@stephenforce.bsky.social
Pilot, IP, check airman, lawyer, CAP Lt Col, author (The Pilot's Legal Guide) audiobook narrator (The Eudaemonic Pie) and producer of Airspeed aviation/aerospace podcast. Views are mine.
Just announced by the Civil Air Patrol (U.S. Air Force Aux) Legal Officer Corps.
Lt Col Stephen Tupper
Deputy Chief of the Legal Officer Corps for Planning & Ops
As JAO, Lt Col Tupper takes on a pivotal leadership position, serving as the functional chief of staff for the Legal Officer Corps.
Indoc and checkout for FOD today in the mighty TG-14.
28.09.2025 23:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0DL 2117 KDTW KAYLN3 SMUUV OBK J100 DBQ CAPPR JORDY BFF CKW CARTR1 KSLC #HaveTheFish
13.09.2025 00:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0IP as aerodynamic device. If you think that you're flying well and don't feel me on the controls, that doesn't mean that I'm not helping.
22.08.2025 17:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In the IP seat for a checkout flight yesterday.
22.08.2025 16:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0On the break at KDET after fighting through the MVFR getting around the Chicago Bravo.
28.07.2025 16:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fought my way KDET-KJXN-KGYY-KDBQ yesterday, avoiding the weather.
17.07.2025 20:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves . . .
General Order No. 3
#Juneteenth
We all know that a Tomahawk could have gotten down and stopped on the roof in fine shape. Happy little airplane.
19.06.2025 14:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Professor Dave Explains FTW. Certainly, debunk charlatans and liars. But also show everybody who scientists are and what they do. Brilliant.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic28...
Pushing to KDTW to catch an Airbus A320 to KDEN for #DosGringos.
07.06.2025 09:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Stearman time with FOD.
27.05.2025 01:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Led a two-ship to open up the Sterling Heights Memorial Day parade this morning.
27.05.2025 01:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dissimilar element departure this morning on the way to the Sterling Heights parade. Me in as 1 on the BT-13 and Brian Smith as 2 in the T-6.
26.05.2025 23:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The new Thunderbirds film is out today! 
I wrote key parts of the contracts with Netflix for Matt, Ric, and Rob. 
www.netflix.com/watch/81673111
Revised creativity quadriptych.
20.05.2025 20:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 02.5 yesterday in the T-6 as one of 11 aircraft in the flyover for Lt Col Harry Stewart. Nice to be back in the big bird with the sound of round up front.
17.05.2025 15:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Degree Body Deodorant jingle has not stuck in my head. I think that there might be something wrong with me.
11.05.2025 05:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Block altitude, dragging the wheels in the clouds.
03.05.2025 16:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0First of May! First of May! #JoCo
01.05.2025 13:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Behold the world's newest A320 driver.
01.05.2025 13:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fight fiercely, Harvard
Fight, fight, fight
Demonstrate to them our skill
Albeit they possess the might . . .
NAFI Master CFI renewed for another two years.
18.03.2025 02:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0KDTW CLVIN3 STAZE SPAYD HMV QUIWE FISHO Q93 WOPNR Q97 DEBRL Q97 EBAYY MOGAE BNFSH2 KMIA
03.03.2025 22:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0KDTW 271446Z 2715/2818 29006KT 5SM BR OVC007 
FM271700 27011G20KT P6SM BKN016 OVC030 
FM272000 27013G22KT P6SM -SHRA BKN020 OVC045 
FM280100 29012KT P6SM OVC020 
FM280400 26008KT P6SM BKN035 
FM281600 20016G28KT P6SM SCT080 BKN150
If you can't read this, keep your aviation opinions to yourself.
Noticed, most recently in @doynefarmer.bsky.socialβs Making Sense of Chaos, that scientists seem to use βremarkableβ and βsurprisingβ in measured ways that seem to imply an understood hierarchy of noteworhiness. Am I hearing hoofbeats and thinking zebras?
20.02.2025 19:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0