Does Primary at Whiting Field typically take about eight months? Someone told me it could take up to a year to finish.
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Does Primary at Whiting Field typically take about eight months? Someone told me it could take up to a year to finish.
Times vary based on a lot of things like weather, maintenance, and stud performance. Average is around eight, with 6-12 being the variation. I took 9 months, more like 10-11 if you count stash time at the wings. In reality, it doesn't matter. The time you take to finish primary has little effect on anything, unless you go med down for a year or something crazy like that.
This. Some have finished faster than me and some have taken longer. Most of the variables are things outside of your control, ie. weather, plane cancellations, on-wing unavailable, etc. I havent seen anyone take more than 11 months without some kind of major setback, like going med down for a month+ or multiple prbs/ipcs etc.
Do you know the date of your last flight yet? Good luck with your NSS!
Schedule for the next day's events comes out around 5 each night. You won't know any sooner than that when you are flying (with the exception of cross countries.) I'm projected to be selecting the week of the 18th, but realistically I will probably select on the 25th. I couldn't really say when my last will be.
Good luck with the concluding flights ! May the weather be on your side.
That was how we used to gauge when the weather outside went from unworkable to dangerous. If south field quit flying, it was probably time to head towards shelter.
You better not be distinctive looking, kbd; i'lll be aiming for you.
Back in ~2006 or so when the South Tower looked like it was designed by an insurgent bomber (or what I like to call "terrorist chic"), the taxiway routing to NSE involved "taxiing straight towards the tower and then turn onto the line between the helos." There were no lines to follow from the hub and the first time you tried to do it, which was undoubtely at night, you had no idea where you were going until Ground let you knew you were going too far. It took a while before Ground realized they should probably actually give progressive instructions.
Noted.
My first experience taxiing in there was post cross country at night from the back seat. I was attempting to just clear the runway and then figure out where I was. I thought I saw the entrance to the ramp and so I told my student to take a left turn. When I saw the grass about 5 feet in front of the plane I yelled STOP! and called tower and did the progressive taxi of shame.
It is kind of funny that with all the silly dangerous stuff we did there, the taxi in after a cross country was probably the thing I dreaded the most.
Yea, sounds exactly as it was, and has been for the past 55 years since I went through. Only difference... we suffered no pools/stash time. Some things never change.
BzB