academics on fundamentals of instruction from their syllabus. Will be interested to know if PIT has it or not.

The Buff is also not one of them. Its aero model is a known liability.

So the conclusion is “we don’t really know because there are too many variables” leaning heavily toward “the massive volume of air and flow in the outdoors is probably going to disperse it to a negligible level if you stay away from other people” with a side of “don’t run directly behind someone.”

Good thing CMR crews never mismanage dual INSes due to task saturation during weapons employment at denied Combat Hammer vuls dropping the easiest weapon known to man. This particular comment is not glib. Real life. Edit: However, no I’m not a magician trying to connect errant CH drops back to primary training. Got me there.

Benchmarked against what?

UPT builds a baseline aviator. Erode that seat time, and you kick the can to the next training course and the next and the next to build in those basic airmanship skills that should have been learned earlier. There are things you do or know that only have happened because you have flown and developed habit patterns over the course of years of flying.

Hey man, your claim was we can cut training because our aircraft and flying are universally way safer with newer stuff. I’ve provided you at least one example where that is not true, and it’s one they plan on keeping for 69 more years. My claim was cutting UPT kicks the can down the road, which is exactly what you are proposing in taking more FTU training time to teach the basic instrument flying skills that should be learned in Undergraduate Pilot Training. It’s your burden to come up with a new argument.

Experience flying in general that has been reduced, to include the radar patterns you downplayed. Reductions in those things reduces the abilities of the average student, and in the B-52 let’s face it we’re getting something less than that.

The B-52, for one, flying wise has roughly zero changes. It has new mission things, but the flying portion is still almost identical to what is in museums. There are reasons flying certificates have flying hour mins; average students need a certain amount of actual flight time.

What if the skill we want is more time flying so they have experience? Edit: it is awesome that some corners of the AF have seen gains in safety through newer airframes and/or upgrades, but some of our airframes flight safety wise are almost exactly the same as 40 years ago. Reduction in UPT flight time in the seat is kicking cans down the road, cool VR things or not.

It is a pretty cool setup the Air Force Heritage Flight has for training at DM. There’s an AF vet named Larry Grace who is there most years to take photos.