XL0901 Posted September 20, 2011 Posted September 20, 2011 Earlier today I had a pretty generic question for finance. They apparently are gone for the day, so I called another base. And another. And another. I tried them all a couple of times, but Laughlin, McChord and Hickam seem to be MIA. Travis answered, and the airman was very helpful. As for the other bases...WTF, finance?? Wait...you got a number for Travis finance? And they were helpful. Please tell me how cause I've been trying for 3 years 1
Butters Posted September 20, 2011 Posted September 20, 2011 Headlight flashing faces test as free speech in Florida Can we get PYB to come back on a limited basis to discuss this?
nsplayr Posted September 20, 2011 Posted September 20, 2011 Can we get PYB to come back on a limited basis to discuss this? NO.
B*D*A Posted September 20, 2011 Posted September 20, 2011 (edited) So I've never had to flex cuff someone after getting peppered, but damn dude.... edit: linky Edited September 20, 2011 by B*D*A
M2 Posted September 20, 2011 Posted September 20, 2011 Headlight flashing faces test as free speech in Florida Can we get PYB to come back on a limited basis to discuss this? Actually, in Texas it is perfectly legal to flash your lights to warn another motorist of the presence of traffic enforcement by the police... §38.15. INTERFERENCE WITH PUBLIC DUTIES. (a) A person commits an offense if the person with criminal negligence interrupts, disrupts, impedes, or otherwise interferes with: 1. a peace officer while the peace officer is performing a duty or exercising authority imposed or granted by law; … c. It is a defense to prosecution under Subsection (a)(1) that the conduct engaged in by the defendant was intended to warn a person operating a motor vehicle of the presence of a peace officer who was enforcing Subtitle C, Title 7, Transportation Code. (Source) God bless Texas!
Finance_Guy Posted September 21, 2011 Posted September 21, 2011 Wait...you got a number for Travis finance? And they were helpful. Please tell me how cause I've been trying for 3 years Go Travis. AMC Rocks. Well most of the time. You won't believe this question I got today. My first reaction was, WTF? My thoughts are: AMC aircrews are the most highly paid per diem travelers in the world so why would someone expect to be reimbursed for good samaritan act? Kind of negates the "Good Samaritan" principle. The question from the base: "A med evac patient (on med orders) is on the xxx being transported. The patient hasn't eaten (long flight) and the patient was hungry. The patient has no funds. The aircrew purchased (paid for by aircrew member) a meal and gave to the patient. How does the aircrew member get reimbursed?" Thoughts? Maybe we could run an article similar to this one: Local Good Samaritans help wounded warriors ; Maybe name it, Good Samaritan Helps Wounded Warriors, Requests Payment. BTW, our answer was no they cannot be reimbursed. Patient should have been on per diem along with the Aircrew. This is a personal transaction between the two and the aircrew member should ask the patient for reimbursement. Done ranting.
moosepileit Posted September 21, 2011 Posted September 21, 2011 FG, Reminds me of a story- Dragging Marine equipment to OEF just before Christmas. The escorts didn't realize it was a Reserve keeper msn, meaning we don't crew swap when running out of duty, we crew rest and keep the jet. It's not uber efficient, but if I have to miss a holiday, I would at least like to avoid extra bag drags! There were four custodians for the equipment on 2 jets, deploying for some god awful number of days. We got to crew rest after a long day and I found out the Gunny and his 3 PFCs have no $ or orders or plans for the lodging. I knew there was a barracks somewhere as it was a Navy base, but it was Christmas eve and a quick phone search was no joy. I put them up in a room each for $50 each for the night. Next day our msn slipped due to congestion at the destination. The Gunny and I found the barracks, which were near the rec center. Their deployment orders said nothing about lodging conditions and they had no idea they weren't in for back to back crew changes and quick turns all the way to OEF from the east coast. When we dropped them off, I told the Gunny they could pay me back IF they ever got lodging fixed on their orders, knowing that wouldn't happen. I'm sure it's some kind of writeoff, but knew there wasn't any way to get the $ back from uncle sugar w/ a barracks technically available. The base had a decent chow hall, turkey dinner and places for them to hang out. One of my favorite Christmas gifts I've ever given was knowing those grunts were taken care of before heading in country. Best gift received was the thanks from the Gunny. 3
Finance_Guy Posted September 21, 2011 Posted September 21, 2011 One of my favorite Christmas gifts I've ever given was knowing those grunts were taken care of before heading in country. Best gift received was the thanks from the Gunny. Good Story--There you go, that's what I'm talking about. There is still some love left out there.
