Recent content by romanhikou

The leaders usually are the guys who have been there and done that. But there is a phenomenon called "staff bloat" between them and the fight that separates them from real-time decision making. Legions of mid-level functional area staff filter and determine what information commanders actually...

Kudos to him. I'm sure that will make a great strat to put on an OPR. How does it answer the original question again? None of this has anything to do with flying fighters. Test pilot school doesn't, distinguished grad from SOS, IDE, SDE, or whatever doesn't, and name dropping schools doesn't...

What does that even mean? This is the point, GlennAB. Guys like your buddy are not rare among USAF pilots, and in some communities they are the majority. I'm a fighter pilot with multiple master's degrees and a graduate fellowship, and I'm not a rarity. Those degrees mean nothing when it...

There are talented people everywhere. That doesn't mean someone who went to tanker weapons school or got some nice college offers knows the first thing about air-to-air combat, which is the topic of this thread. I wouldn't comment on a thread about dealing with receivers, or whatever tanker...

Not saying it makes up for experience in the jet...of course it doesn't. I am saying that anytime you simulate something you introduce artificialities. That applies to tactical training in the jet as well as in the sim. There are serious limitations on the accuracy of combat simulation in the...

Actually BVR training in the Eagle is better in the sim than in the jet. No red air kill removal nonsense; if a dude explodes, he's dead. No fumbling around in a shot val trying to remember if it was supposed to be a PK miss...if the dude is still there when you turn hot, PK miss. Of course BFM...