SurelySerious

No, you’re fucking speculating. Stop quibbling.

First, they haven’t released the names yet so there are probably plenty of people here with a vested interest in the form of friends over there. Second, I don’t give a shit if civilians are armchair QBing this. When NOK notifications are still going is probably not a great time to throw out random bullshit. You want to look at Twitter and draw your own conclusions? Go for it. You’re probably a semi-educated individual and can figure stuff out.

Aviation accidents happen, and it’s probably inappropriate to wildly speculate.

You missed a big step in that “impossible” cockpit environment: flipping the runaway stab trim switch. It’s an emergency procedure that pilots should be ready for at any moment and would stop MCAS from the ability to trim further. And in the Boeing system, once you flip it off you NEVER turn it back on. All the design changes were not great, single AoA sensor not great, but that’s a critical response you train to do in less than 3 seconds. Nope, it wasn’t in an extended manual T.O., still a foul, but I understand why they thought the corrective action could be done in 3 seconds. Because it’s the same corrective action already trained to for runaway stab trim.

Did they remove the chutes a few years ago?

That’s under the “loss of confidence” blanket, right? Astros Red Sox

That’s actually a paraphrase of real mx troubleshooting at Deid JSTARS sq, circa 2016.

“But we have so many spares in the boneyard!”

True.

Don’t believe there isn’t more to this story.

Practice bleeding is unquestionably a fucking waste of time, I don’t care what your afsc is. if you want to read for fun on your own, just read books. Don’t press your overinflated opinion of what a “real” officer should do on others and then later on levy it as a promotion prereq against the CSAF wishes. They call that the frozen middle.

ACSC in correspondence to make competitive for in res is indeed a waste of time, CSAF said so.

1: clearly marked as chaff 2: fuck those guys if they think everyone has to go to staff. If you want to fly, stay in a flying squadron.

But what does it take to get experienced subject matter experts in the air refueling field ( instructor pilots and instructor boom operators who have done this for years) from the active-duty, guard and Reserves together to hash out what we really need for a Next Generation tanker. People with training experience. People with tactics experience. People with CAOC experience. People who are in the fight right now, not generals who haven't seen a real combat mission in the last 15 years. Get us all together in one big room and hash out what really is important for a new tanker or any aircraft for that matter that we need. Do they not do that? Who sets the criteria for these acquisitions? Hah! Good luck breaking the OSD acquisition bureaucracy.

Yep. In the civilian sector wage growth happens largely from people moving jobs, not from raises with same employer; right now unemployment is low, but wage growth stagnated because people aren’t moving. In the military, obviously for a large portion of your career you are confined to yearly pay raise as your wage growth...when you have the option, though, the military is either doing a poor job or congressionally restrained from making it lucrative via pay increases or that mixture of quality of life in conjunction with pay. If you want the experience, you have to give something, unless you just want manning numbers on spreadsheets.

He was on a roll

I think they might be, heard something about it in a song once.

If the AF wanted more offload capes for a jet of size X, they should have written it into the contract. They didn’t, and that’s why you don’t get aerodynamic elements that improve efficiency/offload. Boeing did everything the AF asked for*. *well, except for all that FOD and floors breaking and...

Boeing designed the airplane to meet the absolute minimum requirements in the request for proposal.

Disclosure: I think the dude was a combatant in the middle of a well known and wide ranging battlefield, and was probably masterminding the things the gov’t has accused him of. However, wrt whether this was well thought out or rash? POTUS is sometimes a bit vain and values his self image, and after railing against endless ME wars during campaign think has taken the recent attacks/rhetoric as personal affronts and personal challenges...leading to a rash decision. Throw what you thought were red lines for IR out, because the calculus has changed a bit. I expect a lot of asymmetric activity soon...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/column-what-the-killing-of-qassem-soleimani-could-mean-for-iran Pretty nuanced view.

Not firing across the border doesn’t pass the MLCOA/MDCOA test.

Like the 561st JTS? They do the tactics. This sounds like -1 T.O.

Absolutely we did. I cannot fathom what they would be reviewing to not take volunteers. Maybe it’s like when you’re drunk at the roulette table, and you’re thinking to yourself, “it can’t POSSIBLY be red for the 18th time in a row.”