This is by and large the number one factor affecting NSS in the jet VTs right now. If everyone makes MIF, your NSS bell curve turns into an NSS spike, with lots of outliers and very few "average" students. The difference between the #1 guy in my class (58 NSS) and the #10 guy in my class (33 NSS) was .02 points.When I went through we had IP's that were still treating MIF as if it was average and below MIF or above was their above or below average. They didn't realize they were screwing the students they flew with.
It will not change until people like me who've had MPTS their whole career become instructors.
You grab a study buddy and jump into a simulator that no one else is using. Not sure if that's just a VT-28 thing or if they do something similar in Milton. If they don't, they should.I may be revealing which side of the coin I was in Primary, but what is a profsit?
You grab a study buddy and jump into a simulator that no one else is using. Not sure if that's just a VT-28 thing or if they do something similar in Milton. If they don't, they should.
Oh yeah, no sweat here. There's eight T-34 sims total, so unless you have a big RI class getting pushed through, there's usually at least one or two sims open at any given time. You can only sign up for one profsit a day, but you can grab one if it's free and no one else signed up for it, so some people do several profsits in a row, especially when prepping for RI's.Out of curiosity, what's the simulator situation like over in CC? If you camp the sim building here, you might be able to squeak in 10 or 20 minutes if an instructor gets out early before the next instructor, but it's pretty tricky getting sim time aside from the signup sheet. That, or hope somebody doesn't show up to one of their ambitious Friday-night signups Can you commonly hop into a sim with somebody over there?
Not another MPTS/NSS thread!!!!!!!!!!
I'd argue it's more about people actually bothering to learn the system rather than bitching about it. There were plenty of IPs in Primary that had the old system as a stud and used MPTS correctly, but there has to be a will to change.
Yeppers....kissing the moose...
Yeppers.
That McGuire's moose...wonder if it (the moose) is still there.
Hey man can I get that ANKI decks for lims and EPs?Here are some productive things you can work on every day:
1. EPs: These will become important starting yesterday. Learn them well and always review them. I go through my deck on my phone between sets at the gym.
2. Lims: This won't be too important until you're a couple blocks in, but it wouldn't hurt to make flashcards and have them ready.
3. Course rules: The sooner you understand course rules, the better. If you are at NAS Whiting, I made a somewhat interactive Google Maps guide to course rules. Whether you are at Corpus or Whiting, learn the course rules and fly them in Google Earth from the proper eye altitude. Being able to see the checkpoints as you'll see them from the plane will help you immensely. On that note, you may want to look up the YouTube user "IJTRL" and watch those T-6B training videos.
4. Checklists: Right now, you've probably got the "Hollywood Script" (if you don't have it yet, you'll get it soon or you can find it in the gouge Dropbox). When I was rolling through the intro sims, you were allowed to use the "Blue Brains" (smaller Hollywood script) for your first two or three sims. Aim to use it for none of your sims. Learn the script and practice it in the static cockpit trainer so that you can move through your checklist with the quadfold. While it might impress your sim instructors, it will more importantly prepare you for expeditiously moving through the quadfold checklist once you get to the plane.
Make sure you've got all your gouge together for ground school. It'll help tons with the exams. You can PM me for a Dropbox link if you don't have it already. I've also built Anki decks for Lims and EPs, so if you want those decks, I can send you the file. Anki is an amazing spaced-repetition flashcard program that will sync between your Apple/Android smartphone and your desktop version.
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