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05-01-2011, 08:20 PM
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Hey buzz check these two statements out, sounds like you may one day meet the soldier who did it:
Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members, senior U.S. official tells CNN.
CBS: Osama was “shot in the head.”
Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members, senior U.S. official tells CNN.
CBS: Osama was “shot in the head.”
On a more serious note, rumor says SEAL team. Can we put those guys in Congress next?
05-01-2011, 08:22 PM
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So I was taking off the other day in a mighty 88, I hit 400' and rolled into a bank but it took 2-3 seconds before the airplane responded. So out of curiosity, what's the delay for you guys controlling a UAV over Pakistan from Vegas (?) and is it quicker than the time it takes a 88 to respond to an input made from inside the plane when at high pitch? 
05-01-2011, 08:56 PM
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05-01-2011, 10:04 PM
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Ahhh NewK, Did someone show you the "big picture?" I need a look at that!! I'm not worried...........yet!
I'll believe it when I see it, like the fabled 100-120 seater!! A lot of talk and no action.Denny
05-01-2011, 10:23 PM
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It keeps happening.
The BIG picture looks like this.....
05-02-2011, 04:04 AM
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As to your other statement, Did you mean to say "On Congress" ala Vince Flynn's "Term Limits"?
05-02-2011, 04:47 AM
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In the words of that piece of garbage after 9-11...."We were Rejoiced"
God Bless America!
05-02-2011, 05:10 AM
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1) A pilot wants to drop a trip but cannot because of capped reserve days.
2) Pilot puts the trip on the swap board, where it sits..
3) Pilot from another base swoops in and picks up the trip
Repercussions of this exchange:
Because the trip was covered by a different base, it would not go down on the liability side of that bases' ledger to use an accounting motif. When the numbers are crunched, they will see that fewer reserve pilots are required since the trips are being covered. IOW, all that has been done in effect is to shift that flying to another base. I am sure that we are only talking about a little amount of time, but what boils my shrimp is that this proposal does nothing to alleviate the reserve manning issue. WE.. the pilots... help out the issue by allowing trips to be covered by other bases, and skeds has not to get it's hands dirty in the process. If this is to be allowed, we need to bring back true yellow slips without all the days of availability garbage and let a reserve pilot pick up a trip that is either in open time or on the swap board.. within his base.... first.. before any cherry pickers from outside. Then, I might be interested. Until then, the out of base WS/GS process is working fine. This issue here is the reserve system. This does nada to fix it and is little more than diversion from that.
05-02-2011, 05:12 AM
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So I was taking off the other day in a mighty 88, I hit 400' and rolled into a bank but it took 2-3 seconds before the airplane responded. So out of curiosity, what's the delay for you guys controlling a UAV over Pakistan from Vegas (?) and is it quicker than the time it takes a 88 to respond to an input made from inside the plane when at high pitch?
The majority of time delay comes from the control station talking satellite speak, the satellite talking to the airplane, and then the airplane having to decipher the satellite speak and turn it into mechanical control input.
Less than your 3 second delay control input to control effect in the 88 at high pitch attitudes though.
GJ
05-02-2011, 06:09 AM
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OK... assuming that the manning formula is not a static document:
1) A pilot wants to drop a trip but cannot because of capped reserve days.
2) Pilot puts the trip on the swap board, where it sits..
3) Pilot from another base swoops in and picks up the trip
Repercussions of this exchange:
Because the trip was covered by a different base, it would not go down on the liability side of that bases' ledger to use an accounting motif. When the numbers are crunched, they will see that fewer reserve pilots are required since the trips are being covered. IOW, all that has been done in effect is to shift that flying to another base. I am sure that we are only talking about a little amount of time, but what boils my shrimp is that this proposal does nothing to alleviate the reserve manning issue. WE.. the pilots... help out the issue by allowing trips to be covered by other bases, and skeds has not to get it's hands dirty in the process. If this is to be allowed, we need to bring back true yellow slips without all the days of availability garbage and let a reserve pilot pick up a trip that is either in open time or on the swap board.. within his base.... first.. before any cherry pickers from outside. Then, I might be interested. Until then, the out of base WS/GS process is working fine. This issue here is the reserve system. This does nada to fix it and is little more than diversion from that.
1) A pilot wants to drop a trip but cannot because of capped reserve days.
2) Pilot puts the trip on the swap board, where it sits..
3) Pilot from another base swoops in and picks up the trip
Repercussions of this exchange:
Because the trip was covered by a different base, it would not go down on the liability side of that bases' ledger to use an accounting motif. When the numbers are crunched, they will see that fewer reserve pilots are required since the trips are being covered. IOW, all that has been done in effect is to shift that flying to another base. I am sure that we are only talking about a little amount of time, but what boils my shrimp is that this proposal does nothing to alleviate the reserve manning issue. WE.. the pilots... help out the issue by allowing trips to be covered by other bases, and skeds has not to get it's hands dirty in the process. If this is to be allowed, we need to bring back true yellow slips without all the days of availability garbage and let a reserve pilot pick up a trip that is either in open time or on the swap board.. within his base.... first.. before any cherry pickers from outside. Then, I might be interested. Until then, the out of base WS/GS process is working fine. This issue here is the reserve system. This does nada to fix it and is little more than diversion from that.
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