Originally Posted by
Sputnik
If you're referencing something I wrote, let me just clarify that is not what I meant. Somewhere several pages back in response to someone writing in essence that FAIPs all suck, I pointed out that in my time in UPT the absolute worst IPs were MWS guys. I did NOT mean that all or even a significant portion of MWS guys were bad instructors, merely that if you looked at the worst instructors in the squadron, they were all guys their MWS's had never upgraded but instead flushed to white jets.
Consider it clarified. I know my squadron and others did do this. We were left with no other choices -- an FEB would have been the other alternative. Coincidentally with this discussion, it was a FAIP that we had to "return to sender". He just couldn't deal with the ever changing nature of the business.
It would seem we agree with most things, we just have different backgrounds. As for going to altus I was in the same boat. I truly considered going there for the family life, but couldn't bring myself to go back to oklahoma. 1 yr at Vance AFB was enough for me. My wife also understands now why I wouldn't want to go. A long time ago she thought it would be great because the majority of her family is in Dallas. But realized a few years later that that would be a bit too close.
Have fun flying out there and fly safe. I'm sure we'll all be at ETAR or ETAD in bravo backup in the near future.