raimius

Hueys have a better GPS than the T-6, and that GPS went out of production in 2009!

Anyone see the "DAF Contested Homeland Operations" memo? Seems like some execs were having a competition to fit the most buzzwords and acronyms in a single memo.

There is a separate vhf helicopter freq in DCA's airspace to reduce comms congestion.

Flew that a few times. Helicopter route 4 is on the east side of the river. Most airliners land 01/19, which keeps them on the West side and no conflict. Landing 33 crosses helicopter route 4 on short final. From ATC audio, PAT25 called vis sep prior to the mid-air. Speculation, but they may have spotted one of the other airliners that usually stack up along the Potomac in sequence, or lost visual amongst the background lights (not sure if 12AB normally runs on NVGs there...the city gets very bright so it was often a coin toss on whether to scan mostly on or off goggles.) (I was once told to orbit over Bolling for landing traffic 33, at night.) A bit of a nightmare situation.

More likely is that they contract out UPT to some civ school and only use T-7s for fighter track. No T-6. No T-1, just Cessna direct C-17 etc. ...yeah, it's dumb.

Many and many. 60-70% are FAIPs who barely get any planned CT, and see most of the Stans they hooked come back from the 88/89/CR process. And yeah, grade inflation is certainly a thing...and even worse now that it's T-6 direct to FTU. No more phase 3 to help train most new LTs. The only potential upside for quality with these ideas is that the Lts will have some more hours when they graduate. Most are graduating now with ~120-130hrs, when my group had 200-220. I'm not a better student than the kids now, but I got more training...

IF (big IF) syllabus design and quality stan/eval are good for the civilian portion, this could work. It does give stan more flight hours than the current syllabus (which is a definite good, in my book).

This isn't the warthunder forum, dude.

It's not great, but about the same as the past couple years, it seems.

My comments in bold.

I don't know if you'll get good data vs modern AF UPT. We have been making so many changes and pushing through a lot of weak students the last few years.

Russia might have just splashed an airliner going to Grozny. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgp3qx0q7wo

They do go through a lot of specialized training. Whether you consider it "bad ass" is up to you.

I don't think we are the driving force behind HTS. Correct me if I'm wrong, as I don't closely follow the insurgent groups there

Are you ok, dude? That's a high grade crazy kind of claim. Global thermonuclear war isn't in anyone's best interest.