It was the rumor 9 months ago when I finished VT4 due to the changes for instructors going through something called KNIFE or whatever. Something designed to let API instructors get some flight time albeit civilian, and for everyone to get evaluated on the same playing field. Or it could be a money thing. I’m sure IFS isn’t any cheaper now.I am hearing rumors that IFS will no longer grant PPL waivers soon as the program changes; however, I have been hearing this for years now. Is there any truth to this or other gouge that anyone has?
It was the rumor 9 months ago when I finished VT4 due to the changes for instructors going through something called KNIFE or whatever. Something designed to let API instructors get some flight time albeit civilian, and for everyone to get evaluated on the same playing field. Or it could be a money thing. I’m sure IFS isn’t any cheaper now.
It worked for the Luftwaffe.Thread drift, but I think that learning to fly gliders would be better prep at a lower cost. More stick and rudder, and always aware of energy management. It would be a worthy experiment for the navy to route some studs through that pipeline
YupIt worked for the Luftwaffe.
Yup
One of the very first things you learn is how to fly form. You have a whole different relationship to weather, as the ridge lift and thermals are your energy. You read clouds differently. Every landing is dead stick. You don’t move the stick without rudder. It is cheap. It is fun.
Link to the NIFE Instruction?I recently just found the NIFE instruction and read through it. It says that PPLs will start at the C4290 and mentions anyone with flight experience (incomplete from the USNA summer program or PPL training) can be accelerated. Other documents detail the specifics about merging USNA Powered Flight and IFS into one program where USNA still does it over the summer before 1/C year and SNAs same time as IFS now, so they will call it NIFE I guess. Question is when will that happen and how...
Another rumor I am hearing is that IFS/API will be combined which sounds like what you mentioned. Just trying to figure out how not to get stuck in Pensacola for months waiting for IFS with my PPL in hand. I hear PPLs have some problems in flight school, but I don't know how a civilian contracted syllabus to solo an airplane will mitigate those issues.
I am wondering about possible changes surrounding the transition from A-pool to IFS in general... when I checked in I was on the IFS waitlist after taking the APIT. Several friends have transitioned to IFS and then swim, then API, etc. Now the waitlist is for Water Surv instead of IFS and no one will even acknowledge that its changed. Is this part of setting up SNAs for a new program?