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That’s absolutely what we did when they wanted a new one down range...based on the heavy handed involvement typically evident (as above), I don’t think management ever actually ran the numbers to see what would get them involved.
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Checks. Sounds like most of you guys don’t routinely sit in the jet for three hours for maintenance troubleshooting in 100° heat on your five hour sortie that had you show 4 hours before takeoff. MX slip loses your tanker, your range time, and your coordinated mission training. “Mr Gp cc says he thinks you should still fly duration because you can ‘still get some training.’” ”Broken, confirm you want me to burn 120k and do patterns during my 14th hour of duty day?” ”Yeah, you’ll still get pattern work. “ ”Well Mr GP cc, this ORM sheet you signed off on says that’s not smart.”
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I see the point of his allegory...except that for the long history of Britain, it’s known more for fish than chicken. This chicken thing is the new item on the menu.
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One of the guys here tried it with PEX a few years ago; it never worked out.
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Except you pretty much are, and you haven’t learned lesson #1 yet: never pass up the opportunity to STFU. You haven’t gotten to lost LT status yet.
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Your joke doesn’t work unless you memorized all the pages of your TO before you had an EFB bro. If your EFB is reading your pubs for you, maybe your “forward thinking” is in the ball park. Reduced size and weight, and the ability to search are great, but otherwise... it’s on you to read it.
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Dude, there are absolute great-dude meatheads who weren’t very serious about their studies in skool who are Fighter WIC instructors. Some things click with some people that you wouldn’t expect.
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Where else would Clark throw down his inane knowledge of random aircraft if he went with that simple of an idea?
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Wait...I thought we fixed the pilot problem.
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Commanders are dropping like flies this year
SurelySerious replied to MDDieselPilot's topic in General Discussion
Yeah, nothing more thrilling than the drive to work. I wake up every morning refreshed and excited to hit the road. Hell, sometimes I leave my wallet at work so I have an excuse to do an extra lap after dinner. That’s like your opinion, man. Much like I enjoy flying, I enjoy driving. -
Commanders are dropping like flies this year
SurelySerious replied to MDDieselPilot's topic in General Discussion
Sounds incredibly boring. But that’s my take on self-driving shit, not having to do with the argument at hand. -
No. This is pointless.
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There are a couple ANG/AFRC units out there that have something similar to focus on the physical challenges specific to flying. It’s not a bad idea, interested in how it works out for AFSOC.
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Commanders are dropping like flies this year
SurelySerious replied to MDDieselPilot's topic in General Discussion
Zero. But that was probably rhetorical. -
I'll bite on this, because this sounds like a pretty huge case of you don't know what you don't know (i.e. low SA). I'm not going to sit here and tell you being the bomber requires the most skill in sorting SA to launch smart weapons vice cleaning up the air picture in a single seater...but yeah, dropping the one or two you're used to is easy. In this high end fight you're talking about, though, no one is calling a bomber to drop two weapons. In a RF or WSINT type vul, there are probably 20 DPIs per jet in the formation all roughly co-located that you're trying to hit in one pass battling system limitations that make it challenging to get the releases done if everything goes right. You're probably sorting in a few DTs last-minute in a jet that requires two people to input weapons data because it's in a computer programming language from the 60s. We tend to lack SA because literally the airplane has no way to convey us SA outside of radios. No A-A radar, no Link picture, simply listening to the Strike and OCA freqs. So when you're the Strike Package commander, you're sorting your targets and listening to the thrash within, monitoring the other striker formations, and assessing the threats from verbal calls the OCA dudes are all making on OCA freq because AWACS is always behind. All while some non-pilot in your jet talks over every radio call there is. Every air frame has their mission challenges in the high end fight. Bomber dudes don't have to be the smartest, no we're not setting our lift vector all over and maneuvering 3-D, and not every dude is capable of RF strike package commander type SA, but it's not sitting in Afghanistan dropping one or two 31s on a mud hut.
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You need to work on your Root Cause analysis.
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But HAF just briefed MAF manning at 110%. The glitch has been fixed. We just got this thread out of the MAF/CAF hate defensive death spiral.
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What’s the IFF syllabus with respect to Instrument flying?
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Danger, Disagree. If our major issues are basic aviation skills like maneuvering in formation or instrument procedures (moreso), then I don’t think we can put the blame on a follow-on course. If UPT produces the equivalent of a Commercial MEL, then I think it’s fair to have standards in mind. In your mind, is UPT meeting that? I don’t have the IFF syllabus handy, but I doubt it includes the resources for building instrument proficiency to a passable level so FTU doesn’t have to; those aren’t Fighter Fundamentals, those are pilot fundamentals we should probably expect from Pilot Training. But that’s just my 25,000 ft perspective from my damn gold plated bomber throne as I wait to program the FMS to fly the CATIII ILS and never touch the controls. Kidding aside, all communities I’ve interacted with have to push more fundamentals further into training as each formal training syllabus is cut. The problem is at the undergraduate aviation training level across the Air Force.
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Reference the discussion in the Changing/Switching Airframes thread, but it’s not that simple. 1) it’s not not flying, it’s reduced flying, B) you still need to grow your crew force or you’ll have a yuge gap eventually, and 3) you can do tactical development to a certain extent in the sim to supp the reduction in flights.
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They haven’t paid their AETC bill because there’s no one their squadrons except LTs man.
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Not the 11-series reg? Sounds like I can’t find that in my EFB to follow.