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Yes he Should

PAUL HAS BEEN \"DICEMAN TRAINED\"

Why are they even sending you to training? Get your ASS on the Line, Show them How its done,
Where's the rest of you Yankee's , ?? Time to invade the South again and Show them \"What Made You Guys Great\".

Pilot Shows-up, Salute, Hand him the Forms show him 5 pins, stow pins, Stow Pilots Gear Take-off Ear covers on Seat.

Strap in pilot, stow ejection seat pins, throttle cover, buckle him or Her in Right first, Left, waist tight, CB's in , climb down.

Hook up, test connection, Pilot good connection
Ready to Start APU, Battery on, Inverter on , APU switch on,
APU Loading up ready for light, lite-off, waiting for power to come on line. APU UN-Loads, Flight controls Clear

Clear

Start 1, 1 Clear, APU Loading ,Fan starting to turn awaiting start, START, check clean start no flame, over temp, APU un loads, no leaks \"Flt Controls Are Clear\", Pilot Cycles Controls.

Same for #2

Hydraulic Gauges Good , close up Hell Hole

Engines Good, good back to the rear of Aircraft #2 Aft side., Flaps, down 7, Down full , Up Full, return to 7 Good. Speed Brakes, Clear Open , Cycle, Close, Good

Flight Controls Clear,Alierons Left, Right, Elevators Up ,Down , Rudder Left ,Right, SAS, Kicking Right, Kicking Left Good,

Rt Brake Pumping Hold , Good, Lt Brake Pumping Good,
Slats, Good(Flicking the tab)

Pioit Tube Heat Check, go over Jump up and do the love tap , Good. Check Nose Brake Accumilators 3000lbs in Nose Wheel Well.

Check IFR Door and Lights if IFRing, and night flying check all lights , Strobes, Anti-Collison, running lites Strips (Never saw Strip lites until a T/A A-10 at Travis AFB I worked on.)

While Pilot is Doing his thing re-check everything ,for leaks, close-up W-79, Ground wires removed and stowed away.

Pilot Oks Disconnect tell Him \"Have a Safe Flight and DON'T BREAK IT\",

Break Comm, Close Door, Stow Ladder, Close Ladder Door.
Kick out # 2 Chocks, take place in front at the 10:00 Postion awaiting pilots Signal, Pilots Signals \"Chocks Out\"

Go to #1 Brake Kick out Chocks pull off to side take place again out to the 10:00 Postion Hands X over Head , pIlot Motion ready to Go, You check both ways , Clear , Signal Engine Run Up, Start Marshalling Jet Out, and away he Goes.

How Damn Hard is it??? The pilot has to go thru his check list too, Man its been since Feb 27th 91 I launch an A-10 then jumped in the truck off to the Terminal going home.

How did I do? If I had a A-10 it would of been easier.

Goose

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Thanks 30mm, Zero made it for my website and it works well for an aviator also.

Right on Goose!

should just be an FTD, if they want to send me to tech school again that would be overkill....especially since I've never stopped working acft...

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Geez, goose, even I could do that!

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\"Those who hammer their guns into plows
will plow for those who do not.\"
- Thomas Jefferson

Not trying to defend what appears to be a lack of experience in that unit.....but..... They are standing up a completely new AF Res A-10 unit. The growing pains would have to be HUGE! I spent 11 years in a AFRC F-16 unit (which recently went TFI) and I would have put up our troups and jets against anything the AD had to offer. When they said \"the group to launch and recover its first A-10 autonomously August\", I suspect they are talking about total sortie generation without the AD help. Big undertaking hiring ARTS (I was one for 7 years)and traditional reservists and trying to make them a cohesive combat unit. Everyone expects them to hit the ground running and be ready in days. Sorry, but when you only get 2 days a month to train a traditional reservist, the simplest things like launch and recover can take an inordinately long time. Thats why former active duty guys are so sought after on the flight line. The 2 week annual tour is when a reservist gets to really get some sort of flightline routine down. They hardly ever get to do heavy maintenance, the ARTS typically do that.
Just my 2 cents.

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Gravity's not just a good idea.......its the LAW!

See this is the thing I don't understand about the \"New AF\",
If your AD you goto school for \"Almost a Year\" seems like to learn to Launch, Recover, Preflight,BPO, Refuel, etc... basically trained and then drop you into your next base Trained.

The RES, like you said get \"30 days a year and a UTA once a month\" unless they changed that.

So I just never got that, you think if you Joined the AFRES, Go to Basic, Tech School and then to \"FAM\" Training at DM\" for the A-10 like the AD folks before releasing them from Active Duty to their AFRES Unit?

Or is that Wrong I'm confused?

Goose

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\"Live Free Or Die\"

new recruits in the Reserves and Air Guard go through tech schools initially...the 30 days a year is after training is complete...tech schools also don't count towards your two weeks a year...

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I caught a \"LOAD OF S---!\" for cutting them back without making them take time (Hours) away from them I would just say \"Whale and Mario\" you can go home.

I did that for about 3 months until one of the AFRTS, didn't get a cut back when he wanted it, I told him \"Hey your Jet is broke and you need to fix it\"
He said \"Get someone else to do it, I'm leaving for Shasta early in the morning\"

I said \"Well you want to take vacation time or sick time\"? \"Then you can leave but I'm not giving you a cut back and screwing someone else\".

So he Bitched and Bitched and the word got out and I got called on the Carpet.

So no more ARTS got cut backs, I just told them \"When your done turn the Cockpit lights out ,turn on the running lites and sleep or whatever, I'll get your Status and pick you up before the \"Brass\" show up or if I need you I call you on your Radio.\"

That Guy didn't have alot friends for along time.

Goose

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\"Live Free Or Die\"