yakfishr19 Posted June 30, 2014 Posted June 30, 2014 Anybody have any insight on the follow on ALSE course? Quote
Joe_P148 Posted June 30, 2014 Posted June 30, 2014 Eh, It's a shitty additional duty, other than that it's just another course. You may show up to a unit that already has plenty of alse people. Quote
Lindsey Posted June 30, 2014 Posted June 30, 2014 Eh, It's a shitty additional duty, other than that it's just another course. You may show up to a unit that already has plenty of alse people.Why is it so bad? Quote
zVo Posted June 30, 2014 Posted June 30, 2014 Why is it so bad? "Hey, my ALSE gear is due for inspection today -- please do all the inspections and paperwork immediately because I have a flight in 2 hours and I can't fly with expired gear." I'm not an ALSE officer, but it's something I observe on a regular basis. Quote
SBuzzkill Posted June 30, 2014 Posted June 30, 2014 (edited) There are a lot of worse additional duties. If you're doing it at the squadron level then yeah it kind of sucks. The course itself is pretty cake. Edited June 30, 2014 by SBuzzkill Quote
apacheguy Posted July 1, 2014 Posted July 1, 2014 "Hey, my ALSE gear is due for inspection today -- please do all the inspections and paperwork immediately because I have a flight in 2 hours and I can't fly with expired gear." I'm not an ALSE officer, but it's something I observe on a regular basis. Hey if your ALSE office was ever open then we wouldn't have to wait until the last minute.... OR....you could maintain a spreadsheet tracking when your aviators' gear is due for inspection and proactively find them and head off the whole problem. 1 Quote
Joe_P148 Posted July 2, 2014 Posted July 2, 2014 Hey if your ALSE office was ever open then we wouldn't have to wait until the last minute.... OR....you could maintain a spreadsheet tracking when your aviators' gear is due for inspection and proactively find them and head off the whole problem.Your post just reinforces why no one would ever want to be a ALSE officer. Quote
apacheguy Posted July 2, 2014 Posted July 2, 2014 I've seen ALSE done well and I've seen it done poorly. Being proactive and disciplined can help the unit and help a career, were I a young WOJG I'd volunteer for ALSE. Then I'd be in the commander's office weekly to ask if there was anything he needed from the ALSE office. 1 Quote
Creep0321 Posted July 2, 2014 Posted July 2, 2014 I have a general feel for acronyms, but ALSE is not one, any help? Quote
Airman_gone_soldier Posted July 2, 2014 Posted July 2, 2014 ALSE- Aviation life support equipment Quote
CharyouTree Posted July 2, 2014 Posted July 2, 2014 Hey if your ALSE office was ever open then we wouldn't have to wait until the last minute.... OR....you could maintain a spreadsheet tracking when your aviators' gear is due for inspection and proactively find them and head off the whole problem. Do we expect the IPs to come to us and tell us it's time for our APART, or ACT-E too? TACOPS to come tell us to do our CBAT and ROC-V? Someone to tell you that you're about to bust your NVG currency? I could go on, but at what point do we expect a professional aviator to take a personal responsibility for their requirements? 3 Quote
skyreaper Posted July 2, 2014 Posted July 2, 2014 Do we expect the IPs to come to us and tell us it's time for our APART, or ACT-E too? TACOPS to come tell us to do our CBAT and ROC-V? Someone to tell you that you're about to bust your NVG currency? I could go on, but at what point do we expect a professional aviator to take a personal responsibility for their requirements?Being a pilot=personal responsibility. Quote
Creep0321 Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 Being an adult should = personal responsibility. Ha, but unfortunately that is not the case. Quote
apacheguy Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 Do we expect the IPs to come to us and tell us it's time for our APART, or ACT-E too? TACOPS to come tell us to do our CBAT and ROC-V? Someone to tell you that you're about to bust your NVG currency? I could go on, but at what point do we expect a professional aviator to take a personal responsibility for their requirements? You're 1000% correct. ALSE officers should post their hours of availability and stick to them. If your commander has to chase you down to get his gear inspected it will create drama. OR you could maintain a tracker and do inspections before they become problems. I've seen it done both ways. Quote
Joe_P148 Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 Being a pilot=personal responsibility.You'd be suprised dude... Quote
skyreaper Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 You'd be suprised dude... I know what you mean, probably so. Being a pilot 'should' = personal responsibility (I use that term loosely), or you're likely looking at a short career, at best. After almost a yr. of this plane sitting in a hanger in ND, guy flies to TX to have plane painted, reports equipment/engine malfunctions prior to arrival. He couldn't tune to the new tower freq. due to his sh*t radios. After his plane is ready, decides to depart early morning in IMC to avoid delta airspace. He made it to about 1000' before loosing an engine, freaking out, banking into the dead engine, rolling inverted, and sticking it nose first. The plane looked good for about a day after getting painted though, I found a nice professionally done charred picture of it from the paint shop in the wreckage, which was weird. Obviously, this person (you can see him under the white sheet, top right) does not fit my definition of PR. Quote
d10 Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 At least that guy made an effort to get the job done, even if he went about it the wrong way. If he was the typical irresponsible Army pilot that plane never would have made the trip to get painted in the first place. 1 Quote
StockTrader Posted July 31, 2015 Posted July 31, 2015 Because the search function is cool. Very short notice looks like I will be starting this course on Monday. Will offer insights as they arise. 1 Quote
stearmann4 Posted August 1, 2015 Posted August 1, 2015 My strongest WOOD guidance to he WOs; take every, single course of instruction offered you, even seek some out, even if it's not a field or track that interests you. Somewhere down the line in your career it will benefit you. I received that same advice some 26 years a go, and it's helped me out far beyond the amount of effort it took to choke the courses down. Mike- 3 Quote
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