Backlog ain’t at OCS it’s at Pensacola
I went to OCS exactly a year ago, and I had a full class, so unless that’s changed, it should still be that way. Over here at Pcola they have been increasing amount of pilots starting NIFE recently, but the bottleneck’s already there, so its gonna be a bit before it clears
The numbers I am going to use are rough estimates but still close. The NRC OCS shipping goal for a year is about 1200, there are about 16 classes per year and each class is about 100 per class, so normal capacity is about 1600 per year. There was also a short time where they had more than 100 per class so capacity at OCS is not an issue, like @villo0692 mentioned it is Pensacola and that only affect aviators.
1. Not OCS backlog. Its down in Pensacola.
A Pool man, A Pool......
What do you do if you want to go sooner? In case you are not selected to go sooner, will you still go later?
I'm supposedly going in January, but given recent events, I'm highly skeptical that's actually going to happen.
What event was it? And why are you skeptical? When did you get selected?
A flag officer recently found out about the ridiculously long wait in Pensacola for all the flight trainings (15-18 months). They’re frantically trying to reduce the wait time with more operational aircraft, instructors, contracting more civilians for maintenance, offering people to re-designate. This is also affecting peoples ocs dates that haven’t gone yet. It will be extremely unlikely to get an earlier ocs date
People who were set and ready to go to ocs this month and next month basically got told that they're on hold indefinitely. I'm skeptical I'll be going in January because of:
Wow, I literally know nothing about this. All I heard from my OR is the wait is really long. I was selected in May as well but I don’t have a ship date yet. He said it would likely summer 2023. I doubt it’s not gonna happen.