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If you think these guys and the people working 80 hours/ wk “for free” won’t be protecting THEIR sacred cows from being sacrificed, well, that’s cute.

And apparently his first post - since joining in 2021

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I’m not sure if your story is about what DOGE could cut - or how DOGE itself will play out. I think there’s good odds for the latter, including people not wanting to put their time on DOGE on their resume. Kinda like some high-profile election stuff 8 years ago that suddenly went silent.

That’s been my go-to setup in my Warrior for over 10 years and I love it (except mine is the Samsung 8” Tab A from Costco - typically goes on sale for around $130 every so often). Just don’t forget Avare won’t get ADS-B support from the GDL50. My FreeFlight RANGR provides it for me. Without...

That’s interesting - which one? I’ve had three over the past 10 or more years and sunlight readability was always a strong suit. I had an old Tab 7 and now have two 8” Tab A’s. By contrast (and a great comparison for me), my cheapie ONN one from Walmart is a decent tab but not nearly as good as...

Logging into 1800wxbrief.com also generates a “paper trail”. I personally find that faster and more convenient but YMMV

From what I saw at Indy, I think you’re exactly right. I don’t think they saw their weather person as a direct asset for pilots as much as for their operations.

You’re skeptical of the Department of Redundancy Department? :cool:

Remember, these are Center-level people. I got a chance to visit Indy Center last year and met one of these guys. I don’t recall all the details but he did far more than look at NEXRAD screens, as I recall. He helped a lot with forecasting flow through their region, including looking at stuff...

Add: here’s why I left the role there within a short period. This guy was bad juju. He took a lot of people down with him, too - some very talented, some just toadys. https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2016/09/24/the-story-behind-jack-sticks-rise-to-power/10157906007/

I’d probably lock the thread with comments about Operation Lone Star and its real motives….

It’s blanket statements like these that I personally consider “political” since they seem to be promoting a particular agenda - but YMMV. So…military, police, fire fighters, FAA controllers - all “brilliant government employees” (and none working for stock shares or 7-figure salaries) are all...

Although burning the house down would be a foolish way to do either, at least in both cases there was an objective to the burning that related to improving the house. But if there isn’t even a concept of a plan about what it should look like at the end, then it’s just vandalism. It definitely...

I agree but the devil’s in the details. On the one hand, when the skipper of a Navy ship gets “fired” for some misadventure, they rarely get kicked out of the Navy and almost as rarely get demoted: they get moved to a different job with the same rank and pay* most of the time and typically with...

Can you back that up, especially the “…does nothing constructive”? And is it worse than in private industry? Kinda sounds like a trope but I’m open to some unbiased evidence for it.

Im not necessarily disagreeing but we could replace “FAA” with a number of other things with the same basic statement (National Parks, farm subsidies, student aid, FDA oversight of food and drug safety, etc.). There’s a tendency to say “if it doesn’t benefit me personally then it’s government...

So hang on… A requirement for Basic Med is to have had a previous 1/2/3, if I’m not mistaken. If they get rid of 3, seems like that would mean one would need a 1 or 2 before moving to Basic Med. Granted, a 2 is basically a 3 with a shorter lifespan but is that what you’re meaning to say you...

I think that’s spot-on and you cite the very example that immediately came to mind.

By and large, yeah. But last spring I was trying to leave from KPRX, I think, and the A/FD said to contact FSS for clearance and if they were closed to contact Ft Worth Center. Trying to play by the rules, I tried just that. During the “telephone game” where they “put me on hold” on the radio...