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Hadn't seen this posted anywhere yet. Apologies if it has. http://www.dm.af.mil/library/themakingofana-10cpilot.asp

Pilots in the Air Force are required a bachelors degree, engineering isn't required. A lot of them have degrees not related to engineering at all. Officers don't go through BMT, they either go through OTS, the Academy, or ROTC. All three have a BMT-like component, and yep, it sucks. I was at BMT while ROTC was doing their summer stuff and they took a lot of ridiculous crap on top of everything we did. Air Force Basic SERE Course is in Washington state, the basic SERE course covers all the components, and pilots are required to go through continuing training throughout their careers to reinforce the lessons in the basic course. It is true that following the evasion exercise, anyone that wasn't caught already will be shipped to the resistance training site. Wouldn't really be a SERE course without it! As an aside, the code of conduct still states that you will make every attempt to escape, but escape is a violation of the LOAC, and, by extension, a violation of the UCMJ. Neat little catch-22 not even JAG could answer for me. Additionally most situations prisoners find themselves in preclude meaningful escape attempts, so your insinuation that we no longer train for escape is rather insulting. Air Force pilots are required to go through the centerfuge as well, not sure the G load for A-10 pilots, or if it's even different from the rest of TacAir. To the original topic... I haven't had an opportunity to touch base with the 104th FS here in MD... should do that. But I do remember a few years ago we were doing some training at the F-16 simulator the 555th FS has. After a few hundred hours with Falcon 4, I didn't have a problem starting it up, and I more or less figured out how to get things done. Correlation? Nearly none, as anyone that's taken an I-Ride in a 16 can tell you, you're so far behind the jet your first flight it isn't even funny. Even pilots at the RTU will tell you that. I think I could get it started, taxi, takeoff... get out over the Chessie, or Atlantic here, and pull the Oh-SH*T handles. With enough time, I could probably figure out enough to arrive back on earth in one piece (won't exactly classify it as a landing!), but I doubt I'd get the time before the DC Air Guard came in their jets to say hello.

Watched your track. INS wasn't fully aligned. There are 2 things to look for to ensure full alignment is complete. These things are 1) INS NAV RDY will flash... FLASH... when ready and 2) the INS T = 4.0 0.8 . BOTH of these need to be "true" (IOW, both need to be showing on the MFD). You can have T = 4.0 0.8 for a second or two before the INS NAV RDY will start blinking. Only then should you switch the INS to NAV and arm your EAC. (I actually wait until then to arm the SAS and then EAC). Give it a shot. Hope this helps.

Haha, yeah it would appear to be! I figured that something like this was out there, but I never found it. Thx!

I'm making an xml file for windows speech macros to make a simple vocal interface with the radio communication menus. If anyone has some input as to phraseology to include in the command files, I'd appreciate it! For example, to send your wingman back to base, you could say, "2, return to base" or "2, RTB" or "2, go home" or "2, see ya". All of these commands would trigger WSRM to send the keystrokes F1, pause, F2 to the DCS program. You'll note that there is not command to pull up the comm menu, well, I have a HOTAS Warthog, so I'm planning to just hit the radio button appropriate to the radio needed, AM/FM/UHF, before sending the comm. Just starting this out, so it'll be a while before it's ready for any sort of sharing, but I'd appreciate the help!

1) After playing the scenario a couple times, I just had my hand on the throttle and started chasing the humvee as soon as he took off. But you're right, a little direction could have helped! 2) I didn't hear anything either, maybe if I had tuned the radio, but like you I didn't. Either way, this didn't have an effect on the outcome of the mission so, IMO, eh. 3) Did you notice that the humvee stops rather abruptly soon after he says this? Probably trying to catch people not paying attention to where they're going! 4) Once again (as in 2) I heard this, but didn't move and it didn't affect the outcome of the mission at all. There's a rather pregnant pause while the "IP" checks your settings, so just be patient and he'll let you know if you're good to go or not!