How were your experiences in the centrifuge?

[swampertness]

Can you describe it?
How many G's do you experience for training for a hornet or growler? How many do you experience when training for the hawkeye?

 

[BigBadBoJenkins]

As it stands now, if you get selected for Tailhook out of Primary you will go to the centrifuge before going to Intermediate/Advanced. The profiles peak at 7.5 G. You can find a lot of videos on youtube.

Description: It sucks

 

[Swanee]

It sucks, but you get through it. Kinda like SERE.

 

[wlawr005]

Did anybody say it sucks yet?

It does. The g-onset is very fast...and you can't control it so you just have to fight through it like they teach you. It feels different in the jet...not AS bad at least.
At least in the jet if you screw up your g-strain you can relax your pull a little and reset.

 

[wlawr005]

And, I don't get your quiz. That's not a question that can be covered in a poll. Besides, you didn't include the -18C...which everybody knows is mo' betta.

 

[JollyGood]

Can you describe it?
How many G's do you experience for training for a hornet or growler? How many do you experience when training for the hawkeye?

Worst part of the centrifuge for me was the tumbling sensation (Coriolis effect?) when you are coming down off the profile. It felt like my world was going to hell in a hand basket since my inner ear was not happy.

I went right before lunch after sitting around for 5 hours and had my head down at the restaurant for a good 15-20 before I recovered because it jacked up my equilibrium so much. Probably due to my being an idiot and turning my head suddenly back to the front after the last profile where you have your head to the side.

 

[Uncle Fester]

And, I don't get your quiz. That's not a question that can be covered in a poll. Besides, you didn't include the -18C...which everybody knows is mo' betta.

I think she's a FO-hopeful.

But yeah, agreed...weird poll.

 

[armada1651]

It sucks, but you get through it. Kinda like SERE.

And the RAG. And COMPTUEX. And Level 3. And month 8 of deployment.

 

[sevenhelmet]

Could be months 8-13 of deployment soon, the way things are going. Not cool.

Yeah, the 'fuge is 30 minutes of your life that you never have to do again. Be in good shape, and get a good nights' sleep before you go. 'Nuff said.

 

[PenguinGal]

Do they still give you/let you buy a copy of the video of your experience? My friend showed us his video a couple of months ago and it was amazing--not only that people go through that on a regular basis/it has actual real world implications but also because the reactions are priceless. Add in a bunch of alcohol and those videos are drunk party gold!

 

[ea6bflyr]

One of my NFO students in the CFET:

 

[Wingnut172N]

And, I don't get your quiz. That's not a question that can be covered in a poll. Besides, you didn't include the -18C...which everybody knows is mo' broken.

Fixed it for ya, bro.

Yeah, the centrifuge sucks, because the G's seem worse than the aircraft, and because if your head isn't perfectly stationary you get this terrible tumbling sensation that makes you sick to your stomach...which is exactly how you want to feel pulling G's....

I still think the centrifuge is worse than the T-45 is worse than the Rhino as far as how G's feel.

 

[wlawr005]

Haha. It's not the Chucks that are broke, it's the Deltas. Fucking two seat aircraft...what a waste of gas

 

[nittany03]

Haha. It's not the Chucks that are broke, it's the Deltas. Fucking two seat aircraft...what a waste of gas

And that blur you see on the table over there is the 2 Chuck squadrons in the air wing playing the world's fastest MX/Ops/CAG Ops shell game to make their sortie completion rate. Might as well just amalgamate 'em into one super squadron and make the paperwork easier.

And yes, that's the Prowler guy calling your jets broke.

 

[MIDNJAC]

One of my NFO students in the CFET:

he was in my RAG class......good guy, apparently had a thing for the labyrinth