While we're talking MIF, and since I can safely talk about MIF since I longer give an F what MIF is, I'm going to throw out my 2 cents. Don't care if it's right or wrong, seemed to hold true for my class, and many others I knew.
You'll love the title of my story, it's called, "Why you get jets out of Vance." Caveated with if you're a window licking ninny it won't help you.
Air Force land has the whole TIMS grading system thing, shows you your GPA after every flight, yada yada yada. Chair Force students care about one thing and one thing only, checkrides. They don't care how they do on daily flights because essentially they weigh in ZERO as to what they get. We have what, 4 checkrides in Primary? Fam(Contact), Form, Instrument, and something else. SSSSOOOO, the instructors on daily rides are pretty laid back on the grading, since they don't mean much, just preparing you for the Checkrides. BUUUTTT, they do mean something, to the Marines and the Navy folks. In fact, that's ALL that matters to them, checkrides don't count towards our NSS at Vance. So the instructors have absolutely no problem throwing out 5's(for those that know what I'm talking about) on daily flights. If you're good and perform a maneuver shit hot, after the first flight in the block, you WILL get above MIF and possibly a 4 or 5 for it. Remember when you were at Corpus and getting five to six 5's on a flight was shit hot? Well guess what, at Vance, I had entire flights with every graded event a 5. That's like forty-five to fifty 5's on ONE flight, get that anywhere else? I guarantee not. It wasn't common for every flight, but it did happen, and more than once.
So what I'm getting at, caveated with if you go to Vance and you SUCK I can't help you, if you go to Vance and are a quality product, you CAN have a smoking hot NSS.
It's all my opinion, take it or leave it. Bell curves, last 50 finished yada yada yada...bell curves only hurt you when your not the top 1%.