GovernmentMan Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Today the base PA system played the National Anthem at 4:30. At 0430. Guess the weekend starts early this week.
ExBoneOSO Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 OK then - let's all be careful out there this weekend..I expect you all to brief this NOTAM if you're flying.. FDC 9/5774 FDC .. SPECIAL NOTICE .. EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. AIRCRAFT ARE ADVISED THAT A POTENTIAL HAZARD MAY OCCUR DUE TO REENTRY OF SATELLITE DEBRIS INTO THE EARTHS ATMOSPHERE. FURTHER NOTAMS WILL BE ISSUED IF MORE INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE. IN THE INTEREST OF FLIGHT SAFETY, IT IS CRITICAL THAT ALL PILOTS/FLIGHT CREW MEMBERS REPORT ANY OBSERVED FALLING SPACE DEBRIS TO THE APPROPRIATE ATC FACILITY TO INCLUDE POSITION, ALTITUDE, TIME, AND DIRECTION OF DEBRIS OBSERVED. FAA HEADQUARTERS, AIR TRAFFIC SYSTEMS OPERATIONS SECURITY
sky_king Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 There's a 1 in 21,000,000,000,000 chance that anyone of us specifically will be hit. Big money, no whammys.....
AEWingsMN Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 IT IS CRITICAL THAT ALL PILOTS/FLIGHT CREW MEMBERS REPORT ANY OBSERVED FALLING SPACE DEBRIS TO THE APPROPRIATE ATC FACILITY TO INCLUDE POSITION, ALTITUDE, TIME, AND DIRECTION OF DEBRIS OBSERVED. FAA HEADQUARTERS, AIR TRAFFIC SYSTEMS OPERATIONS SECURITY Unless the damn thing nearly hits you, if it's anything like a meteorite streaking across the sky, how the hell are you supposed to make that report? "Uhh... about 1469Z about however far the eye can see in front of me (my position was on the east coast facing west) there was a streak in the sky, i'd guess somewhere between 6,900-690,000 feet above me and uhh... must have been going left, but probably more of a down, my guess is it's probably hit the ground by now, but you should probably warn anyone west of the east coast...."
Masshole Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Scientists at CERN, the world’s largest physics lab, announced a startling finding yesterday that would be enough to make Albert Einstein roll over in his grave: Subatomic particles, called neutrinos, have been found to be traveling faster than the speed of light. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/neutrinos-may-have-traveled-faster-than-the-speed-of-light/2011/09/23/gIQAo04HqK_blog.html I am not sure why everyone is so concerned with special and general relativity. I guess that is just the media being stupid, but QED is going to take a hit if this is confirmed. The significant error puts it in a range that could have been sub-c, so I really would not get too excited about this. Though it is funny how people are crapping themselves over this, stating that we would have to throw out everything we thought we know about the universe. Physicists have been speculating about a subatomic particle that can travel than the speed of light for about fifty years now-the Tachyon. If the implications are true, we do not need to start from scratch as this sort of development has been built into various theories.
Jughead Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 https://www.washingto...04HqK_blog.html From the article: When CERN clocked the neutrino beam, it was traveling 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light. Scientists put the margin of error at just 10 nanoseconds, making the difference significant. Never mind Einstein, that's enough to make my high school physics teacher roll over in his grave. I assume they meant "the particles arrived 60 ns earlier than they would have at the speed of light"--but without knowing the overall distance/time involved, the number is meaningless (beyond the fact of it being >c). As our resident physics geek, Masshole, I expect you to clarify this.... Any idea of "how much" faster we're talking...?
