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Congrats to LT. Swegle (aka Charles Edward never-ending question thread)
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Not sure why this rhetorical question is so annoying to me, but if a candidate of any training program felt worse about themselves for not completing the program because of the characteristics of another successful candidate, they should probably be channeling their energy elsewhere (maybe self improvement?).
It annoys me because it carries with it the implication that one gender is inferior and you should never "lose" to them. Not different, inferior.
I don't know if anyone replied to this but compared to our syllabus y'all would wing someone after our jet "intermediate" or "phase one". What we do as undergraduate flight training y'all would do at IFF. So that would easily shave anywhere from 6-9 months off of our training right there, plus the boat is at least a 5-6 week evolution. I think there's some changes coming but that's the way it stands right now.
RandomGoat1248
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No one besides multi-engine is winging in 2 years anymore.
If you go tailhook you aren’t even touching a T-45 until you are an O-2, so 3-4 years before wings is the norm. But students hitting O-3 before wings is not unheard of nowadays.
RandomGoat1248
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People aren’t even getting done with intermediate until 3 years in. The length of syllables isn’t the reason it takes us so long to wing and get to the fleet.
5 years to the fleet is definitely not “extremely uncommon” these days for a young rhinoceros pilot
Do the delays make it less common/ less likely for a winged 1320 to later redesignate to 1310?
Having been a T-45 IP for eight years, I’d say I’m pretty familiar with the variables that go into time to train.
Since the Air Force runs their UPT program in a different way, I was addressing at what specific point in the syllabus the Air Force wings vice us.
RandomGoat1248
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And I was trying to make the point that it is currently taking the Navy 3 times as long to do that same training.
The syllabus is not the reason flight school takes so long right now. It is absurd how long the Navy is having SNAs wait around doing nothing.
Quite a few Army Warrant Aircraft Commanders in Vietnam were even younger than you. Crazy.
I’m good with this story because it shows that a minority female was given every opportunity that anyone else would have been given. These are the kind of stories that need to be on the news rather than stories of oppression in America. Use these stories as a source of inspiration for minorities rather than convincing them they don’t have a chance because they aren’t white males.
Edit: Thank you for providing us with your insight.
Where exactly are you in the pipeline?
Also, have you told CNATRA actual what problems you’ve identified?
You're being paid right? How many weeks (or years) of paid vacation have you had? I get the want to finish, start the eight-year timer, etc... But it could be a lot worse. Everyone else in your shoes is in the same boat unless it's a medical hold.
Edit: If it's that big of a drag on your life, DOR is a thing. I loved the months off waiting to class up.