SurelySerious

So you're telling me you aren't sending your P90X before/after photos to random chicks on craigslist while claiming you aren't married?

I'd uphold your assessment of shenanigans.

2! Unlike the tame American version, the Brits have no filter and bash everyone equally.

I agree.

Details from Crossflow meeting with AFPC, paraphrase of their words: Life is about choices; you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?"

Vodafone: Egypt forced us to send text messages Literally forced? As in they went and strong-armed you to push the send button? This seems more accurate: Vodafone accuses Egyptian government of co-opting network However they word it, that's pretty messed up. It sounds like Vodafone could refuse to send the message, but they won't because then they would lose their business in Egypt.

Generally the ones that go are toolbags 96.9% of the way to shoeclerkdom anyway; they might as well finish at a prestigious graduate-level clerk training base like the Deid. Most people try getting vacation spots in Europe, Hawaii, Alaska or on one of the coasts of the lower 48.

That should be on the CSAF reading list, right next to Red Eagles. This is definitely the crown jewel of USAFA's MSS Dept.

Hah, right, for the 6-9% that can read.

Although I could see a problem when it needs to land and refuel.

The word is that since the Air Force is its own certifying authority (and they want 6900 new 18U personnel), the AF has ignored the FAA’s desires and gone with a shorter training path. Technically, all of our pilots (unless you take the equivalency exam after UPT) are flying around without an FAA Com/Inst license. This new quasi-IFS, though, seems like a huge improvement; it will be interesting to see if between the new IFS and the T-6 instrument sim work at Randolph, the new 18U trainees have more refined skill sets than the old beta test which had substantially less real flying. If they find it deficient, however, and remedy it by adding more flying training, they will eventually realize no timesaving because it will take the same amount of time as UPT. I think the national airspace battle is only slightly influenced by this issue.

Just finished reading Biggest Brother a few days ago... amazing guy.

In light of that, people like shadyisgay, who have no frame of reference or personal experience, should stop speculating what the perceived problem is. While they may have an opinion, they also have no foundation of knowledge with which to base it on, so it is just a waste of time/bytes and makes them sound like idiots. All the while this nonsense rambling on their part impairs the intent of the forum because people who don't know any better reading this forum for help and direction in their career read it and think that the blowhard knows what they're talking about. The reader is thus dumber for having read it, but doesn't know the information is crap. And now everyone's time has been wasted even more.

Conversely, you could stop screaming, "I know nothing about the UAV community, 'professionalism', or pilots," and listen to someone who has some experience in the matter, but you haven't.

Fixed that for you.

Well played.

I can't vouch for that guy (who, if he is just going to IFS as he claims, can't know too much), but at Creech they're all the same. The only difference is the graphics on-screen.

Las Vegas, same. Glad I'm not PCSing in now.

Totally off the discussion topic: The GCS is indeed common to all GA products: fing terrible. Hopefully they don't actually procure GA's latest abomination; please let us buy something from an airplane company. Those retards at GA apparently still have never seen the inside of a real airplane, or employed a human factors person. We've paid them $690 million, you think they could employ one. After that, maybe they could revise the -1 to not be 16,900 pages and impart it with useful information on the aircraft systems so the whole pred/reaper community doesn't operate on WOMs.

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AFI 36-2905 is governing. Run administration covered in Attachment 8, on page 62: A8.1. Course Requirements for 1.5-mile timed run (2640 yards/2414 meters) and 1.0-mile timed walk (1760 yards/1609 meters) A8.1.1. Establish a standard course of accurate distance that is as level and even as possible. A8.1.1.1. If a typical 6-lap track is used: A8.1.1.1.1. For a 1.5-mile timed run, it should be 440 yards per lap; or 6 laps on a 400-meter track plus an additional 46 feet for 1.5-miles. A8.1.1.1.2. For a 1.0-mile timed walk, it should be 440 yards per lap; or 4 laps on a 400-meter track plus an additional 31 feet for 1.0-mile. A8.1.1.2. Course should have limited exposure to traffic, should not have a continuous incline/decline or rolling hills; avoid slopes exceeding two degrees. If using a road course, where possible, start and finish should be at the same location. A8.1.1.3. Clearly mark the start and finish lines (and half-way point for road courses). A8.1.2. Trained personnel will monitor participants, ensuring all members complete entire course and are continuously observed for course completion, safety, counting laps if required and recording run times. A8.1.3. Indoor track may be used during inclement weather.

When you get to your flight, after your first sim where they introduce you to the UTD, you'll be able to call over and see if there are any open during a time when you aren't flying/simming.

False. No one avoids it because of that. Most people are well aware of the great capabilities they bring to the fight, but most pilots are pilots because they love flying. Most avoid it because it is not fun, is (usually) mind-numbingly boring, and is not flying. Also false. The people operating UAVs have pushed our current technologies to the limit and are doing a great job; better things are on the way, but no one is limiting what we can do in the fight. The limitation is that what we currently have fielded only goes so far. I take it you're talking about the 11X vs 18U divide; the real schism exists only between those who can carry out the mission, and those who cannot. Just as with pilots, there are good UAV operators and there are bad ones. It is actually beneficial for the 18U field to succed, in the eyes of the current pilot, because then less pilots will be pulled to UAV assignments. There are other issues, but it isn't one of caste. The reality of the situation is this: being an 18U is the best desk job in the Air Force. You are operationally oriented, you affect the war on a daily basis, and then go home at night. If you have no ambition to actually fly in an airplane, it's great. If you think you might have the slightest notion to fly in an airplane, but are worried you might be in UAVs anyway, take a path through pilot training and at least give yourself the 80% chance of flying in an airplane, then do your best. Luck and timing will work the rest out. Either way, no one is out there holding back because they don't like their job.

Apparently they're doing a good job of pitching the best desk job in the air force. You know what, go for it; that'll hopefully help the people that would like to be flying instead of operating.