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This all makes sense and is true most other places I've been based, but I believe the AF OPS policy at NUW is to rig the short field gear on the active anytime the winds exceed 12 knots or something weird. There is literally no F/A-18 or EA-18 procedure involving winds/crosswind that involves...

Confused about why there is a hard on here for this guy getting the business. He blow a 0.0, demonstrably not under the influence in any way. Do we really need to make this guy's life harder than it needs to be just to somehow robotically demonstrate some obtuse obsession with teetotalling? Guy...

Sounds like fun! Though I would have said I imagine it is flown largely like a Cessna if you'd asked. I'm sure it can pull a lot of G (unlike a Cessna) however

If you plan to continue flying, I'll be honest, the winds will never give up and they don't care. Not saying this precise moment is the time, but at some point, most of us had to just get over the environmental conditions not being ideal always. Which is all to say that getting out there and...

The Lord's Chariot, right there. My first love (see username) :)

I am, though not at -140. My last active duty deployment had the Patriots as our airwing VAQ squadron though

If you are considering part 121 jobs (i.e. "airlines), the typical annual pay estimate is to multiply the hourly pay by 1000. So for example, if 3rd year FO pay is $200/hr, a rough approximation (including things we would call "soft pay", like per diem, pay overrides, plus the likelihood of...

My shop seems to care mostly about TMPIC. It's about the only thing they ask for on the app, other than I *think* TT. Circling back to the B-52 story, those heavy/multi-piloted airframes aren't really good for making TMPIC hours in a career of a junior fella just getting off active duty at...

100,000,000% don't enter an aviation career with $100K+ in debt/loans if you can avoid it in any way. That's a really deep hole to dig yourself out of, though of course the regionals pay a lot better than they used to. But I think the advice is still solid. The "get a STEM degree/something you...

Livingston has a big drop off the end of one of the runways right? We used to stop there for the night when I was a kid, flying OR to IA in the summer. If anyone remembers that place in the 1990's, they had the most amazing FBO courtesy car. I can still remember the red velour seats and copious...

Whoa damn. I can't remember now......capsule (a la F-111) was just B-1A right, with B-1B being conventional individual seats? Save a fuel starvation event (or I guess ice+loss of control), this must have been a pretty badly crippled plane. Either way, glad to hear they made it out safely

Sounds like one small thing that our personnel bureau (BUPERS) does right, is not sending our garbage back to the training command. You won't see pipe hitters being sent to primary VTs from my community (er, I guess, communities now), but a lot of good folks get sent to T-45's at least. Most of...

I think what you and @hindsight2020 say is mostly applicable to the USN as well. I will say that the Super Hornet and Growler communities have career paths, where if you stay "on track" (on active duty), you will likely stay in the airplane for the first 14-16 years of your career. First sea/JO...

FWIW, the don't accept no part applies to applying for a commissioning program. After that, you'll be committed to the "needs of the service" (whatever that service may be). Things you can control right now: 1) doing well in college. The rest of the stuff is pretty far down the road. In maybe...

Hah no not me, but I can probably find the guy :)

USN Super Hornets don't have civilian ILS either. I never "got it", but I have flown one expeditionary Growler that had the civvie box installed (I never figured out how to operate it). All exped Growler squadrons have civilian ILS though, to set the record straight. For USN/USMC Hornet and...

Yes, to shellback

FWIW, or FYSA, unless it has changed, I recall the NKX SWOLF departure (for flights going west to the W291/NAOPA) being at 2000'. Crosses over UTC/torrey pines area westbound/southwest-bound from Miramar, depending on transition. I think we were normally starting a climb from that altitude by...

Other than being granted access to fly in the airspace (i.e. "Area 51" or "the box" or "the container" or R-4808N or the giant red box on the moving map) for whatever reason, even as a mil aviator, the general guidance was "if both engines are on fire, you won't go there". Whether or not that is...

Interesting actually looking at the photo you cued up. What is the history of the field? Those look like alert trees, in a NORAD/SAC/ADC sense. Buddy of mine from the Navy has a dad who was the chief test pilot for 737, who has lots of cool stories about flying there. He retired just prior to...