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Yeah, that's pretty bad. The NTSB recommendations make a lot of sense.

Sure. Oversimplified, just like the majority of arguments here. What would I do, as king for a day? Sell Ukraine just about anything they want, including our old stock at a discount. "Arsenal of Democracy."

Missed the point. I'm saying the outcome was not and is not a foregone conclusion. It does depend on many factors. ...not saying Ukraine will decisively win.

How are you not getting the concept that a stronger foreign power can lose to a more committed group on their home turf? Did you miss the past 25 years?

Some of them are invisible from more than a hundred yards or so, on NVGs. Aided/unaided composite scan should be emphasized...

Do we not do phrasing anymore?!

That the some in the CIA predicted Russia's actions does not justify Russia's actions.

Y'all need to actually address the topic rather than all this e-pen** measuring.

It's generally best not to do public speaking on things you don't know much about...hasn't stopped a lot of people....

Nope. Composite aided/unaided cross-check is preferable to not seeing things... All it takes is one burnt out street light on a bridge to make NVGs worth it in the city. The helicopter route is MSL, so baro-alt restriction. AGL off the river is usually 70-200, depending on altimeter setting and baro altimeter errors.

Because if the "idea works" should not be measured on whether we can pay LTS to fly at civilian schools, but by whether that actually produces pilots to acceptable AF standards. (Press X to doubt)

If only we had an office to ensure everyone had equal opportunities. /S

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.