Masshole Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Never mind Einstein, that's enough to make my high school physics teacher roll over in his grave. I assume they meant "the particles arrived 60 ns earlier than they would have at the speed of light"--but without knowing the overall distance/time involved, the number is meaningless (beyond the fact of it being >c). As our resident physics geek, Masshole, I expect you to clarify this.... Any idea of "how much" faster we're talking...? Yeah, ugh. I would ignore the media's wording. Stupid news travels faster than light neutrinos Tachyons. We are looking at neutrinos traveling ~ 7,435 m/s faster than light. 16,111 detected events over the last four years is not that great statistically speaking. I am only a second-year undergrad student, so please do not mistake me for an authority over CERN, but there are an assload of places where inaccuracies can build up in their system- too many timing points with tolerances- so this is most likely an error. Look at SN1987A. Why, if neutrinos travel faster than light, did the neutrinos from the supernova arrive on the same day as the light? Not four years earlier like they should have according to CERN's detected speed?
nsplayr Posted September 24, 2011 Posted September 24, 2011 Physicists have been speculating about a subatomic particle that can travel than the speed of light for about fifty years now-the Tachyon. All I know about Tachyon beams are they are used in Star Trek...
Jughead Posted September 24, 2011 Posted September 24, 2011 We are looking at neutrinos traveling ~ 7,435 m/s faster than light. So, on the order of .002%...? Yeah, I'm sure there's no calibration, tolerance, or flat-out errors that could account for that.... OK, I get it that, if this proves to be true, it's got huge implications for any number of heretofore unassailable "facts" that drive theoretical physics (and thus just about all physical sciences)--but, two thousandths of a percent faster? Not impressed. Let me know when I can pop over to Alpha Centauri for a local beer....
Masshole Posted September 24, 2011 Posted September 24, 2011 (edited) So, on the order of .002%...? Yeah, I'm sure there's no calibration, tolerance, or flat-out errors that could account for that.... OK, I get it that, if this proves to be true, it's got huge implications for any number of heretofore unassailable "facts" that drive theoretical physics (and thus just about all physical sciences)--but, two thousandths of a percent faster? Not impressed. Let me know when I can pop over to Alpha Centauri for a local beer.... The magnitude of effect is way too high. The brains at CERN are brilliant, but this has to be an unaccounted for systemic error, some sort of large extra dimension that increases the strength of a quantum gravity-induced violation of Lorentz transformations, or something no one could ever see coming. I am 99.69% sure it is systemic error. You do not have to worry about shmeplicating with some temptress with Bud Light from Alpha Centauri any time soon. Edited September 24, 2011 by Masshole
Butters Posted September 24, 2011 Posted September 24, 2011 So, on the order of .002%...? Yeah, I'm sure there's no calibration, tolerance, or flat-out errors that could account for that.... OK, I get it that, if this proves to be true, it's got huge implications for any number of heretofore unassailable "facts" that drive theoretical physics (and thus just about all physical sciences)--but, two thousandths of a percent faster? Not impressed. Let me know when I can pop over to Alpha Centauri for a local beer.... I know a good resturant at the end of the universe! 2
matmacwc Posted September 24, 2011 Posted September 24, 2011 (edited) I know a good resturant at the end of the universe! Visited Del Rio? Edited September 24, 2011 by matmacwc 1
Palangi Posted September 24, 2011 Posted September 24, 2011 Visited Del Rio? I didn't think there were any left on this side of the border...
AEWingsMN Posted September 24, 2011 Posted September 24, 2011 I just heard from someone that they have a 10 month wait from Commissioning to EAD and that they got off easy because the going rate is 12-18 months right now for non-rated guys. I thought my 6 was pretty extreme. Can anyone shed light on this? If this is true, it really is a WTF? The way it works you'd only wear butter bars for 15 months (if you were 18 months of just sitting).
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