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Yeah, you wouldn’t forget unless you were really young.

Haha fair enough. He asks because many of us are well into our 40’s now and are senior managers or (in the industry of this forum) mid level Captains at major airlines now, so “he” always wonders if “millennial” is more of a euphamism for something else that was generationally accurate 15-20...

Sounds like an awesome ole guy, and I agree with your sentiments. However, what age range would you place a "millennial" at right now? Asking for a friend

A+ as well. Get eaten alive. Most noticeably if I've had a beer or two at the right time of night outside. I'm also probably mildly allergic, as they turn into unsightly welts for the first 24-48 hrs. Oh well. And I eat a ton of spicy food, doesn't seem to matter to them.

I'll defer to your experience with that, but I've never had such an experience at my shop. Short callout when I was reserve, of course, but I'd still have 2 hours to contemplate the trip contractually (or I guess 2:30 on the new contract from a couple years ago). I imagine that if there were a...

Well if that was the case, this would seem to be a pretty dumb mix up. Almost too dumb to believe, and by that, I mean I question the veracity of the story. They mean to tell us that these guys took off to a destination that they would have been illegal for, and just happened to pop open the...

This would be my guess too. Some of you all are going down a really deep rabbit hole just because it is a "special airport". This could happen anywhere with a high mins CA. Also misleading calling it "Alaska Airlines", but I digress.

Come on in, the water is warm :)

Bingo. And I'm sure that all of us have seen enough of our peers or squadron mattes put it all on the line for years, neglecting everything else, taking the "hard jobs", just to be told in some FITREP debrief Thank You For Your Service, but USS BOAT Needs an Air Boss, have fun with 3 years of...

Yeah I mean I think they generally call those "General" or "Admiral" :) Most of us have neither the desire, nor the luck interest in ruining our family lives by being beholden to a job 24/7 for that many decades, required.

I don't think the first part is true. On deployment the "target wire" definitely needed to be changed out in a shorter amount of time, because people were that much more accurate. I don't think the old retired guys understand what it is, much less how it works (and I have yet to see a fighter...

Not exactly. The "Hornet 1" was a procedure rather than an actual approach or mode (essentially an emergency procedure.....in a few thousand hours, I've never had to rely on it as my only source of a letdown). You just used the A/G mode of the radar to map the end of the runway, designated it...

I'd wonder if that was just a "failure to log it" type of scenario. Until I became a reservist, I didn't ever log sims other than the mandatory logging of my annual NATOPS and instrument check rides as 1.0's in whatever box they happened in. Now I do because they count as up to 50% of our annual...

Almost all of this was true for the F/A-18 fleet until just a few years ago (2017 is when we got LNAV IIRC, though no vertical guidance and no AP approach functionality), save the RMI part. Boat only ICLS and ACLS. No coupling up the autopilot other than for a boat mode III (which I never...

There is a reason that the B-2 community maintains the T-38 as their currency horse. In the context of an instrument approach to mins, like many have said, it is that scan, or breakdown thereof that is important. I can not fly a 737 for a couple months, but the navy flying I've been doing in the...

100% agree. To use a term from my generation's lexicon, this sortie was a dumpster fire from start to finish, which resulted in a half billion dollar smoking hole in the ground that could have easily been avoided. And the bolded part is why you are "geezer" :) My mom loves to tell the story...

My point was that if this guy is his current boss, who began service right after LeMay's retirement (1965), he is 80+ yrs old now. And that is assuming the guy was only a boot Lt at that point. So yes, I might have been a decade or two off, but not a lot of us have bosses that are so old :) My...

It has been about 100 years since LeMay was a household name. Are you in your 90s? :)

Still apples and oranges comparison. But you don't know if you don't know

Those skeds officers are very willing and able to schedule your dumb 51 yr old 10 yr Lt Col ass into a 2x BFM day. Careful what you wish for. Good for him, but that sounds f ing painful. Hindsight is right, the reserves are awesome compared to AD. Only in that land can you be an O-5 and the JO's...