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Will having a few flight hours help with my package?

I am potentially going to start working at this flight school and they offer reduced rates for people who work there. I’d like to see if having a few hours would possibly help my package in any way. I understand they make you fly in likely a 172 for 15 hours after OCS, but I’d just like to see if it would help me in any way.
 

FormerRecruitingGuru

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I am potentially going to start working at this flight school and they offer reduced rates for people who work there. I’d like to see if having a few hours would possibly help my package in any way. I understand they make you fly in likely a 172 for 15 hours after OCS, but I’d just like to see if it would help me in any way.

Studies have shown Officer candidates have a 42% less chance of getting selected when they ask strangers to find answers for them.
 

RedFive

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I am potentially going to start working at this flight school and they offer reduced rates for people who work there. I’d like to see if having a few hours would possibly help my package in any way. I understand they make you fly in likely a 172 for 15 hours after OCS, but I’d just like to see if it would help me in any way.

It's not going to help your...erm...paperwork, nor will it do anything for you in OCS. But if you've never flown before, my personal opinion is that you should go up at least once or twice before you put yourself through all this shit. What if you don't like it?? And, yes, it will give you a very small edge in IFS because you'll have at least seen it a couple times, though your peers will certainly catch up very quickly. They used to waive IFS if you had a license already, not sure what the policy is these days. I would not go out of your way to do that.

I had a peer in IFS who had never flown before and the second they landed she jumped out and literally kissed the ground. Expect to hear differing opinions on this, but don't make yourself poor unnecessarily.
 

wink

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Agree with @RedFive . Back in the day we flew every pilot and NFO applicant in a T-34B assigned to the Recruiting District HQ. The very point of this good deal was to get a feel for the "aeronautical adaptability" of the applicant. Of course, the process certainly did not eliminate attrites in Primary, but it did reduce the number of guys that hung up the helmet well before solo. We routinely had people go for a flight in the T-34, which included acro and plenty of stick time, change their mind. Having a few civ hours will show you are at least not going to hang it up in IFS after your first few hours in the T-6.
 

Jim123

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Agree with @RedFive . Back in the day we flew every pilot and NFO applicant in a T-34B assigned to the Recruiting District HQ. The very point of this good deal was to get a feel for the "aeronautical adaptability" of the applicant. Of course, the process certainly did not eliminate attrites in Primary, but it did reduce the number of guys that hung up the helmet well before solo. We routinely had people go for a flight in the T-34, which included acro and plenty of stick time, change their mind. Having a few civ hours will show you are at least not going to hang it up in IFS after your first few hours in the T-6.
Everything you said but to clarify, aerobatics are what naval aviators do in airplanes. Acrobatics are done by a circus performer in a leotard, or so said the old FAM FTI.

:D

Those recruiting T-34s were one of those good deals from a bygone era.
 

RedFive

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@wink, I remember you telling me about these fabled T-34 recruiting planes back when I was in college and even then I thought such a thing was too good to be true. Too bad they don't exist anymore, I'd take that duty in a heartbeat!
 

andrewt

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I went and got my PPL over the course of applying to and waiting on boards, I’d recommend just getting to solo, maybe 15 hrs. Shouldn’t break the bank but a decent amount of time to let you know how you like it and might be positive for your mindset and condfidence walking into IFS. Have heard of students that jut don’t handle solo flight, needed the safety net of an instructor.

You can study free materials too to ease into aviation regs, theories, and such. Will help your ASTB too if you haven’t taken it yet
 

wink

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And how do you abbreviate aerobatics? Everyone I know uses "acro" for short hand and aerobatics as necessary. I have not seen or heard acrobatics used in a very long time.
I do hate it when a plane is doing legit aerobatics and the news refers to it as "stunts".
 

Gatordev

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And how do you abbreviate aerobatics? Everyone I know uses "acro" for short hand and aerobatics as necessary. I have not seen or heard acrobatics used in a very long time.

"Aero." Jim's just poking fun. It was a specific blurb in the aerobatic FTI in Primary. Something along the lines of "Circus performers do acrobatics on a trapeze, Naval Aviators do aerobatics..."

Or maybe it was "NFOs perform on trapezes..." My memory is fuzzy.
 
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