When did you wing & how long did it take?

[MaxRU]

I'll chime in.

Commission May 2007.
TBS Oct 07 - May 08
API Oct 08 - Dec 08
Primary (Vance) Jan 09 - July 09
Advanced (HT-18) Oct 09- May 10

Winged June 2010

average wait in between, zooming through syllabus in both places. Thank the HT-18 for that. Other HT squadrons are dragging...

 

[BusyBee604]

Ancent History

Just a rough idea to see the ebb & flow of the process from API to putting on your wings of gold for different communities at different times. Also, at the time was it Faster than Avg, Avg, or Slower than Avg in your time to wing, and where (which community) did you wing.

NAVCAD Class 44-56
Preflight: Pensacola Mainside, Oct-Dec '56
Primary: Jan-May '57, T-34 @ Saufley
Intermediate: Jun '57-Jan '58 T-28 @ Whiting, Gunnery & CQ (USS Antietam) out of Barin
Volunteered & accepted for jet pipeline:
Advanced: NAAS Chase, Beeville TX, Feb-Jul '58 - Inst, ATU-213, TV-2 (T-33) Fam/Tactics/Gunnery/Weps Del, ATU-223, F9F-8 Cougar

Wings/Commissionarty_125: 3 Jul '58-Orders to VF-94 @ NAS Moffett, FJ-3M Fury (No FRP/RAG, not invented until the next year)
*no significant delays/pools encountered throughout!
BzB

 

[CommodoreMid]

Commissioned May '08.
Check in to NASC Oct 08.
IFS Nov 08-Jan 09.
API Jan 09-Mar 09.
NFO Primary April 09-August 09.
Check into VP-30 Sept 09, class up Nov 09.
Wings April 10, will check into my fleet squadron next month.

Your times may vary. A girl in my IFS class managed to class up ahead of me for everything and winged at VP-30 3 months before I did. Also, me being at the end of the alphabet didn't help for classing up as well, ergo my check in at VP-30 in Sept and not classing up till Nov.

 

[cfam]

Commissioned May '08
Stashed at USNA till October '08 (completed IFS too)
Checked in NASC OCtober '08
API Nov '08-Jan '09
Primary Feb-May '09
Intermediate May-July '09
Advanced October '09-May '10
Two years exactly from commissioning to wings, but the summer stashed at USNA and the three months between intermediate and advanced killed me. 16 months time to train without the waiting. I'm going prowlers though, so add another two months for growler/rhino nfos for the advanced strike fighter syllabus. Also, my wait time for advanced was pretty atypical, average wait time is about a month now.

 

[Cavrone]

Commissioned Dec '06
TBS Jan-Jun '07
API Apr-May '08
Primary (VT-27) May-Dec '08
Adv (VT-31) Jun-Nov '09
RAG/ATU Jun -? '10
Commissioning to Fleet will be just shy of 4 years. Never went med down or rolled out of a class, just a lot of down time between training.

 

[defiant85]

Commisioned June '07
IFS Dec-Feb '08
API Mar-Apr '08
Primary/Intermediate (VT-4) May-Dec '08
RAG Prewings (VAW-120) Mar-Dec'09
RAG Postwings (VAW-120) Dec'09-June/July? '10
Add in SERE and legal school this summer, and it will be about 39 months from commissioning to the fleet...

 

[incubus852]

Winging: Jan 2010
Where: No IFS, API 6 weeks, Primary Corpus 8 Mos, Adv Meridian, 12 months
Time from API to Winging: 24 months
Faster/Avg/Slower:Dog with ass on fire fast... didn't do IFS, 6 weeks at API total, hit advanced in stride.

 

[helolumpy]

Wait to start AI follwing graduation: 13 months!!
API stated: July 1992
Primary Selection Day: APR 93
Start HT's: July 93
Winging Dec 93
Wait to start RAG: 4 months
HS-1: 10 months
AI to Fleet: 44 months

About average for the Post-Desert Storm drawdown guys

 

[MAKE VAPES]

API: June 95
Primary: Oct95-March96
Intermediate: April96-Sept96
Advanced: Oct96-June97
Winged: July 97

Start F-14 RAG: January98
Fleet: Dec98

Commission to wings: 24 Mos

 

[rondebmar]

More "Ancient History": (as best as I can figure my log book out!)

NAVCAD Class 14-61

Preflight: P'Cola Mainside Mar '61 - Jul '61
Primary: T-34 @ Saufley Aug '61 - Sep '61
Basic: T-28 @ Whiting Oct '61 - May '62 (Inc Initial CQ and Date of Rank)
Advanced: T-28 & AD-6 Corpus Jun '62 - Sep '62 (Inc CQ, Commissioned, &Winged)

VA-45 RAG (JAX) T-28 & A1H Oct '62 - Mar '63
VA-35 (Fleet) JAX Mar '63...Immediate departure for my first seven
month Med cruise

Perfectly average pace for the time and pipeline...no delays at all...

So, from Preflight to fleet...two years to the month...

One funny note:

I, like most/all my contemps out of AD's at Corpus at that time, was initially PCS'ed to "PLOWBACK"...back to P'Cola for one year IP duty...while on leave in Boston area, a few days after winging, rx'ed a phone call from my detailer...informed this brand new "Butter Bar" that if I could be in JAX within 48 hours...he'd send me to an Attack Squadron!! I made it in less than 24!!!
With the new wife and kid...

Far as I know, the rest went back...

 

[RotorHead04]

Commissioned: July 2004
Pensacola: May 2006
IFS: June 2006
API: September 2006
Primary: HT-2, October 2006 - April 2007
Advanced: HT-8, April 2007 - November 2007
Winged: 30 November 2007
RAG: HSC-2, January 2008 - June 2008
Fleet: HSC-22, August 2008

API to Fleet: 1 year, 11 months

 

[fc2spyguy]

Commissioned: July 2004
Pensacola: May 2006
IFS: June 2006
API: September 2006
Primary: HT-2, October 2006 - April 2007
Advanced: HT-8, April 2007 - November 2007
Winged: 30 November 2007
RAG: HSC-2, January 2008 - June 2008
Fleet: HSC-22, August 2008

API to Fleet: 1 year, 11 months

Intentional? I heard rumors that for a while VT-2 only had helo guys coming out of there and there are some patches around that had the 'screwer birds' on them.

Commissioned: Dec '07
API: May-Jul '08
Primary: VT-2 Sep '08-June '09
Advanced: HT-18 Sep'09-May'10

22 months API to wings. Was considered slow, but I think the guys right after me are about to get hosed by rudder pedals in the t-34 wrt time to train.

 

[RotorHead04]

Intentional? I heard rumors that for a while VT-2 only had helo guys coming out of there and there are some patches around that had the 'screwer birds' on them.

Quite ... and if anyone is interested in the infamous "HT-2 Screwerbirds" patch, I still have plenty ... every time I wear it, I seem to sell one or two (and not always to helo guys!) since so many people had a rough ride in that squadron ... it looks just like the offical VT-2 patch, but it says HELTRARON TWO SCREWERBIRDS and the black bird has a rotorbeanie on his head.

 

[SynixMan]

^^ Awesome... Only in Naval Aviation...

 

[agmubx]

Preflight Class 14-61

! am looking for others in preflight class 14-61